All Entertainment articles – Page 99
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NewsPrincess to Stand Up to Cancer
Princess Productions is to produce Channel 4’s fundraiser Stand Up to Cancer after taking responsibility for the event on YouTube last year.
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NewsITVS bolsters entertainment team
ITV Studios entertainment boss Angela Jain has bolstered her senior team, appointing a creative director of development and director of entertainment in the north.
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RatingsStrictly extends lead over X Factor
WEEKEND: Strictly Come Dancing extended its lead over The X Factor, while Gogglebox failed to recover from last week’s launch.
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NewsITVS entertainment head departs
ITV Studios’ Sumi Connock creative director of entertainment is leaving the company after almost eight years.
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NewsCharlotte Crosby to front MTV Snapchat gameshow
Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby is to front Show Us Ur Phone, a Snapchat gameshow for MTV.
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NewsBBCW boosts Lookout stake
BBC Worldwide has increased its stake in War And Peace producer Lookout Point and laid out a path to taking full ownership of the firm.
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NewsMcArdle returns to Electric Ray
Studio Lambert deputy head of development Natalie McArdle has returned to Electric Ray five months after leaving the indie.
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NewsBBC unveils daytime slate
Emerging Bristol-based indie Hungry Gap has scooped two BBC commissions as part of the broadcaster’s refreshed daytime slate.
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NewsCan ITV learn from Corden?
Stephen Arnell weighs up the chances of Kevin Lygo pulling off the ‘holy grail’ of a successful late-night talk show.
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RatingsStrictly beats X Factor as Gogglebox struggles
WEEKEND: Strictly Come Dancing outperformed The X Factor on Saturday – while Gogglebox slumped to halve its audience from the previous series opener.
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NewsC4 hands Bake Off to Humphreys and Webb Lamb
Kelly Webb Lamb and Liam Humphreys will be tasked with making a success of The Great British Bake Off for Channel 4.
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NewsPanda lands 'huge-scale' BBC1 pilot
Moira Ross’s entertainment label Panda Television is to produce a non-TX pilot of a “huge-scale” family entertainment format for BBC1.
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NewsBBC pilots Mrs Brown’s Boys spin-off
Hungry Bear Media is to pilot a talk-show spin-off of Mrs Brown’s Boys in which Agnes throws open the doors of her home to a string of celebrity guests and members of the public.
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NewsX Factor back as ITV seals deal
ITV’s deal to renew The X Factor comes as the entertainment juggernaut’s back-to-basics format appears to have stemmed the show’s declining audiences.
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NewsRemarkable makes senior hires
Remarkable has bolstered its senior team by creating head of factual and head of entertainment roles.
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NewsYoungest snares Victory exec
Youngest Media, the indie established by former Endemol execs David Flynn and Lucas Church, has hired a former Victory Television executive as its entertainment boss.
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NewsHow C4 cooked up its Bake Off deal
Channel 4 secured board approval for its audacious and controversial capture of The Great British Bake Off over the weekend, and pounced within hours of Love Productions’ Richard McKerrow calling Tony Hall to notify him that the show’s BBC tenure was over.
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NewsITV to strip Late Late Show-style format
ITV is making a multi-million pound move into late-night comedy with a stripped show that it hopes can replicate the success of The Late Late Show with James Corden.
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NewsMel & Sue to leave Bake Off
Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc will step down as hosts of The Great British Bake Off when the show moves to Channel 4 next year.
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NewsYoungest woos E4 for debut commission
Youngest Media, the indie established by former Endemol execs David Flynn and Lucas Church, has secured its first commission - an E4 dating show featuring 10 “clones”.