All Drama articles – Page 259
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RatingsFire blasts Coronation Street to 12 month high
THURSDAY: A fire on Coronation Street helped the soap to its highest audience in a year as Channel 4 beat BBC1 in the 9pm slot.
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NewsSky Europe to centralise US acquisitions
Sky is to centralise the acquisition of big-budget US drama and comedy across its three main territories for the first time.
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RatingsNo Offence slips to 1.3m
TUESDAY: Channel 4 drama No Offence hit its midway point with 1.3m viewers, while Britain’s Got Talent shed 700,000 from last night’s opener.
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NewsITV orders Winston Churchill biopic
Sir Michael Gambon is to take on the role of Winston Churchill for an ITV drama based on his second tenure as prime minister.
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NewsITV ends interest in The Weinstein Company
ITV has ended its interest in a deal to buy the TV arm of The Weinstein Company (TWC).
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RatingsJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell loses 2m
SUNDAY: Almost 2m viewers vanished for the second episode of BBC1’s big budget drama Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
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NewsGrand Theft Auto developer takes legal action over BBC drama
Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games has begun legal proceedings against the BBC over the corporation’s feature-length drama which tells the story of the controversial video game.
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NewsBBC1 orders WW2 Northern Irish drama
Ballykissangel writer Barry Devlin has penned a pre-watershed drama set in Northern Ireland during World War Two for BBC1.
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NewsRTE drama to explore Easter Uprising
RTÉ head of drama Jane Gogan has ordered a drama series about the 1916 Easter Uprising from Zodiak Media-owned indie Touchpaper Television.
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NewsEaling Studios acquires GreenAcre stake
Ealing Studios has acquired a significant stake in TV and film company GreenAcre Films and plans to forge a new creative partnership with the company.
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NewsLA Screenings: James Patterson eyes TV adaptations
James Patterson is priming his crime thriller The Postcard Killers for development as a Scandinavian TV show as the author aims to secure more adaptations.
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NewsDave plots move into drama
Dave will move into drama as parent company UKTV prepares to turbocharge the channel with a 70% increase in its budget.
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NewsITV looks beyond Downton Abbey
ITV has taken a major step into the post-Downton era by ordering three high-end dramas that it hopes will ease the departure of the country house smash.
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NewsLA Screenings: the hottest shows
Rain fell in a dull and dreary Los Angeles in May for the first time in many years, but the 2015 LA Screenings began brightly, with British buyers buzzing over a batch of new shows.
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NewsOfcom clears UKIP drama
Ofcom has rejected 6,000 complaints about Raw TV’s Channel 4 drama, UKIP: The First 100 Days.
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RatingsBBC4 drama 1864 underway with 640k
SATURDAY: Britain’s Got Talent continued to smash the competition for ITV as Danish drama 1864 got underway on BBC4 with 640,000.
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NewsITV lines up Queen Victoria drama from Mammoth Screen
Former Silver River head Daisy Goodwin is to make her screenwriting debut with a Queen Victoria biopic for ITV.
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NewsBBC1 orders Sally Wainwright film on Brontë family
Bafta-winning Happy Valley writer Sally Wainwright will write and direct a 1 x 120 minutes film about the Brontë sisters to air on BBC1 next year.
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RatingsJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell spooks 4.5m
SUNDAY: BBC1 drama Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell spirited up an audience of 4.5m, but was edged out by ITV’s Home Fires.