All articles by Matthew Campelli – Page 42
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The Broadcast Interview
Eamonn Matthews, Quicksilver Media
Matthews talks about finding the sweet spot between docs and current affairs in Unreported World
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STV reveals plans for local TV empire
STV has revealed more about its plan to build a local TV empire after bidding for three more licences in Scotland.
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Good Morning Britain fails to match Daybreak
ITV’s breakfast ratings have tumbled 13% year-on-year as Good Morning Britain struggles to establish itself for the commercial broadcaster.
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Amazon explains Ripper Street slot
Amazon Prime Instant Video has revealed that its customers still want to consume content in a traditional way, and restated that its doors remain open to pitches from UK indies.
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Red Planet Prize 2014 winners revealed
Red Planet Pictures has revealed the latest winners of its annual prize for aspiring writers.
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Strong starts for The Missing & Storage Hunters
TUESDAY: BBC1 drama The Missing got underway with 5.8m to comfortably win the 9pm slot, as Dave’s UK version of Storage Hunters locked up more than 1m viewers.
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Intruders spooks 950,000
MONDAY: BBC2 drama Intruders launched with less than a million viewers - as ITV2’s Release The Hounds bowed out with 383,000.
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Pact publishes anti-bribery guidelines
Pact has published a set of anti-bribery guidelines and warned producers who fail to comply could land unlimited fines or custodial sentences.
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Wire In The Blood adapted by Endemol
Classic ITV psychological crime drama Wire In The Blood is being adapted in the US by Endemol Studios for ABC.
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Midsomer Murders inducted into crime Hall of Fame
Midsomer Murders has become the first TV show inducted into the Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame as BBC1’s Happy Valley picked up two awards.
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Twofour's Educating... to return for fourth outing
Channel 4 has ordered a fourth series of Twofour’s fixed-rig classroom format Educating…
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Amazon schedules Ripper Street weekly
Amazon has opted to schedule Ripper Street, its first UK commission, in a regular weekly slot rather than follow the Netflix model of releasing the entire series all at once.
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Life Story falls short of Africa
THURSDAY: Sir David Attenborough’s Life Story failed to hit the heights of Africa for BBC1, as Channel 4’s Educating the East End bowed out with half of Educating Yorkshire’s audience.
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Pact revises data guidelines
Pact has updated its data protection and security guidelines for indies and broadcasters to include website cookies, location-based data and anonymisation.
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STV bids for three local licences
STV is bidding to increase its portfolio of local TV stations after submitting applications to Ofcom for the Aberdeen, Ayr and Dundee licences.
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ITV takes legal advice over Beat Bullying administration
ITV is taking legal advice after discovering a charity that received £700,000 from the broadcaster’s Text Santa appeal plans to use the donation to pay off its debts.
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C4 signs up Little Dot to create pilots for Shorts
All3Media digital company Little Dot Studios is to create a pilot a month for Channel 4’s online short-form video platform Shorts.
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ITV sets out comedy wishlist
ITV comedy commissioner Saskia Schuster wants to work with new writers as she bids to fill slots across the commercial broadcaster’s main channel and ITV2.
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Indies win major drama deals
Drama producers Rainmark Films and Archery Pictures have secured separate deals to produce series for ITV and Channel 4
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Ratings
You Can’t Get The Staff serves up 1.6m
TUESDAY: You Can’t Get The Staff served up an above-average audience of 1.6m for Channel 4, as the final run of BBC3’s Bad Education bowed out with an audience 25% smaller than its previous outing.