More News – Page 2125
-
NewsHMRC simplifies Lunn disclosure process
TV freelancers caught up in the Christopher Lunn & Company (CLAC) tax investigation could be saved thousands of pounds after HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) agreed to simplify the disclosure process.
-
NewsMipcom 2011: at-a-glance
Browse Broadcastnow’s full coverage from Mipcom 2011, including news, comment and features.
-
NewsC5 unveils two-screen Big Brother game
Channel 5 has launched a two-screen playalong game for Big Brother and plans to roll out further interactive services with platform provider JadeWorld.
-
NewsSky drama to Strike back for a third series
Sky1 has ordered a third series of Left Bank Pictures’ Strike Back that will again be co-produced with Cinemax / HBO.
-
NewsITV1 serves fresh Dinner Date
ITV1’s hit cookery dating show Dinner Date is to return for its biggest serving ever.
-
NewsUnreported World gains undercover access in Syria
A crew from Channel 4’s Unreported World, has just returned from Syria as one of the only teams to have gained access without official permission to the country and filming undercover.
-
NewsIMG recruiting for graduate trainees
The sports division of IMG Worldwide is looking for graduate recruits to join its newly created year-long trainee programme.
-
NewsDoctor to battle Guy Fawkes in online game
The BBC is launching a Doctor Who adventure game set in 1605, in which the Timelord will battle to stop Guy Fawkes’ Gunpowder Plot.
-
NewsDQF: winners and losers
With the BBC outlining where it will find 20% savings, where will the cuts bite deepest? And which areas have escaped relatively unscathed?
-
NewsPinewood Shepperton in TV funding move
Pinewood Shepperton is opening conversations with experienced TV producers as part of a move into TV production financing.
-
NewsBBC confirms 2,000 job cuts
Around 2,000 BBC staff will lose their jobs by 2017 and a further 1,000 will move to Salford, where BBC3 will relocate as part of the corporation’s cost-cutting measures revealed this morning.
-
NewsChannel 4 flips supply model in ‘radical’ twist
Channel 4 is flipping the traditional commissioning model by inviting digital specialists to come up with “format-breaking” multiplatform ideas to be produced ahead of collaboration with indies.
-
NewsE4 greenlights Desperate Scousewives
Desperate Scousewives, Splash Media’s Liverpool based structured reality series has been officially commissioned as an eight part series for E4.
-
NewsXbox inks deals with BBC, C4 and C5
The BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5 have signed distribution deals with Microsoft Xbox which will see their VoD services roll out via the gaming platform.
-
NewsMore than half BBC2 schedule will be repeats
Repeats will account for more than half the BBC2 schedule under DQF proposals put forward today.
-
NewsThompson: BBC cuts could dent audience figures
Cuts being made to the BBC could result in a reduction in audience figures, but viewers’ appreciation of its output will be maintained, Mark Thompson has said.
-
NewsChildren's content could move to digital channels
All children’s content may be moved to CBBC and CBeebies once the digital switchover has been completed, the Delivering Quality First review has revealed.
-
NewsBBC creates £145m digital pot, phases out red button
The BBC has created a dedicated annual fund of £145m to invest in new media and will drastically scale back its red button services as it battles to ensure it is not left behind digitally despite the wide-reaching DQF cuts.
-
NewsBBC safeguards news output
Underlying investment in news output will increase under the DQF proposals as the BBC makes providing ‘the best journalism is the world’ its first editorial priority.
-
NewsBBC1 to boost drama and comedy amid cuts
BBC1 has emerged relatively unscathed from dramatic cuts to the corporation’s services and will be a major beneficiary of higher than needed savings from across the corporation.