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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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The Frost Report
With a career that spans over 40 years, Sir David Frost is one of broadcasting's best-known figures. Lisa Campbell turns the tables on the doyen of interviewers to find out his views on risk-taking TV and how to get politicians to open up.
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Salmon's new waters
Unimpressed by the prospect of moving to Manchester, BBC head of sport Peter Salmon is taking the opportunity to jo...
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Naming or shaming?
Will a Channel 4 Comedy Lab strand prove to be empowering or merely encourage insults to be hurled at the disabled?
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Sounding off: state of audio
With so many claims on a television production's budget, audio is often squeezed or overlooked in post-production b...
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The Beeb's political operator
Sue Inglish's wide-ranging CV has given her a commercial advantage - and a particular boost in her new role as head...
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Credit where it's due
Producers' alliance Pact has been accused of turning a blind eye to employee exploitation by independent production...
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Height of TV manners
Even TV has an etiquette code. So if you plan on going far in your television career, you'd better take note, says Daisy Goodwin.
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NewsWinners and losers in Q1
In spite of ITV's improved financial performance, ITV1 is the biggest share loser in the first quarter of 2005, with multichannel the biggest gainer, boosted by all the Freeview boxes given as Christmas presents. By Philip Reevell.
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No DG, no comment
Greg Dyke insists he would have done things differently at the BBC, but his comments exist only in the realm of theory, writes Conor Dignam, Editor
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NewsAll3Media lines up bid for Mersey TV
All3Media is set to buy Hollyoaksproducer Mersey Television in a deal which could be the final acquisition by the group.
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News'There is no alternative'
BBC director general Mark Thompson has revealed that around 500 staff have already sought information about taking voluntary redundancy, but warned compulsory redundancies may still be necessary.
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NewsTV election news drives away viewers
TV news coverage of the general election is proving a turn-off for viewers - with both the BBC and ITV seeing a drop in audiences for news programmes since the election campaign began.