All articles by Chris Curtis – Page 72

  • Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley
    The Broadcast Interview

    Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley

    2009-08-27T09:43:00Z

    The partnership between Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley is the glue that holds The One Show together.

  • Harry Hill’s TV Burp
    News

    Pinewood upbeat despite tough times

    2009-08-25T11:09:00Z

    Pinewood Shepperton suffered only a small drop in TV revenues as it battled against the downturn during the first half of the year.

  • X Factor reject Emma Chawner
    News

    X Factor reject to star in slimming show

    2009-08-24T11:06:00Z

    Daisybeck Productions is tracking the attempts by an X Factor reject to lose weight for a new six-part series.

  • The Street
    Ratings

    The Street ends on 4.4m

    2009-08-18T12:07:00Z

    BBC1’s The Street concluded its consistent run with 4.4m (20%) viewers at 9pm last night, as ITV1 drama Monday Monday continued to struggle.

  • Football
    Ratings

    MOTD kicks off with 4m

    2009-08-17T11:41:00Z

    The return of Match of the Day lit up an otherwise lacklustre Saturday as 4m (25%) tuned in to BBC1’s first highlights show of the new season.

  • Usain Bolt
    Ratings

    Bolt fires BBC2 to the top

    2009-08-17T10:14:00Z

    BBC2 raced to the top of the ratings pile on Sunday as Usain Bolt’s world record-breaking 100m sprint at the World Athletics Championships was watched by 5m (22.3%).

  • Virgin Media logo
    News

    Virgin Media cuts customer service jobs

    2009-08-14T10:36:00Z

    Virgin Media has cut around 250 jobs from its Dudley customer services centre after a consultation with at-risk staff came to an end.

  • The Office
    News

    Stars come out for BBC2's Office night

    2009-08-13T12:12:00Z

    BBC2 will dedicate an entire evening to airing the first series of The Office later this month, including new footage of Ricky Gervais and the team talking about its impact alongside comedy stars such as Friends’ Matthew Perry and Spinal Tap’s Christopher Guest.

  • Football
    Ratings

    ITV1 wins with football coverage

    2009-08-13T11:08:00Z

    ITV1 scored with its coverage of England’s football friendly with the Netherlands last night, which peaked at 6.8m (33%) and beat a revitalised Who Do You Think You Are? on BBC1.

  • Katie Price
    News

    Katie Price launches production company

    2009-08-13T00:01:00Z

    Katie Price has teamed up with former ITV Studios talent exec Mark Wagman to launch an indie.

  • Who Do You Think You Are?
    Ratings

    Mitchell murdered by ITV1

    2009-08-06T11:18:00Z

    ITV1’s Midsomer Murders attracted 5.8m (26.3%) viewers between 8pm and 10pm last night, comfortably outperforming Peep Show comedian David Mitchell’s appearance on BBC1’s Who Do You Think You Are?.

  • The Colour of Money
    News

    In-house production falls at ITV

    2009-08-06T10:01:00Z

    ITV Studios generated significantly more revenue from rival UK broadcasters during the first half of the year – but significantly less from the ITV channels themselves.

  • Deal or No Deal
    News

    Endemol reshuffles senior team

    2009-08-05T11:30:00Z

    Endemol has made group head of programming Paul Römer its chief creative officer as part of a re-jig of its senior management team.

  • Rough Aunties
    News

    Rough Aunties goes global

    2009-08-05T10:19:00Z

    Kim Longinotto’s African children doc Rough Aunties has been sold to five territories by Rise Films.

  • Hotel Babylon
    Ratings

    Viewers leave Hotel Babylon

    2009-08-03T12:25:00Z

    Just 3.1m viewers checked out BBC1’s Hotel Babylon on Friday as it was comfortably beaten at 9pm by a repeat of Doc Martin on ITV1.

  • Britain's Got Talent
    News

    ITV shares hold up despite pension problems

    2009-08-03T11:22:00Z

    ITV’s share price held up well today despite reports that the broadcaster’s pension deficit has surged to around £500m.

  • One Show
    News

    One Show given hour-long episode

    2009-08-03T11:05:00Z

    BBC1 is to show a 60-minute episode of The One Show each week from September after trialling the format back in May.

  • BBC
    News

    BBC reveals new local news plans

    2009-07-31T12:08:00Z

    The BBC is to overhaul its local TV and radio services as an alternative to its rejected proposal for on-demand local video news services.

  • premiership berbatov
    News

    ESPN team shapes up for new season

    2009-07-31T11:30:00Z

    Jon Champion, Mark Chapman and Kenny Dalglish’s daughter Kelly are joining ESPN as its commentary and presenting teams for the new season take shape.

  • hope springs4
    News

    Shed upbeat despite downturn

    2009-07-31T10:48:00Z

    Shed Media suffered a dip in global drama sales for the first half of 2009 but is still outperforming last year in terms of production revenues and pre-tax profit.