All articles by Robin Parker – Page 145
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NewsBrightcove to help channels upload shows to Bebo
Online TV platform Brightcove has teamed up with Bebo to help media partners including Channel 4 and ITV to upload content onto the social network.
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CommentBlog: A cult show in ITV primetime?
With its fairytale trappings, Technicolor sheen and a supernaturally blessed and cursed piemaker as its lead character, Pushing Daisies has “cult” stamped all over it, writes Robin Parker.
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NewsER granted one final season
Medical drama ER is to end after its next season, US network NBC has announced.
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NewsCritics slam ITV regional plans
Campaigners hoping to save regional news programmes in ITV Borders and Tyne Tees North East have criticised ITV's revised proposals to consolidate its regional structure.
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NewsC4 launch classifieds site
Channel 4 is to launch its first online classifieds website on the back of property show A Place in the Sun.
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NewsDoctor Who moving to later slot
Doctor Who is to move to a later slot midway through its current run amid controversy over the BBC's decision to schedule the opening episode at 6.20pm.
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NewsBebo drama pulls over 5m
Social networking site Bebo's latest interactive drama Sofia's Diary has attracted more than 5 million views in its first two weeks.
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NewsITV1 vows to air more primetime local news
ITV1 has bowed to pressure from viewers and MPs with a pledge to provide more peaktime local news under its planned regional newsroom restructure.
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ITV aims to bolster online views with Corrie e-zine
ITV is attempting to drive more traffic to itv.com by sending a weekly Coronation Street round-up to 500,000 viewers.
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C4 in Christian follow-up to Muslim doc
Six volunteers will attempt to live by strict Christian principles in Channel 4's follow-up series to last year's Make Me a Muslim.
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NewsBarnicoat resurfaces at Somethin' Else
Former Endemol operating officer Tom Barnicoat has joined cross-platform indie Somethin' Else as a non-executive director.
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News4Talent selects drama winner
A 25-year-old first-time writer has won a competition to have her debut script turned into a C4 drama as part of the broadcaster's new talent month.
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NewsMichelle Ryan to star in ITV1 drama
Former EastEnders stars Michelle Ryan and Sean Maguire are to return to British TV this autumn in a two-part ITV1 romantic comedy drama.
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NewsITV Broadband boss quits
ITV Broadband managing director Annelies Van Den Belt is to leave the broadcaster after just 15 months to run the Russian online publisher Sup.
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NewsSkins dump the whole cast
The creators of Skins have confirmed that they are looking for an entirely new cast when the teen series returns to E4 and Channel 4 next year.
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NewsRussell T Davies slams BBC schedulers
Doctor Who executive producer Russell T Davies has accused BBC1 of 'cocking up' the scheduling of the show, claiming it will lose 1.5m viewers in its new timeslot.
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NewsArmstrong and Miller set up indie
Comedians Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller have set up their own production company, Toff Media.
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NewsTorchwood to make radio debut on R4
BBC2 sci-fi drama Torchwood is to make its radio debut this summer with a one-off special episode for BBC Radio 4.
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NewsTorchwood to make radio debut on R4
BBC2 sci-fi drama Torchwood is to make its radio debut this summer with a one-off special episode for BBC Radio 4.
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NewsBlair tackles gun and knife crime for C4
Channel 4 has signed up Cherie Blair to chair a commission investigating street weapons as part of a forthcoming season devoted to gun and knife crime.