All Features articles – Page 279
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FeaturesChannels chalk up 2010 tasks
With the general election an inevitability, the BBC has a particularly pivotal year ahead, but for all channels the focus will be creating engaging content that captures audiences’ hearts.
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FeaturesITV: The new guard
ITV’s new leaders will have to hit the ground running in the New Year, answering fundamental questions on how the terrestrial ‘dinosaur’ will adapt its business model to survive the new-media landscape.
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FeaturesFive: Revival strategy
Five ended the year on a turbulent note, with rumours about the departure of channel controller Richard Woolfe - rumours that were quickly put to rest in the pages of this magazine with a resounding “bollocks” from both him and his boss Dawn Airey.
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FeaturesCold snap heats up ratings
The Christmas feast continued into the new year as dance, dating and crime kept viewers glued.
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FeaturesMultichannel: Resisting change
Ofcom’s delayed review of the pay-TV sector will be 2010’s pivotal event, assuming the regulator is still around to issue it.
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FeaturesBBC: Political pressures
Top of the BBC’s “to do” list for 2010 will be getting its house in order for life under a Tory government.
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FeaturesMultiplatform: Coming of age
With Arqiva’s SeeSaw and Hulu preparing to launch, 2010 will be the year that on-demand finally comes of age.
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FeaturesC4 blasts into life with CBB
Channel 4 can be forgiven if it feels a bit of motion sickness; on Christmas Day it was becalmed in the doldrums with a very titchy 1.7% peaktime share; then on Sunday, all steely eyed, it clambered aboard HMS ‘Take A Look At This’ and scored 13.8%.
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FeaturesChannel 4: The year of renewal
There’s nothing C4 execs like to trumpet more than a “creative renewal”. But if 2009 was the year of clearing the decks by axing Big Brother and Wife Swap, 2010 should be the year that we start to see a new vision take shape.
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FeaturesSky 1 making all the right moves
Bernstein and Sondheim would be proud. It’s like The Jets and the Sharks out there - our very own West Side Story; dancing on different days and maybe to different tunes, and perhaps on an off day.
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FeaturesJamie's Family Christmas
A title sequence and content graphics, created by Hello Charlie, for the celebrity chef’s new Christmas shows
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FeaturesPost in 2009: No smoke without fire
Faced with an industry downturn and a major safety scare, many of the UK’s post-production facility bosses spent2009 re-evaluating the way they run their businesses.
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FeaturesHeads or Tails
Titles and identity package for a new primetime gameshow hosted by Justin Lee Collins
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One Man and his Dog titles
A fresh approach to the title sequence for a new series of the much-loved countryside show.
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Features‘Ere we go, ‘ere we go
Despite the fact that it’s occurring in another hemisphere entirely, when the FIFA World Cup kicks off on June 11 the UK OB industry will be intimately involved. Andy Stout looks at how it’s rising to the challenge.
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FeaturesThe Academy
DLT Entertainment and 2act Productions have soft launched a support website to help build momentum for its upcoming comedy pilot, The Academy.
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FeaturesNorthernNet
A 100Mbps digital network that will allow North of England-based creative and digital companies and their customers to send large media files quickly.
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FeaturesSchedules in three-horse race
RATINGS: With such strong front-runners, other programmes were struggling to get a look-in last week.