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Dom Joly For Saturday Night
ITV Show
Dom Joly is to return to television on Saturday nights this
October in a pre-X Factor slot apparently a replacement for Harry Hill's TV
Burp, the comedian has announced.
Joly will star in a new hidden-camera pranks show called Fool Britannia.
There will be eight episodes in the first series, he said.
"If you are in the UK you are now a legitimate target," he tweeted. "[It]
will never be as good as the superb TV Burp but [I] will give it my best."
Since Trigger Happy TV ended in 2003, Joly has presented various programmes
including the disastrous This Is Dom Joly for BBC3, the Trigger Happy clone
World Shut Your Mouth for BBC1 and, last year, a documentary about Tintin
for Channel 4 called Dom Joly and the Black Island.
January
23
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Former Doctor Who
Producer - Children's Drama
Former Doctor Who producer Russell T Davies, the man who
revitalised Doctor Who in 2005, is to return to the BBC with a children’s
drama, Aliens vs Wizards.
The 12-part series – co-created by Phil Ford (The Sarah Jane
Adventures, Doctor Who) – concerns two 16-year-old schoolboys. One is a
wizard. The other is a science prodigy. Together they must protect Earth
from the Nekross, an alien race who feed on those with magical powers.
Davies said: "The show's a wild, funny, thrilling and sometimes scary
collision of magic and science fiction.
"Wizards have never met aliens before, and when they do, the
result is spectacular. The mysterious Nekross know exactly what to do with
magicians. Eat them! Let battle be joined!”
Davies's previous work in children’s television includes Dark Season and
Children’s Ward. Aliens vs Wizards is expected to air on CBBC in autumn
2012.
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23
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Call The
Midwife Recommissioned
BBC One Controller, Danny Cohen, announced today that Call
The Midwife has been recommissioned for a second series.
Call The Midwife received 9.8 million viewers for its first episode last
week making it BBC One’s highest launch episode of a new drama on record.
With last night’s episode averaging a massive 8.6 million as audiences tuned
in to see Miranda Hart join the cast of nursing nuns.
Danny Cohen said: “Call The Midwife has had a huge impact with audiences.
It's a very high-quality drama series from a brilliant team. It manages to
be both hard-hitting and emotional, gritty and warm. I am already looking
forward to the second series.”
Ben Stephenson, Controller, BBC Drama Commissioning, added: "Call The
Midwife is a totally original mix of comedy, tears, babies and nuns and it
is fantastic to see this distinctive piece of British drama win such high
praise and ratings. We can’t wait for the team to return next year and are
very grateful to the vision of Jennifer Worth and Heidi Thomas."
January
23
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Frozen
Planet - No Ofcom Action
Ofcom has said it will not investigate complaints about BBC
programme Frozen Planet, after it aired footage of newborn polar bear cubs
filmed in an animal park, rather than in the wild.
The regulator said five people complained the show was misleading as they
had assumed the cubs were born and filmed in the Arctic.
The BBC said the filming was "standard practice" for natural history shows.
Ofcoim said "after careful assessment", it decided not to pursue the
programme as it "did not raise issues warranting investigation".
January
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ITV
Programme On IRA Misleading
Ofcom has ruled that ITV misled viewers by airing footage
claimed to have been shot by the IRA, which was actually material taken from
a video game.
A total of 26 people alerted the regulator, raising concerns over the
footage broadcast in Exposure: Gaddafi and the IRA, in September.
ITV apologised after the issue came to light, saying it was "an unfortunate
case of human error".
Ofcom said it was a "significant breach of audience trust".
The current affairs programme was investigating the financial and military
links between the former Libyan leader, Colonel Gaddafi, and the IRA.
During the documentary, footage labelled "IRA Film 1988" was shown,
described as film shot by the IRA of its members attempting to shoot down a
British Army helicopter in June 1988.
However, the pictures were actually taken from a game called ArmA 2.
ITV said the programme had intended to use footage of "a genuine incident"
which had been included in an episode of The Cook Report.
While trying to source "a better version" of the footage, the programme
director viewed footage from the internet which "he mistakenly believed...
to be a fuller version".
ITV said that "regrettably" the internet footage was not cross-checked and
verified by the production staff as being The Cook Report footage.
In another instance, footage of police clashing with rioters in Northern
Ireland was described as having taken place in July 2011. But viewers
complained to Ofcom that due to the type of police riot vehicles shown, the
footage must have been of an earlier riot.
ITV said although the incident referred to did happen, it admitted the
footage was not from July 2011.
It said the programme's director had requested the film from a local
historian who had supplied footage to broadcasters in the past and was
considered a trustworthy source, however due to a "miscommunication" between
the two parties, "the discrepancy... was not discovered".
