All articles by Jake Kanter – Page 27

  • Comic Relief
    Ratings

    Comic Relief ratings hit low

    2015-03-16T10:15:00Z

    FRIDAY: Comic Relief pulled in its lowest audience since at least 1999 despite breaking the £1bn fundraising mark.

  • Marvellous
    News

    Marvellous triumphs at BPG Awards

    2015-03-13T13:41:00Z

    BBC2’s scripted output led the way at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, as Pete Bowker’s Marvellous picked up two gongs.

  • Lenny Henry
    News

    Lenny Henry awarded for diversity work

    2015-03-13T00:01:00Z

    Lenny Henry is to be honoured at the Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) Awards today for his contribution to television and championing industry diversity.

  • Utopia
    News

    Overview: ITV’s production empire

    2015-03-12T13:18:00Z

    Talpa Media pushed ITV’s production acquisitions into double figures under chief executive Adam Crozier. Broadcast runs the rule over the company’s growing empire.

  • The Voice
    News

    ITV buys Talpa for £355m

    2015-03-12T07:59:00Z

    ITV has taken full control of Talpa Media for an initial fee of £355m in what marks chief executive Adam Crozier’s biggest acquisition to date.

  • Weather
    News

    Barb: blame it on the sunshine

    2015-03-12T07:04:00Z

    The weather’s impact on ratings has been laid bare for the first time by Barb, which has revealed that warmer temperatures and more sun mean people spend less time in front of the television.

  • Top Gear
    News

    BBC Scotland boss to oversee Jeremy Clarkson case

    2015-03-11T18:41:00Z

    The BBC’s investigation into the Jeremy Clarkson “fracas” will be overseen by Ken MacQuarrie and will be the highest-profile test yet of the corporation’s new bullying procedures.

  • Jeremy Clarkson
    Comment

    Jeremy Clarkson: a scandal too far?

    2015-03-11T09:49:00Z

    Could the BBC’s zero tolerance approach to bullying spell the end for the Top Gear presenter

  • Jeremy-Clarkson
    News

    Jeremy Clarkson fracas: allegations emerge

    2015-03-11T08:01:00Z

    Jeremy Clarkson was suspended by the BBC after throwing a punch at Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon, according to reports.

  • Jeremy Clarkson
    News

    BBC suspends Jeremy Clarkson

    2015-03-10T16:54:00Z

    Jeremy Clarkson has been suspended as the presenter of Top Gear following a “fracas with a BBC producer”.

  • Uncle
    News

    BBC services face axe without ‘riskier’ management savings

    2015-03-10T13:12:00Z

    More BBC services will face the axe if the corporation is unable to make “riskier changes to organisational structures and ways of working” as part of its strategy to save £700m a year, according to a report.

  • Bannan
    News

    Gaelic drama Bannan to return

    2015-03-10T12:57:00Z

    Gaelic broadcaster BBC Alba is to tap into the success of foreign-language series such as The Killing after commissioning another 10 episodes of local drama Bannan. 

  • Rona Fairhead
    News

    MP tells Rona Fairhead to resign

    2015-03-09T18:10:00Z

    Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chair Margaret Hodge has called on BBC Trust chairman Rona Fairhead to resign over her handling of the HSBC tax evasion scandal.

  • Take Me Out
    Ratings

    Take Me Out loses 10% of audience

    2015-03-09T12:59:00Z

    SATURDAY: Take Me Out’s seventh series ended with 400,000 fewer viewers than last year, as The Voice UK remained the top-rated Saturday night show.

  • Banished
    News

    BBC questions 25% indie quota

    2015-03-09T09:18:00Z

    The BBC has raised concerns about its ability to continue commissioning 25% of its content from qualifying indies amid seismic market consolidation.

  • Downton Abbey
    Comment

    ITV is wrong to blame BBC for ratings woes

    2015-03-06T12:58:00Z

    Jake Kanter dissects Adam Crozier’s claims the BBC is the source of ITV’s ratings slump.

  • Wild Things
    Podcast

    Talking TV: BBC Trust future & Sky's Wild Things

    2015-03-06T12:48:00Z

    Talking TV walks you through a busy fortnight of news, providing an analysis of Rona Fairhead’s speech on the future of the BBC Trust and unpicking ITV’s Talpa takeover bid.

  • The Lady Who Flew Africa: The Aviatrix
    News

    BBC acquires female aviator film

    2015-03-06T11:48:00Z

    BBC4 has acquired a film that will follow a female pilot’s mission to fly from Cape Town to London.

  • Zoella
    News

    BBC beefs up ratings data

    2015-03-05T07:06:00Z

    Danny Cohen wants to improve the way BBC shows are commissioned, cast and crafted by arming his team with more detailed daily ratings reports.

  • Top Gear
    News

    Analysis: BBC Studios plans

    2015-03-05T07:05:00Z

    The hunt for a leader of BBC Studios will begin imminently, but the industry wants more clarity about the newly rechristened production division after Tony Hall outlined his initial vision this week.