All Editorial articles – Page 23
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Comment
15 Dec, '09
“Holden was roughly as much use as chocolate forceps.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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News
MGM and Sky launch HD movie channel
Film studio MGM has entered the UK TV market for the first time with a dedicated HD channel on Sky.
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Comment
14 Dec, '09
“Tonally and narratively the result was a mess.” Read on for the verdict on the weekend’s TV.
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News
Outnumbered and TV Burp clean up at comedy awards
Outnumbered and Harry Hill’s TV Burp were the big winners at this year’s British Comedy Awards last night.
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More4 lines up Amanda Knox doc
More 4 is to explore the year leading up to American student Amanda Knox’s 26-year jail sentence for the murder of her British flatmate Meredith Kercher.
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ABC picks up Zeppotron dating show
Endemol has sold UK-originated dating format Conveyor Belt of Love to US network ABC.
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Conchords grounded after two series
HBO comedy series Flight of the Conchords will not return for a third series, its creators have confirmed.
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Tesco to sponsor C4 music shows
High street retailer Tesco has struck its first ever TV sponsorship deal with two music shows for Channel 4.
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Ratings
ITV1 struggles with Robson Green doc
Robson Green barely made a splash at 9pm last night, with the first of his two-part Wild Swimming Adventure pulling in just 2.5m (11.1%) for ITV1 in a poor night for peak-time TV viewing.
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Turner Laing joins Media Trust
BSkyB’s managing director of entertainment and news Sophie Turner Laing has joined the board of the charity the Media Trust.
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C4 orders more Freshly Squeezed
Indie Remedy Productions has won a sixth order for its Channel 4 breakfast show Freshly Squeezed.
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Israel lobby invesigation splits C4 viewers
A controversial Dispatches investigation into Britain’s “Israel lobby” proved the most divisive show on Channel 4 last month.
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Ratings
Man on Earth debuts with 1.4m
Tony Robinson’s new environmental history series Man on Earth proved no match for David Attenborough’s Life last night, with 1.4m (5.8%) tuning in from 9pm on Channel 4 - a third of the audience watching BBC1.
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Isaacs and Lambert join forces
The Choir creator Jamie Isaacs, who left Twenty Twenty this week in a management restructure, is to join Stephen Lambert’s indie Studio Lambert.
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Ricky Gervais toon comes to C4
Channel 4 is to show Ricky Gervais’ new HBO show just weeks after it airs in the US.
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Virgin appoints first on-demand director
Virgin Media has hired the general manager of Chellomedia’s on-demand service for a new role heading up its own VoD platform.
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Five follows C4 with YouTube deal
More than 3,000 hours of full length Five shows including Neighbours and Home and Away will join YouTube’s new UK Shows channel.
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News presenter drops tribunal proceedings against ITV
West Country news presenter Jemma Woodman has dropped tribunal proceedings against ITV after accusing her former employers of “hanging her out to dry”.
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ITV2 shows launched on iTunes
ITV has soft launched a range of programmes for download on Apple iTunes, to test whether consumers are willing to pay for online content.