All ITV articles – Page 187
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Fox to remake Broadchurch for US
US network Fox is to remake Kudos’ hit ITV crime drama Broadchurch.
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ITV indie deals to yield £100m
ITV’s indie acquisition spree is set to boost its turnover by as much as £100m this year as it bids to become a serious global player in the production sector.
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Rory Kinnear plays Lord Lucan for ITV
ITV has confirmed that Jeff Pope is to pen a major biopic on Lord Lucan, the playboy aristocrat who vanished in the 1970s after his children’s nanny was murdered.
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ITV4 bags Duck Dynasty
ITV4 has picked up Duck Dynasty - the hit US show made by the broadcaster’s recently acquired US indie Gurney Productions.
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DCMS to abolish retransmission fees
The government plans to abolish retransmission fees and has set out plans to preserve the prominence of PSB broadcasters in a wide-ranging policy paper.
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ITVS revenues hit £395m to offset ad decline
ITV’s production arm grew by over 10% in the first half of the year to head off a fall in advertising revenue and help the company’s pre-tax profits leap to £270m.
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DCMS aims to protect PSB content on digital platforms
The DCMS will set out measures to protect the prominence of PSBs on new content platforms in the long-awaited Communications Act strategy paper this week.
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ITV buys Big Talk for £12.5m
ITV has acquired Rev and Friday Night Dinner indie Big Talk Productions outright for an initial cash payment of up to £12.5m.
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Hall demands answers over Fincham’s BBC payoff
BBC director general Tony Hall has asked for a detailed account of the circumstances surrounding a reported £500,000 payoff to former BBC1 boss Peter Fincham.
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NUJ slams ITV regional news cuts
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has launched a scathing attack on ITV’s plans to cut its regional news coverage - branding the move a “major blow to public broadcasting”.
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Ofcom agrees ITV news shake-up
ITV’s regional news output is to be radically overhauled after Ofcom agreed renewed terms for the Channel 3 and Channel 5 licences until 2025.
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Jonathan Ross Show returns in 2014
Jonathan Ross will present another two series of his ITV chat show after extending his deal with the commercial broadcaster by a year.
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ITV returns to Wall to Wall for human interest formats
ITV is hoping to build on returning factual brand Long Lost Family with two new human-interest shows from Wall to Wall Television.
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Tulisa agent calls for committee to investigate Sun sting
Tulisa Contostavlos’ agent is calling for MP John Whittinghale, chairman of the culture, media and sport select committee, to investigate The Sun after the former The X Factor judge was the subject of a sting by the paper.
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John Kaye Cooper to leave ITV at end of the year
John Kaye Cooper’s long-standing association with ITV is to come to end after the entertainment commissioner decided to go freelance.
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Sky Arts to air enhanced South Bank Show archive
Sky Arts has signed a deal with ITV to dive into the back catalogue of The South Bank Show as it looks to showcase classic episodes of the show alongside its new series.
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Anjem Choudary interviews to be probed
Ofcom has launched an investigation into whether Anjem Choudary’s appearance on Newsnight, Daybreak and Channel 4 News following Drummer Lee Rigby’s murder was editorially justified.
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Critics
TV Critics: The Zoo, Horizon: The Truth About Personality, The Apprentice
“The work of the zoo’s vets could have filled the entire programme and wouldn’t have been as lacklustre as the animal footage.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Pact and ITV agree on retrospective VoD payments for indies
ITV and Pact have agreed how much indies will earn for their shows having appeared on ITV Player over the past two years, in a deal that could form the basis for future VoD agreements.
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ITV eyes takeover of Scandi super-indie
ITV is reportedly weighing up a £90m takeover of a Scandinavian super-indie Nice Entertainment Group.