All articles by Matthew Campelli – Page 11
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Sport and films drive TV spend to £6.4bn
Total broadcaster spend on UK content grew by 9% in 2014 to £6.4bn, with an 18% surge in film and sport responsible for the rise.
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Joanna Lumley explores Elvis for ITV
Joanna Lumley is to travel to Graceland to explore the life of Elvis Presley in a one-off documentary for ITV.
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The Broadcast Interview
Alan Clements, STV Productions
Alan Clements talks to Matthew Campelli about delving into different genres to find the next show that, like Antiques Roadtrip, nails the three Rs: rights, returnability and reputation
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C4 confident of public future
Channel 4 is quietly confident of staving off privatisation despite chancellor George Osborne lining up a £32bn sell-off of public assets.
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Liberty Global boss: ITV a content 'case study'
Liberty Global chief executive Mike Fries has revealed that the cable giant is using its ITV investment as a “case study” for its content strategy and underlined it had “no intention” of launching a full takeover.
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Ed Sayer leaves Nat Geo for Discovery
Discovery Networks International has boosted its commissioning team by hiring Nat Geo’s Ed Sayer.
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Arrow commemorates Battle of Britain for C4
Arrow Media will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain with two documentaries for Channel 4.
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Cilla tribute lifts ITV audience
TUESDAY: ITV’s tribute film The One and Only Cilla Black touched a solid audience following the star’s death on Sunday. Elsewhere Hair was unable to grow its audience despite jumping to BBC2 from BBC3.
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Prized Apart axed by BBC1
BBC1 has axed Electric Ray’s entertainment show Prized Apart after a single series due to its poor ratings performance.
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Dragonfly boosts factual slate with ITV & C4 docs
Dragonfly has expanded its specialist factual slate by winning two one-off documentaries – exploring Cleopatra’s tomb for Channel 4 and hedgehogs for ITV.
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Humans grips 2.8m series average
SUNDAY: Humans rounded off its first run with a series average of 2.8m, well ahead of the performance from Channel 4’s previous Sunday night drama Indian Summers.
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Bear Grylls lands CITV series
Bear Grylls will teach a group children about survival in the wilderness in a 12-part series for CITV.
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Ripper Street slays BBQ Champ
FRIDAY: Ripper Street returned to BBC1 with a slot-winning audience, grilling ITV’s BBQ Champ at 9pm.
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ITV threatens DCMS over closure of iPlayer loop-hole
ITV chief executive Adam Crozier has written to government ministers raising concerns that proposals to close the iPlayer loophole would result in consumers being charged to access ITV Player.
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Humans to return to Channel 4
Channel 4 has ordered a second series of sci-fi drama Humans - ahead of the finale of the opening run this Sunday.
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Row breaks out over C4's Muslim Drag Queens
A row has broken out over Channel 4 documentary Muslim Drag Queens, after the creator of a Guardian film with a similar title and subject area claimed to have been sidelined from the project.
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Flock Stars rounds up 2.5m
THURSDAY: ITV’s shepherding format Flock Stars rounded up a crowd below slot average, as a Prince Philip doc helped C4 to an audience of 2m.
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Liberty Global increases stake in ITV
Liberty Global has increased its stake in ITV to almost 10% but confirmed that it does not intend to make an offer to fully acquire the broadcaster.
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Viewer panel starts to inform C4 commissioning decisions
Data gathered from Channel 4’s viewer survey panel Core4 has started to help inform its commissioning and programme marketing decisions.
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John Silver to leave Red House
John Silver, the creative and managing director of Red House TV, is leaving the company he established seven years ago.