The wild bunch

Article Abstract:

Television programme commissioning editors in the UK are keen to place more emphasis on natural history programming. Natural history is now taking up a larger share of production activity at Discovery Networks, according to Chris Haws, vice-president of commissions, co-productions and productions. Anglia Survival executive producer Petra Regent is producing a series of one-hour natural history features for ITV, while the BBC Natural History Unit has been involved in a number of high profile projects, according to Alastair Fothergill, its head.

Motion picture & video production, Motion Picture and Video Production, TV Program Production, Television programs, Portrayals, Television direction, Television production, Natural history

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Crunch time

Article Abstract:

Speculation has been renewed that failing cable and satellite TV channels may be axed because of the lack of analogue capacity. BSkyB has confirmed that it is closing its Sky 2 entertainment channel at the end of August 1997 because there is not enough room for it to launch its National Geographic Channel planned for Sep 1, 1997. Granada Sky Broadcasting is axing its Talk TV channel, which will be replaced by sports channel Sports Club. The advent of digital TV is said to be driving the reorganisation of the analogue sector.

Digital television

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The politics of taste

Article Abstract:

The UK's Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC) and Broadcasting Standards Council (BSC) are set to merge in Apr 1997 under the terms of the Broadcasting Bill. Most observers have welcomed this move, believing that it is best to reduce the number of regulatory bodies in operation. However, it may be that the two organisations cause more harm as a united body than they did when they were separate. Both have received considerable criticism, and some people feel that they should both be abolished altogether.

United Kingdom. Broadcasting Standards Commission

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