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    Shine poaches BBC development exec

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Shine has appointed former BBC development executive Sara Brailsford as editor of features. Brailsford will work across Shine's features as well as taking on the role of series producer on new ITV show Best House Buy.

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    Talksport to launch TV channel on Sky

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Radio station TalkSport is planning to launch its own TV channel and will begin broadcasting next month on Sky. A daily six-hour programming block featuring footage of Talksport presenters will air on Sky channel 235 from 4 October and owner TWG hopes to launch a full channel next year. The ...

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    The digital deadline

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Is the stampede for digital switchover risking damage to the carefully built broadcasting ecology?

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    Dyke: what I would have moved north

    2004-09-16T07:50:22Z

    Greg Dyke was planning to move Radio 5 Live, BBC3, CBBC and CBeebies and half of the BBC's new media operation to Manchester before he was forced out of the director general's job in the aftermath of Hutton.

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    Threats fly in format war

    2004-09-16T07:50:20Z

    Simon Fuller's 19TV could look to cut its ties with Fremantle in the dispute over whether ITV's The X Factor rips off Pop Idol.

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    Troubled EastEnders calls in Holby producer

    2004-09-16T07:50:16Z

    The BBC has drafted in a Holby City producer to deputise for EastEnders ' under-fire executive producer, Louise Berridge, and take over much of the day-to-day running of the soap.

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    Priest Idol show given C4's blessing

    2004-09-16T07:50:14Z

    Channel 4 is to offer the Church of England a helping hand with a new show called Priest Idol in which a vicar is tasked with building a congregation in a parish with poor church attendance.

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    CanWest enters bid for FM licence

    2004-09-16T07:50:12Z

    Canadian media giant CanWest is looking to take a slice of the UK radio market with a bid for an FM licence in Manchester.

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    Village people's gay test

    2004-09-16T07:50:10Z

    Sky One has commissioned a light-hearted format in which four gay men are sent to live and work in a 'gay-free' rural village.

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    Talkback lifestyle formats sell to US

    2004-09-16T07:50:08Z

    Talkback Productions' new lifestyle shows Too Posh to Wash and The Sex Inspectors are to be remade for US audiences.

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    Optimistic moves into format development

    2004-09-16T07:50:06Z

    The Optimistic Network, the company behind producer-broadcaster Nation 217, is launching a format development arm to create content for other channels.

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    Dimbleby takes over from Yentob to front arts show

    2004-09-16T07:50:04Z

    Question Time presenter David Dimbleby is set to front BBC1's major new arts series A Picture of Britain , after BBC creative director Alan Yentob finally decided not to take the job.

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    McKerrow departs Maverick

    2004-09-16T07:50:02Z

    Richard McKerrow has quit as managing director of Maverick Television and is planning to launch his own indie.

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    C4 agrees to carry Einstein docudrama

    2004-09-16T07:50:00Z

    Darlow Smithson, the producer of Bafta-winning film Touching the Void , is developing a $2m (£1.1m) drama about Albert Einstein's groundbreaking scientific equation E=mc2 for Channel 4.

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    Keating makes first big orders

    2004-09-16T07:49:50Z

    New BBC2 controller Roly Keating has greenlit two major factual projects from BBC Birmingham worth£7m, including one that will challenge people to pay off their mortgages early.

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    Leopard to make second money spinners

    2004-09-15T16:06:57Z

    BBC controller of daytime Alison Sharman has commissioned Leopard Films to make a second series of consumer show Money Spinners. The 15 x 60-minute series deconstructs family finances and puts heavy spenders through a month of gruelling saving, earning and selling to raise an ...

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    BBC set for criticism over accounting

    2004-09-15T10:23:13Z

    The BBC is set to face renewed criticism today (Wednesday) over its opposition to the National Audit Office (NAO) being given full access to its books.

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    TWG trials Talksport TV

    2004-09-15T10:19:41Z

    Radio station TalkSport is planning to launch its own TV channel and will begin broadcasting programmes next month on Sky.

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    Horse of the Year rides to Sky

    2004-09-15T09:23:14Z

    Sky Sports is to broadcast the Horse of the Year Show next month - giving the event its first TV slot for five years.

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    Celador diet show set for US launch

    2004-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4's hit factual entertainment show You Are What You Eat is set to transfer to the US.