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NewsFive moves Trisha to morning slot
Five is planning to steal a march on ITV by moving Trisha Goddard's new show into the 9.25am berth where ITV1's Trisha has been airing for more than six years.
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NewsITV and C4 win Freeview slots
ITV and Channel 4 have bagged Crown Castle's two vacant Freeview slots.
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NewsWillis defends BBC in-house
John Willis, one of the BBC's most senior programme executives, has warned that the rise of the independent sector could see the corporation's in-house production
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NewsUnions fight back against BBC cuts
The BBC faces a showdown with angry unions over its latest round of job cuts, which will mean a fifth of the workforce being axed.
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Passion for politics
Alastair Stewart believes that ITV News Channel can become a real force in rolling news reporting and is ready to fight off any threat of encroachment on impartiality by partisan networks, David Rowan discovers
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Election fever
With the election date all but named, what tricks do the broadcasters have up their sleeves to convince a jaded electorate that their coverage will be worth tuning into?
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By royal appointment
Establishing a rapport with the royals was crucial for a series about Windsor entitled The Queen's Castle. Producer/director Matt Reid describes his meetings with Prince Philip
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Little girls, big camera
Delissa Needham finds that it is physical barriers that are holding back women in the low-budget arena
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Reporting from the killing fields
The independent camera operator/journalist has become indispensable to terrestrial and satellite news broadcasters ...
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Losing the youth vote
Whether it's producing Question Timefor kids or putting presenters in parkas, broadcasters' attempts to get young people turned on to politics have more chance of winning awards than viewers, says Sam Delaney.
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Adding mischief to politics
Rather than vie with the BBC and ITV over coverage of the general election, Channel 4 commissioner for news Mark Rubens is taking a more inventive approach.
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Gilligan's top 10 political bust-ups
Another day, another row between a politician and a journalist. Earlier this month, live on Newsnight, the Health Secretary John Reid challenged the programme's description of him as an
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Benefit of the doubt
Thompson's swingeing cuts at the BBC are attracting a great deal of flak, but in the long-term he may yet be vindicated.
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Survival adds to BBC1 medical file
Patients battling life-threatening conditions are to be filmed as part of a major new series for BBC1 to be recorded over two years.
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Five to find out what Brits think of their bodies
Five is to launch a nationwide poll to uncover the attitudes of the British to their bodies for a series from Endemol.
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BBC2 doc will recreate 17th-century farm
A team of academics has been challenged to run a farm in the way it would have worked in the 17th century for a BBC2 documentary series.
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Free@last to make Batman documentary
Indie Free@Last TV is to make a 48-minute documentary, The Batman Story, for Five, exploring the Marvel comic's character from 2-D drawing to cinematic icon. The piece follows its The Spiderman Storyfor Five in 2002, and is in production with Katie Kinnaird ...
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Radio 4 orders role reversal comedy
BBC Radio 4 commissioning editor for drama and entertainment Caroline Raphael has ordered a 6 x 30-minute in-house comedy from The Changeteam, Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. In the role-reversal series, The Other Man, a male character is a put-upon 'mistress' to ...
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Wartime reunion for VE anniversary
Wavelength Films is making a 30-minute BBC1 documentary about wartime friends who have lost touch for the broadcaster's season of programmes marking the 60th anniversary of VE Day. The as yet untitled film is currently in pre-production to air as part of the BBC's People's War strand in May. The ...