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NewsIn brief: Ealing Comedies & EastEnders' eco credit
Richard E. Grant explores Ealing Comedies for UKTV’s Gold, while EastEnders has won a sustainability award.
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RatingsTop 30 multichannel programmes: 2 - 8 May 2016
Caravans: A British Love Affair (580,000/3%) at 8pm on Tuesday was one of two British-labelled shows on BBC4 to make the top 30
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RatingsSky Atlantic's Billions starts solidly
THURSDAY: Sky Atlantic acquisition Billions started solidly for Sky Atlantic and Peaky Blinders lost viewers.
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RatingsTop 50 Non-PSB shows: 25 Apr - 1 May 2016
Sky Sports 1’s Live Ford Monday Night Football came to a table-topping denouement with 1.5 million/7%
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NewsHall pledges to improve regional representation
BBC director general Tony Hall has pledged to make noticeable improvements to the portrayal of the devolved nations on the BBC within the next three years.
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RatingsTop 15 consolidated shows: 25 Apr - 1 May 2016
Game Of Thrones opens on a high for Sky becoming ‘the most watched Sky entertainment programme ever” with almost 5 million views.
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NewsAmazon to co-produce BBC3's Fleabag
US online streaming service Amazon has boarded forthcoming BBC3 comedy Fleabag.
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NewsMedia Production Show programme unveiled
The full seminar programme for Media Production Show has been unveiled, with two days of keynote sessions and panel debates featuring creative and craft experts from the worlds of TV, film and commercials.
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NewsRevealed: the tense talks behind charter renewal
A government U-turn on forcing BBC Worldwide to sell its 50% stake in UKTV is understood to have been a pivotal moment in tense white paper negotiations.
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NewsC4 highlights "erosion" of key factual formats
Channel 4 has flagged a ratings “erosion” of flagship shows including One Born Every Minute and the Educating strand and is set to shift its factual output away from UK domestic issues.
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CriticsTV Critics: Billions; Grayson Perry: All Man; Betrayed & He’s Going To Pay
“Hell it’s fun though, even if I feel ever so slightly naughty – guilty even – for enjoying it so much.”
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CriticsTV Critics: A Different Brain; Mum; The Hollow Crown; Stupid Man, Smart Phone
“Raw and sometimes unbearable, this was a brave piece of television.”
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NewsVice hires Louis Theroux development exec in recruitment spree
Louis Theroux development exec Dan Louw and Objective’s Debi Roach have joined Vice as the youth media brand beefs up its production team ahead of the launch of its linear channel.
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NewsMolinare recruits VFX creative director
Molinare has hired Dolores McGinley to lead its VFX department in the newly created role of creative director.
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RatingsEurovision recovers from 2015 low
SATURDAY: The Eurovision Song Contest recovered from last year’s five-year low, but was still beaten by Britain’s Got Talent.
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NewsBBC1 and UKTV call for emergency services
The BBC and UKTV are both delving behind the scenes of the emergency services with separate fly-on-the-wall documentaries following UK ambulance crews.
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NewsITV takes stake in Route 24
ITV has acquired a stake in a film and TV production company formed by one of the producers of hit BBC2 crime drama The Shadow Line.
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RatingsHonours even between Mum and The Windsors
FRIDAY: BBC2’s new comedy Mum was neck and neck with third instalment of The Windsors, as The Secret triumphs at 9pm.
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NewsIn brief: Fremantle Media hire; C5 doc; TCB deals
Fremantle has bolstered its global drama division, while C5 doc Inside Buckingham Palace has been sold into the US and Warner Bros has closed a raft of Little Big Shots format deals.
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NewsAll 4 gears up prank driving series
The Chuckle Brothers and Tinchy Stryder are some of the celebrities set to prank members of the public with dodgy driving in an ad-funded shorts series for All 4.