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Ex-Tonight producer moves to Sky News
Sky News has poached Granada factual executive Gideon Joseph to help launch its new studios and evening schedule later this year. A former producer on ITV1's Tonight with Trevor McDonald, he helped secure exclusive interviews with Michael J Fox, Tony Blair and the Williams sisters. He ...
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Turner creates healthy eating cartoon
Turner Broadcasting has created an animation series aimed at getting children to eat better. Elfy Foodis a six-part series featuring cartoon elves who use healthy food as weapons to combat evil monsters. It has been developed in consultation with Ofcom and the Food Standards Agency and ...
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Playboy hires Juke to head content
Playboy TV UK has appointed former Enteraction director of programmes Richard Jukes to fill the newly created position of head of content. He will oversee the strategy, development, and management of all programming and on-air content produced by Playboy TV UK. He will also look after content for European feeds ...
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Rajar puts half a million into testing
Rajar is ploughing an extra£500,000 into tests that aim to modernise the current method of measuring radio audiences. It will begin 12 weeks of national fieldwork tests on 6 June, using pager-style devices from research groups Arbitron and Eurisko. Investment in the project now stands at£2m. TV research body Barb ...
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Turning off the election
No wonder the public isn't following the election closely, argues Michael White, there's too much coverage through too many outlets by a media that's far too self-important
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Prescott criticises BBC over Iraq war bias
The BBC is facing complaints from both major parties over its election coverage in the final week before polling day.
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Five to air Sky election show
Sky News has been given its first terrestrial window for its general election coverage after agreeing to simulcast the results on Five.
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Frost criticises interview style
Sir David Frost has joined the list of people criticising interviewers' aggressive treatment of politicians as a 'disservice' to the electorate.
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C4 buys superplane test flight doc
Factual producer Darlow Smithson is making a 120-minute documentary about the world's biggest airliner, which took its maiden test flight this week. Channel 4's commissioning editor for documentaries, Simon Dickson, has ordered World's Biggest Airliner: Building the Airbus A380. The documentary is being executive produced by ...
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BBC Worldwide and HBO in comedy deal
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal with HBO to co-produce Ricky Gervais's new comedy series Extras. The deal will see the six-part series aired on HBO, as well as being broadcast on BBC2 over the summer. The show is written by co-creators of ...
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Street-Porter fronts royal special
Janet Street-Porter is fronting a film for Sky One, in which she gives a critique of the British royal family. Janet Saves the Monarchywill feature former royal butler Paul Burrell, former press secretary to Prince Charles Mark Bolland and former editor of the ...
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Ofcom PSB thinker goes it alone
Ofcom's leading thinker on public service broadcasting is to leave to become an independent consultant after one final project for the regulator. Robin Foster, the strategy and marketing developments partner who put together Ofcom's -pivotal PSB review, will spend six months from July looking at how to cut red tape ...
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Autocue international in administration
Autocue International, the company that owns the 50-year old Autocue prompting system, has gone into administration and could be sold within weeks. Administrators Ernst & Young LLP said it was currently
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Hat Trick and IWC Media call off merger talks
Hat Trick and IWC Media have ended merger discussions following a number of exploratory talks.
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NewsPEER POLL: Pact
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Could Pact do more to address freelance discontent?
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NewsMuppets set for TV comeback
Disney is bringing The Muppetsback to TV in a new series reported to be in the early stages of production.
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NewsRDF valued at£48.8m
RDF Media has been valued at£48.8m in the run up to the company's initial public offering on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) on 4 May.
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NewsFBC owner bids for super indie status
Fact Based Communications (FBC), the company which last year bought indie Diverse, is looking to buy another one or two indies this year.
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NewsStrong start for ITV3
ITV3 has been the most successfully launched digital channel on record, but has still failed to make much impact on the overall share for the ITV family of channels, new Barb figures reveal.
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NewsBBC hits back over Prescott complaint
The BBC has hit back at accusations of bias by deputy prime minister John Prescott, criticising the Labour party for refusing to supply senior party interviewees.