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Moving Wallpaper gets pasted
The return of ITV1's comedy Moving Wallpaper was largely ignored by the viewing public on Friday with an audience of just 2.1m (9.1% share) at 9pm, the least watched terrestrial show at the time.
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Heartbeat heading to Oz
Heartbeat will be saying “G'day” to Australia in the upcoming summer series on ITV1.
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Landmark to produce junior beauty pageant doc
Indie Landmark Films is to make a documentary on junior beauty pageants for BBC3, marking a return to production for Nick O'Dwyer.
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C4 plays down BT merger
Channel 4 has poured cold water on reports that a merger with BT Vision is on its wishlist.
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Adam Kemp to leave BBC
Adam Kemp, the BBC's in-house commissioning editor for arts, music and religion, is to leave the corporation.
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Corden and Horne to front Comic Relief clip show
Gavin and Stacey stars James Corden and Mathew Horne have signed up to host the annual Comic Relief clip show for BBC1.
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Penalty shoot-out brings 3m to Carling Cup final
The nail-biting climax to the Carling Cup final between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur was seen by a peak audience of 3m (19.5%) at 5.30pm.
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CBBC aquires Angus & Cheryl
The BBC has bought the rights to a Spanish cartoon that offers a children's view of the battle of the sexes.
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7.2m say Let's Dance
BBC1's Comic Relief show Let's Dance was on the rise on Saturday as 7.2m people (31.9% share) tuned in at 7.25pm.
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Schneider-Sickert to leave FremantleMedia
Christian Schneider-Sickert is to step down from his role as chief operating officer of FremantleMedia and is to leave the company.
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University Challenge winners dethroned
The BBC has sensationally dethroned the winners of this years University Challenge following a probe into claims that a member of the Oxford team was ineligible to compete.
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Burnham urges channels to up audio description
Media secretary Andy Burnham has appealed to broadcasters to follow Sky's lead in increasing the amount of audio description services they offer for their programmes.
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Svengali seeks support
Video: The team behind Channel 4 drama Wedding Belles is hunting support for a new series of internet-based shorts.
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Life on Mars US axed
ABC has axed the US remake of BBC1 hit Life on Mars after just one series - though it will still have beaten its UK predecessor by one episode.
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Virgin Media beams up sci-fi dramas
A swathe of sci-fi and fantasy dramas are heading for Virgin Media's VoD service following a deal with distributor Fireworks International.
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UKTV to go Dancing with the Stars
UKTV has bought the exclusive British broadcast rights to the eighth series of US series Dancing with the Stars.
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Law and Order weakens grip
The second instalment of ITV1's high profile drama Law & Order: UK averaged 5.8m viewers (24.2% share) at 9pm last night, a fall of 600,000 on last week as the show narrowly lost out to BBC1.
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Nat Geo hires Mark Wild
Mark Wild, who commissioned and exec produced Meerkat Manor for Animal Planet, has joined National Geographic Television.
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Setanta/ITV may delay FA Cup payments
Setanta and ITV are seeking to renegotiate the terms of contracts worth£425m for their FA Cup coverage due to financial pressures.
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Profits double at Fuller's 19 Entertainment
19 Entertainment, the indie owned by Pop Idol mogul Simon Fuller, has defied the economic gloom to post a profit of $92m (£65.4m) - almost double that posted in 2007.