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NewsReturn of the Cybermen - 1960s style
Cosgrove Hall Films is recreating missing episodes of Doctor Whofrom the 1960s using black and white animation based on the original actors and set designs. BBC interactive drama and entertainment has worked with the Manchester-based animation specialists to recreate two episodes from the previously incomplete ...
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Mentorn lures Wyatt away from Prospect
Saturday Kitchen executive producer Hannah Wyatt has been poached from Prospect Pictures by Mentorn's new head of factual entertainment, Dan Barraclough. Wyatt has joined Barraclough as an executive producer, with the aim of strengthening Mentorn's slate of returnable series. Barraclough has also brought in producer Kirsty Donnelly from Granada North ...
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Henry reveals plans for itv.com
ITV Consumer chief executive Jeff Henry has said itv.com will enable viewers to access previews, catch-ups, video-on-demand services and potentially exclusive online content within 18 months. Delivering the keynote speech at Broadcast Live's Delivery Day conference on Wednesday (21 June), Henry also revealed plans for a 'dramatic makeover' of ITV's ...
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Sky in radio consortium talks with C4
Sky is in talks with C4 about joining the broadcaster's consortium bid for the national commercial digital radio multiplex, which is expected to be advertised by Ofcom later this year. Sky is also believed to be in talks with parties planning a rival bid to C4. This week C4 announced ...
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NewsRead Andy Duncan's speech in full
Maximising public value in the 'now' media worldThe New Statesman media lecture, 21 June 2006
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NewsWorld Cup Watch: Dutch and Argentinian goalless draw brings 9.5m to ITV1
Despite the lack of goals the World Cup match between the Netherlands and Argentina brought ITV1 a peak audience of 9.5 million (44%) at 8.40pm.
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NewsBBC1's New Street Law ends with 3.2m
BBC1's legal drama series New Street Lawended its eight-part run last night, attracting only 3.2 million (15.3%).
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NewsBBC Books sale puts jobs at risk
Publisher Random House has acquired a majority stake in BBC Books, whose titles include Rick Stein's French Odysseyand David Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth, in a move expected to put jobs at risk.
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NewsShaps reveals cuts and costs savings
ITV director of television Simon Shaps yesterday spelled out the network's programming strategy and how the announcement of£100m in savings will impact on schedules and commissioning.
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NewsSky News introduces three new roles
Sky News has made three promotions in the wake of the channel's cull of 17 jobs and return to a rolling news format.
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Analysis - Can C4 take them on?
Broadcast's report last week revealing Channel 4's plans to launch arival to Radio 4's Today sparked a debate about how well the programmeserves its audience. So could a competitor really succeed, asks LucyRouse.
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Opinion - Comment - Nationwide reborn?
With Nationwide set to return in the summer, John Mair, who worked onthe programme from 1981 to 1983, recalls the glory days and catches upwith anchor Michael Barratt.
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Off the record - Where will former Television Corporation chiefexecutive re-appear?
People keep asking the question - where will former TelevisionCorporation chief executive Peter Salmon re-appear. ...
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NewsPEER POLL: ITV's sports presenters
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is Gabby Logan better than Steve Rider at presenting ITV's World Cup matches?
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NewsC4 in comedy reshuffle
Channel 4 has restructured its comedy department, promoting Andrew Newman to oversee its output alongside his existing entertainment brief.
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News'Why we sold BBC Books to Random House'
The BBC Worldwide executive responsible for the deal to sell BBC Books to international publisher Random House has said redundancies will be kept to a minimum.
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NewsITV and BBC agree World Cup spoils
ITV and the BBC have agreed on how to divide the next round of World Cup games, which do not include England.
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NewsFlextech hands out two promotions
Living TV boss, Claudia Rosencrantz has promoted senior commissioning editor Clare Hollywood to head of commissioning.
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NewsHustle to be re-made by Fox as a US movie
Kudos Film & Television drama Hustleis set to move to the big screen after US studio 20th Century Fox picked up the film rights to the BBC 1 series.
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NewsPiers Morgan makes strong US debut
Piers Morgan is on track to repeat the American success of Simon Cowell, as the new talent show he judges on debuted with ratings of over 12 million on US network NBC.