More Edinburgh TV Festival News – Page 4002
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COMMISSIONS - LIVING TV ORDERS CHILD ABDUCTION DOC.
Living TV channel controller Richard Woolfe has commissioned 10 x 30-minute Child Snatchers, a joint production
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COMMISSIONS - RADIO 4 TO EXPLORE WHY HISTORY IS FUNNY.
Radio indie Testbed Productions has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to create a 2 x
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COMMISSIONS - ALL OUT WINS THREE ORDERS FROM RADIO 4.
Olympic athlete Diane Modahl will present a 5 x 15-minute series for BBC Radio 4 discussing
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COMMISSIONS - CHALLENGE BOSS COMMISSIONS CASINO SHOW.
The controller of Flextech games channel Challenge, Jonathan Webb, has commissioned a dramatised game show, Casino
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Analysis - Profile - One mind or double trouble?
Granada's Charles Allen and Carlton's Michael Green have relentlessly pursued the goal of creating a single ITV company - but will it prove to be their downfall?
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Analysis - On the box - Move over Titchmarsh.
Dedicated Gardeners' World viewer Adam Wood applauds the supplanting of self-satisfied Yorshireman Alan Titchmarsh by curly-haired colossus Monty Don.
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Analysis - Ball's blue-sky thinking.
The response to Tony Ball's MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV festival this year calling for the BBC to be reined in has been decidedly cool, but might there be some merit in his ideas after all, asks Conor Dignam.
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BSC survey reveals big rise in sex on TV.
Sex scenes on television have more than tripled over the past five years, according to new
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Bragg to tell the story of ITV.
Melvyn Bragg is to make a landmark series about the history of ITV, to be broadcast as a prelude to the channel's 50th birthday celebrations, writes Paul Revoir.
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C4 to offer film makers cash at Sheffield.
Channel 4 is once again offering film-makers the opportunity to pitch for a commission at this year's Sheffield International Documentary Festival, writes Gavin Stamp.
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Radio Authority puts off West Midlands decision.
Executives at all the major radio groups waiting for the results of the hotly contested West Midlands licence will have to hold their breath a little longer after the Radio Authority postponed the announcement of the successful bid, writes Michael Rosser.
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BBC 9/11 TRIBUTE.
The BBC has commissioned a number of programmes to coincide with the second anniversary of the
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CRONKITE WINS GONG.
Walter Cronkite, the legendary American television journalist, is to receive a lifetime achievement award from Newsworld
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GARBUTT FOR TRISHA.
Granada has promoted Lucy Garbutt to editor of ITV1 talk-show Trisha, when the new series starts
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LBC'S INTERN PLAN.
London news station LBC is launching its first ever internship scheme in an effort to find
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BBC opens doors to online probe.
The BBC has pledged to provide 'full and open' access to former Trinity Mirror chief executive
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FORMAT FOCUS: WHO WANTS TO MARRY MY DAD?
NBC's reality show mixes the best bits of Perfect Match with a sprinkle of Kids Say the Funniest Things. The result is a ratings juggernaut, writes Michael Rosser.
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FORMATS & DEALS - CARLTON BIOPIC MARKS 9/11 ANNIVERSARY.
Carlton International has sold its TV movie biopic of former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani to
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FORMATS & DEALS - SCANDINAVIA SCOOPS 70 HOURS OF C4.
Channel 4 International has sold more than 70 hours of programming to Scandinavian broadcasters. Broadcasters in