All articles by Catherine Neilan – Page 48
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NewsBBC America to air Six Nations
BBC America has inked a deal to air five live games from this year’s Six Nations for viewers in the US.
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NewsBroadcast Hot Shot wins at IFFR
A short film made by a UK director and Broadcast Hot Shot has won the New Arrivals Jury Award at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam.
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NewsGrandma's House set to return
BBC2 is close to commissioning a second series of Simon Amstell comedy Grandma’s House.
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NewsSee Festival line-up unveiled
Film-makers Chris Atkins, Kim Longinotto and Mark Henderson are to appear at the sixth See Brighton Documentary Festival, when it returns in February.
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NewsStrictly's Moira Ross promoted to BBC format role
Moira Ross is returning to the BBC’s in-house entertainment team with a promotion, after a month producing the Strictly Come Dancing UK tour.
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NewsThompson’s Salford ambition
BBC director general Mark Thompson has a personal ambition to see an entire channel move to Media CityUK in Salford.
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NewsBBC Comedy faces up to cutbacks despite successful year
The BBC will have to drop some of its comedy hits from last year because of budget cuts, the corporation’s comedy commissioning controller has admitted.
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NewsHare-brained idea wins BBC1 Saturday night slot
BBC1 has ordered a Saturday evening entertainment show featuring an animatronic hare and narrated by award-winning comedian Miranda Hart.
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NewsBBC dodges flak on World Service
The government is facing a major political backlash over dramatic cuts to the World Service after the BBC placed the blame firmly at its door.
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NewsNUJ protest against World Service cuts
NUJ members of the World Service are staging a protest outside Bush House today over 650 job cuts at the BBC department.
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NewsWorld Service to cut 650 posts
BBC World Service is to shed more than a quarter of its roles and is closing five country services, as it attempts to find £67m of savings.
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NewsBarb extends online ratings pilot
Barb has extended its field test of measuring viewing figures from PCs and laptops by a further three months.
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NewsUnions condemn BBC Online job cuts
Broadcasting and journalism unions have criticised plans by the BBC to cut up to 360 jobs from its Online division as “showing contempt” for its staff.
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NewsLove poaches Oprah exec for US push
Love Productions has poached the programming and development executive of the Oprah Winfrey Network to spearhead its growth strategy in the US.
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NewsBBC Online to cut 360 jobs
Up to 360 jobs are to be cut at BBC Online, as a result of its plan to reduce operations by 25%.
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NewsShaun the Sheep to go 3D
Bristol-based Aardman Animations is creating a series of one minute shorts of Shaun the Sheep in 3D for Nintendo’s forthcoming 3DS console.
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NewsRegional indies form factual lobby group
A group of 18 regional indies have come together to form a lobby group to pressure the BBC and Channel 4 to increase the number of out-of-London factual programmes they commission.
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NewsDuos launch ent/drama indies
Two former ITV Studios execs have set up an entertainment indie and the exec producer of ITV1’s The Children and writer of BBC2’s First Light have formed a drama producer.
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NewsNew comedy on agenda after Foundation’s kids’ conference
Zodiak Media UK children’s division The Foundation has brought together commissioners and writers in a bid to create comedy projects that will specifically fit the requirements of broadcasters.
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NewsBBC Daytime orders four consumer affairs shows
Four series tackling consumer affairs have been commissioned by BBC Daytime to air on BBC1 this year.