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RatingsBBC4 scores record hit with Clark diaries
The BBC's decision to show The Alan Clark Diaries on its specialist arts channel BBC4 was a great success for the broadcaster with 848,000 (7.22% of multichannel homes), making it the most watched show on the channel since it launched.
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Endemol plans Shattered for celebrities.
Endemol UK is developing a celebrity version of its controversial Channel 4 reality show Shattered, writes Glen Mutel.
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BBC's Kilroy ban puts jobs at risk.
Jobs will be threatened at Robert Kilroy-Silk's indie if the BBC's investigation into the presenter's controversial
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US job for ITV's Jackson.
Granada director of international production Paul Jackson has been named chief executive of Granada America, despite having said he was not going to apply for the job, writes Paul Revoir.
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BSkyB to terror-proof transmission service.
BSKYB is building a state of the art emergency back-up centre in Hampshire amid fears that its Osterley HQ could be exposed to an environmental disaster or a terrorist attack, writes Paul Revoir.
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Comment - Foregone conclusions.
We are promised a radical review of PSB, but there are signs that the status quo will largely survive the process.
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BBC restricts reporters.
The BBC is to rein in the amount of comment and speculation in its news output
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Tory panel split over BBC.
A former BBC high flier drafted in by David Elstein to advise the Tory party on
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Celebrities enter Hell's Kitchen.
ITV has signed highly strung chef Gordon Ramsay to star in a new live entertainment show in which he hires a group of celebrities to help him run a restaurant, writes Paul Revoir.
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Pedersen to join All3Media.
Carlton International sales managing director Louise Pedersen is joining the distribution arm of All3Media - formerly Chrysalis TV Group, writes Paul Revoir.
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Indie fixer leaves Channel 4.
The chief architect of Channel 4's indie code of practice, Andrew Brann, has stepped down only a week after the broadcaster's submission was rubber-stamped by Ofcom, writes Glen Mutel.
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Setanta puts off Freeview launch.
Irish broadcaster Setanta has postponed plans to launch a digital free-to-air sports channel on Freeview.The company
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BBC3 gives Vaughan another shot.
Johnny Vaughan, whose BBC3 chat show was dropped last year, is to return to the digital channel with a new live entertainment show, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Five boosts commissioning.
Five has bolstered its senior commissioning team by appointing Steve Gowans as its new head of factual and promoting Liam Humphreys to head of factual entertainment, writes Glen Mutel.
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MCDONALD GETS ITV NEWS EDITORIAL ROLE.
Newsreader Sir Trevor McDonald has been made associate editor of ITV1's new News at 10.30, which
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SHAREHOLDERS GIVE BLESSING TO ITV MERGER.
Carlton and Granada shareholders overwhelmingly approved the merger of ITV at separate extraordinary general meetings this
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JOWELL: NO PLANS TO BAN JUNK FOOD ADS.
Media secretary Tessa Jowell has ruled out implementing a ban on junk food advertising to children.
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BBC DIGITAL CURRICULUM OPEN FOR PITCHES.
Indies have officially been invited to pitch for commissions for the BBC's controversial£150m digital curriculum
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BROADCAST LAUNCHES GREEN LIGHT.
Green Light - a new service that allows Broadcast readers to search more than 1,000 commissioned
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Oneword cuts all staff jobs.
The entire full-time staff of digital radio station Oneword - twice winner of the Sony digital station of the year - have been made redundant ahead of a major restructure, writes Leigh Holmwood.