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BBC to feature entrepreneurs
The BBC is to launch its own business entertainment format featuring wannabe entrepreneurs.
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Awards honour young talent
Dublin-based Daniel O'Hara won best young director award at Wednesday (19 May) night's Broadcast Young Talent Awards.
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5 Live nabs O'Connell
Former Xfm breakfast DJ Christian O'Connell is to take over from Johnny Vaughan as the host of BBC Radio 5 Live sports debate show Fighting Talk. O'Connell, who picked up the Sony Award for best DJ last week, will start on 14 August when ...
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NBC orders US office
NBC has ordered six episodes of a US version of Ricky Gervais' award-winning sitcom The Office , despite the pilot being panned by critics. The sitcom will be renamed The American Workplace to distinguish it from the original UK version, ...
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Telegdy promoted
BBC Worldwide has promoted Paul Telegdy to vice-president of programming and co-productions in Los Angeles following Rebecca Segal's move to BSkyB. Telegdy will take up his post on 1 June and be responsible for programme acquisition, co-production and programme sales.
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A conflict of interests
The MoD plans to update guidelines for journalists in war zones. It's just one of the lessons learned from lost lives.
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20,000 tune in to hit Top-up target
Top-Up TV, the new pay-TV service for Freeview viewers, has signed up 20,000 subscribers since its launch two months ago, the company has said, adding that it was on target to meet its break-even target of 250,000 subscribers within two years. Top-Up offers channels such as E4 and Cartoon Network ...
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Granada appoints Woodward as MD
Granada Television has appointed director of regional affairs Susan Woodward as managing director of the regional broadcaster. As part of her promotion she will also become director of regional affairs for the whole of ITV plc. She will be based in Manchester and will oversee Granada's strategy for the North ...
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Endemol makes BB 4Broadband footage
Channel 4 has commissioned Endemol UK to make a series of behind the scenes Big Brother documentaries specifically for its 4Broadband service. Subscribers will also be able to view back stage footage of the Big Brother house and the studio/gallery ...
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BBC heads North for current affairs
The BBC has launched a radio current affairs department and set up an investigative journalism unit in Manchester. The move will see 80 members of staff break away from the main current affairs hub and operate independently of the TV current affairs division. Gwyneth Williams, who has been heading the ...
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C4 news steals Five editor for top job
Channel 4 has poached Five News managing editor Gay Flashman to become the new managing editor of its news service. She replaces Guy Ker who is leaving after five years to become chief operating officer at ITV News. Channel 4 News has also recruited BBC current affairs series producer and ...
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NewsDigital switchover moves step closer
The government is to take its first tentative step towards analogue switch-off with a trial scheme in Wales to give away free set-top boxes to households.
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NewsBBC4 on hunt for new boss
BBC director of television Jana Bennett said she intends to move fast to appoint a new controller for BBC4 following last week's confirmation that Roly Keating will succeed Jane Root at BBC2.
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NewsGrade keeps 14,000 shares in TV studio
New BBC chairman Michael Grade has retained over 14,000 shares in a second company that owns studios used by the BBC.
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NewsC4 wins bidding war for Richard & Judy
Channel 4 has re-signed daytime favourites Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan for another three years, despite renewed interest from their old bosses at ITV.
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Animals explore sex for C4
Channel 4 is to air an ambitious three-part musical that aims to tell the story of the evolution
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ITV off-peak unit to challenge BBC
ITV is to overhaul the way it commissions its daytime programming by creating a dedicated off-peak unit to oversee non-prime-time commissioning, in a bid to claw back the ratings gap with the BBC.
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MoD to draft new war rules
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to consult the major news broadcasters on creating specific rules for the protection of journalists in conflicts following intense lobbying over the deaths of 38 news staff in Iraq.
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Far-right tries to 'hijack' C4 social documentary
Channel 4's multicultural remit seems to have backfired this week after the British National Party 'hijacked' a documentary, which includes a section in which Asian men groom young white girls for sexual abuse.
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Grammer pilot lures Fox
Frasier star Kelsey Grammer is hoping to follow up the success of his long-running series with a British-made comedy for Fox.