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Off the Record - Central irony.
Central managing director Ian Squires is not the most popular man in the Midlands just now
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BBC4 cash earmarked for science and ethics.
BBC4 controller Roly Keating - who was given a£10m budget increase last month - has commissioned a range of science and ethics series in a bid to create more
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NewsMoD backs BBC reality show
The team behind BBC2's SAS - Are You Tough Enough? have teamed up with the Ministry of Defence to put a group of young men through the rigours of the D-Day landings.
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NewsGovernment call for end to 'media scrums'
Broadcasters have been told by the government that they should call a halt to media scrums outside the homes of ordinary people.
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NewsCampbell lands Five show
Alastair Campbell is to host a new show on Five which will see the former Downing Street director of communications interview senior figures from the world of politics, business and sport.
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Gunpowder, Treason and Plot (BBC2) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'Jimmy McGovern was interested not in scholarship but in the drama of power, and the way in which power is often a ...
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Gunpowder, Treason and Plot (BBC2) - Alun Palmer, Daily Mirror
'The four-parter, penned by Cracker's Jimmy McGovern, played fast and loose with the facts.'...
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Gunpowder, Treason and Plot (BBC2) - Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail
'What matters is whether he [Jimmy McGovern] fashions a good, believable story from the facts at his disposal, and ...
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Gunpowder, Treason and Plot (BBC2) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'Why have we ended up with such a journeyman script?'...
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NewsThompson rules out C4 privatisation
Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson has categorically ruled-out privatisation, but has voiced support for transferring the broadcaster to trust status.
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RatingsAnt and Dec entertain 9m
The third series of ITV1's Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway got off to a flying start, attracting a peak of 9.4 million (42.3%) at 19.40.
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Viewers turn to Gunpowder, Treason and Plot
BBC2's historical drama Gunpowder, Treason and Plot , from Cracker writer Jimmy McGovern pulled in the viewers as the first part won over 3.1 million (12.3%) on Sunday 14 March.
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NewsLabour MPs call for halt to ITV regional cuts
The government and Ofcom are under growing pressure from Labour MPs to step in and halt what they fear is a growing trend by the merged ITV to concentrate production jobs in London.
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NewsBBC loses£205m in lost licence fees
The government has admitted that two million people now evade paying the TV licence fee.
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Your Life in Their Hands (BBC1) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'Programmes such as Your Life in Their Hands have become such a durable fixture in the television schedules. They d...
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Your Life in Their Hands (BBC1) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'These are traumatic programmes to watch.'...
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Nighty Night (BBC2) - Sam Wollaston, Guardian
'All the signs are good, but I hope that it manages to maintain a narrative and doesn't just become an extended ske...
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Nighty Night (BBC2) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star
'One tasteless yet achingly funny scene followed another.'...