All articles by Jake Kanter – Page 147
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RatingsHustle bows out on high
FRIDAY: The last ever episode of Hustle bowed out with a series high audience for BBC1.
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NewsMirriAd strikes Viasat product placement deal
UK digital product placement firm MirriAd has signed a deal with Viasat Broadcasting to place ads on TV3 shows in Sweden and Norway.
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NewsITV1 lines up Dwain Chambers doc
ITV1’s Tonight strand has secured exclusive access to shamed British sprinter Dwain Chambers ahead of a legal ruling that will dictate whether he can compete in the London Olympics.
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RatingsCelebrity Juice loses half a million
THURSDAY: Celebrity Juice lost around half a million viewers after its record breaking performance last week.
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RatingsInside Men suffers against football
THURSDAY: BBC1 drama Inside Men lost another half a million viewers in the face of stiff competition from Europa League football on ITV1 and Channel 5.
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NewsBarb chief executive to quit
Barb chief executive Bjarne Thelin is to step down at the end of 2012 to pursue other interests.
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RatingsArsenal defeat peaks with 6.5m
WEDNESDAY: Arsenal’s Champion’s League defeat against AC Milan netted a peak audience of nearly 6.5m, as Channel 4’s new series Daddy Day Care stuttered.
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NewsE4 acquires Suburgatory
E4 has acquired the broadcast rights to new ABC comedy Suburgatory, bolstering its line-up of American sitcoms.
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NewsCRR set to stay for Comms Act
ITV is unlikely to be handed relief from its advertising trading restrictions, the Contract Rights Renewal scheme (CRR), in the government’s new Communications Act.
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NewsBBCW teams with HBO for atomic bomb drama
Jane Tranter’s LA division of BBC Worldwide Productions is working with HBO to develop a high-profile dramatisation of Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
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The Broadcast InterviewGeoff Hill, 5 News
As ITN gears up to take over 5 News next week, its editor-in-waiting tells Jake Kanter about the ‘white-knuckle ride’ he’s been on since it picked up the contract from rival Sky News.
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NewsBarrowman fronts ITV1 comedy pilot
John Barrowman has fronted an ITV1 comedy panel show pilot that put his life under the spotlight.
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NewsITV1 eyes Jonathan Ross panel show
Jonathan Ross is gearing up to pilot an ITV1 comedy panel show inspired by Twitter.
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RatingsGypsy Weddings returns with 4.8m
TUESDAY: C4’s Big Fat Gypsy Weddings returned with more than 4.8m viewers - around 800k down on last year’s series launch.
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RatingsDiamond Queen loses 700k
MONDAY: The Diamond Queen lost 700k viewers and its victory crown as Whitechapel took the honours.
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RatingsITV4 nets 1.3m with Africa football final
SUNDAY: Zambia’s dramatic penalties victory over the Ivory Coast in the Africa Cup of Nations final netted a peak of 1.35m viewers for ITV4.
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RatingsTake Me Out pulls 5m
SATURDAY: Take Me Out lured its biggest audience of the series for the second consecutive week.
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RatingsGraham Norton tops 4m mark
FRIDAY: A guest appearance from Dame Judi Dench helped The Graham Norton Show to its biggest ratings of the year.
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RatingsBBC1 draws biggest Baftas audience since 2004
SUNDAY: The British Academy Film Awards walked away with its biggest audience in eight years as silent movie The Artist swept the board.
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RatingsEternal Law ends with 2.95m
THURSDAY: ITV1’s high-concept legal drama Eternal Law continued to flounder - bowing out with its second lowest audience of the series.