All Indies articles – Page 643
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NewsShine TV boss to step down
Shine TV managing director Kelly Webb-Lamb is to leave the indie at the end of the year.
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NewsBetty staffs up to bolster male-skewing & features output
Betty has hired two executive producers to ramp up its male-skewing adventure output and features programming.
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NewsLittle Dot accesses vloggers for first TV commission
Digital producer Little Dot has secured its first television commission – a documentary about vloggers for BBC3.
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RatingsHoney I Bought The House makes room for 91,000
MONDAY: Honey I Bought The House got off to strong start for Watch, as The Muppets debuted on Sky 1 with nearly 400,000 viewers.
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NewsJeremy Dear joins Wall to Wall
Jeremy Dear has joined Wall to Wall as director of international factual after only establishing his factual indie The Ideas Room last year.
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NewsITVS looks north east for talent
ITV is to expand the volume of partnerships it forges with regional indies – with a focus on those based in the north east.
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RatingsHunted tracks down 1.4m average
THURSDAY: Hunted and Cradle To Grave bowed out on series lows, as The Apprentice fell by almost 1m from Wednesday’s opener.
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NewsITV Studios America options Bull Mountain
ITV Studios America is developing a drama about a small-town sheriff after optioning novel Bull Mountain.
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RatingsThe Apprentice recruits 6.4m
WEDNESDAY: The Apprentice recruited 6.4m viewers as it returned to BBC1 as Alexander Armstrong set off to the Arctic Circle for ITV with fewer than 3m in tow.
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Behind The ScenesKitchen Impossible with Michel Roux Jnr, C4
With the help of Michelin-starred chef Michel Roux Jr, we wanted to show that people with disabilities have the talent, ambition and will to succeed in the workplace, says series producer Sam Grace
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NewsChannel 5 to get tough with NQIs
Channel 5 intends to become stricter when striking deals with non-qualifying indies and will write to its biggest suppliers imminently to outline its new position.
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NewsEndemol Shine Group’s battle for independence
Endemol Shine Group chief executive Sophie Turner Laing has encouraged the company’s 120 global production companies to compete against one other in a bid to foster creativity within the newly merged mega-indie’s “loose federal” system.
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NewsLeftfield staff vote to join WGAE union
Writers and producers working at ITV Studios’s Leftfield Entertainment have voted to unionise as tension grows between the UK broadcaster and the Writers Guild of America (WGAE).
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NewsChannel 5 cooks up weekend format to rival Saturday Kitchen
Channel 5 is to go head-to-head with BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen with a two-hour live magazine show for Saturday mornings.
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NewsBBC on brink of The Voice recommission
The Voice UK is on the brink of being recommissioned for BBC1.
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RatingsFirst Dates hooks up 2m
MONDAY: Stand Up To Cancer’s First Dates special performed solidly but was unable to beat Friday’s charity-themed Gogglebox.
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RatingsGogglebox helps C4 beat BBC1 at 9pm
FRIDAY: C4’s Stand Up To Cancer-inspired Gogglebox trumped BBC1, but just lost out to ITV’s England Euro 2016 qualifier.
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NewsC4 eyes Richard Osman nostalgia quiz
Richard Osman is to front a Channel 4 quiz show pilot that tests star guests’ knowledge of 1980s and 90s pop culture.
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NewsC5 orders UK-focused New Lives In The Wild
Ben Fogle is swapping the wilds of Asia and Alaska for adventures in Exmoor and the Welsh countryside in a revamped version of Channel 5’s New Lives In The Wild.
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NewsC4 locks up fixed-rig prison doc
Channel 4 will give a young offenders’ institute the fixed-rig treatment in a hard-hitting documentary series earmarked for 2016.