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NewsProfile - Adrain Chiles: The man from the Midlands
Adrian Chiles, the face of BBC1's new 7pm magazine pilot
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NewsITV plans push into US syndication
ITV is planning a push into the US syndication market as part of plans to up its profits from Granada America, the company's stateside operation.
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Voice of Homer's boss gets Radio 4 role
The voice behind Mr Burns, Homer's boss in The Simpsonhas landed a starring role in a comedy series for BBC Radio 4. In Not Today Thank You, Harry Shearer will play Nostrils, a man who convinces himself he is ...
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NewsBBC1 inches ahead in World Cup contest
BBC1 has established only a slender lead over ITV1 in the battle for World Cup viewers.
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Teachers' TV recruits
Brook Lapping Education, a division of Ten Alps, is offering two internships to work on Teachers' TV. Designed as an entry-level introduction to the TV industry, the scheme will offer the trainees an 11-month contract. One position will most likely be for a news trainee, working on the weekly Teachers' ...
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NewsLeader - ITV needs new game plan
It looks as if it will take a change in leadership to spark a revival at ITV, says Broadcasteditor Conor Dignam
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Uefa Cup final stages to air on ITV
ITV has bought the UK broadcast rights to the final stages of the Uefa Cup for the first time, in a deal understood to be worth more than£20m. ITV now has exclusive broadcast rights for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals over the next three seasons of the tournament, after fighting ...
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Broadcasters lobby on dead bodies rules
Channel 4 and the BBC are fighting new rules which could force them to obtain a licence before showing dead bodies or body parts on television.
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NewsITV and BBC vie for rights to Disney hit
The BBC and ITV are battling it out for the UK terrestrial rights to the Disney Channel's surprise hit original TV movie, High School Musical.
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ITV set to bring back drama to daytime
ITV is to bring back drama into its daytime schedules in a bid to tap into the success that the BBC has had with shows such as Doctors.
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NewsStephen Fry returns to ITV in legal drama
Stephen Fry is to make his first drama series for ITV in over 10 years, with a show about a country solicitor with the human touch.
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NewsRDF to launch own on-demand service
RDF Media is planning to launch its own on-demand broadband service offering viewers the chance to download programmes made by RDF and other indies.
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NewsFive Life in talks over airing Paramount co-pros
Five's new digital lifestyle channel is facing an autumn launch without its homegrown comedies, including Suburban Shootoutand the forthcoming Respectable.
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NewsRosencrantz buys Justice for Living TV
Living TV's new director of programmes, Claudia Rosencrantz, has drafted in her former ITV colleague Mark Sammon to the role of commissioning editor and made her first three big-budget programming buys.
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NewsRDF Media lines up 80s teen stars for sitcom
RDF Media is developing an improvised sitcom with 1980s heart-throbs Corey Haim and Corey Feldman, as its US production arm begins its move into drama and comedy genres.
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ITV tests HD
ITV has installed a trial HD playout facility at its Southern Transmission Centre. The facility, installed by system integration specialist Broadcast Network, was built to coincide with ITV's HD coverage of the World Cup in Germany. The contract included designing, building and commissioning a new HD playout channel to be ...
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Arqiva uplinks
Transmission company Arqiva has won the contract with interactive TV specialist Cellcast to provide the uplinking facilities for interactive channel Majestic TV. Arqiva also uplinks four other channels managed by Cellcast via the Eurobird satellite onto the BSkyB platform, including Get Lucky TV, You TV, You TV3, and Game Network.