http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/ en-gb Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:00:00 UTC 60 A pilot study, published to mark International Women’s Day (8 March) and undertaken as part of C4’s leadership of the Cultural Diversity Network, also revealed that 54% of women on TV were aged 16 to 39, compared with 36% of men. The findings give context to the BBC’s appointment of… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-03-08/Report-twice-as-many-men-on-TV-as-women 2010-03-08 17:00:00 Everyone in TV production is under pressure to find and keep sustainable income - from channel heads to newcomers. But the dangers and opportunities that broadcasters and indies face are not directly applicable to freelance production staff, who make up a large part of their workforce. If the UK broadcast… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-03-08/Freelancers-can-look-beyond-traditional-TV 2010-03-08 12:27:00 Norman, presenting ITV’s full-year results, said reinventing the production arm was key to securing the commercial broadcaster’s future. He said: “Are we satisfied today with the shape and form of ITV Studios and the content pipeline we have? No, we are not. I think we need to regenerate that business.… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-03-04/ITV-Studios-set-for-cash-boost 2010-03-04 15:38:00 The BBC director general is meeting NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear and Bectu general secretary Gerry Morrissey at 11am. Thompson has pledged to keep any compulsory redundancies to a minimum and in an interview with Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight last night said then number of potential job losses was not… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-03-03/BBC-holds-crisis-talks-with-unions 2010-03-03 16:59:00 The channels have been rebranded as MTV Rocks, MTV Shows and MTV Classic respectively and are being broadcast from today, along with refreshed identities for existing brands MTV Base, MTV Dance and MTV Hits. All six stations have been given a design overhaul which includes new channel colours, on-screen graphics… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-03-01/MTV-rebrands-music-channels 2010-03-01 15:34:00 Woodhead’s ITV docs are part of a wider drive by ITV for signature films under the theme Visions of Britain. He has 40 years’ film-making experience and most recently made How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin for BBC4. ITV controller of popular factual Jo Clinton Davies outlined the plan at… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-02-25/Authored-docs-come-back-to-ITV 2010-02-25 16:43:00 Coulter, who has joined as director of the site, said he wanted to grow the site to become “the heart of where you find the best and most experienced people in the TV business”. Broadcasters, indies and other employers use Broadcast Freelancer to post job vacancies and search for suitable… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-02-18/Coulter-joins-Freelancer 2010-02-18 15:45:00 After more than a year of protracted negotiations, Matt Frei will front a week of coverage from the socialist state, including two days of live broadcasts from Havana on Thursday and Friday. The coverage will examine the realities of life inside Cuba as well as the impact of Barack Obama’s… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-02-16/BBC-News-to-broadcast-live-from-Cuba 2010-02-16 16:14:00 The Gadget Show Magazine will go on sale in April, initially as a one-off but with an eye to become a monthly title. It will feature contributions from the show’s presenting team of Jason Bradbury, Suzi Perry, Jon Bentley and Ortis Deeley. It will retail for £5 and will compete… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-02-12/Five-launches-Gadget-Show-magazine 2010-02-12 15:51:00 The sitcom, which originally aired on Friday nights for 10 series, has been a regular fixture on E4 since the show ended in 2004. On weekdays, repeats currently account for three hours of E4’s schedule, and four episodes air daily at weekends. Across all slots, the show has reached an… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-02-10/C4-to-drop-Friends 2010-02-10 16:41:00 The deal, which is yet to be finalised, would see Minogue and model boyfriend Kris Smith feature in a 6 x 60-minute reality series, similar to that of Katie Price’s What Katie Did Next. Broadcast understands the series, which will be a co-production between ITV Studios and Minogue’s agent Profile,… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-02-08/Dannii-Minogue-set-for-ITV2-series 2010-02-08 16:37:00 Celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo and Hollyoaks actor Stuart Manning killed the animal with a knife when they were left without meat