All Factual articles – Page 289
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NewsMeirion Jones to leave the BBC
Meirion Jones, one half of the investigation team behind Newsnight’s dropped Jimmy Savile story, is to leave the BBC.
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NewsC4 holds Immigration Street talks with Southampton Council
Channel 4’s head of documentaries Nick Mirsky will travel to Southampton today to tackle the local council’s concerns over upcoming series Immigration Street.
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NewsDiscovery hunts True Detective-style formats
US cable network Discovery Channel is hunting for True Detective-inspired factual crime series as part of a drive to grow its female audience.
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NewsTern hires Lion Scotland creative director
Tern TV has hired Andrew Snowball, the creative director of Lion Scotland, to the newly created role of director of features and popular factual.
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NewsI'm A Celebrity co-creator hired as ITN Prods factual chief
I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! co-creator Will Smith has been appointed as ITN Productions’ head of factual.
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NewsSmithsonian orders Nutopia invention doc
US cable network Smithsonian has ordered documentary series My Million Dollar Invention from Jane Root’s Nutopia.
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NewsTom Giles handed new BBC role
Former Panorama editor Tom Giles has left BBC News to become a specialist factual producer at BBC Productions, Broadcast understands.
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Behind The ScenesThe Secret Life of Four Year Olds, C4
When we started filming a group of four year-olds, we had no idea what it would teach us, says Teresa Watkins.
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NewsBBC factual plan in spotlight
Sweeping changes to the BBC’s factual commissioning team came as a “massive shock” to insiders and are likely to result in the departure of some of the corporation’s highest-profile commissioners.
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RatingsAuschwitz doc moves 1.2m
TUESDAY: BBC2’s documentary Touched By Auschwitz fell just short of the channel’s slot average on Holocaust Memorial Day.
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CommentComment: Fixed-rig is evolving fast
What next for the genre Dragonfly started with The Family in 2008, asks Sarah Swingler
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CommentHolocaust: Night Will Fall
Holocaust film-makers didn’t flinch from the truth, says Ralph Lee
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RatingsAngry, White and Proud doubles C4 slot average
WEDNESDAY: Channel 4 doubled its slot average with English far right documentary Angry, White and Proud.
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RatingsTomorrow’s Worlds transports 700,000
SATURDAY: Tomorrow’s Worlds bowed out with an average of almost 700,000 on BBC2 as Strictly Come Dancing beat The X Factor by almost 1.5m viewers.
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RatingsC5's The Railway returns with 760k
THURSDAY: Channel 5’s ob-doc The Railway: First Great Western returned 200k shy of its first series, while The Fall, I’m A Celebrity and Babylon all remained steady.
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RatingsWild Weather whips up 2.8m
MONDAY: Richard Hammond’s exploration of wild weather failed to hold off the headwind from I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!.
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RatingsMartin Lewis banks 500k fewer viewers for ITV
FRIDAY: Martin Lewis returned to ITV with more money-saving tips but 500,000 fewer viewers, as Ben Fogle gained viewers on Channel 5.
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RatingsLife Story bows out on low
THURSDAY: David Attenborough’s BBC1 wildlife series Life Story bowed with its worst ratings of the series.
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NewsFormats due ‘next big wave’
Come Dine With Me creator Nell Butler has called on broadcasters to replicate UKTV’s Formats Lab scheme to inspire the next generation of formatted programmes.