All PSBs articles – Page 43
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Ratings
Fortitude frozen out
The second episode of Sky Atlantic’s Fortitude achieved just 69,000/0.2% on Thursday at 9pm, its lowest overnight ever.
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News
Kids TV lobbyists warn sector faces 'extinction'
A group of peers have called on Ofcom to be handed powers to demand the public service broadcasters commission more original children’s content.
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History lesson boosts BBC4
BBC4’s British History’s Biggest Fibs With Lucy Worsely delivered the best performance of the PSB digital channels with 1.1 million.
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Bleak return for Fortitude
Sky Atlantic’s Scandinavian drama returned but struggled to just 275,000 viewers, less than a third of series one’s launch episode in 2015.
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Comment
PSBs must open up their platforms
If TV is to thrive in the digital era, broadcasters need to take bold steps, says Nick Walters
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Features
Redefining children’s TV
Do the likes of Child Genius, Gogglesprogs and the Educating… strand fulfil C4’s PSB remit or do they represent a ‘get out of jail free’ card for the broadcaster?
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News
CITV shake-up in spotlight
The loss of a dedicated children’s commissioner in last year’s restructure is a concern for producers in the genre, but ITV insists it’s business as usual.
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Features
Boost for kids’ production
A government plan to give children’s programming a share of a contestable funding pot has met with cautious optimism, but questions remain over how it will work.
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The Broadcast Interview
Sarah Muller, C5
Channel 5’s new head of children’s Sarah Muller speaks to Ann-Marie Corvin about improving its digital offering, working with Viacom - and finding the next Peppa Pig
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The Broadcast Interview
25 years of Later… With Jools Holland
The team reflect on its inauspicious start and the reasons for its longevity
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News
Positive return for Salvage Hunters
There must be quite a lot of salvage still around as Quest’s Salvage Hunters returned on Wednesday with pleasing results. Elsewhere, Gold’s comedians-watching-comedy show – a sort of Gigglebox – failed to strike a resounding chord.
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Ratings
Delicious delights Sky 1
This week, Sky 1 sent its resident ex-cricketer off to fricassee some Australian meats, but this wasn’t the most delicious fare on the channel’s menu.
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Sky 1 drama tastes success
The second episode of Sky 1’s drama series Delicious achieved 562,000/3%, fractionally ahead of episode one on 30 December (552,000/3%) after 29 December’s sneak 3am preview (150,000/12%).
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Legends of Tomorrow rescues Sky
With hands on hips, cloaked, lycra-swathed and leather-clad superheroes got together this week to save the ratings of tomorrow’s legends on Thursday and it worked.
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Last-ditch win seals it for Sky
Football produced some of the best drama as Bournemouth fans knocked over their cocoa, leaping out of their bathchairs at an unlikely win.
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News
Ofcom sets out BBC regulatory position
Ofcom has warned the BBC not to expect “special treatment” when it takes over regulation of the broadcaster in April 2017.
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News
Animation industry lobbies Downing St
UK Animation chief Oli Hyatt has made an impassioned plea for the government to step up its support of the sector at 10 Downing Street.
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News
Damazer: BBC chair must not interfere with editorial
BBC Trustee Mark Damazer has warned the government not to appoint a chair of the BBC’s new unitary board who may be ‘tempted’ to intervene in editorial decisions.
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Ratings
Sky's robots outgun pope
It can’t be long before some writer coming down with a fever in their freezing garret dreams up the idea of having Lenny The Pope wander into the artificial Wild West. After a few weeks on Sky Atlantic, it’s clear who’d win that particular gunfight at the corral.