All articles by Matthew Campelli – Page 10
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Inbetweeners duo leave Bwark to launch indie
Iain Morris and Damon Beesley, the pair behind The Inbetweeners, have left Bwark to set up a new production company.
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Mountain Goats amuses 1.5m
FRIDAY: BBC1 sitcom Mountain Goats kicked off with an audience half the size of the slot average as ITV’s BBQ Champ sunk to a series low.
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C4 piloting Shorts on Android
Channel 4 is piloting some short-form content via its All 4 Android app to test audience interest before rolling out wider.
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C4 has 2m Very British Problems
THURSDAY: Very British Problems secured a solid audience for C4, helping it beat ITV in the 9pm slot.
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Endemol Beyond promotes Georg Ramme to global boss
Endemol Beyond, the digital arm of Endemol Shine Group, has appointed Georg Ramme as its global managing director.
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Clarkson and Wilman's indie recruiting for Amazon series
W. Chump & Sons, the indie set up by Andy Wilman and Jeremy Clarkson, has begun crewing up for its ambitious new motoring series for Amazon Prime Video.
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Maverick hires chief exec from Ricochet
Maverick TV has poached Ricochet creative director Simon Knight to replace Jim Sayer as chief executive.
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BBC reveals BAME fund spend
The BBC’s six new BAME assistant commissioners have revealed their aims and wishlists, and details have emerged of how the corporation has spent £1.5m of its Diversity Creative Talent Fund.
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C4 invests in sports indie
Channel 4’s latest Growth Fund indie investment is in a sports production company established by Sunil Patel, BT Sport presenter Jake Humphrey and ex-Formula One driver David Coulthard.
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Channel 4 Shorts strategy revealed
Channel 4 digital chief Richard Davidson-Houston has lifted the lid on the broadcaster’s burgeoning short-form content strategy after it spent around £1m in its first year.
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Abducted unable to locate 6% share for ITV
TUESDAY: ITV one-off documentary Abducted scraped just over 1m viewers to place last in the 9pm terrestrial slot.
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C4 beefs up docs commissioning team
Channel 4 has appointed 24 Hours in Police Custody director Alisa Pomeroy as commissioning editor for documentaries.
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Life in Squares bows out with 760k
MONDAY: Bloomsbury Group drama Life in Squares bowed out on BBC2 with fewer than half of the audience drawn in for its opening episode.
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Dragon's Den hits four-year high as Javone Prince struggles
SUNDAY: BBC2 experienced a mixed evening as Dragon’s Den pulled in its biggest audience in four years but Javone Prince’s comedy show bowed out with a series average under 350,000.
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Betty launches US arm
The Undateables producer Betty has launched a US production arm headed up by Discovery exec Jon Sechrist as it attempts to crack America.
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C5's Football League Tonight kicks off with 600k
SATURDAY: Football League Tonight’s maiden outing on Channel 5 failed to net a larger audience than the previous season’s highlights show on BBC1 – despite its primetime slot.
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C4 sets sail with Twofour Navy doc
Royal Marines Commando School producer Twofour is to turn its attention to the Royal Navy for its latest fixed-rig series for Channel 4.
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Katie Hopkins' TLC show fails to rule the world
THURSDAY: Katie Hopkins’ much-publicised TLC talk show failed to rule the world, scraping slot average and falling well short of her previous project for the channel.
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All3Media hires Endemol Shine legal exec
All3Media has poached Dónall Crehan from rival super-indie Endemol Shine Group to head up its legal operations.