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FeaturesBroadcast Awards at 20: Educating Yorkshire
David Clews on the 2014 Best Documentary Series winner
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FeaturesBroadcast Awards at 20: I’m Alan Partridge
Armando Iannucci talks about the 1999 Best Comedy Programme winner
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FeaturesBroadcast Awards at 20: Life On Mars
Ashley Paroah on the 2007 Best Original Programme winner
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FeaturesBroadcast Awards at 20: Man On Wire
Nick Fraser on the 2010 Best Documentary Programme winner
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NewsStephen Lambert targets drama after committing to All3Media
Stephen Lambert has committed his future to All3Media until at least 2020 and plans to launch a drama division at Studio Lambert.
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NewsNBC orders The Island with Bear Grylls remake
NBC is to remake Channel 4’s The Island with Bear Grylls later this year.
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CommentComment: Fixed-rig is evolving fast
What next for the genre Dragonfly started with The Family in 2008, asks Sarah Swingler
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NewsRetort hires head of development
FremantleMedia UK indie Retort has hired former Channel 4 deputy commissioner Nana Hughes as its head of development.
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RatingsBroadchurch hits halfway point with 5.6m
MONDAY: ITV’s Broadchurch hit its halfway point with its lowest ever audience, but leapfrogged BBC1’s Silent Witness to win the 9pm slot.
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NewsBear Grylls to front I’m A Celebrity-style format
Bear Grylls will lead a band of eight celebrities through an unforgiving rainforest in a new I’m A Celebrity-style entertainment format for ITV.
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NewsTiger Aspect hires new animation exec
Baby Cow Animation founder Tim Searle has been appointed by Tiger Aspect as its creative director of animation and children’s.
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NewsITV pulls Julia Bradbury series
Lion Television’s Julia Bradbury-fronted series The Wonder of Britain has been temporarily shelved by ITV due to a poor ratings.
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RatingsWolf Hall debuts with 3.9m
WEDNESDAY: Wolf Hall made a regal debut for BBC2, pulling in the channel’s biggest overnight audience for an episode in a drama series in a decade.
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NewsMr Bean makes Comic Relief comeback
Tiger Aspect has resurrected legendary comedy character Mr Bean for the BBC’s Red Nose Day coverage this March.
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NewsCompany options ‘next Wolf Hall’
Wolf Hall producer Company Pictures has snapped up the rights to Jessie Burton’s bestselling book The Miniaturist.
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NewsDave doubles up on Storage Hunters
Auctioneer Sean Kelly is to remain in the UK after Dave ordered two more series of Storage Hunters UK.
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NewsBoundless hires The Apprentice exec
Undercover Boss executive producer Cal Turner has joined FremantleMedia UK indie Boundless to oversee the new series of The Apprentice.
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RatingsKatie Price boosts Celebrity Big Brother
FRIDAY: The arrival of Katie Price on Celebrity Big Brother boosted the Channel 5 show’s ratings by more than half a million viewers.
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RatingsThe Voice rises 500,000
SATURDAY: The Voice UK gained half a million viewers, thrashing a poor second outing for Stars In Their Eyes.