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Pinewood eyes up Whitfield St
Pinewood Shepperton Studios is in talks to buy into central London audio facility Whitfield Street Studios.
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Indies to benefit from More4 cash
Channel 4's new digital free-to-air service, More4, is set to commission over half its content from indies when it launches in October.
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Box TV lays off staff after pitches fail
Drama producer Box TV, the company set up by former Channel 4 drama head Gub Neal, has laid off its heads of comedy and drama after two major ITV projects failed to get the greenlight.
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ITV axe falls on children's hours
ITV is to reduce its children's content by over an hour a week from Easter, after Ofcom gave it the greenlight to reduce its commitment to the genre.
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Moody leaves BBC factual
The BBC has lost another senior executive after documentaries and contemporary factual commissioner Nicola Moody decided to quit.
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Abbott moves into docs with ITV survival series
Paul Abbott, the award-winning creator of Shameless, is overseeing a Touching the Void-style documentary series for ITV1.
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BBC staff hit out
The BBC board of governors may have learned their fate on Wednesday, but scores of other BBC employees took to the streets to complain that they were still very much in the dark about their futures at the corporation.
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NewsFox snaps up Scream Films
Fox Television Studios (FTVS) has concluded its deal to buy Scream Films, paying a seven-figure sum for the indie.
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NewsBBC green paper: industry reaction
Leading figures from the broadcasting give their reaction to the government's proposals.
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NewsEx Disney boss to run Hallmark
Former Disney International president David Hulbert has been lined up to run Hallmark International following David Elstein's£127m purchase of the business last week.
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NewsAnother Freeview slot up for grabs
Crown Castle is to put another Freeview slot up for grabs in the next couple of months.
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NewsBBC still faces top slicing
The BBC may have won the battle for a new 10-year Charter and licence fee but the threat of top slicing has been left hanging over the corporation.
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NewsGrade to head new BBC Trust
BBC chairman Michael Grade will remain at the head of the corporation despite the government's decision this week to abolish the board of governors after 77 years.
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A job worth doing
Maxim Jago thinks that small budgets are the best way to judge the talent of newcomers to the industry.
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So you wanna be in the mobiles?
Third generation mobile phones have tremendous potential, and the race is on to produce the first really compelling content. Peter Keighron reports.
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Do you feel lucky?
Lottery fever is way past its peak in the UK so as Camelot turns to multichannel in an attempt to widen its audience, the BBC is casting around for new concepts for the Saturday night show, writes Peter Keighron.
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Man on the Street
This is the first interview Tony Wood has done since he became Coronation Streetproducer just over a year ago and, in some ways, it's wasted on Broadcast. When asked for an exclusive for Broadcast readers the best he can come up with ...
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No job for a woman... or ethnic minorities
The strong line-up of female executives in the running for the BBC1 controllership doesn't mean the picture further down the ladder has changed. Skillset's new research shows women in broadcasting are still getting a raw deal.
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In My View - Is TV fair to teenagers?
Troubled teenagers may make great TV but the emphasis on the difficult ones is giving a misleading picture.
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BBC's carte blanche?
The treatment of a complaint made by a participant in a 2002 BBC2 documentary shows how hard it is to hold the BBC to account for its mistakes, argues David Elstein