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RatingsBrits reign with four-year high
TUESDAY: The Brit Awards walked away with its biggest audience in four years, thrashing Big Fat Gyspy Weddings, which posted its lowest overnights to date.
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NewsCustom builds TVC wall
Custom Consoles has completed the installation of a multi-screen monitor wall for BBC Studios and Post Production at Television Centre in London.
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NewsKit's Jardine joins Oasys
Oasys has appointed Fraser Jardine (pictured) to the role of vice-president of global sales.
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NewsHonda backs C4 after "gypsier" complaints
Channel 4 documentaries sponsor Honda has re-iterated its support for Big Fat Gypsy Weddings despite a wave of recent complaints over the marketing campaign.
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NewsFellowes’ Titanic sails to South Africa
ITV’s epic Titanic drama, written by Julian Fellowes, is to air in South Africa on the day the UK broadcast concludes.
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CBeebies Iconicles go west
Kids series Iconicles has been sold to broadcasters across the Americas and Canada.
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NewsBBC1 orders Postcode Lottery series
BBC Daytime has commissioned a new investigative series looking at how where we live can affect our life.
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Southern Star names new CEO
Southern Star, the Australian production giant owned by Endemol, has hired a Seven Network executive as its new chief executive.
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RatingsITV2’s Brits coverage draws 500k
TUESDAY: Celebrity Juice host Keith Lemon helped pull more than 500,000 viewers to the red carpet and backstage coverage of the Brit Awards.
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NewsS4C head of content departs
S4C’s head of content Meirion Davies is leaving the broadcaster after nearly 20 years to return to the indie sector.
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NewsSTV profits fall 88%
Scottish broadcaster STV saw its profits plummet to £600,000 as the cost of settling its legal dispute with ITV hit home.
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NewsDCMS calls for TV tax breaks
The DCMS has called on the Treasury to safeguard the future of British-made animation and high-end drama by introducing tax breaks, Broadcast has learned.
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News‘Tax breaks can earn the UK £1bn’
Tax breaks for British-made high-end drama would “transform” the industry and could yield a net return of £1bn annually to the UK economy, a report submitted to the government has claimed.
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NewsWoolfe exits Prime Focus for ‘new venture’
Former Channel 5, Sky 1 and Living controller Richard Woolfe has left post-production house Prime Focus after less than a year.
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NewsBBC Bristol execs exit ahead of factual move
Bristol-based BBC execs Andrew Jackson and Ben Gale are leaving the corporation amid the relocation of its Birmingham factual team to the city.
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NewsITV1 plans push on weekend mornings
ITV1 is targeting a major push on original content for weekend mornings and is lining up a rival to BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen plus a fresh stab at Let’s Do Lunch With Gino & Mel.
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NewsThe Voice opts for multiplatform content over spin-off
BBC1 talent show The Voice will be supported by a major multiplatform push by producer Wall to Wall that will effectively take the place of a spin-off show.
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NewsEducating Essex shifts location for return to C4
Fixed-rig documentary series Educating Essex is set to be recommissioned by Channel 4 – but with the cameras moving to a new school in a different part of the country.
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NewsITV set to lose out in HMRC actors dispute
ITV is poised to lose a second court appeal in a long-running legal battle with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to avoid paying substantially more tax for hiring high-profile actors.