All articles by Jake Kanter – Page 174
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RatingsTop Gear returns with 5.13m
SUNDAY: Top Gear returned at 8pm with a slot winning performance - but was one of the show’s lowest rating debuts in five years.
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RatingsLee Mack’s All Star Cast loses nearly 1m
SATURDAY: Lee Mack’s All Star Cast lost nearly a million viewers for BBC1 – as The Marriage Ref built its audience marginally.
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RatingsMurray victory thrashes competition
FRIDAY: Andy Murray’s third round victory at Wimbledon served up a high of nearly 9m viewers on BBC1 - as U2’s headlining set at Glastonbury drew a peak of more than 1.6m to BBC2.
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RatingsTraffic Cops arrests 4.21m
THURSDAY: Traffic Cops outmanoeuvred its factual rivals in the 9pm slot, including a solid performance from new Channel 5 documentary Walking the Amazon.
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NewsITV4 tucks into Richard Bacon’s Beer & Pizza Club again
ITV4 has ordered a second helping of Richard Bacon’s Beer & Pizza Club, despite the first series falling below slot average.
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NewsSTV signs first product placement deal
STV has signed its first product placement deals for Lidl supermarket goods and promotion for the Scottish Borders Council during daytime show The Hour.
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RatingsMurray and The Apprentice triumph
WEDNESDAY: Andy Murray’s second round Wimbledon victory netted a peak of nearly 4m viewers, as The Apprentice clocked up its second biggest audience of the series.
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NewsTaggart producer working on fresh ITV murder drama
The executive producer of Taggart is working on an adaptation of Erin Kelly novel The Poison Tree for ITV1.
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NewsJain keen to find drama successor to Secret Diary
Angela Jain has made it a priority to replace Secret Diary Of A Call Girl with a new original drama for ITV2.
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NewsITV revisits Corrie history
ITV1 is to air a controversial 1960s Coronation Street suicide storyline for the first time as part of a celebration of the soap’s history.
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NewsC5 agrees financing deal with Barclays for Transparent show
Transparent Television has become the first indie to use a new production financing model established by Channel 5.
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NewsS4C cuts a fifth of staff
Nearly a fifth of S4C’s staff are to leave the Welsh broadcaster in light of the government-imposed 24% cut to its budget last year.
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NewsHistory digs up second run of Mud Men
History has ordered an extended second series of Johnny Vaughan-fronted documentary series Mud Men.
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RatingsThree Men Go to Venice draws 2.75m
TUESDAY: The latest series of BBC2’s Three Men travelogue strand nearly outwitted ITV1 documentary Baby Hospital last night.
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NewsKeith Lemon pilots ITV1 primetime show
Keith Lemon is to pilot his own show for ITV1 as the broadcaster looks to establish the Celebrity Juice host as a primetime Saturday star.
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RatingsMurray victory serves up 5m
MONDAY: Wimbledon swung back into action with a peak of more than 5m viewers as Andy Murray eased into the second round of the tennis contest.
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NewsAll3 hires GMG exec
All3Media has appointed Guardian Media Group board member Nick Backhouse as a non-executive director.
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RatingsApprentice fires ITV’s Marple
WEDNESDAY: The latest Miss Marple mystery failed to make an impact and was trounced by The Apprentice at 9pm.
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NewsWild appoints head of production
Strangeways indie Wild Pictures has poached Outline’s head of production, and creative director Paul Hamann is planning to recruit a number two as its expansion continues.