More News – Page 2459
-
News
Saturday Kitchen criticised for swearing - again
Ofcom has rapped BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen Live for broadcasting the f-word, months after escaping censure for a similar slip-up.
-
News
MPC picks Levi to replace Method-bound Jones
MPC has hired industry stalwart Julian Levi as executive producer to represent MPC Film after Drew Jones decided to join Ascent Media owned Method Studios as a film executive producer.
-
News
Sky's Michael Wilson to host Jazz FM series
Jazz FM has launched a new weekly magazine show hosted by former Sky business editor Michael Wilson.
-
News
Film4 HD to launch exclusively on Virgin
Channel 4 is to launch its HD version of Film4 exclusively on Virgin Media this summer.
-
News
Endemol's Thomson drafted in at Tiger Aspect
Tiger Aspect will not directly replace former managing director Andrew Zein and has instead hired Endemol’s Richard Thomson as its director of operations.
-
News
19 Entertainment to wind back London office
Staff at 19 Entertainment are considering voluntary redundancy packages as indie behind American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance plans to wind back its London presence.
-
News
Sky News plans female faces for Women's Day
Sky News will have an all female production and broadcasting team on Monday 8 March to mark the 99th anniversary of International Women’s Day.
-
News
Crouch leaves GMTV as kids unit faces axe
GMTV chief operating officer Clive Crouch is leaving after 18 years and the unit that makes kids strands Toonattik and Action Stations faces the axe following the company’s integration review.
-
News
C4 viewers heap praise on Mowlam biopic
Ratings-busting drama Mo was the most praised show on Channel 4 last month – but viewers complained in droves about a technical hitch that saw The Godfather Part II transmitted in the wrong order.Scroll down for full list of “rated and slated”A total of 60 people contacted C4 to praise ...
-
News
Galloway attacks "dirty" Dispatches doc
MP George Galloway has attacked a Channel 4 Dispatches investigation into his relationship with the Islamic Forum of Europe , branding it a “dirty little programme”.
-
News
Bafta redrafts nominations after C4 oversight
Channel 4 entertainment shows including Derren Brown’s The Events were accidentally left off the Bafta nominations longlist, it has emerged.
-
News
BBC3 lines up stunt dating show
BBC3 has commissioned a pilot of a dating format from Shed Media’s Twenty Twenty that gives jilted lovers a chance to win back their ex-partners.
-
News
Boomerang signs £4m deal with S4C
Indie Boomerang Plus has signed a three-year £4m deal to produce content for S4C’s pre-school service Cyw.
-
News
BBCW wins US celebrity ice dancing order
BBC Worldwide is to produce a spin-off ice dancing show for ABC based on its successful Dancing with the Stars format.
-
News
Virgin Media chief blasts Canvas "whitewash"
Virgin Media chief executive Neil Berkett has launched a ferocious attack on the “shameless whitewash” of the BBC Trust’s consultation on Project Canvas.
-
News
TV.com seeks long-form content for UK expansion
CBS-owned aggregator site TV.com has kicked off talks with UK broadcasters and indies as it looks to increase its long-form video content offering following last week’s deal with Five.
-
News
UK Screen highlights sector’s £2.2bn value to the economy
UK Screen Association plans to flag up the importance of the UK facilities market to the government after mapping out the value of the £2.2bn sector for the first time.
-
News
ITV Studios set for cash boost
ITV chairman Archie Norman has revealed his ambition to pump money into ITV Studios to reshape it as a creative multiplatform powerhouse.
-
News
BBC committee rejects DMI plan
The team drafted in to turn around the BBC’s DMI (Digital Media Initiative) has had its latest business plan rejected.
-
News
Digital creatives slam BBC for betraying its charter
Digital creatives have blasted plans to cut the BBC’s £177m web spend by 25% as “bullshit” rhetoric that betrays the corporation’s charter.