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NewsGraef picks up OBE
11.30am:Film-maker Roger Graef, the man behind ground-breaking fly-on-the-wall series such as Thames Valley Police, has been handed an OBE in the New Year's Honours List.
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NewsRebus attracts 8.4m
Rebusattracted an audience of 8.4 million (32.7%) last night in its latest stand-alone episode which saw Ken Stott take over from John Hannah as the detective in the ITV1 crime drama.
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NewsITV1's Poirot draws 7.4m
ITV1's Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Mystery of the Blue Train out-performed BBC1's screening of the Oscar-winning Chicago at 9pm on New Year's Day with 7.4 million (30.2%).
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NewsSky Movies to offer pin-protected movies
BSkyB is launching pin-protected movies during its daytime schedule, allowing viewers access to unedited 15-rated films such as The Day After Tomorrowand Layer Cake.
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NewsMilne slams BBC's lack of innovation
Former BBC director general Alasdair Milne has slammed the corporation's current performance on drama and comedy and says he sees 'little sense of innovation' in the modern BBC.
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NewsWoolfe to head Sky One
Living TV director of television Richard Woolfe has been appointed head of Sky One.
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NewsIWC hire bolsters BBC factual team
The BBC has poached IWC Media's director of contemporary factual programmes to join its new seven-strong line-up of commissioning executives.
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Thorogood departs ITV daytime
The shake-up in ITV's commissioning structure has claimed one of its first casualties - daytime editor Nick Thorogood.
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NewsITV eyes Jackson for Rosencrantz role
Granada America chief Paul Jackson has emerged as the favourite to replace ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz, who has quit the network after 10 years.
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NewsTinopolis axes TV Corp name
Tinopolis, the Welsh indie taking over Television Corporation, is hoping chief executive Peter Salmon and director of sport Jeff Foulser will stay on after its£36m reverse takeover is completed.
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NewsSky One brings in Living TV's Woolfe
Living TV director of television Richard Woolfe has secured the post of Sky One controller, replacing James Baker who has moved to head Sky Interactive.
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New year resolution
Steven D Wright looks forward to a bumper start to 2006 with a host of new commissioners.
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Generating the future
User-generated content will gradually eat away at the hegemony of conventional broadcasting, writes Stuart Cosgrove.
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Top 100 of 2005
Philip Reevell reflects on a year in which reality shows may have dominated the schedules but the big ratings stories were to be found in drama, with the triumphant return of Doctor Who, and in comedy, as Little Britaintook the ...
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Turkey to make own Nanny 911
Nanny 911 , Granada America's hit US reality format, is to be made into local versions in the Middle East and Turkey.
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NFL Network looks at UK launch
American football channel NFL Network is looking to launch in the UK.
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The Newsroom comes to the UK on FX
FX has picked up UK first-run rights for The Newsroom, winner of the 2005 International Emmy for best comedy series, from CBC Canada. The ensemble comedy is based in a TV news station run by Machiavellian news director George Findlay, played by Ken Finkleman, who ...
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GI poaches business affairs head from C4
Granada International has poached an executive from Channel 4 International to become its new head of business affairs. Alison Lee, a lawyer who has also worked at BBC Worldwide, will report to Granada International's director of business affairs, Helen Fox-Gladwell. She will oversee all sales and licensing deals and co-production ...
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September sells I Don't Like Mondays to US
September Films has concluded a slew of sales, including shifting its forthcoming Channel 4 documentary I Don't Like Mondaysto the US Discovery Channel. The 60-minute film has also been picked up by Discovery in France and Italy, TVNZ and the Netherlands' Talpa TV. Talpa has ...
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Format focus: Fountain of Youth
On the back of Beauty and the Geek, Ashton Kutcher's creative team returns with another reality format.