All Channel 5 articles – Page 65
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RatingsOn The Yorkshire Buses beats Million Pound Drop
FRIDAY: Channel 5 ob-doc On The Yorkshire Buses drove off with an audience of 1.2m – just above the return of The Million Pound Drop on Channel 4.
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RatingsC5 benefits from ratings win
MONDAY: Channel 5 saw off competition from ITV, Channel 4 and BBC2 with the penultimate episode of Benefits Britain.
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NewsC5 re-orders five factual series
Channel 5 has recommissioned five documentary series as part of a push to grow its returning brands.
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NewsC5 gives voice to child carers
Channel 5 is to provide a first-person account of children who care for their parents in a Spun Gold documentary.
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NewsAndrew O'Connell joins ITV
Former Channel 5 commissioner Andrew O’Connell has joined ITV as a factual commissioner.
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NewsC5 returns to Benefits Britain
Channel 5’s Benefits Britain is to return after the broadcaster green-lit two more series of the in-house welfare documentary.
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RatingsC5 doctors outperform C4 beauty queens
THURSDAY: Channel 4 doc Beauty Queen or Bust was outperformed by the final part of Channel 5 medical doc Trauma Doctors.
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RatingsBenefits Britain holds steady
MONDAY: Channel 5’s welfare documentary Benefits Britain remained solid in the face of strong competition from Brazil’s final group game of the World Cup.
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NewsC5 moves Stand By Your Man
Channel 5 has rescheduled its Friday night dating show Stand By Your Man after a rocky start in its opening week.
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NewsC5 management team to move over to Viacom
Viacom is firming up plans to bring over Channel 5’s existing management team, including key Richard Desmond lieutenant Paul Dunthorne, ahead of finalising its £450m acquisition of the broadcaster.
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Behind The ScenesOAPs Behaving Badly, C5
Filming OAPs in Tenerife sounded fun, but keeping up with the hard-partying Brits wasn’t easy.
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RatingsC5 dole doc beats ITV, BBC2, C4
MONDAY: Channel 5 outperformed ITV, BBC2 and Channel 4 at 9pm, losing out only to the World Cup.
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RatingsStand By Your Man pulls 600k
FRIDAY: Channel 5’s new dating show Stand By Your Man located an audience of 600,000 viewers as BBC1’s World Cup coverage of Spain vs Holland dominated.
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NewsViacom boss: C5 can keep ad sales operation
Channel 5 will continue to handle its own advertising sales following its purchase by Viacom, according to the US media giant’s boss Philippe Dauman.
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NewsFormats are back in fashion
Commissioners and producers at Sheffield DocFest 2014 suggested that the ob-doc renaissance is here to stay, but there was also a sense that more factual formats are on the cards.
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NewsBroadcasters welcome year-round US orders
Major British broadcasters have welcomed US networks’ move towards year-round commissioning, but have downplayed plans to launch all their imports on the same day as their US TX.
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RatingsBig Brother powers down from launch
FRIDAY: Big Brother continued to pull in the viewers for Channel 5, but lost half a million viewers from its launch episode.
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RatingsBig Brother launch locks in 2m
THURSDAY: Big Brother got underway on Channel 5 with an audience of 2.1m - in line with last year’s launch.
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NewsC5 takes on UKTV in UK storage format battle
Channel 5 is going head-to-head with UKTV in the storage space after the broadcasters commissioned similar series.
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NewsGALLERY: Big Brother: Power Trip House, C5
Channel 5’s Big Brother: Power Trip launches Thursday 5 June on Channel 5 with a new ‘power’ theme