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CriticsTV Critics: You Saw Them Here First; Neighbourhood Force; Celebrity MasterChef; WDYTYA?; Love/Hate
“The TV celebrity equivalent of your friends’ parents showing you their old school photos.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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NewsITVS hires Impossible's Tim Haines
ITV Studios has hired Impossible Pictures’ creative director and Primeval co-creator Tim Haines to head up a new drama unit.
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NewsTravel Channel heads to Freeview
Travel Channel has launched a primetime programming block on Freeview to grow its reach to a further 23m homes.
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NewsC4's Run sprints to Hulu
Hulu has acquired London drama Run as it increases the number of UK series that it offers its subscribers.
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NewsDigital radio listening breaks 50% barrier
Rajar: The last three months have seen more than half of the UK’s adult population listen to radio via digital platforms for the first time, as 28m tuned in.
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RatingsCelebrity Masterchef cooks up 5m
Celebrity Masterchef was watched by 4.7m viewers on Wednesday as it swapped to BBC1 from last year’s outing on BBC2.
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RatingsMisery is good for C4
Whatever the opposite of trouble at t’mill is (shindig at t’mill perhaps?), Channel 4 will have been toasting poor, oppressed child labour on Sunday evening.
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RatingsStar power wins for BBC4
BBC4 proved old stars never lose it as Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor delivered nicely for the channel this week.
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RatingsBaby joy for digital news
After naming the new royal urchin George Alexander Louis, I wondered if there might be a ‘By George, it’s a GAL’ headline.
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RatingsRun walks off with share rise
Although August is the month of holidays and a time when the news goes a bit round the bend –Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury and whistling llamas on the Today programme was the starting gun – television still entices viewers.
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NewsFox to remake Broadchurch for US
US network Fox is to remake Kudos’ hit ITV crime drama Broadchurch.
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NewsAll3Media finance director leaves
All3Media’s chief financial officer Adam Jones is quitting his position at the end of the summer to spend time with his family.
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NewsOfcom: no relief for BT over Sky Sports
Sky Sports will not be available via BT’s YouView service for the start of the Premier League season after Ofcom refused to grant the telco interim relief.
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CriticsTV Critics: The Dealership; How to Get a Council House; Shoplife
“Selling is always interesting, and it doesn’t get much rawer and purer than secondhand cars in Essex.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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RatingsCouncil House doc moves 2m into C4
Channel 4’s new series How To Get a Council House moved in to the schedule with an audience of over 2m on Thursday.
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NewsThe Inbetweeners Movie 2 confirmed
The creative team behind 2011 box office smash The Inbetweeners Movie have confirmed that a second movie is in production and will be released in cinemas across the UK & Ireland early August 2014.
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NewsVirgin Media plugs 155,000 into TiVo
Virgin Media added 155,000 TiVo homes over its latest financial quarter, its first set of results since the business was acquired by Liberty Global.
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NewsThird time lucky for The Syndicate
Kay Mellor’s Rollem Productions has been recommissioned to make a third series of The Syndicate, which will return to BBC1 in 2015.
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NewsYahoo! heats up cooking series
Spring Films has delivered its first online series, My Family and Other Recipes, to Yahoo! as part of the internet giant’s drive to fund more original content.
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NewsNBCU hires Fever development exec
NBC Universal International has hired Fever Media’s Jack Burgess as head of development for its non-scripted programming.