Friday’s “New BBC DG, new commissions for BBC1, BBC3, Channel 4 and E4, and UKTV’s extra Freeview slot” news

Happy 49th birthday to Doctor Who!

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UK TV

  • Tony Hall is the new BBC DG
  • BBC1 commissions What Remains, The Escape Artist, The Great Train Robbery, Happy Valley, By Any Means and more Inspector George Gently
  • BBC3 commissions Way To Go
  • Channel 4 orders third series of Fresh Meat
  • E4 orders third series of PhoneShop
  • UKTV gets an extra Freeview slot

US TV

Author

  • Rob Buckley

    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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