More Edinburgh TV Festival News – Page 3207
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NewsComment: Why we all love trash TV
Steven D Wright finds he shares a love of trash TV with the commissioners
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NewsLiving TV picks up US reality shows
Living TV has acquired the exclusive UK rights to new US reality series The Janice Dickinson Modelling Agencyand Daisy Does America from Fremantle Media Enterprises.
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NewsC4 doc to uncover the real Tony Blair
Channel 4 is to track the highs and lows of Tony Blair's premiership in a documentary series set to include both personal and political revelations.
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NewsMurphy: RDF too political for me
Former BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy is to spearhead a drive into comedy and drama for Twofour when he joins as creative director on 21 August.
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BritDoc winner
Tigerlily Films won the best British documentary award for 37 Uses for a Dead Sheepat the inaugural BritDoc documentary festival, held in Oxford last week.
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Top TV appointment
Scottish-based training organisation Top TV Academy has appointed former BBC Scotland producer Ashe Hussain as its projects director.
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Pitt makes move into indie sector
Former BBC creative director Ruth Pitt is to join indie Century Films as an executive producer.
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Breakfast leads GMTV
BBC Breakfast has overtaken GMTV in the morning news ratings battle, in a further sign of viewers turning away from ITV1.
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NewsSky One and ITV2 struggle to retain share
Sky One and ITV2, two of the most popular multichannel entertainment brands, have suffered a decline in their fortunes so far this year.
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Swain tipped for factual super commissioner role
Specialist factual commissioning editor Emma Swain has become the surprise favourite to land the BBC's new factual super commissioner job.
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NewsMillionaire jobs safe, says buyer
The company poised to buy Who Wants to be a Millionaire?has reassured staff working on the hit quiz show there will be no major job losses.
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NewsAd slump sees C4 freeze budget
Channel 4 has effectively frozen its programme budget as the impact of a dire advertising market begins to bite.
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NewsITV Productions staff want sell-off
Leading figures within ITV Productions are pushing for the sale of ITV's in-house production arm, in a bid to turn the company into a super-indie.
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NewsLeader: Selling off the family silver won't help ITV
Broadcast editor Conor Dignam asks if selling ITV's production arm is a good thing
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NewsWhat's a VoD show worth?
How much will a downloaded episode of Green Wingor The F Wordbe worth to consumers? Less than the cost of a music video on iTunes, according to Channel 4.
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NewsPermira deal hands All3Media war chest
All3Media is expected to hit the acquisition trail by the end of the year after its£320m sale to its management and venture capitalist Permira gave it a massive war chest.
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NewsSony offers new releases to UK VoD customers
Sony Pictures Television International has become the latest major producer to enter the burgeoning UK video-on-demand market.
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NewsIzzard stars in Five kitchen drama
Five will bring comedian Eddie Izzard's serious side to the fore in an edgy new drama inspired by Anthony Bourdain's book Kitchen Confidential.
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NewsBattle begins over future of kids TV
Former BBC head of children's television Anna Home has set up an action group to campaign against the proposed regulatory changes that threaten the future of kids TV production in the UK.