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NewsTop 10 features of 2016
Sky’s Gary Davey, Channel 4’s Jay Hunt and a deep dive into Netflix’s content strategy.
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NewsEducating... doc series returns to C4
Twofour’s Educating… documentary is to return to Channel 4 in late 2017 after being rested this year.
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RatingsSix Wives bows out with 3.2m
WEDNESDAY: BBC1’s docu-drama recreating the tumultuous marriages of Henry VIII closed narrowly behind the channel’s slot opposite series finales on BBC2 and ITV
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NewsC4 seeks aspiring northern writers
Channel 4 is seeking three aspiring writers from the North of England to train to become TV writers.
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NewsBanijay formats chief to step down
Banijay Group formats chief Grant Ross is to step down in April after nearly three years with subsidiary Zodiak Media.
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RatingsVicious finale fails to bite
FRIDAY: An hour-long send-off for ITV comedy Vicious sank to its lowest performance yet.
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NewsPrincess joint MD to leave
Princess Productions joint managing director Conor Baily is to leave the Endemol Shine-backed indie after 17 years.
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NewsBear Grylls returns to CITV
CITV has recommissioned a second series of Bear Grylls’ Survival School despite recent cuts to the channel’s original commissioning budget.
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RatingsApprentice bows out with 6m
SUNDAY: The Apprentice recovered from last year’s worst performing final since 2005 to hook 6m.
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NewsFremantle racks up 20bn YouTube views
Fremantle Media is on track to generated 20 billion YouTube views - more than any other producer, TV network or movie studio worldwide, according to chief executive Cecile Frot-Coutaz.
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RatingsThe Big Life Fix lands 1.3m
WEDNESDAY: BBC2’s life overhaul format The Big Life Fix with Simon Reeve grew its audience, adding 183,000 to its debut last week.
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NewsDragonfly exec joins BBC docs team
Dragonfly executive producer Emma Loach is to join the BBC documentaries team as a replacement for Clare Sillery who has been made head of the division.
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NewsBetty heads up Everest
Betty is to journey to the top of Everest with the helicopter pilots who risk their lives to save stranded climbers facing certain death in a major international Discovery commission.
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Behind The ScenesInside No 9, BBC2
Inside No. 9 producer Adam Tandy talks to George Bevir about creating a working 1970s drama set with period cameras and lighting for the return of the darkly comic anthology series
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NewsMaverick reveals genre plans
Maverick is bidding to become a cross-genre operator, building on the commission of its ambitious Channel 4 specialist factual entertainment format, Escape.
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NewsTelegraph ties with Endemol Shine for VoD push
The Telegraph has launched an online long-form video service stocked with content acquired from Endemol Shine.
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NewsAnna Miralis joins Wall to Wall
Channel 4 documentaries commissioner Anna Miralis has joined Wall to Wall as its head of factual.
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NewsLime Pictures hires E! VP
Lime Pictures has hired E!’s Noah Pollack as its first US executive vice president of non-scripted programming.
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NewsRevamped Coach Trip scores bumper order
Coach Trip has landed a double series recommission from E4 after the 12 Yard format was upgraded from Channel 4’s daytime schedule.