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Endemol drops out of Big Breakfast race
Big Brother producer says it has 'really hot idea' but show is too expensive
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Jowell to publish 'digital action plan'
Media secretary promises plan to drive digital take-up as she admits industry faces 'challenging timetable' for analogue switch-off
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New BBC digital radio stations get mixed reception
Commercial radio outfits welcome boost to digital but express competition concerns as consortium of commercial TV companies abandons plans to seek judicial review
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NewsTwoFour hires I'm a Celebrity producer
Cruise with Steliosproducer TwoFour has hired ITV producer Simon Horne to spearhead a push into quiz show development.
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ITV1 deadline set for digital satellite launch
Carlton channels chief Clive Jones says channel will begin broadcasting on digital satellite by the end of November 'come hell or high water'
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RTS Cambridge 2001
Television's big hitters gathered in Cambridge last weekend despite events in the United States and the withdrawal of the convention's 'dream ticket' BSkyB chairman Rupert Murdoch and Liberty chief John Malone. Despite this delegates debated many of the c
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NTL acts to calm investor nerves
Cable company forced into action for second time in three months after shares crash to new low in New York
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New BBC London News service to launch
BBC London News , the BBC's revamped regional news service for the capital, will go live on 1 October.The service is part of a tri-media operation based at the corporation's broadcasting
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Flextech orders motor-heavy raft for Bravo and UK Horizons
Flextech has announced details of six new series for its wholly owned men's channel Bravo and its BBC joint-venture UK Horizons.Bravo channel editor Matthew Paice has ordered three series including 15
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Chrysalis to make history of TV doc
Channel 4 has commissioned a three-part series from Chrysalis Entertainment that will attempt to deliver the 'definitive history of television show business in Britain', writes Simon ElleryOrdered by commissioning editor factual
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NewsRacial equality group keeps eye on Big Brother
The Commission for Racial Equality has labelled recent events in Celebrity Big Brotheras an 'interesting reflection' on today's society. The comments come after Ofcom was inundated with 14,500 complaints from viewers over the treatment of contestant Shilpa Shetty by other housemates.
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Morrissey signed up for CyberDodo series
Former Men Behaving Badly star and voice of Bob the Builder Neil Morrissey has been signed up to do the voiceover of a new kids series being supported by the World
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The History Channel to commemorate WWII
Indie Flashback TV has been commissioned by The History Channel US to produce another 6 x 60-minutes of Battle Stations, a series looking at the men and machines that made a
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Music special event to be screened on C4
Splinter Films has bagged a commission to produce a one-hour special on Emap and Qmagazine's forthcoming Q15 event at London's Scala nightclub.The event, which was staged over two nights
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Carlton to show escape from London series
Freeform Productions has been commissioned by Carlton head of regional programmes Emma Barker to produce new factual series A House in the Country.The 10 x 30-minute series will air in
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Mentorn sells Robot Wars to Germany
Mentorn International has sold Robot Warsto RTL in Germany for a 30-episode run beginning on RTL2 on 14 October.The series will air in a Sunday primetime slot and is
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Star musician and quiz show series for NI
Belfast-based production company Green Inc Productions has been commissioned to produce two new series for BBC Northern Ireland.In the joint commission, BBC Northern Ireland head of broadcast Tim Cooke and
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Two new series for CBBC Autumn line-up
CBBC controller Nigel Pickard has ordered two new series for BBC 1's autumn line-up, writes Leigh HolmwoodDrama I Was a Rat was adapted from a children's book by Philip Pullman and
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NewsHazlitt appointed MD of GCap
Former Virgin Radio chief executive Fru Hazlitt has joined GCap Media as managing director of GCap London, giving her responsibility for Capital Radio and Choice FM.
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Homer Economics
It takes up to a year to make one episode of The Simpsons, but at $3m a show it's still a relatively cheap programme to produce