Contract negotiations with the BBC broke down when the corporation reportedly wouldn't match Channel 4's offer.
The shock announcement was followed by the news that presenters Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc would not be following the show after it left BBC One. Star judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood have not yet confirmed if they will stay with the production.
This is your chance to meet the NHU face to face; view excerpts from and discuss their latest visual feast, 'Life in the Air'; and find out more about wildlife film-making by putting questions to some of their most experienced producers on anything from innovative shooting techniques and specialist equipment to their approach to ethical issues and social media.
This conference will consider the portrayal of poverty on television; it is being held by the BBC, The Royal Television Society, NCVO and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Who Benefits? will be chaired by BBC Breakfast presenter, Louise Minchin. We'll be looking at some of the reality TV and documentary programmes that have been made in poorer communities: what they are, how they are made, and why audiences watch them.
From drumsticks to diary entries, new BBC Four series the People’s History of Pop (PHOP) will look at the evolution of music through the eyes of its fans.
The series will be split into four episodes, to air throughout 2016, each focusing on a different decade of pop history.
In an industry first, production company 7 Wonder is working with Historypin, a user-generated digital archive of historical artefacts, to collate music memorabilia from fans across the country.
Campbell Swinton was one of Scotland’s pioneers of television technology whose legacy RTS continues to celebrate with a series of high level lectures. The last two speakers were then SNP leader Alex Salmond and BBC Scotland Director Ken MacQuarrie.
Rising above the political fray in Westminster and Holyrood, Claire Enders will explain the purpose and foundations of the PSB system of producing and commissioning news and current affairs, quality entertainment and documentaries, sustained by the BBC, C4, ITV, STV and C5.
The challenges of a shifting TV landscape will be discussed by television executives at this year's RTS Cambridge Convention, chaired by BBC Director-General Tony Hall.
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The first series introduced viewers to Pierpoint & Co, a leading investment bank that expects nothing less than perfection from its employees. A crop of young starters have to do everything they can to stay ahead.
As if the work wasn’t enough, there’s also the lifestyle. The drugs, sex and drinking prove just as demanding as the never-ending office hours.
Series three will see Pierpoint put everything on so-called ethical investing. Part of their strategy involves Sir Henry Muck (Kit Harington, Game of Thrones), a major player in green energy.
On paper, it shouldn’t work. The show is set in a seedy boarding house run by a bigoted, sexually frustrated, resentful man who looks like he rarely washes or changes clothes. His wife has left him, and he is a fantasist who makes up stories of heroic wartime deeds. He treats his boarders with contempt, apart from the one he’s hopelessly in love with – college administrator Ruth, played by Frances de la Tour, later known to millions from the Harry Potter films.
RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Alan Carr and Graham Norton will all be returning to judge, but as always, they will need some celebs to give them a helping hand.
Alexandra Burke has caught the Drag Race bug after taking part in a Snatch Game last series (Snatch Game is a mock game show where the queens compete in character as an iconic celebrity), and will now be joining the show as the queens’ vocal coach. Her services will be required in iconic challenges such as the Ru-sical and the Girl Group Challenge.
Written, produced and led by Coel, First Day on Earth will follow Henri (Coel), a British novelist in a severe rut. When she is offered a job on a film in Ghana, West Africa sounds like the perfect escape from her dead-end relationship and lack of writing work. What’s more, her estranged father lives in the country, and she’s hoping that she can reconnect with him and her heritage.
