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Chorion promotes
Chorion, owner of children's characters such as Noddy, has promoted finance director Jeremy Banks to the newly created role of commercial director. The move follows Chorion's recent acquisition of the Mr Men brand from the family of the late Roger Hargreaves, creator of the characters, as well as a spate ...
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BBC investigates Saudi shootings
The BBC has begun its own investigation into the gun attack in Saudi Arabia that left a freelance cameraman dead and seriously injured its security correspondent Frank Gardner.
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Tributes for cameraman killed in action
Tributes poured in this week for cameraman Simon Cumbers, who was gunned down in Saudi Arabia this week while working for the BBC.
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C4 chooses 12 indies for funding scheme
Twelve regional indies are to be given cash to hire new staff as part of a Channel 4-funded scheme, writes Glen Mutel.
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Morris leaves C4 to focus on writing career
Channel 4 commissioning editor, comedy Iain Morris is to leave the broadcaster to devote more of his time to writing, writes Glen Mutel.
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Glover for celador
Celador has hired Lin Glover in the new role of head of radio development. Glover, who has been consulting for many of the major radio groups, will focus on the new FM licences and develop a new strategy for Celador's interests in radio broadcast. As well as consulting for radio ...
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Panorama IRA special
BBC1's flagship current affairs strand Panorama is to screen an edition of BBC Northern Ireland's current affairs strand Spotlight in one of its slots for the first time. The Superdollar special, which originally aired in Northern Ireland in March, traces counterfeit $100 bills from North Korea to an Official IRA ...
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Virgin drops Djs
Virgin Radio has dropped DJ Daryl Denham and Jezza, the host of its daily Confessions show. Jezza - Jeremy Kyle - who has presented the daily Virgin Confessions phone-in show from 22.00 to 01.00 for two years, has agreed to step down. But Denham, who was shifted into the weekend ...
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Pact ethnic survey
Producers' alliance Pact is launching a survey into the success of ethnic minority-led production companies. Pact will first gather data from every independent producer in the UK to establish a benchmark of 'success'. It will then survey ethnic minority-led production companies to see how their achievements match up to the ...
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NewsMurdoch moves to take on Freeview
BSkyb chief executive James Murdoch this week unveiled plans for a 200-channel free-to-air digital satellite package in a dramatic departure from Sky's pay-TV business model.
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NewsITV drops kids channel plan
ITV has scrapped launching a digital kids channel and now plans to open up its schedule to Nickelodeon or Disney in return for a CITV branded slot on their channels.
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NewsFive gets Zara exclusive
Royal rebel Zara Phillips has given her first televised interview to Five, revealing all to newsreader Kirsty Young.
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NewsTrisha indie may lead to exit from ITV
TV's chat show stalwart Trisha Goddard could leave the network after deciding to launch her own indie.
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NewsInquiry to clear BBC news
an internal BBC review is to declare that its editorial news systems are in need of no major overhaul, despite criticism from Lord Hutton that they were 'defective'.
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New DG to appear before MPs
Incoming BBC director general Mark Thompson will make his first parliamentary defence of the corporation just three weeks after taking up the post when he presents the corporation's annual report to the media select committee.
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ITV axes Planet Wild and The Lab
ITV has axed two of its factual production arms - closing former Carlton operation Planet Wild and London-based regional producer The Lab, writes Paul Revoir.
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Humphreys latest departure at Five
Liam Humphreys has quit as Five's commissioning editor for factual entertainment, writes Michael Rosser.
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C4 set to publish terms
channel 4 is expected, within the next two weeks, to become the first broadcaster to unveil its new terms of trade, as its lengthy negotiations with producer's alliance Pact near to a close, writes Glen Mutel.
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Granada links up with Network 10
Granada has teamed up with Australian producer Screentime to make an ambitious£6.5m co-production drama about a teenage woman from England who was arrested and sent on the first convict ship to Australia in the late 1780s.
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Five turns on celebrities
We've had celebrities locked together in a big house to observe how they deal with sexual tension, and we've banished them to the heat of the Australian Outback, again to see how they handle sexual tension - now Five is planning to give them aphrodisiacs and see how they respond, ...