All articles by Kate McMahon – Page 27
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RatingsMurray nets 4.5m for BBC2
BBC2 served up 4.5m viewers last night to cheer on homegrown Wimbledon hopeful Andy Murray as he blasted his way into the next round of the grand slam event.
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NewsThunderbirds creator fighting to reclaim rights from ITV
Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson has made a public plea to ITV bosses to return the rights to his iconic 60s puppet show, after being locked in a legal battle.
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ITN puts 64 Setanta News staff into consultation
ITN’s 64 employees contracted to make Setanta Sports News have all been placed under consultation following the sports broadcaster falling into administration.
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RatingsViewers lose appetite for Supersizers
BBC2 food series Supersizers Eat… lost half a million viewers last night as Sue Perkins and Giles Coren went medieval.
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RatingsBBC scores ace at Wimbledon
The BBC’s coverage of Wimbledon got off to a good start yesterday, with respectable figures across the day for BBC1 and BBC2.
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RatingsTop Gear's May boosts BBC4
The Top Gear factor boosted BBC4 last night, with documentary James May at the Edge of Space drawing an average audience of 455,000 – a share of 2.71% – at 10pm.
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Ratings4.3m check in to Hotel Babylon
BBC1 had 4.3m visitors to London’s Hotel Babylon at 9pm on Friday night – a share of 20.1% – edging out ITV1’s Cornish drama Doc Martin.
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RatingsTop Gear’s Stig revealed to 7m
BBC2 juggernaut Top Gear was back with a bang last night as 7m tuned in to see Ferrari-legend Michael Schumacher ‘unveiled’ as the Stig - an audience share of 30%.
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NewsiPlayer guru honoured at Broadcast Digital Awards
BBC future media controller Anthony Rose was honoured with the Individual Achievement Award for his “ground-breaking” work on the BBC iPlayer at last night’s Broadcast’s Digital Awards.
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RatingsTake that! Martina Cole drama lands 661,000
Sky 1’s East-End gangland drama Martina Cole’s The Take made a killer start last night, roping in an average audience of 661,000 – a share of 3.7% - over the double episode launch.
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NewsTalkback unveils Scottish unit with Hole in the Wall order
Talkback Thames is to open a new production base in Glasgow, headed by BBC Scotland’s former creative director of arts and factual entertainment May Miller, and has bagged a second run of BBC1’s Hole in the Wall as its first commission.
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NewsIndies vie for a place on news consortia scheme
Indies and broadcasters are already jostling to take part in the three independent news consortia pilot schemes, proposed in the Digital Britain report, which will provide regional news on ITV1.
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NewsCelebrity life-share leads ITV2’s autumn schedule
Actress Scarlett Johansson will invite Fearne Cotton to experience her Hollywood lifestyle in a shadow-a-celebrity series for ITV2 this autumn.
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NewsC4 sends producer Wild for sole survivor doc
Channel 4 will cross a frontier in survival programming by dropping a TV producer into the Canadian wilderness for 12 weeks with just a camera and a backpack.
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NewsTen Alps in move to tap Asian content market
Super-indie Ten Alps is finalising plans to set up a base in Asia after ruling out plans to buy any more UK producers.
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NewsITV could charge for on-demand content service
ITV is planning to levy small charges to view on-demand content beyond the standard seven-day catch-up window in a bid to boost revenues.
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Living goes around Britain with Hasselhoff
David Hasselhoff will sleep in a haunted castle, row with the Oxford blues and sail a long boat down the canals of Britain in six-part special for Living.
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FeaturesGoogle: search for a working relationship
Critics brand it a parasite, but it can also offer access to an online audience of billions. So should the production community treat Google as a friend or foe?
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ITV regional news to be funded by BBC licence fee
DIGITAL BRITAIN: ITV will be allowed to reduce its public service obligations in the lead up to digital switchover, and the government will ring-fence a portion of the BBC licence fee to pay for its regional news programming.
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NewsX Factor auditions go live
The X Factor is to get a Britain’s Got Talent-style makeover, with auditions to be held in front of a live audience for the first time.