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CriticsTV Critics: The Great Comic Relief Bake Off; Junk Food Kids: Who's To Blame?; Wolf Hall; Midsomer Murders
“This was the televisual equivalent of junk food: cheap and entirely without true nourishment. The BBC should know better.”
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RatingsComic Relief Bake Off rises to 7m
WEDNESDAY: The Great Comic Relief Bake Off added 500,000 viewers to soar to 7m on BBC1.
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NewsBoundless to build fledgling community for C4
Channel 4 will give ten households the chance to build a unique home in a newly created community for a new series fronted by Kevin McCloud.
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NewsBBC & ITN scoop 15 RTS Journalism awards
ITN and BBC took home 15 of the gongs from last night’s RTS Journalism awards.
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NewsITV staff to ballot for strike action
ITV employees are to ballot for strike action after talks between the broadcaster and union representatives over its 2015 pay deal broke down.
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NewsIn brief: Maverick; The Royals; StyleHaul
Maverick has secured 72 short films from Channel 4, while E! has picked up controversial Liz Hurley drama The Royals. Click for more in today’s TV round-up.
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RatingsTop 100 network programmes: 9 - 15 Feb 2015
BBC1’s JK Rowling adaptation wins the drama battle against ITV’s Mr Selfridge and C4’s Indian Summers
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RatingsTop 30 shows (BBC2, C4, C5): 9 - 15 Feb 2015
The fourth of BBC2’s six-part Wolf Hall achieved its now usual 2.8 million/13% at 9pm on Wednesday
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RatingsTop 30 multichannel programmes: 9 - 15 Feb 2015
ITV3’s Midsomer Murders tops the table with 1.2 million/ 6%, the only title to break through the million barrier this week.
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RatingsTop 50 Non-PSB shows: 9 - 15 Feb 2015
The fifth season of Fox’s The Walking Dead returned, with the ninth episode on Monday at 9pm achieving a live rating of 630,000/3%
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RatingsTop 15 consolidated shows: 2 - 8 Feb 2015
On Tuesday 3 February, the final episode of BBC1’s 18th series of Silent Witness grew to 8.1 million
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NewsFMI hires Shine exec for drama push
Fremantle Media International has hired Shine International senior vice president of acquisitions Georgia Brown as it looks to increase its scripted output.
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NewsJack Osbourne partners with T Group
British reality star and TV producer Jack Osbourne has partnered with Storage Hunters indie T Group to produce formats and docu-series for UK and US broadcasters.
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NewsLondon Live buys controversial tax doc
London Live has acquired a controversial documentary about tax avoidance in the UK.
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NewsRed Bull preps TV launch plans
Red Bull is set to launch its linear television channel in the UK in April 2016.
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NewsCBeebies and CBBC magic up Aladdin-inspired drama
CBeebies and CBBC have co-commissioned a drama inspired by the Middle Eastern folk tale Aladdin as the channels work together more closely.
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VideoVIDEO: Immigration Street, C4
Love Productions’ documentary explores life on an ethnically diverse Southampton street.
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RatingsEastEnders peaks with 12m
THURSDAY: EastEnders recorded its biggest audience in four years as a peak of almost 12m viewers tuned in to discover who killed Lucy Beale.
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NewsYouTube channel Yogscast strikes TV development deal
Eye/Present, the fledgling indie set up by former Cake boss Genevieve Dexter, is developing an animated series based on YouTube channel Yogscast.
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CriticsTV Critics: EastEnders; Reinventing the Royals; Saints and Sinners
“The production was admirably ambitious, transcending soap convention.”