All articles by Robin Parker – Page 13
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Strictly dancers dip but C4 enjoys chocolate
WEEKEND: Professionals face a 28% drop on 2018 while Cadbury offers sweet relief for Sunday nights
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News
BBC scraps Eurovision public vote
No televised heat next year as BMG and BBC Studios team up to choose UK entry
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News
Chernobyl wins big at Creative Emmys
Fleabag, Leaving Neverland and Our Planet also take home prizes at celebration of TV craft
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C5 suicide doc draws in 465,000
TUESDAY: Feature-length film falls short of previous offering The Abused, but rates well with 25-34s
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Rylan sweeps up 25-34s for ITV2
MONDAY: Supermarket Sweep revival triples channel’s share of demographic while Aldi and Lidl deliver the goods for C5
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Dad’s Army restaging hands Gold four-year high
SUNDAY/MONDAY: The first two lost episodes recruits 340,000 to become best-performing original since 2015
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Peaky Blinders recruits 3.7m to BBC1
SUNDAY/MONDAY: Series five launches 1.3m ahead of its BBC2 best, while C5’s Aldi doc delivers the goods
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News
ITV returns to studio comedy
Brenda Blethyn and Jimmy Akingbola star in six-part series from Outnumbered creators
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News
Hugh Laurie to star in BBC1 David Hare drama
Veep star to play a Conservative MP in The Forge’s four-parter
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ITV fighter pilots soar above rivals
TUESDAY: Blakeway three-parter launches with 2.3m while C4’s childcare pilot attracts 1m
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Ian Hislop digs into Fake News for BBC4
Wingspan one-off joins art forgery docs in channel’s slate
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News
Strawberry Blond to film Edinburgh shorts for Dave
Lou Sanders and Jamali Maddix among 16 acts to deliver ‘live’ news from the Fringe
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The Broadcast Interview
Inside No 9: mini films on a panel show budget
Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith on how delivering distinctive ideas on a low tariff has sharpened their scripts
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Ratings
Love Island final peaks with 4.3m
MONDAY: ITV2 grabs 67% share of 16-24s as reality show draws to a close after eight weeks
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News
Arrow Media probes killers’ psyches for Investigation Discovery
Ted Bundy doc will launch Mind of a Monster true crime anthology strand
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I Am Nicola draws 610,000
TUESDAY: Improvised C4 drama skews towards older viewers while men turn to BBC4’s Planespotting Live
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Love Island gets two series from 2020
Winter run to be filmed in South Africa early in the year
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Sky chief operating officer quits to join Boris Johnson
New prime minister hires Andrew Griffith as chief business advisor