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ITV makes second cut to Tonight's budget
ITV1's flagship factual strand Tonight has been ordered to chop 15% from its production budget, the second major cut in the past six months.
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Indies and ITV at loggerheads
Major UK indies met last week to discuss their relationships with ITV, which appear to have hit an all-time low.
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Monty Don back with C4 show
Monty Don is to meet people trying to live The Good Life for real in his first TV project since a minor stroke forced him to quit Gardeners' World.
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Current viewers will select TV content via its websites
Current, UGC's multiplatform service, plans to ‘reinvent' the magazine TV show by basing three series on online social news feeds.
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Multimedia briefs 1 May 2009
Multimedia news in briefs from Broadcast magazine dated 1 May 2009 including 4iP, BBC, Joost and MySpace.
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Ioko plans news monitor service
Ioko, one of the companies behind the BBC's iPlayer, has devised an automatic news monitoring tool to speed up the release of accurate, multi-sourced stories.
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Goldcrest takes Pavement stake
DVD and motion graphics production facility The Pavement has secured major new investment from post and production company Goldcrest Group.
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Facilities briefs 1 May 2009
Facilities sector news in briefs from Broadcast dated 1 May 2009 including Soho Editors, Light, The DMC and Halo Post.
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BSkyB profits up as customers flock to HD
BSkyB reported increased profit in the third quarter and added 80,000 net new customers due to increased interest in its high-definition service.
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Apprentice Noorul fired in front of 8m
A peak audience of 8m viewers (32.9% share) at 9.45pm saw Noorul Choudhury become the latest contestant fired by Alan Sugar in BBC1's The Apprentice.
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Sky Sports 2 scores with Champions League
Sky Sports 2's live coverage of the Champions League semi-final clash between Manchester United and Arsenal was a big hit as the match averaged 2.6m viewers (12.8% share), more viewers than either BBC2 or Five at the time.
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Grade backs radical regional news plan
Michael Grade today backed Ofcom's call for independently-funded news consortia to deliver regional services, but warned that decisions were needed quickly for the sake of local news.
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Oprah's McCanns interview to air in UK
Oprah Winfrey's interview with the parents of missing child Madeleine McCann is to be screened in the UK just a day after airing in the US.
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Grade: my successor faces key decisions
Michael Grade has said that ITV is “reverting to plan A” with his decision to step down as executive chairman a year earlier than planned.
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BBC working to 'reconnect' with Grange Hill viewers
The BBC is working on ways to “reconnect” with its 'Grange Hill viewers' - but is still not doing enough, children's controller Richard Deverell has claimed.
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ITV is overstocked, says Grade
ITV has scaled back its commissioning needs because it is “overstocked” with programmes, according to outgoing executive chairman Michael Grade.
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Playhouse Disney overtakes Nick Jr
Pre-school channel Playhouse Disney overtook its commercial rival Nick Jr for the first week ever with a share of 1.8% in the middle of April.
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BBC axes Mutual Friends
BBC1 has axed primetime comedy-drama Mutual Friends after just one series.
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BBC names bosses moving to Salford
Michael Carrington, Ben Gallop, Rhian Roberts and Philip Bernie are among 15 senior BBC managers set to move to Salford MediaCity.
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Voting begins for Channel of the Year awards
The battle for the coveted Channel of the Year awards begins today as the ballot box opens for votes.