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NewsCommissioner's Q & A - Aaqil Ahmed
Channel 4's commissioning editor, religion is on the lookout for attention-grabbing documentaries and ideas that are ahead of their time - and has the budget to reward the right idea.
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Cuts at BBC News
BBC News is to lose 100 staff over the next year as part of director general Mark Thompson's three-year programme of cutbacks, according to the NUJ. Staff in the department were warned by Thompson last March that he wanted to axe 420 posts by March 2008. News staff are now ...
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Show comes to aid of debt-ridden couples
Channel 4 will put financially troubled couples on a post-nuptial contract as part of a primetime show called Your Money or Your Wife.
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C4 to reinvent shelved pilot for primetime
Channel 4 is in discussions to relaunch one of its shelved breakfast pilots as a primetime entertainment show.
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O'Connell struggles
Sky One is struggling to turn Virgin Radio breakfast show host Christian O'Connell into a TV star, with his new Sunday night show averaging just 75,000 (0.54%). The show is well below the channel's slot average this year of 264,000 (1.7%). Its first episode on 16 July brought in an ...
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BBC LA Grease order
The BBC's Los Angeles production office has won a commission from US terrestrial network NBC for a reality show to find the stars of an upcoming Broadway version of Grease. You're the One that We Wantwill be made by BBC ...
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RDF buys kids indie
RDF Media Group acquired Kent-based children's producer The Foundation TV Productions for£4m on Thursday (3 August). It paid£3m in cash for the maker of The Basil Brush Showand Eureka TV, with the other£1m made up of RDF shares. The payment ...
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Movie Rush on TV
Film4 has made a programme previously only available online into its first regular series. Film review show Movie Rushis made by multiplatform producer Zone and has previously been exclusively offered through Channel 4's website. From this month it will also air on Film4 and is ...
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Chiles to host BBC2 quiz
Adrian Chiles is to host a new quiz show for BBC2 being made by Who Wants to be a Millionaireproducer Celador Productions.
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Poker Channel rebrands as All in Sport
The Poker Channel will relaunch as a general sports offering this month in a bid to regain audiences lost since Sky's shake-up of the electronic programming guide ( EPG ) in February.
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Firefly rejects Tinopolis bid approach
Firefly Film and Television Productions has knocked back a takeover bid by Welsh super-indie Tinopolis.
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ITV plots more Rio wind-ups
ITV is in discussions with England footballer Rio Ferdinand about fronting four more TV wind-up shows.
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News3.4m remember to watch How to Improve Your Memory
BBC1's one-off science show How to Improve Your Memoryfailed to dazzle last night with a modest audience of 3.4 million (17%) at 8pm.
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NewsDigital channels to the rescue
Reports of the death of the terrestrial channels may have been greatly exaggerated, with new figures showing that the success of their digital spin-offs is offsetting their decline.
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NewsOfficial investigation launched into BB voting scandal
Premium rate services watchdog ICSTIS has begun a formal investigation into the Big Brothervoting scandal, which saw four previously evicted contestants re-enter the house.
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Charles Allen Resignation - Where did it go wrong for the politicalanimal?
Knocking back the Greg Dyke-fronted private equity bid in Marchheralded the endgame for ITV chief executive Charle...
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Facilities - Who fits the bill at The Mill?
The spotlight has again fallen on those brave enough to invest in theturbulent post-production sector following Th...
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Opinion - Comment - Paulette, where are you?
After losing touch with a bright student after her work experienceled nowhere, Lis Howell hits out at broadcasting companies which cynicallyexploit youngsters looking for work experience.
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Controller Reports - Who's top of the multichannel class?
In our second set of report cards, Broadcast delivers its verdict onthe multichannel controllers. For these younge...
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Wall To Wall pre-sells to Rai
Wall To Wall has pre-sold its heart transplant docu-drama Beating Death to Italian public broadcaster Rai.