All Editorial articles – Page 14
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NewsEndemol signs ex-Disney marketing chief
Endemol has hired Disney’s former international marketing chief to head up its own global marketing strategy.
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NewsFive HD to launch on Sky
Five has confirmed plans for an HD channel on Sky this summer – just days after ruling out launching one on Freeview on cost grounds.
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NewsTalpa and Shine Australia team up
John de Mol’s company Talpa is to bring its formats to Australia and New Zealand after forming a joint venture with Shine Australia.
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NewsVirgin waives HD fees
Virgin Media has revised its subscription packages to make HD available to all customers for no extra monthly charge.
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NewsFive's Police Interceptors gets third run
Five has recommissioned Raw Cut’s blue-light show Police Interceptors for a third series.
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NewsWatts named vice chair of Pact Council
The indie chief behind kids show Horrid Henry has been named as the new vice chair of the Pact Council.
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RatingsChannels sink below 3m in peak Friday slot
The five main channels struggled to reach 3m viewers at 9pm on Friday night, with C4 and BBC1 out in the lead and Five’s The Mentalist edging ahead of ITV1’s Michael Winner’s Dining Stars.
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NewsBBC criticised for buying US horror drama
The BBC should not have bid for US horror drama Harper’s Island, the Culture, Media and Sport select committee has claimed.
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NewsPublish full accounts, select committee tells C4
Channel 4’s refusal to publish its digital channels’ accounts and its conflicting messages over its plans for older children are at odds with its ambitions to become a public service network, a cross-party parliamentary committee has claimed.
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NewsSkins lines up third-generation cast
E4 has recommissioned Skins for a further two series – and is again auditioning for an entirely new cast.
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NewsSky hunts for 13-part dramas
Sky is on the look-out for 13-part returning drama series under plans to put a carve out greater territory in the genre.
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NewsBBC Vision multiplatform head quits
BBC Vision head of multiplatform products Lloyd Shepherd is to leave the BBC after nine months in the role.
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NewsTen Alps chief calls for online WoCC
The BBC’s Window of Creative Competition (WoCC) scheme should be extended online for the corporation’s planned strategic partnership with cultural institutions, Ten Alps chief executive Alex Connock has argued.
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NewsC4 to step up search for new doc faces
Channel 4 head of programmes Julian Bellamy has pledged to make a “nursery slope” for new factual presenters a key priority in his creative renewal of the channel.
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NewsHeston to work culinary magic on NHS for C4
Heston Blumenthal will attempt to raise the standards of hospital food as part of a Channel 4 series that builds on his earlier transformation of Little Chef.
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NewsC4 orders autism musical series
Autistic children will attempt to produce their own musical for the London stage in a forthcoming Channel 4 series.
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NewsBBC lines up more George Gently
The BBC has begun filming on two feature-length episodes of Inspector George Gently – the first to be filmed in north-east England.
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NewsSaturday Kitchen criticised for swearing - again
Ofcom has rapped BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen Live for broadcasting the f-word, months after escaping censure for a similar slip-up.
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NewsReport: twice as many men on TV as women
Men appear almost twice as much as women on TV, with factual programming and news the worst offenders, according to research ordered by Channel 4.A pilot study, published to mark International Women’s Day (8 March) and undertaken as part of C4’s leadership of the Cultural Diversity Network, also revealed that ...
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NewsFilm4 HD to launch exclusively on Virgin
Channel 4 is to launch its HD version of Film4 exclusively on Virgin Media this summer.