All Editorial articles – Page 18
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NewsMilitary History buys WW2 series
The Military History Channel is to screen new 10-part history series Britain at War after picking up the UK TV rights from Simply Media.
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NewsC4 asks: are you smarter than an 11-year-old?
Channel 4 plans to test the nation’s mathematics skills with a web game tied into a forthcoming edition of Dispatches.
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NewsC4 site to share birth stories
Channel 4 has launched a site featuring video feeds from 40 cameras fixed within maternity wards to support documentary series One Born Every Minute.
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NewsBBC2 re-orders comedy double
BBC2 has greenlit second runs of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle and Dave Gorman’s show Genius.
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NewsC4 to offer viewers a third Gok fix
Gok Wan is to re-team with fashion buyer Brix Smith-Start for a third series of Channel 4 series Gok’s Fashion Fix.
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NewsBBC4 doc vies with Avatar at green awards
A BBC4 documentary is to vie with James Cameron’s record-breaking movie Avatar for an environmental prize at the Cinema for Peace Awards next week.
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NewsCoraline creator to write for Doctor Who
Fantasy writer Neil Gaiman is working on his first major TV project in 15 years: an episode of Doctor Who.
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RatingsRamsay's US Cookalong dips on C4
Channel 4 had the post-Celebrity Big Brother blues on Friday night, with Gordon Ramsay’s latest attempts to get his audience cooking along attracting just 822,300 in a peak-time slot.
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RatingsLost dips below 1m in Friday slot
Sky 1 has been cut adrift after switching Lost to Friday nights for its final series, with audiences dipping below a million for the drama’s return.
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NewsC4 failed to curb reporting of libel case
Channel 4 and Studio Lambert unsuccessfully tried to secure an injunction to prevent reporting of a hearing into a libel action brought against a documentary, it has emerged.
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RatingsBBC2's Persuasionists nosedives in late slot
Critically-panned BBC2 sitcom The Persuasionists lost half of its already small audience last night after an eleventh-hour switch to a late night slot half way through its run.
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NewsEx-Sky exec joins LoveFilm
Former BSkyB director of channels and operations Lesley Mackenzie is to lead the digital strategy for DVD rental company LoveFilm.
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NewsRamsay takes flak over C4 India series
Channel 4’s Indian Winter season of programmes has split viewers, with almost 200 viewers weighing in to criticise the broadcaster’s decision to dispatch Gordon Ramsay and Kevin McCloud to report on the country.
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RatingsEmbarrassing Bodies reaches record high
Embarrassing Bodies had nothing to be shy about last night, with 3.6m viewers tuning in - its biggest audience to date.
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NewsEurosport HD comes to Virgin
Virgin Media has earmarked Eurosport as the next channel to offer an HD channel on its TV service.
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RatingsHolden's stunts no match for CSI
Five edged ahead of ITV1 at 9pm last night, with viewers voting the latest CSI case a more attractive prospect than Amanda Holden’s stint as a Hollywood stuntwoman.
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NewsJeff Henry launches TV links service
Former ITV consumer chief executive Jeff Henry has launched a new service that will provide web content linked to TV shows as they are broadcast.
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NewsMaverick lands £15m NHS web project
Embarrassing Bodies producer Maverick has won a five-year deal to build a broadband medical service offering advice to the public and healthcare staff in the Midlands.
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Chello picks up psychic triple for CBS Reality
Recently-launched entertainment channel CBS Reality has picked up three paranormal series featuring British mediums including Derek Acorah and Colin Fry.
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RatingsGlee brings more joy for E4
US teen comedy-drama Glee scored its best audience to date last night, with more than 1.3m (5.3%) offering a strong lead-in to new animated comedy The Cleveland Show.