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NewsCarlton and Granada await merger decision
The fate of the planned merger between ITV giants Carlton and Granada should be decided within 20 days after the competition commission yesterday handed its recommendations in to the government, writes Paul Revoir
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Teachers (C4) - Robert Hanks, Independent
'Teachers (C4) is still just about the breeziest and most stylish home-grown comedy (or comedy-drama, if you can be...
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The Colour of Friendship (BBC2) - Gareth McLean, Guardian
'There was nothing hugely insightful or intellectually profound about The Colour of Friendship (BBC2), but Adrian C...
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Sport channel takes freeview row to ITC
The company behind the failed digital terrestrial entertainment and sport channel CBM has lodged a complaint with the Independent Television Commission against Freeview transmission company Crown Castle. CBM Media planned to launch on Freeview at the end of September but Crown Castle ended the agreement this month saying the company ...
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Siamese Survivors (C4) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'Siamese Survivors also provided a useful reminder that teenage boys - a maligned social group if ever there was on...
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Welsh radio stations join Freeview
BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru are attempting to boost listener figures after signing up to broadcast on Freeview. The stations are already available on Sky Digital and cable. According to Rajar, nearly one in five adults in the UK (9 million people) say they listen to radio via ...
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Fox News creates European bureau role
Fox News has appointed its first ever European bureau chief, with New York bureau chief Scott Norvell taking up the London-based post on 8 September. Previously European editorial output from the 15-strong bureau was managed out of the US. Norvell has been with Fox for six years and before going ...
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BBC presses on with police racism doc
The BBC will still make a documentary looking at institutional racism within Greater Manchester Police despite the arrest of one of the undercover journalists working on the programme. Mark Daly had undergone nine months of police training and was working as a probationary constable when he was arrested on suspicion ...
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Jowell decision on BBC online review
Media secretary Tessa Jowell is due to name the person who will lead the review into the BBC's online services when she appears at the Edinburgh Television Festival on Saturday (23 August). The BBC has already handed in its response to the review, ordered by Jowell to examine its impact ...
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Coogan hints at Partridge return
Alan Partridge creator Steve Coogan has given a ray of hope to fans after admitting the cult character could return. BBC2 controller Jane Root appeared to pour doubt on any more Partridge when she said Coogan's ambitions now lay more in movies and drama. But despite saying he wouldn't do ...
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Men & Motors boss to advise on low-cost TV
Men & Motors channel manager Lesley Johnson is quitting the Granada Sky Broadcasting (GSB) channel to set up her own business, advising people how to make low-cost programmes , writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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Watching The Detectives (BBC1) - Jim Shelley, Daily Mirror
'Watching The Detectives (BBC1) is grimly effective, slick but simple television.' 'A school girl has been raped,'...
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Watching The Detectives (BBC1) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'Just occasionally a TV documentary makes an impact on society that leads to a change in the law, or persuades us a...
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C4 pumps cash into animation
channel 4 has renewed its commitment to animation film-making by ring-fencing£1.6m for 40 films over the next three years, writes Gavin Stamp
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BBC World plots US invasion
The BBC's international news and information channel BBC World is set to launch in the US as part of continued plans to expand its global reach, writes Leigh Holmwood
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BBC3 aims for laughs with autumn season
Comedy is to spearhead BBC3's assault on the key autumn schedule battleground with a second spin-off from cult sketch show The Fast Show headlining the slate, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Lewis-Smith tops BBC4 line-up
Victor Lewis-Smith, the man behind trash television series TV Offal, is to produce a programme for BBC4, as part of raft of new shows for the station.
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BBC deal sees 12 Yard open in Manchester
Indie 12 yard Productions is to set up a Manchester office after securing a development and production deal with the BBC, writes Leigh Holmwood
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BBC's Vine to front rock interview show
Political pundit Jeremy Vine will host a new series of BBC1 rock star interviews as part of a batch of commissions for indie Ten Alps, writes Michael Rosser.
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Discovery gets more image-conscious
Discovery Health is widening its slate of serious health shows with a range of image and lifestyle series due to air later this year, writes Rosemary Gallagher.