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Disney to launch Freeview channel in autumn
Disney has announced an autumn launch for its long-delayed Freeview entertainment channel, which it plans to call ABC1 after its US network ABC, write Naomi Rovnick and Michael Rosser.
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Eight takers for monster garage
Granada International has clinched several deals for mechanical makeover series Monster Garage and spin-off Monster House. The first series of Monster Garage, which has already aired on Channel 4, has been picked up by a further eight broadcasters including AB Sat in France, Ananey in Israel and Discovery International. In ...
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US makeover for Judge John Deed
BBC Worldwide and US production outfit Reveille are to rework BBC1 crime drama Judge John Deed for a US audience. Colin Jarvis, director of programming and operations at BBC Worldwide, is working with Ben Silverman, who heads the Universal-owned Reveille, to find writers to adapt the original scripts for the ...
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Endemol UK acquires rights to the farm
Endemol UK has picked up the rights to long-running Swedish reality format The Farm. The show, created by format house Strix, sends six women and six men to a remote part of the country where they have to fend for themselves on a 19th century farm for 10 weeks. The ...
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Challenge gambles on Poker series
Challenge, the Flextech-owned games entertainment channel, has acquired exclusive TV rights to the Pacific Poker UK Open. The 22 x 120-minute series will feature 108 players competing for£630,000. Produced by indie Matchroom, the series will air throughout September.
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BBC's wide eye travels to middle east
Pre-school BBC co-production Wide Eye is to be shown throughout the Middle East following a deal between rights owner Abbey Home Media and TV1 International. The 26 x 10-minute series, made by King Rollo Films, could be screened in up to 16 countries throughout the region including Egypt, Saudi Arabia ...
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Trouble run for MTV's Undergrads
Trouble has inked a deal with Decode Entertainment to screen MTV Animation series Undergrads. The 13 x 30-minute series follows the misadventures of a group of friends in their first year at college. It will begin its run on Trouble next month.
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Man enough for the job
Less mean than Birt, less impulsive than Dyke, we can expect the new DG to captain a sensible ship
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Lean times for kids TV
If junk food advertising on children's TV is banned it won't just be the kids who get thinner - cash-starved channels will slash originality and stuff schedules with repeats and cheap programming
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Jimmy's Farm (BBC2) - Nancy Banks-Smith, Guardian
?The sight of the night was an Iron Age sow giving birth.?...
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Jimmy's Farm (BBC2) - Joe Joseph, The Times
?A sort of cross between Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and Richard Briers in The Good Life.?...
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Jimmy's Farm (BBC2) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'Doherty was a thoroughly engaging character and it was impossible not to wish him well with the project.'...
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RatingsHell's Kitchen ratings go up in flames
ITV1's Hell's Kitchen fell even further in the ratings last night despite two celebrities walking out and was beaten by BBC1's news update.
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NewsPEER POLL: Director General
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Was Mark Thompson the right choice to be BBC director general?
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Omagh (C4) - Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail
'Everything about it was of the highest quality - from Pete Travis's brilliant direction and the muted colours of D...
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Omagh (C4) - Robert Hanks, Independent
?As in his film about Bloody Sunday, Paul Greengrass showed himself to be a supreme choreographer of chaos.?...