during the reality series. Chief Inspector David Oshannessy, from the RSPCA, said ITV was fined 3,000 Australian dollars (£1,903) and will pay 2,576 dollars (£1,634) in costs. He said:… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-02-08/ITV-fined-for-rat-killing-Celebrity-episode 2010-02-08 16:36:00 Scottish Nationalist MP Angus MacNeil said Britain’s Really Disgusting Food: Fish - first broadcast by BBC3 last year and repeated on BBC1 last week - presented a “highly misleading and biased view of the fishing industry”. The programme saw investigator Alex Riley set out to find the “ultimate nasty fish… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-02-02/BBC-rapped-over-disgusting-food-show 2010-02-02 17:00:00 Steve Jones, who relocated to Australia early last year, has resurfaced as chief executive of Highwire Television. The Sydney-based indie, which opens next month, is a 50/50 joint venture between Australian production company Cordell Jigsaw and New Zealand’s largest indie South Pacific Pictures. All3Media is a partner in South Pacific… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-02-01/ExSky-commissioner-tops-Highwire 2010-02-01 17:14:00 C4 is facing courts costs “well in excess of £1 million” during the trial, which has been brought about by 30-year-old Matt Fiddes, a former bodyguard to Michael Jackson who was used in the documentary - The Jacksons Are Coming - as a local guide to the family. According to… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-01-29/C4-facing-1m-libel-action 2010-01-29 16:43:00 The regulator has also revealed that 1,318 viewers complained about Simon Cowell’s decision not to eliminate Jedward, but said it was powerless to intervene as the show clearly stated that the judge’s decision is final. Ofcom has however ruled that Channel TV, which complies the show on behalf of ITV1,… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-01-26/X-Factor-put-epileptics-at-risk 2010-01-26 10:14:00 C4 has also confirmed that Abraham will receive no long-term pay incentives as a condition of his employment. Duncan left the broadcaster in November, eight months after agreeing to cutting his salary to £580,000. At the time, he also waived half of the second instalment of a long-term incentive plan.… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-01-22/Abraham-set-for-490000-salary-at-C4 2010-01-22 15:35:00 In a provisional decision published this morning, the Competition Commission indicated that the scheme should only be expanded to include a HD and catch up channel, rather than undergo more radical changes. That finding was identical to the conclusion drawn by the panel four months ago, but a final decision… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-01-19/ITV-dealt-ad-blow-by-watchdog 2010-01-19 16:06:00 The BBC launched the younger-skewing online spin off last Friday (8 January) as a “naughty little brother” to the main EastEnders show. Each of the 12-episodes varies in length from four to 12 minutes and the series follows four new, teenage characters who move into Albert Square. So far there… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-01-18/EastEnders-spinoff-delivers-600000 2010-01-18 15:41:00 The communications and media giant indicated it is prepared to charge customers in the region of £15 a month for Sky Sports 1, around £10 less than its main competitors. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Gavin Patterson, chief executive of BT Retail, said: “The case is crystal clear… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-01-18/BT-take-on-Sky-in-sport-price-war 2010-01-18 15:40:00 Hill, presenter of the hugely popular TV Burp, regularly pulls in more than 7m viewers for the network on Saturday evenings. It’s understood that his current contract expires in the Spring and ITV is battling to work out a new deal. Broadcast reported in May last year that Sky 1… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-01-13/Harry-Hill-may-leave-ITV-for-Sky 2010-01-13 14:54:00 He said The X Factor, the show he created in Britain, will join TV station Fox’s schedule next year and he will be on it. The music mogul’s production company Syco is developing the US version, which plans to launch the talent show in autumn 2011. Cowell’s decision is the… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-01-12/Cowell-quits-American-Idol-for-US-X-Factor-launch 2010-01-12 12:48:00 The music broadcaster aired a 30-minute set, in which the Poker Face signer at one point exhorted the crowd to “put your hands up in the air and dance, you motherfuckers”, at 4pm in November. The music broadcaster blamed the broadcast on its Italian office, which produced and edited the… http://www.broadcastfreelancer.com/CareerTools/Broadcasting/2010-01-11/MTV-rapped-over-Lady-Gaga-swearing 2010-01-11 14:44:00