All UKTV articles – Page 35
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Behind The Scenes
Get Me To The Church, W
Finding six courageous couples willing to risk missing their own wedding was hard enough, but the friends they took with them had to be dynamite on camera too, says Sarah Veevers
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News
UKTV orders first W shows
UKTV has ordered its first shows since rebranding W including a factual entertainment format fronted by Amanda Holden.
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UKTV named in Sunday Times best places to work list
UKTV is the first broadcaster ever to be named as one of The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies.
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UKTV eyes Freeview move for more pay-TV channels
UKTV is considering making more of its pay-TV channels available for free as it gears up to launch Home on Freeview next month.
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Ratings
UKTV: top 10 scripted comedies 2006-2016
Click to discover UKTV’s best-performing comedy / comedy-dramas of the past decade.
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News
UKTV turns Home into free channel
UKTV is to expand its free-to-air footprint by handing pay-TV channel Home a slot on Freeview.
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Comment
Why Watch became W
Despite some hits, Watch’s identity had become insistent. We needed to refocus on the viewer, writes Steve North
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Comment
Will Watch’s new chapter bring fresh breakout hits?
UKTV will hope that rebrand plus new orders will put W on the map, says Stephen Arnell
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Poll: what do you think of the new Watch logo?
Share your thoughts on the new look for UKTV’s entertainment channel.
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News
Watch rebrands and secures EastEnders repeats
UKTV entertainment channel Watch is being rebranded as W and has snatched the rights to air narrative repeats of EastEnders following the closure of BBC3.
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Gold adapts Oldie Magazine cartoon
UKTV’s Gold is adapting Andrew Birch’s long-running Oldie Magazine cartoon strip as a three-part comedy series starring Simon Callow.
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UKTV lands live boxing rights
UKTV has made a shock move into live sports, landing the exclusive rights to David Haye’s comeback fight.
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News
UKTV share creeps past C5 & Sky
Storage Hunters UK and Dave Gorman’s Modern Life Is Goodish helped UKTV inch past Channel 5 and Sky to record its most successful year on record.
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Enders: UKTV niche channels could go free
UKTV pay channels Good Food, Eden and Home could follow its free-to-air channels onto Freesat according to a report from Enders Analysis.
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Dave lines up Storage Hunters celebrity special
UKTV has ordered a further two series of US format Storage Hunters, along with a celebrity spin-off featuring Bob Mortimer, Kimberly Wyatt, Ross Noble and Jimi Mistry.
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Behind The Scenes
The Money Pit, Dave
A live crowd-funding format turned out to be a legal minefield, but we found a way to make it work - and stay out of jail, says series producer Pat Doyle
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Ratings
Honey I Bought The House makes room for 91,000
MONDAY: Honey I Bought The House got off to strong start for Watch, as The Muppets debuted on Sky 1 with nearly 400,000 viewers.
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Behind The Scenes
Bull, Gold
With no gallery and no audience to play to, UKTV’s new sitcom tried to take a more naturalistic approach to studio filming. Robin Parker reports
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News
Bedell, Tyler, Watsham and Taylor on hunt for Next Big Thing
Elaine Bedell, Alan Tyler, Richard Watsham and Celia Taylor will debate the Next Big Thing in Entertainment in a key session of Broadcast’s Commissioning Forum next month.