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    2waytraffic acquires format creator

    2006-07-11T10:15:00Z

    Aim-listed interactive TV company 2waytraffic has acquired Dutch format developer Intellygents, the company behind Endemol International's new gameshow Take it or Leave It, for an initial consideration of Eu5 million.

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    Second series commission for Planet Sketch

    2006-07-11T10:17:00Z

    Decode Entertainment and Aardman Animations have been commissioned by Canada's Teletoon and CITV to make a second series of Planet Sketch.

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    C4 acquisition Brothers and Sisters to star Sally Field

    2006-07-11T10:20:00Z

    Oscar winning actress Sally Field has joined the cast of the hyped new US drama Brothers and Sisters, recently snapped up by Channel 4.

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    BBC appoints new head of Birmingham factual

    2006-07-11T11:30:00Z

    The BBC has promoted executive producer Nick Patten to head up its Birmingham factual operation - the final appointment in outgoing factual director John Willis' reshuffle of the department.

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    Not much love for ITV1's reality island

    2006-07-11T11:45:00Z

    ITV1's reality series Love Islandhad a tough time on its opening night with a lowly 3.2 million (15%) tuning in to the start of the second series at 9pm - forcing it into third place behind other reality offerings from BBC1 and Channel 4.

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    FreeSat launch delayed until autumn 07

    2006-07-11T15:20:00Z

    The launch of FreeSat - the BBC and ITV-backed free satellite service - looks set to be delayed until next autumn as no common standard for the service has been agreed upon.

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    Double Jab opens Leeds office

    2006-07-12T08:00:00Z

    London-based documentary and multi-media producer Double Jab Productions is to open a Leeds office.

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    'Move to Xfm was my idea' says Bacon

    2006-07-12T08:00:00Z

    Capital drivetime DJ Richard Bacon has claimed it was his idea to move to back to Xfm, squashing suggestions he was axed after poor ratings.

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    Thompson denies ban on Jonathan Ross clip

    2006-07-12T09:35:00Z

    BBC director general Mark Thompson has denied that there is a blanket ban on showing Jonathan Ross's controversial interview with Conservative leader David Cameron.

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    Freudenstein to stay within News Corp

    2006-07-12T09:40:00Z

    BSkyB's chief operating officer Richard Freudenstein is to stay within the News Corp stable after being hired to run News Limited's new media empire.

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    Jenkins quits BBC Scotland 'on matter of principle'

    2006-07-12T12:00:00Z

    BBC Scotland's head of news and current affairs Blair Jenkins has quit in what is understood to be a protest over the ongoing job cuts within his department.

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    Google rolls out UK video service

    2006-07-12T12:25:00Z

    Google has launched a new online video service allowing consumers to upload their own videos and view content from a selection of television networks and independent producers.

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    Sky wins Premiership mobile rights

    2006-07-12T14:28:00Z

    BSkyB has confirmed it has won the mobile content rights to Premiership football in partnership with News Group Newspapers, publishers of The Sunand News of the World.

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    Smoke & Mirrors speaks for E4

    2006-07-12T16:43:00Z

    Smoke & Mirrors has created E4's new Espeak idents, which give viewers the lowdown on festivals such as the V Festival and Joust 2006 in a vox pop style.

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    Skaramoosh engineers promo

    2006-07-12T16:44:00Z

    Skaramoosh has completed the logo design and promo for Discovery Channel's Industrial Revelations: Best of British Engineering, a six-part series celebrating our greatest engineering icons including Concorde, the Channel Tunnel, the Routemaster Bus and Tower Bridge.

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    Red Bee goes back to the 1960s

    2006-07-12T16:45:00Z

    Red Bee Media has created the promo for UKTV History's 60s Season - a strand featuring original programming such as The Beatles' Decade, with personalities of the time such as Mary Quant explaining how the world changed during the 1960s.

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    Inside Disney Channel's world

    2006-07-13T08:00:00Z

    Disney Channel's Rich Ross on how he is changing the strategy for the channel in the UK

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    Life on the road in an OB outfit

    2006-07-13T08:00:00Z

    What are the challenges that OB engineers have faced on the road?

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    Comment - Put an end to salary fetish

    2006-07-13T08:00:00Z

    Emily Bell wants to put an end to salary fetish

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    Waking up This Morning

    2006-07-13T08:00:00Z

    Profile of This Morning's new editor Anya Francis