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NewsStringer: BBC News must embrace digital and partnerships
The BBC must push into digital content and partnerships and shift its current mind-set if it is to grow its news audience according to a report from Sir Howard Stringer.
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NewsDouble Act hunts Croczilla for Animal Planet
The Men Who Jump Off Buildings-indie, Double Act has been commissioned by Animal Planet to produce an hour-long documentary about the hunt for a killer crocodile.
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NewsDavid Abraham to deliver MacTaggart
Channel 4’s David Abraham is to deliver the keynote MacTaggart Lecture at this year’s Edinburgh International Television Festival.
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NewsFox & Apollo: the path to the first mega-indie
21st Century Fox and Apollo Global Management will consider all options as they bid to transform Endemol, Shine Group and Core Media into the world’s first mega-indie.
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NewsQuarter of adults admit to binge-viewing shows
The UK has become a nation of binge-viewers, with almost a quarter of people watching several episodes of their favourite shows back-to-back, according to Deloitte research.
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NewsBBC Academy wins disability initiative award
The BBC Academy has been awarded for its training scheme for the disabled at the inaugural Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative Awards.
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NewsInfographic: LA Screenings
Broadcast crunches the numbers around the shows that will play across the world.
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NewsOnline plan for 2015 election
The BBC, ITV and Sky will need to be “more innovative” in their approach to the 2015 General Election debates, experts have claimed, after a bid last week to host one of the events online.
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NewsTiger Aspect hires BBC’s Thornton
Tiger Aspect Productions has hired the BBC’s Pete Thornton as part of a wider comedy and entertainment reshuffle at the Endemol-owned indie.
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NewsDTG urges industry to harness power of big data
The Digital TV Group (DTG) is set to begin working with Barb later this year as part of a cross-industry initiative that will attempt to harness the power of ‘big data’ for the TV industry.
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NewsC4 set to match brands with indies to boost AFP
Channel 4 is gearing up to help match indies with commercial partners in a bid to create more ad-funded programming (AFP) for television and online.
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NewsITV D-Day doc spearheads e-book strategy
ITV is planning to ramp up its publishing strategy with the release of its first e-book, which will support a documentary on the D-Day landings.
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NewsUS Writers Guild at odds with ITV over benefits
ITV has been invited to give evidence at a hearing hosted by New York City Council in light of complaints made by the Writers Guild America (WGA) about benefits for its members.
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NewsBBC2 to go inside Westminster
Specialist factual indie Atlantic Productions has secured unprecedented access to the House of Commons for a four-part BBC2 documentary.
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NewsFacebook: BBC3 could profit from online binge-viewing
Facebook strategic media partnerships exec Karla Geci has claimed that BBC3 could benefit from its move online by being freed from traditional TV distribution models.
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NewsCharles Thompson back in production with TVTP
Former Mentorn and Steadfast exec Charles Thompson is back in production as chief creative officer of emerging indie TVT Productions.
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NewsFremantle’s indie hunt continues
Fremantle Media is back on the hunt for a major production acquisition after failing to agree a deal to buy All3Media last month.
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NewsBBC debuts virtual reality set-up for election coverage
The BBC will debut a new virtual reality tracking system for its coverage of the local and European elections, in preparation for next year’s General Election.
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NewsEconomic conditions fuel fresh M&A activity
The emergence of platforms such as Netflix, improved economic conditions and maturing cash reserves at some of the world’s biggest media players are behind the super-consolidation in the TV sector this year.
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CriticsTV Critics: Del Boys And Dealers; Jack Taylor; Coast Australia
“This programme was not so much a parade of freakish objects as a celebration of people.”