All articles by Katherine Rushton – Page 34
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FeaturesBBC comedy: Nothing funny about playing safe
With BBC comedies having been outstripped by C4 at the Baftas, are the corporation’s commissioners stifling the laughter by being too risk-averse?
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NewsRenegade’s redecorating couples ordered by BBC3
Renegade Pictures is to apply its Don’t Tell The Bride format to interior decoration in a 6 x 60-minute series for BBC3.
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NewsBBC2 gives greenlight to Bwark ad agency sitcom
The Inbetweeners producer Bwark has had the greenlight from BBC2 for a full series of its pilot comedy, The Scum Also Rises.
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NewsBBC talent facing 25% pay cuts
BBC stars earning above £100,000 a year are facing pay cuts of 25% when their deals come up for renegotiation – and some of the highest paid names are expected to have their salaries halved.
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NewsBBC3 calling for 3pm start
The BBC has suggested bringing BBC3’s start-time forward to 3pm – but the BBC Trust has reservations.
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NewsBBC boosts Scottish production
The BBC is on track to meet its Scottish production targets - boosted by three Scottish network comedies including the return of Rab C Nesbitt and a BBC4 Scottish season featuring The Thick of It’s Peter Capaldi.
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NewsGriffiths named Newsround editor
Owenna Griffiths has been named editor of CBBC’s Newsround, replacing Sinead Rocks who has moved to BBC Current Affairs as executive producer.
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NewsBBC to pay out nearly £1m after libel battle
The BBC is to pay nearly a million pounds following a libel battle over claims made in a Panorama programme about an IVF doctor.
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NewsGilchrist to join BBC comedy
CBBC controller Anne Gilchrist is to join the BBC’s in-house comedy department as creative and business director.
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NewsBBC lands the best job in the world
BBC1 has ordered a doc on the search for a caretaker for an Australian tropical island - widely billed as “the best job in the world”.
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NewsBBC Trust calls for more info on Project Canvas
The BBC Trust has given the Project Canvas team the green light to launch a charm offensive after it called on the BBC executive to put more details about the project into the public domain.
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NewsAnderson questions ‘safe’ TV
Question Time executive producer Steve Anderson has questioned whether the show would be commissioned in today’s compliance-heavy TV environment.
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CBeebies quick to reorder Waybuloo
CBeebies has commissioned RDF Media Group subsidiary The Foundation to produce 50 more episodes of Waybuloo just weeks after the first 100 shows began airing.
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The Broadcast InterviewSteve Anderson, Mentorn Media
As the storm over MPs’ expenses rages, Question Time has been the lightening rod for angry voters to voice their views. Katherine Rushton talks to Mentorn Media’s creative director
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NewsMacDonald takes creative lead at IWC
Former ITV controller of daytime Adam MacDonald has joined RDF Media as creative director of its Scottish subsidiary, IWC Media.
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NewsBBC1 hunts pop factual docs with youth appeal
BBC1 controller Jay Hunt is looking for 10.35pm documentaries and popular factual series that will help skew the channel towards younger viewers.
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NewsBBC1 mobilises Land Girls for daytime drama push
BBC1 is stepping up its daytime drama push with a major period series about four women working in the Women’s Land Army during the Second World War.
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Coolabi closes in on its buyout of Chorion's crime
Coolabi is expected to finalise its £40m buyout of Chorion’s crime division “within days”.
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Primates to "funk up" CBeebies
CBeebies controller Michael Carrington is to “funk up the channel” with a major new 52 x 22-minute live action series fronted by primates.
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NewsBBC1 cools on acquisitions
BBC1 controller Jay Hunt has warned that she will not be shopping for US acquisitions and pledged her support to British productions instead.