All articles by Hannah Gannagé-Stewart – Page 20
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NewsBob Shennan appointed BBC director of radio
Radio 2 and 6 Music boss Bob Shennan has been appointed director of BBC Radio following last month’s promotion of James Purnell.
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NewsBBC starts axing Studios jobs
BBC Studios’ bases in London and Bristol will bear the brunt of a large-scale redundancy drive as director Mark Linsey’s plan to slash its headcount by around 15% gets under way.
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NewsBBC tender prompts questions
Producers have raised questions about the value of securing a BBC format after A Question Of Sport and Holby City became the first shows to be put out to tender since the in-house guarantee was scrapped.
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NewsHolby City put out to tender
Producers have been offered the opportunity to land a three-year contract to produce Holby City – the second BBC show to be put out to tender after the broadcaster scrapped in-house guarantees.
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NewsDamian Collins appointed CMS chair
Conservative MP Damian Collins has been elected chair of the culture, media and sport select committee.
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NewsVoltage cooks up food format for BBC2
Voltage TV has landed a 12-part primetime food competition celebrating home cooking to air on BBC2 next summer.
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NewsBBC releases Question Of Sport tender
Regional producers could be best placed to scoop the £4m contract to produce A Question of Sport after the BBC released its first tender document since scrapping its in-house guarantee.
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NewsSee-Saw adapts Ian McGuire whaling thriller
BBC2 is developing an adaptation of Ian McGuire’s Man Booker-longlisted whaling novel The North Water with See-Saw Films.
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NewsZDF snaps up BBC antiques format
German broadcaster ZDF has commissioned antiques format For What It’s Worth from BBC Worldwide and All3Media joint venture Tower Productions.
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NewsBBC launches diversity guidelines
The BBC has unveiled new commissioning guidelines that make it compulsory for indies to consider diversity and inclusion as part of the development process.
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NewsBlueprint to adapt Graham Norton novel
Sony-backed indie Blueprint Television is to turn Graham Norton’s debut novel into a high-end international drama series after optioning the book - as Dancing Ledge Productions prepares to adapt several Alistair Maclean thrillers.
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NewsBBC Studios exempt from salary disclosure
New rules forcing the BBC to disclose talent salaries in excess of £150,000 will not apply to staff employed by BBC Studios, according to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
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NewsBBC2 unwraps sweet history
Wall to Wall is going back in time again to discover the history of confectionary for a three-part BBC2 series.
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NewsIndies hit out at C5 ‘land grab’
Relations between Channel 5 and qualifying indies have soured in recent months, prompting complaints to Pact about the Viacom-owned broadcaster’s stance on terms of trade.
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NewsPrincess choreographs ITV dance extravaganza
ITV head of entertainment Siobhan Greene has ordered her first commission – a one-off primetime dance entertainment format starring Ashley Banjo.
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NewsBBC1 orders hospital comedy
Roughcut TV has landed a six-part hospital comedy for BBC1, marking the People Just Do Nothing indie’s first commission for the corporation’s flagship channel.
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NewsRobot Wars returns to BBC2
Menacing robots charged with crushing, sawing and scorching their opponents will return to BBC2 after Mentorn Scotland’s Robot Wars was renewed for another series.
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NewsTom Watson named shadow culture secretary
Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson has been appointed shadow culture secretary as part of Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet reshuffle.
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NewsC4 to name the best place to live in the UK
Channel 4 has tasked Outline Productions with identifying the best places to live and work in the UK in a one-off doc that will air next spring.
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RatingsVictoria closes with 5.5m
WEEKEND: Victoria came to a close 300,000 ahead of ITV’s slot average and up on BBC1’s Poldark, which continued with 4.9m