News: Ailing ITV must improve shows, says Grade
ITV’s executive chairman Michael Grade has warned that the broadcaster must focus on improving programmes, revealing that it had posted a 19% fall in pre-tax profit in the last year. The drop is in...
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Equity and B7 Productions have reached a deal providing contractual rights for performers in a podcast, in a UK first. The agreement, which the union believes may even be the first of its kind in the...
View ArticleNews: C4 breaks promise to air original drama every month
Channel 4 is reneging on its pledge to broadcast 12 single dramas a year, blaming the U-turn on a drop in budgets caused by an ailing advertising sector. The broadcaster had originally vowed to air one...
View ArticleNews: The Bill’s Ellison to star in ITV3 Agatha Christie tribute
Chris Ellison, best known as Detective Burnside in The Bill, is to make a one-off appearance in Agatha Christie hit The Mousetrap as part of an ITV3 weekend of programming, celebrating the whodunnit...
View ArticleNews: Piper to star as London prostitute in ITV2 drama
Billie Piper will star as the London call girl Belle du Jour in a television adaptation of the book, in one of ITV2′s first major drama commissions. The eight-part series, based on the popular diary of...
View ArticleNews: Maria scoops Royal Television Society Award
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? beat off competition from I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! and Friday Night Project to win the Royal Television Society Award for entertainment. The talent...
View ArticleNews: Costume designer Galer lambasts ‘arrogant’ TV producers
Bafta-winning costume designer Andrea Galer has lambasted programme makers for tightening budgets, warning that cutting them to save money is threatening the future of period productions. Galer, who...
View ArticleNews: Goldsmith advises struggling circus family, the Paulos, for C4 series
Harvey Goldsmith will re-invent one of Britain’s oldest circus families, the Paulos, as part of his Channel 4 series Get Your Act Together. For the past six months, the renowned promoter has been...
View ArticleNews: Screenwriter Abbott resumes assault on broadcasters with call for more...
Award-winning writer Paul Abbott has continued his pressure on broadcasters, with a demand they commission more single films on television. The outspoken creator of Channel 4′s hit series Shameless,...
View ArticleAnalysis & Opinion: Full of Eastern Promise
For the generation of the Cultural Revolution, performing arts in China arguably consisted of renditions of The East is Red, and variations on just eight model operas reinforcing communist state...
View ArticleAiling ITV must improve shows, says Grade
ITV's executive chairman Michael Grade has warned that the broadcaster must focus on improving programmes, revealing that it had posted a 19% fall in pre-tax profit in the last year.
View ArticleEquity wins rights for podcast performers
Equity and B7 Productions have reached a deal providing contractual rights for performers in a podcast, in a UK first.
View ArticleC4 breaks promise to air original drama every month
Channel 4 is reneging on its pledge to broadcast 12 single dramas a year, blaming the U-turn on a drop in budgets caused by an ailing advertising sector.
View ArticleThe Bill’s Ellison to star in ITV3 Agatha Christie tribute
Chris Ellison, best known as Detective Burnside in The Bill, is to make a one-off appearance in Agatha Christie hit The Mousetrap as part of an ITV3 weekend of programming, celebrating the whodunnit...
View ArticlePiper to star as London prostitute in ITV2 drama
Billie Piper will star as the London call girl Belle du Jour in a television adaptation of the book, in one of ITV2's first major drama commissions.
View ArticleMaria scoops Royal Television Society Award
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? beat off competition from I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and Friday Night Project to win the Royal Television Society Award for entertainment.
View ArticleCostume designer Galer lambasts ‘arrogant’ TV producers
Bafta-winning costume designer Andrea Galer has lambasted programme makers for tightening budgets, warning that cutting them to save money is threatening the future of period productions.
View ArticleGoldsmith advises struggling circus family, the Paulos, for C4 series
Harvey Goldsmith will re-invent one of Britain's oldest circus families, the Paulos, as part of his Channel 4 series Get Your Act Together.
View ArticleScreenwriter Abbott resumes assault on broadcasters with call for more TV films
Award-winning writer Paul Abbott has continued his pressure on broadcasters, with a demand they commission more single films on television.
View ArticleFull of Eastern Promise
Liz Thomas investigates whether British firms should be rushing to cash in on the boom in China's cultural sector
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