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Best App or Website for Channel, Strand or Genre: At the Races
Simplestream have created an accessible, comprehensive app offering a range of brilliantly executed features for horse-racing fans - earning itself four and a half stars in Apple’s App Store
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Best Sports or Live Event Coverage: League of Legends World Championship
The BBC’s move into e-sports for its coverage of the four-day League of Legends World Championship, an online video-gaming tournament at Wembley, proved a major success for the broadcaster.
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Best Game: Operation Ouch: The Snotapocalypse
Created to support the fourth series Operation Ouch!, the endless game was brilliantly integrated with the TV programme and played more than 1 million times in its first four weeks.
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Best Entertainment Programme: Murder in Successville
A “fantastically innovative comedy” which generated a massive Twitter buzz and unanimously impressed the judges with its originality.
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Fountain Studios closure date confirmed
The date for the closure of Fountain Studios has been confirmed, with the next series of The X Factor set to be the last show to shoot at the facility.
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Amazon acquires Steven Soderbergh drama
Amazon has acquired the UK rights to Steven Soderbergh’s high-end escort drama The Girlfriend Experience.
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Nickelodeon launches evening block
Nickelodeon is establishing an evening programming block to target teen audiences.
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Piers Wenger appointed BBC head of drama
Channel 4 head of drama Piers Wenger has been appointed BBC director of drama commissioning after four years at the ad-supported broadcaster.
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BBC wants digital expertise as it mulls iPlayer log-in
Tony Hall is keen to add digital and marketing expertise to the corporation’s new unitary board to help guide the MyBBC project.
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BBC's Traffic Cops moves to C5
Channel 5 has picked up long-running blue light show Traffic Cops after 14 series on the BBC.
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Sky produces cycling VR special
Sky is continuing its push into virtual reality programming with a behind-the-scenes special following the Team Sky cyclists.
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Sky 1 orders James Van Der Beek comedy
Sky 1 has ordered a James Van Der Beek-fronted family comedy from Cuckoo and Trollied indie Roughcut TV.
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Fox acquires TV remake of Wolf Creek
Fox has acquired the TV adaptation of Australian horror film Wolf Creek.
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Hall: BBC has cut spend on top talent by 25%
The BBC has cut the amount it pays its highest earning on-screen talent by £2.3m, Tony Hall has revealed.
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SMPTE members appoint Gauntlett as UK Section chair
The DTG’s chief technology officer Simon Gauntlett has been appointed chair of the UK Section of the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE).
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Shadow culture secretary Maria Eagle resigns
Shadow culture secretary Maria Eagle has become the latest to MP to resign from her position following a mass walkout from Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet.
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BBC reveals Writersroom award
Playwright Charlotte Josephine has won the inaugural BBC Screenplay First Award, run by BBC Writersroom and BBC Films.
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Simon Cowell to take on Jinx-style crime doc for ITV
Simon Cowell is to swap shiny floor talent shows for true-crime documentaries after winning a four-part series for ITV.
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The Xtra Factor to go live in shake-up
X Factor’s ITV2 spin-off show The Xtra Factor is set to be broadcast live in a major shake-up to the show’s format.
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C5 makes £40m profit after revenue surges
Channel 5 is set to post annual pre-tax profits of around £40m after a massive 35% surge in turnover.