All News articles – Page 5403
-
News
Low BBC 3 and 4 budgets a blow for indies.
The BBC's plans to launch BBC 3 and 4 this year are being supported by minimal programme budgets, writes Lucy Rouse.
-
News
NEWS CORP SELLS TM3.
News Corp is selling out of the German broadcast market by handing over its TM3 channel to the Kirch Media Group. As a result of the deal, News Corp's German subsidiary
-
News
Friends holds up for E4 but Sky One beats ER.
Channel 4's new digital entertainment channel, E4, and Sky One locked horns last week in their first, and much anticipated, ratings skirmish, writes Jon Rogers.
-
News
C4 and Smith balk over Tory sell-off proposals.
Channel 4 and media secretary Chris Smith have hit out at Tory plans to sell off the broadcaster if the party wins the next general election, write Ashley Davies and John Lewis.
-
News
C4 unveils major history commissions for peaktime.
Channel 4 is to air a four-part season of primetime history programmes about the 17th century later this year.Head of history, arts and religion Janice Hadlow described the commissions as an
-
News
CNN to lose 400 US jobs.
CNN has confirmed it is to axe around 400 jobs in the US, following the news channel's global review, writes Simon Ellery.
-
News
RTL wins court row over C5 film deal.
RTL Group won a Christmas-time High Court battle against fellow Channel 5 shareholder United Business Media to plough more money into C5 programming, it has emerged.The two companies were involved in
-
News
ITV DISTRIBUTORS AFTER TEMPTATION ISLAND.
Carlton International and Granada International are among a number of distributors seeking to secure the rights to controversial reality format Temptation Island. The two ITV companies are both said to be
-
News
FREE TO AIR - Here comes Suburban TV.
The scheduling of the main evening news bulletins on ITV and BBC 1 has become, for most people, almost as boring as having to watch them.To hear the respective sides smarming
-
News
TX - Nero's alchemists.
Seventh Art Productions sets out to dispel the myth that Nero fiddled while Rome burned in this Timewatch documentary by ambitiously reconstructing the extravagant Domus Aurea, the Golden House that the
-
News
Alibi in post for Safe House drama.
Alibi Productions has gone into post-production on a 2 x 75-minute thriller for ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott, writes Ashley Davies.
-
News
RATINGS ANALYSIS - What's on the breakfast menu?
The BBC reformatted Breakfast News and GMTV changed its sofa, yet early morning TV for the two main channels has again reached an impasse, with C4's The Big Breakfast still mopping up youth viewers. Adrian Edwards reports.
-
News
ANALYSIS SPECIAL - BBC unveils proposed new services.
The BBC's plans in full and in its own words, plus the DCMS test criteria.
-
News
Televirtual makes animation breakthrough.
Televirtual, the creator of Channel 4's Karaoke Fishtank virtual presenter, has developed a system that enables multiple animated characters to interact in real time.The PC-based system, which Televirtual founder Tim Child
-
News
Interactive firms take new approach.
Interactive television with the emphasis on television is the message Sony Digital Interactive Broadband Services (DiBs) and Entranet are pushing as they separately unveiled interactive television programming ideas, writes Barbara Marshall.
-
News
OFF THE RECORD - Testcard art draws a crowd.
OTR has been inundated with desperate correspondence after mentioning the exhibition of testcard paintings coming up from David McKeran. Thousands of you begged to know where and when it was happening.
-
News
AVID UPS NEWS STAKE.
Avid Technology has bought the outstanding 50 per cent of joint-venture news automation company iNews from partner Grass Valley Group. Although neither partner was prepared to comment on the value of
-
News
DAME JUDI WINS AWARD.
Dame Judi Dench has won the Golden Globe award for best actress in a film for her performance in the BBC, HBO and Working Title co-production The Last of the Blonde
-
News
BRADLEY AWARD GIVEN.
BBC Radio 4 has awarded The Alfred Bradley Bursary to Salford writer Pam Leeson, for her play There's Me, David, Chelsea, Charlotte, Scott and Bianca. Leeson has been awarded a R4
-
News
Twenty Twenty axes TV veteran Woolwich.
Current affairs veteran Paul Woolwich was ousted from his directorship of Twenty Twenty Television in an emergency board meeting on Monday night (22 January), writes Ashley Davies.