Broadcast Weekly Quiz #11

Q.1

Which producer has won the rights to adapt Oprah’s Book Club novel Deacon King Kong?

Company Pictures
Left Bank Pictures
Dancing Ledge Productions
Sister

Q.2

Which TV news anchor is turning his hand to podcasting?

Huw Edwards
Jon Snow
Mark Austin
Tom Bradby

Q.3

Paul Heaney is departing TCB Media Rights, but which year did he set up the factual distributor?

2010
2011
2012
2013

Q.4

Which Downton Abbey star is leading in a scripted podcast from Fremantle’s Storyglass division?

Hugh Bonneville
Jim Carter
Phyllis Logan
Joanne Froggatt

Q.5

BBC3 this week picked up a Drag Race version from which country?

Canada
Australia
South Africa
New Zealand

Q.6

Former Netflix documentary originals chief Diego Buñuel has been appointed director of programmes at which broadcaster?

Amazon
France Télévisions
Facebook
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen

Q.7

C4 deputy director of programmes Kelly Webb-Lamb hailed which programme this week as being a “great success for the channel"?

First Dates
Great British Bake Off
The Steph Show
The Circle

Q.8

Dancing Ledge Productions' drama series The Salisbury Poisonings averaged how many viewers across its three-parts this week, according to overnights.tv?

6.3m
6.4m
6.5m
6.6m

Q.9

The BBC this week invited all public service staff to apply for voluntary redundancy. How much money in savings is it seeking to hit by the end of 2020?

£125m
£130m
£135m
£140m

Q.10

Which indie is to follow the exploits of shop security guards in a six-part doc series for Channel 5?

Firecracker Films
Firecrest Films
Crackit Productions
Spun Gold TV