All articles by Peter White – Page 156
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RatingsLong Lost Family continues to locate viewers
ITV’s Long Lost Family continued to dominate the Monday night ratings, again locating more than 5m viewers.
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NewsRaw opens Unexplained Files for Discovery
Discovery has ordered an X-Files-style documentary series from Raw TV to air around the world.
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NewsCNBC orders All3Media gambling series
US cable network CNBC has commissioned All3Media America to produce gambling format Money Talks.
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NewsBT Sport set to strike Virgin Media carriage deal
Virgin Media is poised to close a deal to carry BT Sport’s three sports channels on its cable TV platform, making them available to a further 4m potential customers.
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RatingsThe Mill prospers for C4
The Mill was Channel 4’s biggest drama series launch in three years in a strong Sunday night for ratings.
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NewsBonafide strikes deal with ZDFE
Talking to the Dead-producer Bonafide Films has struck a development deal with German distributor ZDF Enterprises.
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NewsH2 conjures up invention format
US cable network H2 has ordered a new invention format from T Group, the production company set up by former Target Entertainment executive Jenny Daly.
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NewsSweet TV lands Scripps orders
Scripps channels Food Network and the Travel Channel have commissioned three series from Sweet TV.
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NewsC4 renews The Returned
Channel 4 has acquired the rights to the second series of French-language drama The Returned.
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NewsTim Kring, Hulu & C4 booked for Keshet event
Israeli producer and distributor Keshet is organising an international TV conference with speakers including Hulu’s director of content acquisition Alex Kruglov, Heroes’ creator Tim Kring and Channel 4 commissioner Justin Gorman.
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NewsNetflix to air Breaking Bad in line with US
The series conclusion of Breaking Bad will be available in the UK hours after its US broadcast as Netflix extended its deal with Sony Pictures Television.
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RatingsEwan McGregor's Hebrides rises
Ewan McGregor’s BBC2 Hebrides doc and C5’s The Hotel Inspector continued to perform well on Thursday, while The Briefs locked in a smaller audience for ITV.
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NewsSimon Lloyd exits amid Cineflix restructure
Simon Lloyd is to leave Cineflix Productions as the company scales back its Canadian division to focus on unscripted content from the UK and US.
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NewsPretzel raids Rival for TV production push
Commercials agency Pretzel Films is moving into TV production and has hired Rival Media’s Steve Wynne to lead the initiative.
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NewsBT adds 23k TV subs
The number of new subscribers to BT’s TV services grew by just 23,000 in the last three months, although the company revealed over 500,000 homes have signed up to its forthcoming BT Sport channels.
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NewsC5 teams up with Wonga for adventure series
Channel 5 Productions is making a 4 x 60-minute adventure series funded and co-developed by controversial loan company Wonga.
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NewsDNI Lat Am scouts UK indies
Discovery Networks International’s (DNI) Latin American commissioning hub has placed several orders with UK-based producers and its boss plans to come to the UK to scope out further opportunities.
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NewsNGCI orders Blast! Kennedy doc
National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) has ordered a two-hour documentary about former US president John F Kennedy from UK indie Blast! Films to run alongside its forthcoming scripted drama Killing Kennedy.
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NewsVoD opportunities set to grow
US digital streaming services Hulu and Netflix are ramping up their plans to produce original programming and British indies are expected to be the next major beneficiaries of the maturing VoD market.
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NewsFremantle eyes digital future
Fremantle Media is focusing on a digital future and searching for long-term replacements for its bigticket entertainment formats as it moves on from the departure of international boss David Ellender.