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BBC3 offers The Mighty Boosh first on broadband
BBC3 is to become the first UK channel to premiere a programme over its broadband website service.
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Robbie tops glittering pile at Live 8
The BBC's coverage of the historic Live 8 concert was inevitably a smash hit.
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IWC wins BBC1 daytime order
IWC Media has bagged its first BBC1 daytime commission with a series that pits modern doctors and nurses against medics from the 1950s.
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Celador exclusive
Celador Productions has gained access to a US child talent contest for a Channel 4 documentary about young British hopefuls and their pushy parents. Give My Kid a Contractwill follow the UK competitors at the week long Actors, Models and Talent Convention in Florida from 26 ...
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Radio indies win better BBC deal
Independent radio producers are to get a better deal from the BBC after trade body the Radio Independents Group (RIG) and the BBC agreed new terms of trade.
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GCap threatens to sue regulator
Radio giant GCap Media has threatened to sue Ofcom if the regulator decides to license further national digital multiplexes.
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Ofcom to review cross-promotion rules
Ofcom has agreed to review the rules prohibiting cross-promotion of commercial radio licences to help the sector compete better with the BBC.
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Everden steps down from ITV executive role
ITV network's longest-serving programme executive, editor of entertainment Tony Everden, has stepped down after deciding to retire.
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Teachers' TV online
Teachers' TV is making its entire archive of programmes available online to give teachers full on-demand access to its material. The digital channel will upload the day's content in advance at 6am each morning. The channel - which is funded by the Department for Education and Skills and broadcasts advice, ...
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Tinopolis buying
Welsh indie Tinopolis has revealed it is looking to buy new media content creators. The producer began shopping for indies earlier this year after floating on AIM in February and is believed to have approached several London companies. But it has now broadened its search to the new media field. ...
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Davina joins BBC
Big Brother presenter Davina McCall is to make her first programme for BBC1 - a parenting show called He's Having a Baby. The primetime Saturday show follows the experiences of eight new fathers as they cope with the arrival of their babies. The Hat Trick-produced series ...
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East takes kids post
Former EastEnderswriter Jon East has been appointed head of BBC children's drama, as part of a drive to put the genre at the heart of kids programming. East, who has directed adult dramas including Brookside, New Tricksand ...
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Evans back on air after Radio 2 deal
Chris Evans has agreed a seven-month deal with BBC Radio 2 for a new Saturday afternoon show. He has agreed to present the 2pm to 5pm slot from September until at least March. Evans, who hosted R2's coverage of Live 8 last weekend, joins Jonathan Ross and ...
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BBC under pressure to open books
BBC chiefs are facing a renewed bid to force them to open all their books to the National Audit Office (NAO) to prove they provide value for money to licence fee payers. Auditor general Sir John Bourne told a cross-party group of peers this week that the BBC should fall ...
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Sky secures bones for 2006 broadcast
Sky One has secured all the rights to Twentieth Century Fox's drama Bonesstarring David Boreanaz ( Buffy the Vampire Slayerand Angel). The series follows an anthropologist who assists in murder investigations. Bonesis
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ITV to consider love island return
ITV has commissioned research into the performance of controversial reality series Celebrity Love Island, before deciding whether to recommission the Granada show. The broadcaster will use the research, which will examine the viewers' opinions on the show, to decide if the celebrity romance series will come ...
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Menzies finds full-time ents role at Five
Alex Menzies, the freelance commissioning executive behind Five reality show The Farm, has been handed a full-time role at the broadcaster.
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NewsTo the Ends of the Earth appeals to 4.3m
BBC2's period drama To the Ends of the Earthcruised to a comfortable victory in the ratings with 4.3 million (19.8%) at 9pm.
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NewsPEER POLL: Cross-promotion regulation
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is Ofcom right to relax the rules on radio and TV cross-promotion?
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NewsBBC picks-up How I Met Your Mother
Another new US show is on its way to the UK after the BBC picked up rights to the sitcom How I Met Your Mother.