All articles by Jake Kanter – Page 53
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NewsPhoneShop creator sets up indie
PhoneShop creator Phil Bowker has set up a production company and is piloting a sketch show for the BBC.
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NewsNick Clegg voices concerns over licence fee evasion plans
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has indicated that he is listening to BBC concerns over decriminalising licence fee evasion.
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NewsPeter Moffat closes the case on Silk
Silk creator Peter Moffat has confirmed that BBC1’s courtroom drama will not return for a fourth series.
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NewsJohn Kaye Cooper to oversee ITV’s Rising Star
ITV has drafted in former entertainment controller John Kaye Cooper as the showrunner on Israeli musical talent show Rising Star.
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NewsITV boss Adam Crozier’s pay rockets to £8.4m
Adam Crozier’s pay packet ballooned 189% to nearly £8.4m last year after the ITV chief executive hit performance targets and the company’s share price grew.
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NewsCBeebies’ origination quotas relaxed
Ofcom has approved plans to reduce CBeebies’ origination quotas to bring them into line with CBBC.
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RatingsLine of Duty bows out on high
BBC2 enjoyed a good night on Wednesday as Line of Duty ended with a series high audience and Twenty Twelve successor W1A got underway with 1.6m.
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NewsBBC3 orders sitcoms prior to online move
BBC3 is lining up a sitcom set in a young offenders’ institution and has recommissioned three of its biggest comedies as it begins to increase its online experimentation.
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NewsIndies lobby Trust on quotas
The bosses of some of the UK’s biggest indies used a high-level meeting with the BBC Trust to make the case for changing the corporation’s commissioning quotas during charter renewal negotiations next year.
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NewsBBC2 reveals 50th anniversary plans
Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse will take a sideways glance at BBC2’s output as part of a raft of programming celebrating the channel’s 50th anniversary in April.
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NewsITV research boss steps down
ITV’s director of planning and research Daniel Cook has left the company after more than two and a half years.
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RatingsBBC3’s Hair hits high
BBC3’s Steve Jones-fronted hairdressing competition Hair reached its quarter final stage with a series high on Tuesday, as Shetland shed nearly 300,000 viewers.
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CommentLISTEN: Line of Duty interview
Ahead of tonight’s Line of Duty climax, Broadcast interviewed exec Simon Heath about BBC2’s police corruption series.
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NewsChannel 4 triumphs at the RTS Awards
Channel 4 walked away with more gongs than any other channel at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards, with winners including Gogglebox and Educating Yorkshire.
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NewsAlan Titchmarsh quits ITV show
Alan Titchmarsh is quitting his ITV daytime show after seven years to focus on other projects.
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NewsBBC spent £6,500 suing Daily Star
The BBC spent more than £6,500 on legal fees helping former chief financial officer Zarin Patel to correct a Daily Star article that claimed she personally helped presenters “dodge” tax.
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NewsComedy Playhouse revived by BBC
BBC1 is to revive its Comedy Playhouse strand with a hat-trick of sitcom pilots, including a story starring Hugh Dennis as a BBC weatherman.
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NewsRDF hires BBC producer Catherine Welton
BBC features and factual entertainment producer Catherine Welton is to join RDF Television’s Bristol division as an executive producer.
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RatingsThe Widower murders Silk
Jeff Pope’s latest ITV drama The Widower got off to solid start, murdering competition from BBC1’s Silk on Monday evening.
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NewsUTV pre-tax profits fall 16%
Economic headwinds in the first half of 2013 blew UTV’s full-year results off course, with the Northern Irish broadcaster’s pre-tax profits falling nearly 16%.