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Tombs moves to Paramount
Paramount Comedy has poached UKTV's head of entertainment and drama, Matt Tombs, to become its new director of programming and planning.
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Ex-Sky One factual head joins Diverse
Former Sky One head of factual programmes Matthew Paice has joined Diverse Production, the indie behind Operatunity.
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Sci Fi hires Farrar
Sci Fi UK has poached VH1's head of scheduling, Jon Farrar, as its new programming director. He will be responsible for the channel's day-to-day programming and long-term growth strategy. The news comes as the channel beefs up its autumn line-up with five acquisitions: Court TV's Psychic ...
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TV news debate
The Edinburgh TV Festival organisers have added a new session debating how much gory footage newscasters should show. The panel session will ask whether recent editorial decisions over tragedies such as the Asian tsunami and the 7 July bombings have pushed the limits of taste and decency too far. Panellists ...
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NewsBBC2 scores hits
BBC2 scored a trio of significant ratings hits last week. Ricky Gervais's new comedy Extrasattracted 4.6 million (23.5%) on Thursday (21 July) at 9pm and was the most-watched programme at that time. On Sunday (24 July) Top Gearpulled in 5.1 million (21.8%) ...
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Leopard pounces
Leopard Films, producer of BBC1 daytime show Cash in the Attic, has poached Ricochet head of development Sharon Stansfield to take the same job at its London office. Leopard has also promoted Cash in the AtticUSA producer Nick Rigg to vice-president of ...
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NewsJoey exits with 1.8 million viewers
Joey, Five's£450,000 an episode US comedy, attracted an average audience of 1.8 million (7.8%) over its five-month run.
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Marr to host BBC's European quiz show
The BBC's outgoing political editor, Andrew Marr, is to front a BBC2 quiz that will test the European credentials of British viewers. How Euro Are You?is being made by Talent TV, the indie behind inter-active quiz Test the Nation, and will test ...
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Ofcom wins legal battle over licences
Ofcom has won the first of two legal challenges over FM radio licences it has awarded. In the first such action taken against the regulator, A-Ten FM chairman Francis Wildman brought a judicial review to the High Court over its awarding of the recent Ashford licence to Local Ashford Radio ...
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News3.1m drawn to BBC2's Sherlock Holmes
BBC2's drama one-off, The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle, gave the channel a respectable peak audience of 3.1 million (14%) at the start.
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NewsBBC hands out comedy cash
The BBC has issued the second of its comedy bursaries, to a new writer from Liverpool.
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NewsBBC dismisses WoCC report
The BBC has defended plans for its Window of Creative Competition (WoCC), after a report found serious concerns that it could kill off in-house production at the corporation.
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NewsBarenboim to give Reith lectures
Daniel Barenboim, the celebrated conductor, is to deliver next year's Reith lectures, which will run on Radio 4 in a new 9am slot to give them more impact.
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NewsPlowman: WoCC could wipeout BBC's own comedy
The BBC's head of comedy Jon Plowman yesterday warned that the Window of Creative Competition (WoCC) had the potential to effectively wipeout the BBC's own comedy production department.
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NewsEnteraction appoints Davidson
Enteraction TV the company that runs Thomas Cook TV and the new Great Big British Quiz channel has drafted in former Telewest boss, Stephen Davidson, as chairman of its board.
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NewsOfcom raises Five's commissions quota
Ofcom has capped Five's quota for original productions commissioned for the channel at 55% of all hours from 2006, up two per cent on the 2005 level.
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NewsExtras loses over 1m
The second part of Ricky Gervais' comedy Extrason BBC2 lost 1.2 million viewers from the opening week, but still managed a healthy average of 3.4 million (16.1%) at 9pm.
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Opinion - In my view - When will I be famous?
What do you do when your otherwise well brought up children announce that they want to be on TV, asks Daran Little.
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Interview: Andrew O'Connor - Under no illusions
Objective Productions managing director Andrew O'Connor tells Peter Keighron the indie outfit is no one-trick pony as it attempts to move beyond magic and become a major supplier of comedy programmes.
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Off the Record - Two of a kind?
Despite being a TV legend, Sir David Frost has been dividing opinion over his performance as