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NewsITVW trebles indie fund
ITV Worldwide has tripled its development and acquisitions investment fund to grow its work with independent producers.
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NewsOn the box - A Restoration folly?
Eloise Tooke wonders if ITV's Cruises Undercovermissed the big story and if Restoration Village was wise to spend£1.9m on a tearoom at Massey's Folley
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Comment: Why we all love trash TV
Steven D Wright finds he shares a love of trash TV with the commissioners
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NewsLiving TV picks up US reality shows
Living TV has acquired the exclusive UK rights to new US reality series The Janice Dickinson Modelling Agencyand Daisy Does America from Fremantle Media Enterprises.
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NewsC4 doc to uncover the real Tony Blair
Channel 4 is to track the highs and lows of Tony Blair's premiership in a documentary series set to include both personal and political revelations.
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NewsMurphy: RDF too political for me
Former BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy is to spearhead a drive into comedy and drama for Twofour when he joins as creative director on 21 August.
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NewsPeers reject licence fee top-slicing
Peers have rejected the idea that the BBC should share some of its licence fee revenue with other broadcasters.
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BritDoc winner
Tigerlily Films won the best British documentary award for 37 Uses for a Dead Sheepat the inaugural BritDoc documentary festival, held in Oxford last week.
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Top TV appointment
Scottish-based training organisation Top TV Academy has appointed former BBC Scotland producer Ashe Hussain as its projects director.
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Pitt makes move into indie sector
Former BBC creative director Ruth Pitt is to join indie Century Films as an executive producer.
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NewsDavie to take over from Abramsky
Tim Davie has been named the new director of BBC audio and music.
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Breakfast leads GMTV
BBC Breakfast has overtaken GMTV in the morning news ratings battle, in a further sign of viewers turning away from ITV1.
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NewsSky One and ITV2 struggle to retain share
Sky One and ITV2, two of the most popular multichannel entertainment brands, have suffered a decline in their fortunes so far this year.
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NewsSpanish victory boosts ITV1
Spain's Euro 2008 semi-final victory over Russia scored for ITV1 last night, with the match from 7.45pm averaging 7.2m viewers (32.8%).
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Swain tipped for factual super commissioner role
Specialist factual commissioning editor Emma Swain has become the surprise favourite to land the BBC's new factual super commissioner job.
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NewsMillionaire jobs safe, says buyer
The company poised to buy Who Wants to be a Millionaire?has reassured staff working on the hit quiz show there will be no major job losses.
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NewsAd slump sees C4 freeze budget
Channel 4 has effectively frozen its programme budget as the impact of a dire advertising market begins to bite.
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NewsITV Productions staff want sell-off
Leading figures within ITV Productions are pushing for the sale of ITV's in-house production arm, in a bid to turn the company into a super-indie.
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NewsLeader: Selling off the family silver won't help ITV
Broadcast editor Conor Dignam asks if selling ITV's production arm is a good thing