All articles by Robin Parker – Page 157
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NewsC4 tucks into food season
Channel 4 is lining up specials featuring celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall as part of its two-week food season in January.
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FeaturesInterview: Roy Ackerman and Paul Sowerbutts
Since being snapped up by Zodiak last year, Diverse has become just that, setting up indies away from its factual base.
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NewsC4 orders peace activist death drama
Channel 4 is lining up a feature-length drama about the death of British peace activist Tom Hurndall for next spring.
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NewsWould I Lie to You recommissioned
BBC1 has ordered a second series of the Zeppotron-produced comedy panel show Would I Lie To You?
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NewsNME TV to rock on Sky
A 24-hour TV station based on music magazine NME is to launch on Sky this week.
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NewsC4 attacks police handling of Dispatches
Channel 4’s deputy head of news and current affairs has accused police of legitimising Muslim extremists after an inquiry was launched into an edition of Dispatches.
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NewsBBC2’s Natural World goes on the hunt with Indian tigers
Filming a tiger catch its prey, one of natural history film-making’s toughest challenges, is to be the subject of an edition of BBC2’s Natural World.
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NewsBebo to offer free TV content clips
Bebo’s repositioning as an entertainmentbased online community took a major leap forward this week with broadcasters and production companies signed up to provide thousands of hours of programming free of charge to the network’s 40 million users.
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NewsHorrocks points to early BBC newsroom benefits
BBC newsroom head Peter Horrocks is braced for industrial action over the cuts within BBC news, but has insisted the majority of staff support the corporation’s fledgling multi-media newsroom.
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NewsBorder viewers primed for analogue shutdown
Digital switchover body Digital UK has begun advising residents in the Scottish Border region in anticipation of switching off the analogue signal in the region in November 2008.
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NewsGecko wins two orders for hard-hitting docs
Gecko Productions is to produce a doc about homeless ex-services personnel for BBC1.
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NewsC4 orders doc about Jesus’ other lives
Documentary-maker David Batty is to follow last year’s controversial The Secret Jesus Family with a film exploring the parallels between the Christian interpretation of Jesus Christ and major figures in other religions.
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NewsDicks to head Somethin’ Else interactive
Indie Somethin’ Else has hired the man behind the BBC’s online soap Wannabes to head its interactive division.
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NewsStewart Purvis joins Ofcom
Former ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis has joined Ofcom as partner for content and standards.
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NewsWhitehaven goes digital
Whitehaven today (14 November) became the first town in the UK to switch off its analogue TV signal.
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NewsC4 orders conjoined twin doc
Channel 4 has commissioned a documentary on an Indian girl born with four arms and four legs as she undergoes an operation to remove her conjoined twin.
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NewsBebo signs major content deals
Broadcasters including the BBC, BSkyB and Channel 4 and production companies such as Endemol are to offer free content to social network Bebo’s 40 million users in a global deal announced today (13 November).
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NewsSomethin’ Else hires Farrar
Cross-platform indie Somethin’ Else has hired Talkback Thames’ development producer John Farrar in a new developmental role.
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NewsBBC1 to start Choir Wars
BBC1’s latest Saturday night talent show is to stage a contest between amateur choirs.