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JOHN WILLIS IN CALL FOR AUTHORED DOCS.
BBC director of factual and learning John Willis has called for less homogenised television and more
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AUCTIONWORLD FOLDS WITH DEBTS OF£14M.
Teleshopping channel Auctionworld has gone into administration with debts of around£14m. The station went off
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Sony Pictures looks at stake in Shine.
Sony Pictures Television International has held informal talks with Elisabeth Murdoch's indie, Shine, about buying a stake in the indie, writes Colin Robertson.
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Comment - Best in the world.
Despite the soul-searching, we'll all be misty-eyed about the current era of British television in a few years' time, writes Conor Dignam, Editor.
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Duncan bids for licence fee.
Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan has called for direct access to the licence fee and
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Bazalgette gains global brief.
Endemol UK chairman Peter Bazalgette has become the indie's global head of creative operations as part of a move by Spanish owner Telefónica to shift power from the Big Brother creator's Dutch base to Britain, writes Maria Esposito.
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All3Media launches German TV offshoot.
All3Media is to further expand its international clout by launching a TV production company in Germany, writes Paul Revoir.
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Heggessey bullish over Young drama.
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has defended a controversial decision to allow drama chief Mal Young to take a major new series he was working on with him to 19TV, which he joins in January, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Off the record - Spoof Mark Thompson email.
This is the spoof email doing the rounds at the BBC purporting to be from the
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BBC set to cut 250 jobs with factual merger.
The BBC's specialist factual and documentaries and contemporary factual departments - homes to shows such as Pompeii and What Not to Wear - are set to merge, in a move that could cost at least 250 jobs, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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ITV launches 'Strictly Ice-Skating' show.
ITV is to take on the BBC with its own ice-skating show and has signed the king and queen of the ice rink, Torvill and Dean, to front it, writes Paul Revoir.
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Five gets£17m boost to budget.
Five director of programmes Dan Chambers has been handed a£17m budget boost to strengthen the
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Race for the PSP prize
It's interesting to speculate what Ofcom's proposed public service publisher (PSP) could look like. Perhaps it might be an offshoot of Channel 4, with a brand name of E5 and run by Roly Keating out of Birmingham. Perhaps a mobile phone giant could run it. Perhaps its proposed budget of£300m ...
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Allen's new ITV passion
ITV's regional strategy is under scrutiny as plans to pull out of non-news programming threaten to overshadow a£40m investment in news. Broadcast headed to Maidstone to ask ITV chief executive Charles Allen how deep his commitment to news really goes.
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Shine to follow final legal hunt
Members of Britain's oldest hunt have given permission for cameras to follow them as they take part in what could be the final season of the blood-sport following its banning by Parliament last week.
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CiTV presentation moves to Manchester
ITV is moving its CiTV presentation department from Birmingham to Manchester early next year.
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Five orders more Extraordinary People
Five is bringing back its science strand Extraordinary People with four documentaries about people with unusual abilities or medical conditions.
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ITV1 looks at ?changing' stars
ITV has commissioned RDF Media to make a series that will attempt to uncover which celebrities have had cosmetic surgery.
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C4 to air more one-off drama
Channel 4 plans to increase its single drama output by screening one feature-length special each month.
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C4 takes Touchpaper series
Touchpaper TV, the indie behind Channel 4's recent transatlantic series NY-LON , has bagged another C4 order with a political thriller.