All News articles – Page 1539
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NewsClarkson & co begin filming Amazon show
Jeremy Clarkson and his former Top Gear colleagues have begun filming their new series for Amazon, kicking off with a race between three of the world’s fastest supercars in Portugal.
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NewsPeople Just Do Nothing wins double order
BBC3 has ordered another two 6x30-minute series of Roughcut Television’s pirate radio mockumentary People Just Do Nothing.
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NewsPlimsoll finds Deadly Instincts for Nat Geo
Plimsoll Productions, the indie set up by former RDF boss Grant Mansfield, has won its first US commission, a six-part series for Nat Geo Wild.
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NewsCoba calls for external BBC governance
The BBC’s proposal to create a unitary board – with director general Tony Hall as chief executive – to oversee governance has been blasted by the pay-TV sector.
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NewsEastEnders hires first transgender actor
EastEnders has become the first UK soap to cast a transgender actor in a continuing role with the hire of 21-year-old Riley Carter Millington.
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NewsC5 orders UK-focused New Lives In The Wild
Ben Fogle is swapping the wilds of Asia and Alaska for adventures in Exmoor and the Welsh countryside in a revamped version of Channel 5’s New Lives In The Wild.
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NewsIn brief: Zeppotron; BBC Music; Vimeo
BBC2 is bringing back Zeppotron’s Let’s Play Darts, while Vimeo has unveiled its first slate of originals and the music industry has united to back the BBC.
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NewsITV orders Titchmarsh antiques gameshow
Alan Titchmarsh has signed up to present his first-ever gameshow – a competitive antiques format for ITV Daytime.
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NewsWhittingdale mulls regulatory boost for kids’ and current affairs
John Whittingdale has asked Ofcom to consider whether production sector regulation could be introduced that would promote investment in genres such as children’s and current affairs.
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NewsTrust: there is ‘extraordinary’ public support for BBC
The BBC Trust has found that there is an “extraordinary degree of popular support” for an independent and universal BBC - but has warned that the corporation must sharpen up its approach to distinctiveness.
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NewsBBC to fight Worldwide sell-off and top-slicing
The BBC will fight any government effort to privatise its commercial arm, or top-slice the licence fee, arguing that such decisions would be tantamount to reopening its July funding deal.
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NewsTV Critics: The Great British Bake Off; Doctor Foster; You, Me and the Apocalypse
“Bake Off is not just inclusive and reflective of our nation, it’s also just kind of nice. Maybe nice is the new nasty…”
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NewsRapid Pictures MDs become co-owners
Rapid Pictures joint managing directors Elouise Carden and Ben Plumb have become co-owners of the post facility alongside the company’s original founders.
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NewsWTS to relocate London sales office
Broadcast reseller and systems integrator WTS will move its London sales operation from its current Oxford Street location to new premises at New Zealand House on Haymarket.
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NewsSharp exits Vitec Videocom
Vitec Videocom’s senior vice president of product management and engineering Graham Sharp has left the company.
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NewsFrance 5 to air More 4 Charlie Hebdo doc
Ten Alps indie Films of Record has sold its hard-hitting More 4 documentary about the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris to French broadcaster France 5.
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NewsArqiva launches free-to-air channel YourTV for Fox
Arqiva has helped to launch Fox International Channels UK’s first free-to-air entertainment channel, YourTV.
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NewsFabric updates Engine development platform
Fabric Software has released Fabric Engine 2, the second generation of its development platform.
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NewsManchester's Space Project outlines expansion plans
Manchester’s The Space Project has revealed plans to create another 140,000 sq ft of production space.
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NewsRiedel deploys MetroN core router for Red Bull Air Race
Riedel Communications has contributed signal-distribution infrastructure to the Red Bull Air Race World Championships to support the capture of footage from cameras placed in each aircraft’s tail and cockpit.