All Entertainment articles – Page 97
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NewsStrictly boss joins BBC Studios exodus
Strictly Come Dancing and Top Gear boss Katie Taylor has become the third senior BBC Studios executive to announce their departure in less than a week.
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NewsSteven D Wright joins Blumenfeld network
Steven D Wright has become the first producer to join Remy Blumenfeld and Justin Bodle’s fledgling production network.
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RatingsCan’t Touch This hits low
SATURDAY: Can’t Touch This reached its halfway mark with a series low audience, as Britain’s Got Talent continued to dominate.
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NewsC5 returns to comedy panel shows
Channel 5 is pushing further into entertainment with a comedy panel show fronted by Eamonn Holmes.
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NewsFremantleMedia backs Release The Hounds co-creators
The co-creators of horror gameshow Release the Hounds have joined forces to launch a genre-bending indie, backed by FremantleMedia.
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NewsMark Freeland to exit BBC
Mark Freeland is to leave the BBC and will not take up the post of head of scripted comedy and drama at BBC Studios when the new division launches tomorrow.
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RatingsBang on the Money loses ground to McIntyre
SATURDAY: Britain’s Got Talent remained steady after Bang on the Money lost ground to Michael McIntyre’s Big Show.
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NewsBBC3 orders ‘anarchic’ music format
BBC3 has commissioned a short-form music show from Greenbird-network indie Rumpus Media and Phil McIntyre Television.
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NewsMTV US commissions clutch of Brits
Barcroft Media and Done + Dusted have picked up major MTV US commissions, while the broadcaster is remaking ITV2’s The Almost Impossible Gameshow.
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RatingsBGT piles on 1.3m as Michael McIntyre launches solidly
SATURDAY: Britain’s Got Talent piled on 1.3m viewers without competition from The Voice UK, while Michael McIntyre’s Big Show outperformed the comedian’s previous outings for BBC1.
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NewsRed Bull orders adventure format
Red Bull TV has commissioned an adventure series from multiplatform producer Telegraph Hill in which teams will race across Europe using cans of the fizzy drink as their currency.
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NewsITV unveils Kevin Lygo’s top team
BBC drama controller Polly Hill, Optomen managing director Sue Murphy and ITV Studios’ Siobhan Greene have been confirmed as the star signings in ITV director of television Kevin Lygo’s new commissioning team.
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NewsSky cancels Bring The Noise
Sky 1 has cancelled music quiz Bring The Noise after a single series.
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The Broadcast InterviewCelia Taylor, Sky
Sky’s non-scripted boss talks to Peter White about flying dogs, why ‘funny factual’ is harder than it looks - and why she couldn’t turn down Renegade’s Don’t Tell The Bride
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NewsMike Darnell lifts lid on Little Big Shots
US television chief Mike Darnell has lifted the lid on Little Big Shots, the hit Warner Bros format that has been acquired by ITV, and argued that producers are finally beginning to harness the power of viral internet talent.
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RatingsDrive splutters for ITV
TUESDAY: Drive got off to a slow start as 2m viewers tuned in to watch the ITV format get underway.
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NewsITV swoops for Little Big Shots
ITV has swooped for the rights to Warner Bros’ hit US kids talent format Little Big Shots.
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RatingsFinal Saturday Night Takeaway demolishes The Voice
SATURDAY: Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway bowed out with its second lowest audience of the series, but it still thrashed the semi-final of The Voice UK.
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NewsSony's Gogglebox Entertainment to close
Mat Steiner and Adam Wood, founders of Release The Hounds producer Googlebox Entertainment, are to close their Sony-back indie and establish a new production venture.
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NewsITV to pilot Talpa’s The Wishing Tree
ITV is piloting its first Talpa format after acquiring John de Mol’s production business last year.