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NewsRatings Focus: Doctor bows out with a monster audience
The series finale to the current run of BBC1's Doctor Who was the drama's second highest audience for a regular episode since the series was regenerated in 2005.
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NewsHat Trick shuts Manchester office
Hat Trick has closed its Manchester office after three years after struggling to secure enough comedy and entertainment commissions from the region.
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NewsBBC sets tougher green targets across the board
Blue Peter and Gardeners' World are to be among the first BBC shows to measure their carbon footprints under tougher environmental targets for the corporation to be unveiled in the coming weeks.
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NewsBBC Trust: judge shows on innovation
The BBC should stop chasing ratings with celebrity and reality shows and judge programmes on their quality and distinctiveness instead, the BBC Trust has said.
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NewsMove BBC out of London, urges Welsh Assembly
The BBC should move all its major channels and commissions outside London to stimulate the UK production sector, according to the first report of the National Assembly for Wales' recently-established Broadcasting Committee.
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NewsRhys Jones to get angry for personality-led BBC2 season
Griff Rhys Jones is to confront his own attitude to anger in a personal journey for BBC2 with echoes of Stephen Fry's films on HIV and manic depression.
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NewsBBC comedy chief Allen to join Hot Fuzz indie
Kenton Allen will leave his role as BBC creative head of comedy and Comedy North to join the company behind Shaun of the Dead and Black Books.
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NewsNo senior heads will roll for£36m online overspend
No BBC execs will lose their jobs over the£36m bbc.co.uk overspend, BBC director general Mark Thompson has said, despite claims that the error could set back the BBC's online offering by more than a year.
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NewsLlewelyn-Bowen seeks perfect garden for Five
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is to lead a nationwide hunt for the UK's best garden in a new format for Five.
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NewsYorke expands role in drama reshuffle
BBC Drama has expanded the role of drama production studios controller John Yorke to include new talent as part of a senior-level restructure.
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NewsDeverell: children need ‘grittier' school stories
BBC children's controller Richard Deverell has claimed the corporation should make room for gritty school dramas - less than six months after Grange Hill was dropped after being relaunched for a younger audience.
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NewsPixelution tailors studio for Spider Eye
Pixelution has installed a new studio infrastructure for Cornwall-based animation company Spider Eye to aid with production of the new pre-school Disney series Jungle Junction.
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NewsRed develops high-res sensor for new 5k Epic
Red Digital Cinema, the US camera equipment manufacturer, is developing a new image sensor for a 5k digital camera it has not even finished building yet.
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NewsOfcom invites pitches for new HD channel slots
Ofcom has invited public service broadcasters to pitch for the available capacity on DTT multiplex B, which has been confirmed as a high-definition service.
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NewsPepper relaunched under new owners
Venture capitalists Partner Capital and a group headed by independent financier David Megginson have bought the business and assets of Pepper Post for an undisclosed sum.
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NewsEnvy to open£2m offline facility
Envy is opening a£2m facility in October to service demand for short and long-form offline work.
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Mainframe in Manchester
Graphics and animation studio Mainframe has opened a facility in Manchester.
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Fireman Sam in CGI
Hibbert Ralph's TV wing HRTv will use custom software to produce 52 x 10-minute episodes of HIT Entertainment's sixth series of Fireman Sam.
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Weinreich joins Pinewood
Former Videosonics managing director Dennis Weinreich is to head up Pinewood's post-production facility.