All articles by Robin Parker – Page 88
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NewsMPs criticise More4 over Crufts
A cross-party group of MPs has criticised More4 for picking up next year’s Crufts in a report prompted by BBC1 documentary Pedigree Dogs Exposed.
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NewsHome signs up BB1’s Craig for web guides
Big Brother housemate-turned property developer Craig Phillips is to front the first standalone web commissions for UKTV-owned channel Home.
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NewsC4 promises slew of orders to test shows
Channel 4 head Julian Bellamy has promised a “wave of commissioning” in the coming weeks to create a surge of new shows for autumn 2010 that could return to replace Big Brother in 2011.
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Comment
The Family / Dollhouse
Robin Parker and Chris Curtis give their verdict on the latest shows.
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NewsMoyles quiz moves to Friday nights
Channel 4 is promoting Chris Moyles’ Quiz Night to Friday nights when the show returns next year.
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RatingsRamsay loses half his F-ing viewers
Gordon Ramsay’s F Word returned to Channel 4 with 1.8m viewers at 9pm last night – just over half the audience for the finale of last year’s run.
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Blinkx to raise £5m through shares
Video search company Blinkx plans to raise £5m through new shares to shore up its cash reserves, which have fallen by £13m in the past year.
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The Broadcast InterviewSimon Dickson, Channel 4
Channel 4’s deputy head of documentaries wants a leftfield angle and isn’t afraid to take a gamble. The risks have paid off with groundbreaking programming.
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NewsTalkback and FME set up web content unit
Talkback Thames has set up its first dedicated digital division, which will oversee all crossplatform support for shows, such as The X Factor and The Bill, as well developing bespoke advertiser-funded web content.
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NewsCandidates line up for C4 entertainment role
Channel 4 has set tongues wagging as it seeks to move swiftly to hire new blood for the entertainment part of Andrew Newman’s commissioning brief.
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NewsC4 takes back seat on co-pros to boost doc series budgets
Channel 4 is scaling back its investment in co-productions for strands such as Bodyshock to boost the budgets for major documentary series such as The Family.
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NewsQuestion Time prompts 290 complaints to Ofcom
Almost 300 viewers have complained to the regulator Ofcom about last week’s edition of Question Time.
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NewsQI to face-off against The Bill
BBC1 is to pitch panel show QI against ITV1 police drama The Bill when the Stephen Fry-fronted show returns for its seventh series next month.
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NewsC4 to explore dawn of aerial warfare
Channel 4 is to recreate the aerial battles of World War One for a 90-minute documentary from Darlow Smithson Productions.
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RatingsLife fights back against Murderland
David Attenborough’s Life helped BBC1 close the gap on Robbie Coltrane crime drama Murderland last night, with ITV1 losing 800,000 viewers in its second week.
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NewsMore4 teams up with National Theatre for arts strand
More4 has created a new peaktime Saturday arts strand spanning ballet, theatre, literature and an offbeat ‘magic realist’ documentary.
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NewsSky Sports breaks Ofcom sponsorship rules
Sky Sports gave undue prominence to Specsavers’ sponsorship of the Hawk-Eye technology used in its Ashes coverage, Ofcom has ruled.
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NewsC4 chair search enters final stage
Final interviews for the Channel 4 chair take place this week, with former ITV and GCap chair Richard Eyre reported to be in the running.
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NewsC4 to profile Britain's fattest man
Channel 4 is lining up a documentary about “Britain’s fattest man” as he embarks on life-threatening surgery to lose weight.
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NewsBSkyB now in 9.5m homes
BSkyB signed 94,000 new subscribers in the third quarter and has now rolled out Sky+HD to one in six customers – after ploughing an extra £37m into marketing.