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    TV Critics 7 January '08

    2008-01-07T09:48:33Z

    TV critics' verdict on programmes - including the start of new BBC1 series Damages - broadcast over the weekend between the 4 and 6 January 2008.

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    BSkyB to open 80 retail stores

    2008-01-07T09:53:52Z

    BSkyB will have 250 retail stores by the summer after signing a deal with real estate giant Land Securities for another 80 premises.

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    Langham makes TV return

    2008-01-07T10:25:04Z

    Actor Chris Langham will discuss his conviction for downloading child pornography in a special edition of More4 show Shrink Rap.

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    Motorola lands BT Vision box contract

    2008-01-07T10:35:27Z

    BT Vision will launch redesigned, energy efficient set-top boxes next year after handing the manufacturing contract to Motorola.

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    6.2m think BBC1 is The One and Only

    2008-01-07T11:01:05Z

    BBC1's latest talent show delivered the viewers on Saturday as The One and Only pulled in a respectable 6.2m (26.4%) at 7.20pm.

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    BBC mulls licence fee overhaul

    2008-01-07T11:06:58Z

    The BBC is considering plans to reserve its licence fee funding for a small core of output and run the rest of its operations as a commercial enterprise.

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    Analysts expect fresh bids for GCap

    2008-01-07T11:07:03Z

    City analysts have predicted that Global Radio's£300m bid for GCap Media will signal 'the beginning of the end' for GCap as a publicly listed company.

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    BBC1's Damages hurt by ITV1

    2008-01-07T11:55:59Z

    BBC1's new US import Damages got off to a shaky start last night with a modest 1.9m (10.7%) in a 10.20pm slot.

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    Golden Globes fate to be decided

    2008-01-07T12:01:16Z

    The fate of this year's Golden Globes will be determined today (Monday) when NBC is expected to announce its final plans for broadcasting the awards ceremony.

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    Van Outen and Vaughan to team up again

    2008-01-07T12:20:29Z

    Denise Van Outen is to link up with her old Big Breakfast presenting partner Johnny Vaughan as a co-host of his Capital 95.8 breakfast show.

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    Arnell to work with Film24

    2008-01-07T12:46:57Z

    Fledgling movie buff channel Film24 has hired former ITV executive Steve Arnell as programme strategy consultant.

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    E4's Big Brother hijacked by BBC3

    2008-01-07T13:03:08Z

    E4's Celebrity Hijack edition of Big Brother remained the channel's most popular show over the weekend but couldn't meet the challenge of BBC3's films.

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    BBC apologises for Bhutto interview edit

    2008-01-07T13:23:31Z

    The BBC has apologised for editing an interview on its website with Benazir Bhutto after it deleted her astonishing claim that Osama Bin Laden had been murdered.

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    Talk to Trisha on City Talk

    2008-01-07T18:11:35Z

    TV chat show host Trisha Goddard is to join Emap's£1m Liverpool speech station City Talk, which launches at the end of the month.

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    Carter gets Downing St role

    2008-01-07T19:02:54Z

    Former Ofcom chief executive Stephen Carter has been appointed to the new post of chief of strategy and principal advisor to the Prime Minister

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    Golden Globes show cancelled

    2008-01-08T07:57:00Z

    The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has cancelled its full-length awards banquet and telecast on January 13 because of the writers' strike.

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    News Corp re-enters German TV market

    2008-01-08T09:51:29Z

    Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has acquired a near 15 percent stake in Germany's largest pay-TV broadcaster, Premiere, for£214m.

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    TV Critics 8 January '08

    2008-01-08T09:55:11Z

    “Makes you think of something itchy, scratchy, painful, thoroughly unwelcome”. Read on for more cutting criticism of last night's TV.

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    SMG appoints first new media boss

    2008-01-08T10:09:27Z

    STV and Virgin Radio owner SMG has appointed former Scotsman web boss Alistair Brown as its first head of new media.

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    China orders a Takeaway

    2008-01-08T10:36:15Z

    China is to get its own version of Ant and Dec's popular ITV1 entertainment show Saturday Night Takeaway.