All Factual-entertainment articles – Page 95
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NewsSue Murphy staffs up ITV fact ent team
ITV factual entertainment chief Sue Murphy has made her first hires – recruiting the commissioner of Channel 4’s Grand Designs and Embarrassing Bodies and the First Dates executive producer.
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NewsSpring hires Coast co-creator
Coast co-creator Kathy Myers is to join factual indie Spring Films as creative director.
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NewsBBC lines up Bake Off Christmas special
Previous contestants from The Great British Bake Off are to return to the tent for a BBC1 Christmas special.
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NewsFresh One whisks up Disney online spin-off
Fresh One is to follow up its Disney Channel cooking competition First Class Chefs with an short-form online spin-off featuring families.
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NewsC4 entertainment chief lifts lid on Eden project
Channel 4 head of entertainment Liam Humphreys has lifted the lid on Eden, the blank-slate format that is among the broadcaster’s flagship shows for 2017.
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NewsTop Gear: the inside track
Chris Evans paid the price for attempting to transfer his off-the-cuff approach to live programming to Top Gear, and for underestimating the enormity of the production.
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NewsClarkson & co gear up for online launch
Drive Tribe, the forthcoming online project created by Jeremy Clarkson and the former Top Gear team, has issued a call-out to creators to set-up a network of motoring channels.
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NewsChris Evans quits Top Gear
Top Gear has lost its top talent for the second time in 18 months after Chris Evans stepped down from the show.
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NewsTop Gear searches for series producer
Top Gear is on the hunt for an “inventive” series producer to bolster the show’s production capabilities for its next series.
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NewsBBC2 commissions canine competition format
Wall to Wall is to produce an ambitious canine competition format inspired by Canicross – a man and dog cross country sport - for BBC2 after being brought an idea by Hastings-based indie Ten66.
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NewsSimon Andreae’s Naked eyes genres beyond fact ent
Naked Entertainment, the indie established by former Fox and Discovery commissioner Simon Andreae, is to branch out into digital series, specialist factual and general entertainment after winning its first two factual entertainment commissions.
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NewsITV factual vision takes shape
ITV factual entertainment boss Sue Murphy is beginning to exert her influence as the department bids to find a hit on the scale of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!.
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FeaturesBorn On The Same Day, C4
Tracing the lives of celebrities and ordinary people born on the same day brings a fresh approach to the biography format, says Laura Mansfield
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NewsLove’s Muslim doc to explore pluralism
Love Productions’ forthcoming BBC2 constructed documentary series is to place 10 Muslims from a variety of backgrounds into a single house.
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NewsTop Gear consolidates to 10-year low
Chris Evans’ all-new Top Gear took a turn for the worse as its consolidated ratings tumbled to a ten-year low.
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RatingsTop Gear equals record low
SUNDAY: Top Gear slumped to what is believed to be one of its lowest overnight audiences since modern ratings began in 2002.
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NewsChannel 5 ups fact ent ambitions
Channel 5 is shaking up its factual entertainment slate after original commissions grew to two thirds of its schedule for the first time.
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NewsITV US partners with Toddlers & Tiaras producer
ITV America has joined forces with Toddlers & Tiaras producer Helga Eike to set up a production company in the US.
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NewsBlink recruits for popular factual push
Blink Films has hired former Boomerang executive producer Jon Lloyd as its first popular factual creative director to expand its output.
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NewsTop Gear consolidates to three-year high
All-new Top Gear piled on 2m viewers through recorded viewing to post its biggest series launch audience since January 2013.