All Sky articles – Page 105
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NewsYesterday investigates Weekend Warriors
UKTV’s Yesterday is celebrating British eccentricity with a six-part series coproduced with Sky Vision Productions.
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Ratings24 simulcast draws 11,000
The return of Jack Bauer in 24: Live Another Day tracked down 11,000 viewers for its 1am simulcast on Tuesday, as the snooker World Championship final peaked with 5.6m on Monday.
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Behind The Scenes24: Live Another Day, Sky 1
A British crew helped to create a new twist on 24 that aims to be both fresh and reassuringly familiar, Robin Parker discovers.
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NewsSky Arts beefs up South Bank Show
Daniel Radcliffe and Abi Morgan are to feature in the South Bank Show when it returns to Sky Arts with six new episodes later this month.
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NewsSky Living buys Scandal
US political thriller Scandal is to move to Sky Living from its home on More4.
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NewsSky connects 50% of homes
Sky has connected almost 50% of its TV customers’ set top boxes and has added a further 74,000 TV subscribers over the three months to the end of March.
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NewsViacom set for £450m deal to buy C5
Viacom, owner of MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, is poised to announce the acquisition of Channel 5 for £450m.
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NewsOfcom criticises subtitling standards
The UK’s major broadcasters are failing to meet best practice guidelines when providing subtitles for the live programming.
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NewsSky+ heads into the cloud
Sky is reportedly developing a set-top box which will allow subscribers to record programmes in the cloud enabling them to be accessed from any device.
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RatingsSlim pickings for Mad Men
It’s about slightly awkward headwear, faraway places, high politics, a whiff of debauchery, existential despair and massive swords swishing metaphorically, and sometimes literally, about the place.
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NewsA League of Their Own’s future secured until 2017
Sky 1 has struck a deal to keep James Corden-fronted panel show A League of Their Own on air until 2017.
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NewsDiscovery and Sky drop C5 bid
Discovery Communications and BSkyB’s £350m bid for Channel 5 appears to have been insufficient to land the broadcaster from Northern & Shell.
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RatingsMad Men fails to sell Sky Atlantic
Mad Men returned for a seventh series on Wednesday with a meagre audience of 28,500 - as Channel 4’s How to Get a Council House was back with record ratings.
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NewsUS network Pivot boards Fortitude
US cable network Pivot has come on board Sky Atlantic’s big-budget drama Fortitude as a coproducer after striking a deal with Sky Vision.
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RatingsThrones roars ahead for Sky
The official motto of the (fictional) Westeros grand family House Lannister of Casterly Rock is, apparently, ‘hear me roar’.
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NewsSky trials Twitter recording tool
Sky is to begin trialing a mobile Twitter tool that allows its customers to watch or record TV shows by clicking on icons which appear in tweets.
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NewsBBC3’s Zai Bennett to lead Sky Atlantic
Zai Bennett will become director of Sky Atlantic just weeks after it was announced that BBC3 is to move online next year.
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RatingsWalking Dead rise for Fox
If ever the dead walked, there would be something inexorable about them. Arms held stiffly out in front, hollow eyes, a lowing groan as they marched on, determinedly bent on some ghoulish, nefarious deed.
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FeaturesJohn Ryley, Sky News
The head of Sky News discusses his efforts to boost the number of female experts on screen
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VideoVIDEO: storyboarding Game of Thrones
Conceptual artist William Simpson discusses designing the Sky Atlantic show’s weapons and planning its most famous scenes.