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ITV appoints two
ITV has bolstered the management team on its digital channels with two appointments. Paramount Comedy Channel planning and research manager Adam Collings has joined as programme strategy manager for ITV channels, working across ITV2 and ITV3. ITV content research group manager Mark Sammon has been made schedule strategy manager, ITV ...
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Homechoice add-on
Homechoice, the broadband television platform, has signed a deal with BSkyB for its sports and movie channels to join its platform for the first time. Homechoice, which at the moment is only available in London, had 3,500 subscribers at the last count in April. In the deal, Sky Sports ...
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Endemol in court over Champ show
Mark Burnett, the British producer behind reality show Survivor , has challenged Endemol to a bout in the US courts over rival reality boxing shows. Burnett, who is producing The Contender with Dreamworks for US network NBC, has called on ...
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Parkinson snares Hollywood stars
Titanic star Kate Winslet, Denzel Washington and The Office creator Ricky Gervais have been added to the list of guests for Michael Parkinson's new Saturday night ITV1 chat-show, which kicks off in September. The show has already confirmed Tom ...
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Snoddy in line for current affairs show
The former media editor of The Times , Ray Snoddy, has been confirmed as the host of the BBC's new comment programme in which executives will have to answer viewers' complaints on its news and current affairs output. The weekly ...
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Hutton journalist to talk at Edinburgh
Andrew Gilligan, the former Today programme journalist at the heart of the recent Hutton inquiry, is to give a lecture on broadcast journalism at next week's Edinburgh TV festival. Meanwhile, new Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan is to make his first major appearance at ...
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MTV to broadcast Busted's US assault
MTV is producing a documentary following the pop band Busted's efforts to crack the American market. The broadcaster, which this week sent its cameras to the US with the band to trail them for the next 10 weeks, is producing the six-part series America or Busted as a joint venture ...
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NewsLygo handed£20m for C4 content push
Channel 4 director of television Kevin Lygo has been handed an extra£20m to plough into drama, comedy and current affairs.
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NewsTV crews call on US military
News broadcasters this week called on the US military to protect their correspondents in the Iraqi city of Najaf.
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NewsRadio chiefs top 2004 Rich List
Radio chiefs have scored well on this year's Broadcast Rich List, with the fast growth of Saga Radio helping the De Haan brothers secure the number one slot.
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NewsGranada drops junior Eurovision
Granada has pulled out of a deal to produce this year's Junior Eurovision Song Contest , causing the competition to be moved from the UK to Norway.
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NewsCelador ordered to pay out£1m
Celador has been ordered to pay $1.75m (£1m) to the former Indonesian producer of its Who Wants to be a Millionaire? following a court case earlier this year.
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Talkback streets ahead with Beeny
Channel 4 will make over an entire street as part of an ambitious new series from Talkback.
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BBC1 buys new lesbian novel
The new lesbian-themed novel from the author of Tipping the Velvet , which was made into a controversial and top-rating BBC2 series, is to be adapted for BBC1.
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NewsInquiry date put back
The BBC has prolonged its investigation into alleged expenses abuses by creative director Alan Yentob, which is now not expected to conclude the inquiry until September.
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C4 strengthens comedy
Channel 4 has filled two holes in its commissioning team with appointments to the comedy and entertainment departments.
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C4 tracks plight of wannabe mums
Channel 4 is to follow the attempts of 35 women to get pregnant in an ambitious documentary project about late motherhood.
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OK! and Granada in tie-up
Granada has revived its relationship with OK! magazine with a new celebrity awards show for ITV.
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NewsITV knocks The Block off peak slot
ITV has decided to pull its ailing DIY reality show The Block out of peaktime.
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NewsC4 returns to River Cottage
Channel 4 is to revisit organic expert Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on his farm in rural Dorset with a new series of reality hit River Cottage.