All Factual-entertainment articles – Page 101
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NewsFreddie Fries Again for Sky 1
Freddie Flintoff is to set off on a second nationwide tour in his fish and chip van for Sky 1.
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NewsGok Wan fronts ITV cookery pilot
Gok Wan is being lined up to front his first ITV show after hosting a non-TX daytime cookery pilot for the commercial broadcaster.
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NewsGogglebox travels to South Africa
Gogglebox is to head to South Africa after All3Media International struck a slew of deals ahead of the Discop Africa market.
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NewsSex Box pulls three-part series on C4
Channel 4 is to re-open Sex Box for a three-part series following its controversial one-off in 2013.
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The Broadcast InterviewNick Curwin and Magnus Temple, The Garden
The fixed-rig pioneers talk to Chris Curtis about implementing a growth strategy while holding on to their core creative principles, life under ITV, and taking a ‘box-set approach’ to factual
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NewsIndies welcome ‘decisive’ BBC entertainment controller
Producers have highlighted Alan Tyler’s decisiveness and cheesy music taste as he is poised to become the BBC’s acting controller of entertainment.
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NewsITVBe lags in female appeal
ITVBe is behind Dave, Film 4 and Disney Junior in attracting young female viewers, according to Broadcast analysis of the channel’s first year on air.
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NewsLeftfield founder to run ITV Studios US
Brent Montgomery, chief executive of Pawn Stars producer Leftfield Entertainment, is set to become head of ITV’s US division.
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NewsSTV takes Celebrity Antiques Road Trip to China
A Celebrity Antiques Road Trip-inspired format is set to air in China after STV Productions and Chinese producer / distributor IPCN struck a co-production deal.
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Behind The ScenesThe Money Pit, Dave
A live crowd-funding format turned out to be a legal minefield, but we found a way to make it work - and stay out of jail, says series producer Pat Doyle
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NewsArrow targets genre mash-up
Arrow Media wants to mash up genres as it attempts to broaden its output into factual entertainment, features and natural history after securing investment from Channel 4 last year.
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NewsBake Off audience rises to five-year TV high
The Great British Bake Off final has become the highest-rated original show on British television in five years after it consolidated to nearly 15.1m viewers.
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NewsSpun Gold pilots Dutch singing format for BBC
Spun Gold is piloting a Dutch format for BBC daytime in which four contestants host a singing contest in their own homes over the course of a week.
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NewsSamsung sponsors All 4 supper club format
Atomized Entertainment is to produce an ad-funded pop-up restaurant format for Channel 4’s digital service.
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NewsGeordie Shore star launches YouTube channel
Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby has partnered with Sassy Films to launch a YouTube channel featuring fan-suggested challenges, comedy pieces and vlogs.
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RatingsHoney I Bought The House makes room for 91,000
MONDAY: Honey I Bought The House got off to strong start for Watch, as The Muppets debuted on Sky 1 with nearly 400,000 viewers.
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NewsBBC unveils major factual slate
BBC1 has ordered a medical experiment challenging the nation’s dependency on prescription drugs as part of a broad slate of factual programmes from Alison Kirkham’s team.
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RatingsHunted tracks down 1.4m average
THURSDAY: Hunted and Cradle To Grave bowed out on series lows, as The Apprentice fell by almost 1m from Wednesday’s opener.
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RatingsThe Apprentice recruits 6.4m
WEDNESDAY: The Apprentice recruited 6.4m viewers as it returned to BBC1 as Alexander Armstrong set off to the Arctic Circle for ITV with fewer than 3m in tow.
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RatingsKarl Pilkington helps Sky 1 to biggest audience of 2015
TUESDAY: The return of Karl Pilkington’s Moaning of Life and US superhero show The Flash helped Sky 1 to notch up some of its biggest audiences of the year.