All Indies articles – Page 625
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RatingsCelebrity Big Brother returns with 2.8m
TUESDAY: Celebrity Big Brother returned to Channel 5 with just under 3m viewers, as ITV’s disaster series Saved lost out to Channel 4’s Big Fat Quiz of Everything.
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NewsZodiak and Banijay merger set for February
The merger between Zodiak Media and French production group Banijay is set to close on 10 February, Broadcast can reveal.
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NewsThe Voice showrunner to launch Objective label
The Voice UK executive producer Moira Ross is leaving Wall to Wall after four years to launch Objective Productions’ entertainment label.
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NewsLoose Women secures sustainability certification
Loose Women has become the first long-running daytime studio show to be certified under Bafta’s Albert+ sustainability scheme.
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RatingsBBC2 triumphs with Dad's Army Story
TUESDAY: We’re Doomed! The Dad’s Army Story reeled in BBC2’s biggest audience for a single drama of the year.
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NewsBoomerang boss departs
Boomerang managing director Gareth Rees is leaving the indie after almost two decades.
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Behind The ScenesAll Aboard! The Sleigh Ride, BBC4
As if filming at -20°C wasn’t challenging enough, we had to grapple with reindeer and hand-held filming on a bumpy sleigh, says Luke Korzun Martin
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NewsThe Garden behind Cancer Research ads
The Garden Productions has produced the television, radio and digital content for a major new Cancer Research UK fundraising campaign.
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RatingsFirst Dates proposal helps C4 beat ITV
THURSDAY: First Dates helped Channel 4 beat ITV and BBC2 at 9pm, while Hunderby crashed out with 11,000 viewers.
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NewsObjective unveils fact-ent label
All3Media indie Objective Productions has taken the wraps off its factual entertainment label, headed up by former Sky entertainment commissioner Deborah Sargeant.
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RatingsPeep Show ends on low
WEDNESDAY: Peep Show’s final ever episode went out with a ratings whimper, as The Apprentice semi-final comfortably won the 9pm slot.
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Behind The ScenesBeowulf, ITV
The producers of ITV’s take on the Anglo-Saxon epic tell Olly Grant how they created a fantasy universe from scratch and made an ancient saga work for a modern audience
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NewsThe global trends for 2016
Broadcast international editor Peter White makes his predictions for the year ahead
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NewsBetty explores freak shows for BBC3
BBC3 has commissioned a one-off disability documentary about freak shows from Betty to air ahead of the channel’s move online.
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NewsWar Of The Worlds set for UK television adaptation
Poldark producer Mammoth Screen is developing a major adaptation of The War Of The Worlds to coincide with the expiration of the copyright on the HG Wells novel next year, Broadcast can reveal.
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RatingsBack In Time For Christmas feeds 2.7m
MONDAY: BBC2’s Back In Time For Christmas special outperformed the format’s debut, while Las Vegas with Trevor McDonald slipped by 1m viewers.
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Behind The ScenesThe Sound of Music Live, ITV
ITV’s live broadcast of the classic musical won’t shy away from drawing political parallels with today’s global crises, discovers Emily Norval
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NewsGogglebox hires Lime development exec
Gogglebox Entertainment has hired Lime Pictures exec Paul Evans as head of development.
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NewsBBC entertainment commissioner returns to Talkback
BBC entertainment commissioner Ed Sleeman is to return to Fremantle Media indie Talkback just 18 months after joining the corporation.