All Drama articles – Page 247
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Marks & Spencer opens doors to C4
Marks & Spencer is to throw open its doors to Channel 4 as part of a slate of shows which includes a drama from the producers of Line of Duty and the return of SAS: Who Dares Wins.
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Downton Abbey series finale grips almost 11m
Downton Abbey reeled in a consolidated audience of almost 11m viewers for the climax of its final series – its biggest audience since the penultimate episode of last year’s run.
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Kaboul Kitchen among Walter Presents acquisitions
Channel 4-backed digital service Walter Presents has acquired a new wave of foreign-language films including controversial French comedy Kaboul Kitchen.
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BBC boosts writers pay by 2%
The BBC has increased all minimum pay rates for BBC TV drama and scripted comedy writers by 2%.
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Unforgotten secures second series
ITV has ordered a second series of Mainstreet Pictures crime drama Unforgotten.
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The Last Panthers unable to assault Fortitude
THURSDAY: The Last Panthers launched with an audience which almost doubled Sky Atlantic’s slot average – but struggled to outperform the opener of Fortitude.
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More entertaining changes ahead
Sky is playing for high stakes drama, while entertainment is key for ITV
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Sky strikes first pan-regional deal with HBO
Sky has extended its long-running deal with HBO to cover all five of its European territories and increase the volume of associated digital rights.
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Kudos absorbs Lovely Day & Shine Pictures
Lovely Day and Shine Pictures are to become absorbed into Kudos following Diederick Santer’s appointment as joint chief executive officer of the Broadchurch producer.
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Downton series finale draws 9m
SUNDAY: The final series of Downton Abbey bowed out with its biggest audience for two years, as Strictly Come Dancing rose to another high.
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How Downton put UK back on the map
Period drama’s legacy will be that it made the world sit up and take notice of British scripted shows, says Gareth Neame
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BBC TV braced for £30m cuts
The BBC’s television division has been tasked with making cuts of up to £30m in 2017/18 as the corporation bids to close the £150m funding gap created by the iPlayer loophole.
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Mark Billingham lands second BBC1 adaptation
Mark Billingham’s crime novel In The Dark is to be adapted into a four-part “darkly funny” drama for BBC1.
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Polly Hill: celebrate British drama
Polly Hill has suggested that the UK is “too British” about celebrating drama success stories, as she hailed the genre’s role in making the case for the BBC’s future.
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Standalone drama stories in demand
Drama executives from ITV, Channel 4 and Sky have issued a call for contemporary stories, as well as episodic, ‘story-ofthe- week’ series.
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Drama bosses hunt episodic shows
Drama executives from ITV, Channel 4 and Sky have issued a call for contemporary stories, as well as episodic, ‘story-of-the-week’ style series.
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BBC drama boss hits back at ITV
BBC drama controller Polly Hill has labelled ITV’s attack last week on the corporation’s distinctiveness as “extraordinary”.
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NBC to remake ITV 'event' drama
ITV drama Collision, which aired in 2009, is being developed for NBC in the States by Eleventh Hour Films.
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Doctor Foster to return to BBC1
BBC1 has ordered a second series of Doctor Foster and handed Jane Tranter’s indie its first commission.