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NewsWish-lists: ITV execs reveal priorities
ITV commissioners Richard Klein, Elaine Bedell, Helen Warner, Paul Mortimer and Steve November revealed their wish-lists at ITV’s annual Producers’ Forum earlier this week.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway; Operation Cloud Lab; The Mimic
“I’d challenge anyone to not utter a silent ‘wow’”
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RatingsCommonwealth Games opener peaks with 9m
WEDNESDAY: BBC1’s coverage of the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony peaked with over 9m viewers and dented the rest of the schedule.
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NewsBBC distribution team to join Future Media
The BBC’s distribution department will merge with Future Media’s business development team next month in a bid to consolidate online and traditional distribution under a single group of staff.
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NewsUS reality television Code of Conduct proposed
A New York city councillor has appealed for broadcasters and production companies to adhere to a code of conduct to improve working conditions for reality television producers and writers.
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NewsTen Alps secures £300k investment
Ten Alps’ shareholders have ploughed £300,000 into the company for “business development and general working capital requirements”.
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NewsSky completes Euro mega-merger
BSkyB has completed a deal to create Sky Europe, bringing together Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland in a multi-billion pound deal.
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RatingsCHARTS: Real life matches the soaps
BBC News At Ten was the highest-placed non-soap, as ITV’s Long Lost Family made a strong return
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RatingsCHARTS: Marines win ground for C4
Channel 4 launched Royal Marines Commando School to a very healthy 2.1 million on Monday
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RatingsCHARTS: BBC3 on song with Glasgow
BBC3’s musical drama Glasgow Girls achieved 620,000/4% on Tuesday at 10pm
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RatingsCHARTS: Pythons are a solid Gold hit
Gold’s Monty Python Live averaged 700,000/ 3%, making it Gold’s highest-rated original commission ever
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NewsSky Europe programming budget pegged at £4.6bn
BSkyB will collectively commission original content across Italy and Germany as part of the creation of Sky Europe with a total programming budget of £4.6 billion.
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RatingsSafe landing for E4’s 100
After more than 630,000 recorded and watched, The 100 finished on 2.5 million/10%, making it E4’s best title for nearly two years
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RatingsSecret Life of Students pulls 500k
THURSDAY: Channel 4’s The Secret Life of Students and Channel 5’s Black Market Britain endured disappointing climaxes as the Commonwealth Games grabbed the lion’s share of the peak time audience.
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CriticsTV Critics: Diamond Geezers and Gold Dealers; The Honourable Woman; Penguin Post Office
“A film that was little more than a space-filler.”
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NewsLondon Live bids to radically reduce local content
London Live wants to radically reduce its commitment to primetime local programming under plans submitted to Ofcom.
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NewsCake buys back majority stake
Kids producer Cake Entertainment has bought back the majority stake in the business acquired by Spanish indie Zinkia.
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NewsAmazon to pilot Spotnitz drama
Amazon is piloting an adaptation of Philip K Dick’s novel The Man In The High Castle from Greenbird-backed UK indie Big Light Productions.
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NewsUnions demand BBC News external recruitment freeze
Bectu, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Unite have called on BBC News to only consider internal candidates for the latest crop of vacancies to counter the impact of imminent redundancies.
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NewsAnalyst: Sky Europe a takeover target
BSkyB’s creation of a pan-regional European pay-TV giant have increased the chances of the company being acquired by telcos such as Vodafone, according to analysts.