All articles by Katherine Rushton – Page 52
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NewsPrincess favourite to land T4 contract
Princess Productions is the favourite to win the multimillion pound T4 production contract, as Channel 4 enters the final round of its tender process.
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NewsRDF names new CFO
RDF Media Group has promoted Jonny Slow to the role of chief financial officer, replacing Janice Price who is leaving the super-indie after 12 years.
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NewsGreen Wing commissioner to leave C4
Caroline Leddy, the woman behind Smack the Pony, Green Wing and the Brass Eye paedophile special, has become Channel 4's first high profile commissioner to take voluntary redundancy.
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NewsTigress appoints development exec
Factual specialist Tigress Productions has recruited the BBC's Inge Samuels as development executive.
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NewsBBC Trust wades in to Ross and Brand row
The BBC Trust has waded in to the row over Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand's prank calls as the number of complaints to the BBC snowballed to nearly 5,000.
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NewsBBC religion recruits Nagra
The BBC has recruited Jesus Camp executive producer Tommy Nagra to its Manchester-based religion and ethics department.
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NewsChildren's Baftas shortlist revealed
The BBC already has the Bafta for the best children's presenter in the bag, after it emerged that all the nominees for the prize front BBC programmes.
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NewsBBC orders Five Days spin-off
The BBC is planning a spin-off of its crime thriller Five Days featuring the two main detective characters.
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NewsBBC may sell Jam content to recover licence funds
The BBC is proposing to commercially exploit mothballed BBC Jam content in a bid to recover some of the millions of pounds of licence- fee funding spent on the axed education service.
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NewsBBC kicks off XM25 indie scheme
Established indies like True North and Presentable will sit alongside smaller players such as Bristol's Avatar in the first intake of the BBC's XM25 access scheme.
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NewsAcclaimed novel Small Island comes to BBC1
BBC1 is planning a major dramatisation of Andrea Levy's bestselling novel Small Island.
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NewsWatch launch hampered by Virgin package hitch
More than a million Virgin Media customers were unable to view UKTV's Watch for a full week after it went live - undermining its flagship show, Richard & Judy's New Position.
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NewsMotive sets up rescue fund
Motive Television has set aside a£1m “lifeboat fund” to rescue indies that have hit cash-flow difficulties because of the economic downturn.
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NewsIndies land BBC regional scheme places
Established indies like True North and Presentable will sit alongside smaller players such as Bristol's Avatar in the first intake of the BBC's XM25 access scheme.
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NewsUS election special for Question Time
Question Time is moving to America, for a special one-off around the US presidential elections.
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NewsRobinson: BBC may become Mugabe-figure
Time Team presenter Tony Robinson has raised fears that the BBC could become a Robert Mugabe-figure under new proposals for it to form partnerships with other public service broadcasters.
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NewsViacom ‘confident' of $1bn Google action win
Viacom is “quite confident” it will win its $1bn lawsuit against Google, either in or out of court, according to chief executive Philippe Dauman.
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NewsBBC hands flagship shows to regions
Casualty is poised to relocate to Wales and Question Time will head to Scotland as part of the BBC's biggest ever shake-up of network programming from the nations and regions.
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Commissioning roles
As revealed by Broadcast, these “creative hubs” will be underpinned by five new commissioning posts in the nations.
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Specialist hubs
The new blueprint aims to build different creative “hubs”, much as the Natural History Unit has done in Bristol, in each nation and key region.