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Remarkable co-MD gets Endemol Shine UK post
Endemol Shine UK has promoted one of the managing directors of subsidiary prodco Remarkable Television…
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Boundless replaces BBC-bound Holland
FremantleMedia UK producer Boundless has appointed a managing director to replace Patrick Holland, who is…
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BBC Trust hits out over licence fee deal
The head of the BBC Trust has hit out over the way the recent licence…
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Profit down at BBC Worldwide post-AMC deal
Profit and revenue have declined at BBC Worldwide in the wake of the sale of…
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Airey, Highfield, Mahon join BBC review panel
UK culture secretary John Whittingdale has appointed an eight-strong panel to advise the government ahead…
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BBC, NRK buy citizens festival special
Pubcasters in the UK and Norway have acquired a special of the 2015 Global Citizens…
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BBC licence deal ‘bad for children’s TV’
The Children’s Media Foundation, a UK advocacy group, says the license fee agreement hammered out…
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BBC weighs original family films in BBC3 hours
The BBC is considering making original family films to fill extra hours that could be…
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Forde upped as Tranter exits BBC Worldwide Prods
Matt Forde (below) has been promoted at BBC Worldwide North America after the company confirmed…
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Confirmed: BBC to foot licence fee bill for over-75s
The UK government has ordered public broadcaster the BBC will foot a £600 million (US$929.4…
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Fifth of BBC budget ‘to go in licence fee plan’
UK pubcaster the BBC could see around a fifth of its budget wiped away when…
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Aussie SVOD platform adds BBC docs
Australian on-demand platform Presto has acquired several documentaries from BBC Worldwide’s local Australasian arm. The…
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BBC to cut 1,000 jobs
The BBC will cut more than 1,000 jobs as the UK pubcaster aims to reduce…
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‘PSBs investing less in UK content’
Investment in UK-originated content has decreased in recent years, but satisfaction with public service channels…
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Endemol Shine boss: M&A is no problem
Endemol Shine Group president Tim Hincks has defended the current wave of mergers and acquisitions…
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Trust agrees to BBC Three closure
Youth channel BBC Three will go online only after the body that oversees the UK…
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Discovery wins US$1.45bn Olympics
The International Olympic Committee has awarded all TV and multiplatform broadcasting rights across Europe to…
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CBeebies goes to The Farm
UK preschool channel CBeebies has commissioned a five-part series about farming featuring former boyband star…
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BBC Three factual exec lands new post
BBC Three documentaries executive Sam Bickley has landed a post at Samantha Anstiss’s production division…
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BBC says licence fee has ’10 years left’
The BBC licence fee model has got “10 years life in it”, according to director…
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BBC Trust: BBC quota system ‘not sustainable’
The BBC’s governing body has ruled that the UK pubcaster’s current production quota system is…
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Chris Evans takes Clarkson’s Top Gear post
Chris Evans will succeed Jeremy Clarkson as presenter of the BBC’s money-spinning petrol-head fact-ent series…
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ITV Studios indie poaches BBC producer
ITV Studios-owned factual prodco Shiver has poached Richard Hastings from BBC Entertainment. Hastings (pictured) will…
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Industry unites behind BBC Three
Actors, writers, producers, managers and agents have united to call on the UK pubcaster the…
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Gordon replaces Medina at BBC Worldwide
Anna Gordon has stepped up to the executive VP post at BBC Worldwide Latin America…
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EE and BBC trial 4G broadcast
UK mobile operator EE carried out a successful live 4G broadcast trial during the FA…
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BBC claims 308m weekly global reach
The BBC has a combined weekly global audience of 308 million people across its news…
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ITV Studios to bring BBC’s 5 Star Reunion to market
UK pubcaster the BBC has ordered a new Saturday night entertainment series, 5 Star Family…
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BBC preps six new iPlayer pilots
The BBC will launch six new online comedy pilots on the iPlayer as part of…
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BBC Worldwide officially closes Global iPlayer
The BBC’s commercial arm will officially end the BBC Global iPlayer on-demand platform within the…