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NewsOfcom drops Gypsy Blood complaints
Ofcom has dropped over 500 complaints made about Channel 4 documentary Gypsy Blood.
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NewsRed Arrow acquires Bevan Jones indie
Red Arrow Entertainment Group has acquired a majority stake in Endor Productions, the indie owned by State of Play producer Hilary Bevan Jones.
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Chorion sells Olivia to Classic
The sale of Chorion’s catalogue continues with Classic Media securing pre-school brand Olivia.
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NewsBBC DG Mark Thompson confirms departure
BBC director general Mark Thompson has confirmed he is to step down this autumn.
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NewsThompson out... so who will be the next BBC DG?
The worst kept secret in TV is out – now the question on everybody’s lips is who will replace Mark Thompson at the top of the BBC.
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NewsITV relaunches news website
ITV has relaunched its news website as part of plans to compete with BBC and Sky’s online news output.
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NewsCulture secretary sets out C4 options
Culture secretary Karen Bradley has laid out four different options around the privatisation of Channel 4 but declared that a decision is not imminent.
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VideoBe Your Own Doctor, C4
Former Bake Off contestant Dr Tamal Ray fronts Love Productions’ medical format alongside Kate Quilton.
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NewsAll3Media forges Lynda La Plante ties
Lynda La Plante is set to start developing projects with All3Media after the super-indie picked up the rights to 124 hours of the writer’s crime drama catalogue.
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NewsBallantine recruited to lead Deluxe in Europe
Deluxe Entertainment Services Group has recruited Neil Ballantine to the role of managing director of the company’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Media Services division.
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RatingsWalking Dead shocks 800k
MONDAY: The Walking Dead roared back onto Fox with 800,000 viewers – outperforming Channel 5 in the 9pm slot.
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NewsFraser hunts public films for Yaddo
SVoD documentaries service Yaddo is to commission 125 documentaries from members of the public over the next 12 months.
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NewsWellcome bursary opened up to TV
The recipient of a £30,000 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship bursary is to be unveiled at a 23 November event.
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RatingsTop 100 shows: 10-16 Oct
One of the most over-used and obsolete phrases in politics is “we’re not going to give you a running commentary on…”. It’s usually about something long-running that everyone knows the answer to already, like the third runway at Heathrow.
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RatingsTop 30 shows (BBC2, C4 & C5): 10-16 Oct 2016
It was a triumphant return for Channel 4’s The Crystal Maze on Sunday at 9pm (3 million/13.8%).
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RatingsTop consolidated shows: 3-9 Oct
In the week that actress Jean Alexander died, it’s appropriate to be thinking about occasions when a show recorded its biggest ever audience.
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RatingsTop 30 multichannel shows: 10-16 Oct 2016
Although Celebrity Juice (Thursday, 10pm) tops this week’s table with 960,000/6%, up from last week’s 780,000/5%, perhaps we should be considering another metric, in which it wouldn’t do quite so well – the number of words in a programme title.
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RatingsTop 50 non-PSB shows: 10-16 Oct 2016
Harry Hill’s back on TV at tea-time, but we’re not talking TV Burp figures here. Nevertheless, Sky 1 will be happy with the debut of the prosaically titled Harry Hill’s Tea-Time: 391,000/2% at 6pm on Sunday.
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RatingsTop 100 shows: 3-9 Oct
After England’s unwieldy performance under its caretaker manager against plucky Malta, I half expected Scooby-Doo and the gang to rush to the touchline and yank off his mask to reveal a scheming baddy muttering that he’d have got away with it if it weren’t for those pesky kids.
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RatingsTop consolidated shows: 26 Sep-3 Oct
Historians writing about 2016 will not, I fear, be kind. The incoherent, fear-fuelled rage against, you know, something, will look immature and foolish to posterity.