All Entertainment articles – Page 113
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RatingsDrive splutters for ITV
TUESDAY: Drive got off to a slow start as 2m viewers tuned in to watch the ITV format get underway.
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NewsITV swoops for Little Big Shots
ITV has swooped for the rights to Warner Bros’ hit US kids talent format Little Big Shots.
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RatingsFinal Saturday Night Takeaway demolishes The Voice
SATURDAY: Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway bowed out with its second lowest audience of the series, but it still thrashed the semi-final of The Voice UK.
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NewsSony's Gogglebox Entertainment to close
Mat Steiner and Adam Wood, founders of Release The Hounds producer Googlebox Entertainment, are to close their Sony-back indie and establish a new production venture.
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NewsITV to pilot Talpa’s The Wishing Tree
ITV is piloting its first Talpa format after acquiring John de Mol’s production business last year.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Drive
Top Gear has rarely been out of the news over the past 12 months, with multiple controversies, new hosts and a star-studded launch for international buyers at BBC Worldwide’s Showcase event (not to mention the former presenters’ rival show for Amazon) all making the front pages.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Spartan Race
NBC has ordered a series based on Spartan Race, a series of obstacle courses that vary from three miles and 20 obstacles to 26 miles and 60 obstacles.
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NewsSky moves into kids' originals with Morph reboot
Sky will begin commissioning kids’ content for the first time after ordering a reboot of iconic animation Morph from Aardman Animations.
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NewsBBC Worldwide backs South Africa's Bake Off producer
BBC Worldwide has made further advances into Africa after investing in Rapid Blue, the Johannesburg-headquartered producer responsible for formats including Strictly Come Dancing and The X Factor.
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NewsPretzel lands bumper CBBC Chart show order
Pretzel Films has secured a beefed up second series of its live simulcast chart series for CBBC and Radio 1.
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NewsDermot O’Leary returns to The X Factor
Dermot O’Leary will be back at the helm of The X Factor when the long-running format returns to ITV in the autumn.
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RatingsCan’t Touch This leaps into action with 3m
SATURDAY: BBC1’s latest physical gameshow Can’t Touch This was unable to leap past the launches of The Getaway Car or Ninja Warrior UK.
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NewsRylan Clark to host C5 chat show
Channel 5 has ordered a weekly chat show hosted by Celebrity Big Brother winner Rylan Clark.
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NewsIndustry pays tribute to BBC’s Jon Beazley
Some of entertainment’s biggest names have paid tribute to Jon Beazley, the former BBC in-house entertainment boss who died at the weekend.
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NewsWall to Wall preps UK version of smash US talent show
Wall to Wall has begun pitching a UK version of NBC’s kids talent format Little Big Shots after it became the biggest non-scripted show in the US in over four years.
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NewsFormer BBC entertainment boss Jon Beazley dies
Former BBC in-house entertainment boss and Strictly Come Dancing showrunner Jon Beazley has died after a short illness.
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NewsBBC parks The Getaway Car
BBC1 has parked primetime entertainment format The Getaway Car to make way for physical gameshow Can’t Touch This, which will air in its Saturday slot.
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Behind The ScenesCan't Touch This, BBC1
Getting a commission turned out to be the easy bit - the real test was losing our location and having to build three new sets in a building with a leaky roof, says Stellify’s joint managing director Matthew Worthy
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RatingsLive Celebrity Juice hits 15-month high
THURSDAY: A special live edition of Celebrity Juice lifted the ITV2 show to its biggest audience in more than a year, as BBC2’s Murder slumped to fewer than 300,000 viewers.
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NewsC4 'minded to bring back' The Jump
Channel 4 is poised to take a leap of faith and commission a fourth series of controversial winter sports show The Jump.