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2019 in pictures
2019-12-23T13:04:00+00:00
One Born Every Minute and Ambulance production company Dragonfly was named as Broadcast's Best Places to Work 2019
Benedict Cumberbatch starred as Dominic Cummings, Campaign Director for Vote Leave, in James Graham's Brexit: The Uncivil War which aired on Channel 4 in January
Harry Hill hosted the 2019 Broadcast Awards in February. Big winners included ITV (channel of the year) and World Productions (Best independent production company)
To kick-off Broadcast’s 60th anniversary celebrations, ITV chair Peter Bazalgette joined Stephen Lambert for a special conversation at the Soho Hotel
Dan Reed's four-hour documentary Neverland made waves in March with its focus on Wade Robson and James Safechuck's claims that they were sexually abused as children by singer Michael Jackson
Channel 4 head of entertainment and TV events Ed Havard left the broadcaster at Easter after seven years. He would later join NBC Entertainment as UK director of entertainment partnerships
Studio Lambert's Race Across The World launched on BBC2 in March. Pairs of travellers raced to reach the Far East without taking a single flight. Its final episode entertained 3.4m, becoming BBC2’s highest-performing first-series fact-ent episode in more than three years
Ricky Gervais' new Netflix comedy After Life launched in March. He spoke to Broadcast about finding the humour in tragic situations –and having the freedom to do exactly what he wants https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/comedy/ricky-gervais-on-after-life/5137461.article
Broadcast launched its newest publication in April - a quarterly magazine covering production, distribution and tech innovation
BBC Studios exec Marcus Arthur took the reins at a slimmer UKTV in April after the BBC’s commercial arm agreed to pay Discovery £173m to retain seven channels in the break-up of the joint venture
ITV cancelled The Jeremy Kyle Show in May following the death of a participant a week after filming an episode of the daily show
Lenny Henry guest edited our special diversity issue in May and sat down with Labour's then deputy leader Tom Watson. Social mobility, ringfenced funds and better data were among the topics on the table as the MP laid out a blueprint for tackling TV’s long-standing diversity issues
Sister's five-part Sky Atlantic/HBO drama Chernobyl became the sleeper hit of the summer, earning rave reviws and multiple awards nominations
BBC2’s latest iteration of Top Gear, presented by Andrew Flintoff, Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris, launched in June and averaged 3.8 million across a five-week run - 1.5 million more than Matt LeBlanc’s last series
Al Murray celebrated his Broadcast Digital Award win after receiving the trophy from host Alex Horne
A nation was gripped as England won the cricket World Cup final in July in dramatic fashion. The game was broadcast live on both Sky and Channel 4 after a special deal was signed to make it available on free-to-air.
ITV chief executive Carolyn McCall and BBC director general Tony Hall formally unveiled Britbox in July. The SVoD service, which launched in November, features thousands hours of archive content from the PSB's, as well as Channel 4 and Channel 5
MBI chief executive Conor Dignam caught up with former Broadcast editors Lisa Campbell (left) and Lucy Rouse at our 60th anniversary party at London’s Smiths of Smithfields in July, with top industry names in attendance
Ahead of the Edinburgh Television Festival, Broadcast caught up with comedian Frankie Boyle who explained why protecting the right to offend is crucial
The 2019 Broadcast Hot Shots were revealed in August with Nathan Bryon (left) and Jerome Bucchan-Nelson among those selected
Channel 4 head of news and current affairs Dorothy Byrne made waves with her MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival, taking aim at Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn for ducking TV interviews
Broadcast exclusively revealed in September that Channel 5 director of programmes Ben Frow brief was expanding to encompass commissioning strategy for Comedy Central UK, MTV, Nickelodeon and Paramount
Jane Featherstone, Liz Murdoch and former 20th Century Fox Film chair Stacey Snider announced in October that had joined forces to establish a global production and development company - Sister - operating out of London and Los Angeles
In September, Broadcast revealed that Tom McDonald, the BBC's specialist factual boss was swapping commissioning for a new role at BBC Studios. He became the producer/distributor’s director of factual, responsible for the genre’s overall strategy, leading the creative teams and driving growth across the portfolio
Comedian Phil Wang hosted the inaugural Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards in October
Channel 4 chief Alex Mahon formally declared the broadcaster open for business in Leeds in October, with around 250 staff to be based in the city
Banijay Group confirmed in October it is buying Endemol Shine Group in in a deal believed to be worth around €2bn (£1.7bn).
June Sarpong joined the BBC in November as its inaugural director of creative diversity focusing on improving the corporation’s on-air representation and commissioning practices, while developing strategies to support under-represented on-air and off-air talent
The Duke of York sat down with Emily Maitlis for a Newsnight special in November to respond to allegations he had sex with a teenager groomed by convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. 1.7 million tuned in to see Prince Andrew deliver unconvincing answers in an interview described in some quarters as a 'masterclass'
Source: BBC/Mark Harrison
Twofour announced in November it had hired BBC head of popular factual and factual entertainment commissioning David Brindley as chief creative officer
Relations between Channel 4 and the government turned frosty in November when the Tories wrote to Ofcom to complain about C4’s ‘provocative partisan stunt’ of replacing Boris Johnson with a block of ice in a C4 News climate change debate. The regulator later ruled that C4 was “in no way pejorative of either party leader personally or the party which they represent”
Channel 4 was announced as the new home of Taskmaster in November after securing a six series deal of the long-running show with Avalon. The broadcaster swooped after the entertainment show’s contract came to an end with UKTV-owned Dave after nine series
To round off our 60th anniversary celebrations, Broadcast published special issue, The Shows That Shaped British Television, with the likes of Melvyn Bragg, Danny Brocklehurst and Nicola Shindler revealing which programmes made them fall in love with telly in the first place
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