All News articles – Page 1555
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NewsCreative Access places 500th BAME intern
Diversity charity Creative Access, which helps ethnic minority talent break into the industry, has placed its 500th intern.
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NewsSally Miles to exit Passion
Sally Miles is to leave Passion Distribution, the international TV sales firm that she founded eight years ago, Broadcast has learned.
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NewsSurvey finds docs at risk of becoming 'selective and self-serving'
Documentary film-making is in danger of becoming “selective and self-serving” after an independent survey laid bare the genre’s financial difficulties.
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NewsNat Geo acquisitions boss exits
National Geographic’s international acquisitions and co-production chief Maggie Rhodes has left the broadcaster.
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NewsGarbutt takes MD role at Halo
Halo Post Production has appointed head of production Will Garbutt as its managing director.
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NewsAJA unveils UHD block camera
BVE 2016: AJA has launched the RovoCam, the company’s first compact block camera.
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NewsBBC to give online recipes the chop
The BBC is reported to be planning to cut magazine-style content from its website after the chancellor accused the broadcaster of building an “imperial” web presence last year.
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NewsVice UK staff move to unionise
Staff at Vice UK have sent a letter to their colleagues to drum up support to “get everyone involved” in forming a union.
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NewsPlimsoll explores cats for ITV
ITV is to investigate the relationship between big cats in the wild and domestic pussycats in a three-part doc series from Plimsoll Productions.
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NewsC4 orders safety review into The Jump
Channel 4 has asked The Jump producers Twofour to review the show’s safety procedures after the rising number of injured celebrities.
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NewsCommercial broadcasters pledge to protect kids
The Commercial Broadcasters Association (Coba) has pledged to prioritise the protection of children around catch-up content.
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NewsIn brief: Puttnam inquiry; 7 Wonder; CTBF; Anim8
David Abraham, Sharon White, Lenny Henry and Tony Hall are among the speakers at a series of events to debate the future of TV. Read on for more
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NewsBroadcast Indie Summit: Colette Foster
Broadcast is hosting its inaugural Indie Summit on 17 March to help producers of all sizes learn from one another. Full Fat TV creative director Colette Foster, who is to appear as part of the Winning That Commission session, reveals her experience of developing returnable formats
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NewsWar and Peace sold to Russia
BBC1 drama War and Peace is to be translated into Russian after commercial broadcaster Channel One acquired the six-part drama.
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NewsITV daytime orders include The Alphabet Game revival
Sky Sports presenter Jeff Stelling is to front an ITV quiz inspired by 1990s BBC format The Alphabet Game as part of a trio of daytime commissions.
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NewsWriters receive £1m in iPlayer royalties
The growth in online viewing has helped Writers Digital Payments (WDP) pay out £960,000 in royalties to screenwriters whose shows have featured on BBC iPlayer.
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NewsWar and Peace producer revisits Les Misérables adaptation
Lookout Point is preparing to open talks with the BBC over Andrew Davies’ follow-up to War and Peace - an adaption of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables.
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NewsTop actors unite to protect BBC
Independent producers Charlie Parsons and Waheed Alli have gathered actors including Dame Judi Dench, Steve Coogan and David Oyelowo to defend the BBC against further cuts in a video made by My Week with Marilyn director Simon Curtis.
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NewsSam launches Kula switcher range
Snell Advanced Media (Sam) has launched a new line-up of multi-format production switchers that combine SD, HD and 4K capabilities.
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NewsShine TV hires head of features & popular factual
Shine TV has strengthened its features and popular factual teams by promoting two executive producers.