All articles by Ellie Kahn – Page 9
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NewsBig Zuu to investigate modern dating for BBC1
StoryCore, Workerbee and Big Productions will all co-produce
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NewsBBC orders Dancing Ledge doc to accompany its Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe drama
90-minute doc will sit alongside scripted series about the British-Iranian held in Tehran
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RatingsThe Celebrity Traitors opener adds 1m viewers
WEDNESDAY: Launch ep is BBC1’s fifth-highest overnight audience of the year
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NewsSynchronicity Films and Big Light Productions tie for Scottish Highlands drama
Indies behind Mayflies and The Man in the High Castle to co-produce series
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NewsBoldprint lands Romesh Ranganathan Prime Video gameshow
Comic to front Would You Rather format
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NewsThe King to front environmental doc for Prime Video
Passion Planet ties with The King’s Foundation for feature based on book by Charles III
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NewsBBC and Creative Wales launch £40,000 fact ent development fund
Four Welsh indies set to win funding for their ideas
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Ratings5 drama Murder Before Evensong is a smash hit
TUESDAY: Richard Coles adaptation is broadcaster’s biggest overnight audience this year, while C4’s travel format Worlds Apart also starts strong
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NewsBBC executive editor for youth audiences steps down
James Reevell leaves the corporation after over a decade
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NewsChannel 4 launches IP fund for diverse-led indies
Part of wider push to diversify comedy and drama output
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NewsJames Bluemel lifts the lid on Once Upon A Time In Space
Director reveals how he got stoic astronauts to share their emotions
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NewsRuth Jones and Steve Speirs land friendship comedy for BBC1
Tidy Productions to produce series that will reunite Stella co-stars
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NewsBBC Comedy orders midwife sitcom from Jessica Knappett
Project is the first order from corporation’s scheme to find broad appeal shows
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NewsJon Petrie renews call for big sitcoms
Ellie Kahn BBC comedy boss unpacks the progress of writers’ room scheme and the push to revamp the genre
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NewsStudiocanal and Strong Film + Television to adapt Murder Most Unladylike
Rebellious teens Daisy and Hazel are boarding school friends-turned-detectives
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RatingsAlan Partridge makes muted return to BBC1
FRIDAY & SATURDAY: How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) falls behind slot average
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NewsBBCS retains Fake or Fortune and This Farming Life
Incumbent wins both series following competitive tender process