Features
Ratings: Thursday, 10th October 2013 - we all want to redesign our brains
Seven cuts through the 30% barrier, chewing on Nine's organs for energy, while the ABC gains from cheap tat to…
BBC Worldwide: major ramp-up of factual co-production spend
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the public broadcaster, has ended its long-term co-production deal with Discovery and announced a…
MIPCOM 2013: Big Brain data to rule us all
László Kriston, swirling from train to plane to festival to market across the Northern Hemisphere, stares out the window at…
Antenna: exhausted director tells all
The Antenna International Documentary Festival went seriously well, so founder David Rokach has no reason to fear a probing conversation…
John Landis: from triumph to tragedy in a fedora
The Melbourne Festival has scored an exclusive cinematic coup with zany American director John Landis. It may bend his brain.
Ratings: Tuesday, 1st October 2013
Seven up 3.5% to 36.3% for the evening, Nine down 1.3%, Ten down 1.3% as del, SBS stable. The figures…
MIPJunior 2013: Aussie kids fare growing like Topsy
Our correspondent László Kriston limbers up for MIPCOM by working through the antipodean offerings at MIPJunior. He sees a particularly…
Ratings: Tuesday, 8th October 2013
Ten reaches vainly for 20%, Seven misses 35% by a whisker, Nine dips below 25%, ABC beaten by Ten, SBS…
MIPJunior 2013: hearts, smarts and farts
Picture a bunch of execs talking about making children laugh. Picture our correspondent László Kriston keeping a straight face as…
MIPJunior 2013: your youngest VOD-consumers are 15 months old, but the parents pay for the content
The ubiquity of television even in a baby’s life is overwhelming. Before they can talk, infants are habitually tapping the…