Most popular and commented – Page 2911
-
NewsBBC2 to pilot Talkback’s The Rob Brydon Show
BBC2 is piloting a new entertainment show fronted by Rob Brydon and produced by Talkback Thames.
-
NewsITV2 lines up factual strand showing celebrity family challenges
ITV director of digital channels Zai Bennett has commissioned a new celebrity-led factual strand which will see famous faces, including Gavin & Stacey actor Larry Lamb, paired with their children to undertake mammoth challenges.
-
NewsITV orders Dickinson chatshow
Real Deal host David Dickinson has been lined up as ITV’s next chatshow host.
-
NewsBBC4 unveils love and sex season
BBC4 is to dramatise DH Lawrence’s controversial novels The Rainbow and Women in Love in a new season about love and sexuality in 20th century literature.
-
NewsPower raises funding against value of IP
Power, the producer of The Day Of The Triffids, has struck an innovative £10.8m financing deal partly based on the value of its intellectual property.
-
NewsPopper indie wins first order in E4 sitcom pilot
The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird is to take a lead role in an E4 sitcom pilot from Robert Popper’s indie and Big Talk Productions about a Jewish family.
-
NewsDisney bids to treble European animation output
Disney is to treble its animation output from Europe “over the next few years” as part of its strategy to complement the live-action shows coming out of the US.
-
NewsGrade: push through digital economy bill
Outgoing ITV executive chairman Michael Grade has urged the government to push through the digital economy bill before the “guillotine” of a general election, in order to create a “level playing field” for commercial broadcasters in the UK.
-
NewsOutright ready to splash cash on first-look deals
Outright Distribution has ringfenced a “significant” investment fund that it will plough into firstlook deals with UK and US indies from early 2010.
-
NewsSilverback serves up Danish Hell’s Kitchen for TV2
A new version of ITV format Hell’s Kitchen is to be served up to viewers in Denmark.
-
NewsGarvie: business as usual under new BBCW rules
New limits on BBC Worldwide imposed by the BBC Trust last week will not change the behaviour of the business or stop it taking stakes in indies, managing director of content and production Wayne Garvie has claimed.
-
NewsJane Root indie signs with BBCW
Jane Root’s production company, Nutopia, has signed a two-year, first-look distribution deal with BBC Worldwide.
-
NewsBBC to run fresh TV fakery course
Key daytime suppliers will be hauled into the BBC for yet another lesson on avoiding TV fakery following the Reef Television scandal over Sun, Sea And Bargain Spotting and other shows.
-
NewsC4 bids to slash budgets for returning shows
Channel 4 shows River Cottage and 8 Out Of 10 Cats are set to be produced on almost half their 2009 budget when they return next year.
-
NewsSky issues 3D TV call to arms
Sky has outlined its 3D strategy for the first time and is calling on UK production companies to support its ambitious plans.
-
NewsShameless run extended
Shameless will be extended from 16 episodes to 22 when it returns for an eighth series in 2011.
-
NewsGMTV staff fearful as ITV looks to cut costs in 2010
GMTV staff are heading into Christmas fearing that swingeing cuts will be made across the business in the new year.
-
NewsSTV planning co-production deal for Taggart
STV is in the final throes of negotiating a ground-breaking deal with ITV which could secure the future of Taggart on the Channel 3 network.
-
NewsSky plans ‘muscular’ new Treasure Island
Sky is lining up a major adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic pirate novel, Treasure Island, and is eyeing Eddie Izzard to play Long John Silver.
-
NewsRogerson named UKTV director of commissioning
UKTV has promoted director of factual and fact ent commissioning Jane Rogerson to the newly created role of director of commissioning.