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Ex-C4 exec hits out at Quiz Call venture
Former Channel 4 strategy director David Brook has hit out at his old employer, claiming its new call TV channel goes against its remit.
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Forces order fresh serving of DIY show
British Forces Broadcasting Service Television, the TV and radio service exclusively for the armed forces, has ordered a fifth series of DIY show Hung, Drawn & Quartered. Avent Productions and Deborah McKenna Limited will co-produce the 6 x 30-minute show, which is set at British military ...
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Belfast documentary is last in trilogy
Five has commissioned a 40-minute documentary from film-maker Michael Grigsby looking at Belfast as it recovers from its violent past. Rehearsals, shot in high definition, revolves around a group of musicians and artists rehearsing in their homes and pubs, set against images of Belfast. It is ...
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Walking on the wild side
Bethan Corney has perfected the art of reworking documentaries for broadcast on Five. Now she's taking on the BBC with original commissions.
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Chambers seeks out whodunits
Five director of programmes Dan Chambers is looking to commission a series of 'whodunnit' style one-off dramas, using cash freed up by the axing of daily soap Family Affairs.
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Howzat for a peaktime audience
Interest in Channel 4's live cricket coverage of The Ashes continued to grow and grow, giving the broadcaster its highest peak audience so far this year.
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Keating: extra cash for drama
BBC2 controller Roly Keating has pledged to 'ramp up' investment in UK dramas in a bid to tackle the channel's mid-life crisis.
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Curtis defends doc
Documentary-maker Adam Curtis has hit back at critics of his series The Power of Nightmaresand said he 'couldn't see the fuss' about Peter Taylor's BBC2 documentary The Real Al-Qaeda. Taylor's programme was billed as a counter-argument to Curtis's authored BBC2 documentary, in ...
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Love Island return
ITV's Celebrity Love Islandlooks set for a second season with royal cad James Hewitt as a potential contestant. Granada's controller of factual entertainment, Natalka Znak, who produced the first series, told a session at the Edinburgh TV Festival that talks with ITV were in 'advanced stages'.
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Five ponders Trisha
Five is looking for more vehicles for talkshow host Trisha Goddard. Director of programmes Dan Chambers said he has lined up a 'reality event' show and another involving 'quirky individuals', but had yet to decide between the two. Trisha currently hosts Trisha Goddardon Five.
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Living branches out
Living TV director Richard Woolfe said the channel was no longer looking to commission shows for its pink and paranormal strands and was on the look out for the 'next big, noisy breakthrough genre'. He said the channel's budget is£20,000 per half hour for daytime and£100,000 plus for primetime.
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Discovery reinvents
Discovery UK senior vice-president and channel director, Jill Offman said she wanted to shake off the Discovery Channel's image of 'sharks and Nazis' and is looking to commission more drama with a human element. Where possible programmes would be shot in high definition.
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News more X-rated
News coverage has become more X-rated in Britain over the years, according to a new survey. Festival organisers commissioned a YouGov poll of 159 industry figures asking whether news footage was at its most graphic and 57% of those surveyed agreed. The figures were revealed as part of a session ...
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A missed opportunity
Lord Birt's MacTaggart lecture failed either to deliver the top-slicing manifesto which had been widely expected or to confound the commentators by coming up with his own big idea.
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Kit companies: on the record
The demise of hire outfit VFG earlier this has year taught those working in the hire business a valuable lesson: if you're not succeeding as a one-stop shop in the face of dwindling TV production budgets, then diversify.
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Courtesy costs nothing
The worrying survey findings for an Edinburgh session on How to be Happy in TV set Stuart Prebble reminiscing
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The on-demand BBC
On-demand is at the core of the digital debate, and may even change what we mean by 'broadcasting'. The BBC must be at the forefront of developments, says director general Mark Thompson
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No substitute for talent
Celebrity presenters will not succeed in drawing listeners to a radio station if they do not also fit the brand, says Graham Bryce.
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ITV's unhappy festival
John Birt's MacTaggart reticence took the heat off the BBC and put ITV firmly in the spotlight at Edinburgh.
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NewsITV nightly news may move (again)
ITV is considering moving its late-evening news once again - to a new 11pm slot.