All Factual articles – Page 332
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NewsI'm A Celebrity co-creator hired as ITN Prods factual chief
I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! co-creator Will Smith has been appointed as ITN Productions’ head of factual.
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NewsSmithsonian orders Nutopia invention doc
US cable network Smithsonian has ordered documentary series My Million Dollar Invention from Jane Root’s Nutopia.
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NewsTom Giles handed new BBC role
Former Panorama editor Tom Giles has left BBC News to become a specialist factual producer at BBC Productions, Broadcast understands.
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Behind The ScenesThe Secret Life of Four Year Olds, C4
When we started filming a group of four year-olds, we had no idea what it would teach us, says Teresa Watkins.
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NewsBBC factual plan in spotlight
Sweeping changes to the BBC’s factual commissioning team came as a “massive shock” to insiders and are likely to result in the departure of some of the corporation’s highest-profile commissioners.
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RatingsAuschwitz doc moves 1.2m
TUESDAY: BBC2’s documentary Touched By Auschwitz fell just short of the channel’s slot average on Holocaust Memorial Day.
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CommentComment: Fixed-rig is evolving fast
What next for the genre Dragonfly started with The Family in 2008, asks Sarah Swingler
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CommentHolocaust: Night Will Fall
Holocaust film-makers didn’t flinch from the truth, says Ralph Lee
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RatingsAngry, White and Proud doubles C4 slot average
WEDNESDAY: Channel 4 doubled its slot average with English far right documentary Angry, White and Proud.
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RatingsTomorrow’s Worlds transports 700,000
SATURDAY: Tomorrow’s Worlds bowed out with an average of almost 700,000 on BBC2 as Strictly Come Dancing beat The X Factor by almost 1.5m viewers.
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RatingsC5's The Railway returns with 760k
THURSDAY: Channel 5’s ob-doc The Railway: First Great Western returned 200k shy of its first series, while The Fall, I’m A Celebrity and Babylon all remained steady.
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RatingsWild Weather whips up 2.8m
MONDAY: Richard Hammond’s exploration of wild weather failed to hold off the headwind from I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!.
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RatingsMartin Lewis banks 500k fewer viewers for ITV
FRIDAY: Martin Lewis returned to ITV with more money-saving tips but 500,000 fewer viewers, as Ben Fogle gained viewers on Channel 5.
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RatingsLife Story bows out on low
THURSDAY: David Attenborough’s BBC1 wildlife series Life Story bowed with its worst ratings of the series.
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NewsFormats due ‘next big wave’
Come Dine With Me creator Nell Butler has called on broadcasters to replicate UKTV’s Formats Lab scheme to inspire the next generation of formatted programmes.
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RatingsC4's paedophile doc shocks 1.7m
TUESDAY: Controversial C4 doc The Paedophile Next Door performed well despite tough competition from Champions League football and BBC1 drama The Missing.
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RatingsInside Tatler and Skint draw 1.5m
MONDAY: There was stalemate in the battle of posh versus poor last night, as both Posh People: Inside Tatler and Skint pulled in 1.5m viewers.
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CommentTackling paedophilia head on
We need bold new approaches to keep kids safe, says Rudolph Herzog
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NewsJoanna Lumley boards Trans-Siberian railway
Burning Bright is sending Joanna Lumley on a 5,000 mile adventure aboard the Trans-Siberian railway for ITV.