ITV said the documentary had included footage intended to portray two real
events and apologised that in each case "the wrong footage" was used, adding
"mistakes were the result of human error and not an intention to mislead
viewers".
Finding ITV in breach of the broadcasting code, Ofcom said it was "greatly
concerned" the broadcaster failed to authenticate the two pieces of footage.
It said there were "significant and easily identifiable differences" between
The Cook Report footage and the footage taken from the video game and was
therefore "very surprised that the programme makers believed the footage of
the helicopter attack was authentic".
The regulator added it was also "not sufficient for a broadcaster or
programme maker to rely on footage provided by a third party source, on the
basis that that source had previously supplied other broadcasters with
archive footage".
"We take into account that ITV: apologised; removed the programme from its
catch-up video-on-demand service; and has now put in place various changes
to its compliance procedures to ensure such incidents do not happen in
future," Ofcom said.
"However, the viewers of this serious current affairs programme were misled
as to the nature of the material they were watching."
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Xtra Factor
Rapped By Ofcom
X Factor spin-off show The Xtra Factor has been rapped by
watchdog Ofcom for promoting host Olly Murs’ single and judge Tulisa
Contostavlos’s perfume.
The ITV2 show presented a feature about the perfume in October, three days
after the scent was launched.
Co-host Caroline Flack told viewers: “The Female Boss came out this week,
and I’ve been wearing it all day, by the way.”
Presenter Murs responded: “I wondered why you were smelling so nice” and
then told Contostavlos: “Your perfume isn’t the only thing that’s been
catching on.”
The presenters then mimicked Contostavlos’s Female Boss salute, which has
seen the N-Dubz star thrusting forward her right forearm as she walked on to
the X Factor stage, before showing photographs of viewers and celebrities
doing the same.
Ofcom said the programme was in breach of broadcasting guidelines on the
promotion of products, services and trademarks.
It said Murs “not only endorsed the product” but then observed that both
Contostavlos’s “perfume and her salute were ’catching on”’.
In November, the programme showed a viewer holding a hand-written note to
camera telling people to download Murs’ new single.
Murs and Flack also chatted about the single, as crew members held placards
stating “Dance With Me Tonight out now”.
The single played in the background and later, pop twins Jedward also made a
joke about it.
Ofcom said that “numerous audible and visual references were made to Olly
Murs’ single, and its release”.
It added: “The promotional messaging used on the placards and the extent and
cumulative effect of the references more generally to the single and its
release clearly promoted it, in breach of... the Code.”
The broadcaster said that the scripted references to the single “were in
keeping with the irreverent tone of the show”.
It said that there was editorial justification for mentioning the release
because of Murs’ role as Xtra Factor presenter and his past as an X Factor
contestant.
ITV also said that the reference to Contostavlos’s perfume was
“appropriately limited”.
Ofcom did not uphold a complaint that Contostavlos’s signature arm gesture
also breached rules by promoting her perfume.
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No Hacking At The
BBC
The BBC director general said today that there is "no
evidence whatsoever" that any BBC journalist has hacked into a telephone.
Mark Thompson gave evidence before the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics
being held in London.
He also said he had not heard any "rumour or whisper or suggestion" BBC
journalists had ever hacked phones.
The chairman of the BBC Trust, Chris Patten, is also appearing at the Royal
Courts of Justice.
Thompson said that he had ordered a wide-ranging review of
issues including whether staff at the BBC had engaged in phone hacking, made
improper payments to police and any use of private investigators, in the
wake of the emergence of phone hacking at the News of the World newspaper.
He described this review as "necessary and appropriate".
He added: "The BBC is not a business and it might well be that someone
running a media business might take a different view from the view that I
took as director general of the BBC.
"The BBC is a public service broadcaster. It is committed to be the most
trusted, trustworthy source of news in the world and we want to maintain the
highest possible standards in all matters, including matters relating to
privacy."
Thompson said the BBC had not made any improper payments to police officers.
He explained that when police officers appeared on the Crimewatch television
programme, they were sometimes given a "very small payment" as contributors.
The director general also said private investigators were sometimes used by
BBC for "security and surveillance services as a whole".
Investigators had also occasionally been used to find people featured in BBC
content, so they could be given a right of reply, he added.
The inquiry heard that between January 2005 and July 2011, the BBC spent
£310,000 on 232 instances when private investigators were used - of which
news accounted for 43 occasions, at a cost of £174,500, with the rest for TV
programmes.
Thompson was asked about an occasion when the BBC hired a private
investigator to discover the owner of a car through its number plate.
He said that at the time of the investigation "many organisations had access
to DVLA information," including private investigators, and that the
inquiries made were in the public interest.
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