BEGINS an announcement involving BBC Worldwide and the Glasgow-based independent TV production company, Hello Halo: “BBC Worldwide has announced Svalbard (working title), a docu soap, coming to the BBC Earth global channel network next year.
“In Svalbard, audiences will meet a host of intriguing characters who prove that it takes tremendous personality to live in one of the most extreme places on earth.
“Viewers will be taken into a world of cinematic landscapes to meet the residents of the northernmost town on the planet.
“The 10 x 48 original commission will be produced by Glasgow-based indie, Hello Halo, for the Unplugged strand on BBC Earth and will be distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide.”
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THE website, Scottish Legal News, carries a report on the issue of journalists potentially being spied upon, under terrorism legislation.
Read it, here.
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BEGINS golf writer, Martin Dempster, in The Scotsman: “The BBC has pulled the plug on its contract for golf’s Open Championship 12 months early, meaning next year’s event at Royal Troon will now become the first Claret Jug contest to be broadcast by Sky Sports.
“After an association with the BBC spanning six decades, live coverage of the sport’s oldest major was due to switch to the subscription broadcaster in 2017 following a five-year deal announced in February that was reported to be worth £15 million per year to the St Andrews-based R&A.”
Read more, here.
The story is reported elsewhere, including here, in The Herald.
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AND The National begins: “Jeremy Corbyn was last night accused of ‘avoiding scrutiny’ by the Fourth Estate and ‘top-down media management’ when he refused to call a press conference allowing a range of newspaper journalists to interview him today during his first visit to Scotland since being elected Labour leader.
“Following a photocall being planned with Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale in front of Holyrood, his aides said he would meet with three selected writers whose stories could be passed on to rivals on other publications. Such a ‘pooling’ protocol is more usually reserved by reporters and photographers covering Royal engagements.”
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