All articles by Matthew Campelli – Page 3
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Building Cars Live drives off with over 2m
TUESDAY: Former Top Gear host James May returned to BBC2 with a solid performance for motoring manufacturing event Building Cars Live.
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Betty staffs up to bolster male-skewing & features output
Betty has hired two executive producers to ramp up its male-skewing adventure output and features programming.
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Samsung sponsors All 4 supper club format
Atomized Entertainment is to produce an ad-funded pop-up restaurant format for Channel 4’s digital service.
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Mark Price exits Waitrose amid C4 speculation
Channel 4’s deputy chairman Mark Price has stepped down as Waitrose managing director amid speculation that he will take over from Lord Burns.
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Honey I Bought The House makes room for 91,000
MONDAY: Honey I Bought The House got off to strong start for Watch, as The Muppets debuted on Sky 1 with nearly 400,000 viewers.
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Downton hits series high as Lord Grantham collapses
SUNDAY: Lord Grantham’s dining table collapse help Downton Abbey to its largest audience since last year’s finale.
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ITV ordered to pay millions for cancelled Peter Andre reality show
ITV has been ordered to pay multi-million pound damages to a production company after pulling out of reality series it had commissioned starring Peter Andre and Kerry Katona.
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Doctor Foster becomes highest-rated new drama of 2015
Drama Republic’s Doctor Foster has become the highest-rated new drama of 2015 after its final episode consolidated to over 10m viewers.
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Hunted tracks down 1.4m average
THURSDAY: Hunted and Cradle To Grave bowed out on series lows, as The Apprentice fell by almost 1m from Wednesday’s opener.
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Hat Trick lands killer dentist drama from ITV
James Nesbitt will play a real-life dentist-turned-killer in ITV’s latest drama produced by Hat Trick Productions.
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Drifters writer: BBC3 online move ‘robbing’ new generation of talent
The decision to move BBC3 online is “robbing an audience and new generation of talent of a creative outlet” according to the writer of comedy Drifters.
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ITV outlines vision for news
ITV’s Michael Jermey is hunting for “reputation-enhancing” primetime current affairs after refreshing the News At Ten bulletin and luring Robert Peston to the commercial broadcaster.
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Channel 5 to get tough with NQIs
Channel 5 intends to become stricter when striking deals with non-qualifying indies and will write to its biggest suppliers imminently to outline its new position.
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Cohen: end of an 'all-powerful' era
Danny Cohen could be the last “all-powerful” BBC director of television, as the corporation begins the task of replacing him.
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Karl Pilkington helps Sky 1 to biggest audience of 2015
TUESDAY: The return of Karl Pilkington’s Moaning of Life and US superhero show The Flash helped Sky 1 to notch up some of its biggest audiences of the year.
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Channel 4 opens Manchester hub
Channel 4 has opened a new Manchester hub for its commissioning and commercial teams and to enhance its nations and regions credentials.
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British Gas funds second C4 Short
Phil Spencer is to front Channel 4’s latest advertiser-funded short – a six-part property format funded by British Gas.
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Leftfield staff vote to join WGAE union
Writers and producers working at ITV Studios’s Leftfield Entertainment have voted to unionise as tension grows between the UK broadcaster and the Writers Guild of America (WGAE).
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ITV rules out Peston versus Marr clash
Peston on Sunday will avoid a head-to-head clash with BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show when the ITV political format launches next year.
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Abraham: privatising C4 risks 19,000 jobs
The privatisation of Channel 4 would place 19,000 jobs in the indie community at risk, according to chief executive David Abraham.