More News – Page 3303
-
News
Geldof indie in dramatic turnaround
Bob Geldof's indie, Ten Alps, has closed down its loss-making animation arm, Red Welly, and has signalled a fresh drive into drama.
-
News
Beeb staff join Sky
Sky News has poached two BBC presenters, Ginny Buckley and Anna Jones, as the channel gears up to launch its new on-air look and schedule later this year. Buckley leaves her presenting role on the BBC's Holiday 2005while Jones has quit as anchor on News 24's ...
-
News
Commons call
Lord Puttnam met House of Commons Leader Geoff Hoon this week to urge him to relax the current rules restricting the use of camera shots, which have led broadcasters to reduce their parliamentary coverage. Puttnam wants broadcasters to be allowed to show more reaction, close-up and panning shots of backbenchers ...
-
News
Mozart to Sweden
Brighton-based producer Seventh Art has pre-sold its Five arts series In Search of Mozartto over 20 broadcasters including Sweden's SVT, the Netherlands' AVRO and Belgium's RTBF. The programme is due to premiere on Five early next year and will also be released theatrically worldwide. The company ...
-
News
Pact pay guidelines
Pact has moved to address concerns that freelancers are not being given proper holiday pay by issuing new guidelines for members calling on them to make a separate payment for holiday at the end of a designated contract. Pact has also suggested that any description of payment should be written ...
-
News
Freeview tops 5m
Freeview has passed the 5 million household mark, helping push digital penetration to 62% of all UK homes, according to new figures from Ofcom. In the three months to 31 March this year 643,000 more homes took digital TV - a rise of 2.5% over the end of 2004.
-
News
Jackson verdict boosts the news
BBC1's Ten O'Clock News(Monday 13 June) was given a boost in the ratings thanks to the timing of the Michael Jackson court case verdict.
-
News
Granada braced for Jackson lawsuit
Granada and journalist Martin Bashir were waiting to hear this week whether Michael Jackson will restart his legal action against them for alleged breaches of contract and copyright.
-
News
Five trains celebrity commandos
IWC is making a reality show for Five in which a series of familiar faces are trained to become commandos.
-
News
Ofcom approves 15
Ofcom has licensed a further 15 community radio licences in a bid to create a third tier of radio services. New services will launch in Central Southampton, Hedge End, Botley and West End, near Eastleigh in Hampshire, Portsmouth, Newport on the Isle of Wight, Cumbernauld, Normanton in Derby, Leicester, Market ...
-
News
Digital Teletext
ITV is set to launch text service provider Teletext across its family of digital channels. From 20 June, viewers on Sky and Freeview will be able to access Teletext on ITV by pressing the 'text' button on the remote control via any ITV programme. The new digital service will feature ...
-
News
Peppa gets Annecy
Contender Entertainment's kids show Peppa Pigbeat off 12 other competitors, including Nickelodeon's Spongebob Squarepants, to win the Annecy Animation Festival's best TV series award. The series, which is aimed at two to five year-olds, is shown on Five and Nick Jr in ...
-
News
C4 ties up with Two Way TV for BB add-ons
Channel 4 has hired interactive TV specialist Two Way TV to roll out a number of new services for cable users including live 24-hour uncut streaming of Big Brother 6.
-
News
BBC ditches plans for residential college in favour of open university
The BBC has axed plans for a 'bricks and mortar' journalism college in favour of an Open University-style system.
-
News
World poaches producer for factual push
World Productions, the indie run by drama veteran Tony Garnett, is moving into factual programming and has poached former BBC producer Petra Burgin to spearhead the push.
-
News
House flies for Five
House, Five's latest US drama import, got off to a fine start for the channel with a peak audience of 2.2 million (14%) at 10.55pm. The first 60-minute episode of the series starring Hugh Laurie as a maverick doctor working in a New Jersey hospital, averaged 1.8 million (10%), a ...
-
News
New Moon IOC bid
Production company New Moon is lining up again against film directors Steven Spielberg and Luc Besson in the race to convince the International Olympic Committee (IOC) where the 2012 Olympic Games should be held. Director Darryl Goodrich and producer Caroline Rowland of New Moon will screen the London film bid ...
-
News
McQueen quits
Film-maker Angus McQueen is leaving indie October Films to pursue his own projects. McQueen, whose credits include Channel 4's documentary Cocaine, has been part of October's creative team as an executive producer for five years. He will continue to work on projects he already has in ...
-
News
Mentorn wins BBC Scotland orders
Nicky Campbell is to front a political chat show for BBC Scotland as part of a series of new commissions for indie Mentorn.
-
News
Love explores baby blues for Five
Love Productions, the indie formed by former Maverick TV managing director Richard McKerrow, is making a film about the downside of parenthood for Five.