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    BBC staff vote on pension and pay compromise

    2006-07-19T16:20:00Z

    The BBC has upped its wage increase offer to staff and made compromises on changes to its pension scheme, in a bid to avert threatened strikes by broadcasting unions.

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    Second outing for BBC4's Modernism

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    BBC4 series Living with Modernismhas been commissioned for a second run.

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    Crime channel orders surveillance series

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Crime & Investigation Network (CI), which launched on 10 July, and ITV London have commissioned Flame TV to make a 6 x 30-minute series looking at the ways the public is monitored.

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    C4 gets on bike for 3 Minute doc slot

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has commissioned four new short films for its 3 Minute Wonderslot in a competition run by the broadcaster together with ITN Source and the Brit Doc Festival.

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    R4 books post-watershed Chatterley

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Radio indie Catherine Bailey Productions has been commissioned to adapt DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Loverfor BBC Radio 4.

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    BBC2 discovers nature in major daytime series

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Wildlife presenter Chris Packham is to present a major daytime series for BBC2 about the best locations to capture the beauty of British nature, with 10 shows being dedicated to each of the seasons.

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    Rantzen to expose scams in BBC show

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Consumer champions Esther Rantzen and Lynn Faulds Wood are to be brought together in a new consumer action series ordered by BBC features and factual entertainment commissioner Elaine Bedell.

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    Sky One pushes science to breaking point with Crash Test

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Sky One has ordered a Brainiac-style series that will test how far objects, machines and vehicles can be pushed before cracking, exploding or flying off the track.

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    The Empire Fights Back

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    David Docherty argues that the BBC once ruled the analogue world, but now that golden age is over Mark Thompson's reforms are critical to its survival in the broadband era.

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    Comment: The Empire Fights Back

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    David Docherty thinks that the BBC's reforms are critical to its survival in the broadband era

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    Comment: Everything To Play For

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    The revival in the gameshow format offers big prizes for a top format, says Tim Hincks

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    Just for laughs

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Paramount Comedy's Heather Jones on developing homegrown comedy

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    Five picks up major Warner Bros drama

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Five has secured the exclusive rights to big-budget Warner Brothers drama serial The Nine, one of the last high-profile, new season US shows that was still available from the LA Screenings.

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    GI sells ITV miniseries to France

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Granada International (GI) has sold a number of miniseries made by ITV Productions to broadcasters in France.

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    Fremantle goes global with Got Talent

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Fremantle Media is planning an international rollout of the Got Talent format, a co-production with Simon Cowell indie Syco, following a successful launch in the US.

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    Nigerian film channel to launch on Sky

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Zenithfilms, a London-based company distributing Nigerian programming to airlines which fly to Africa and America, is planning to launch a 24-hour channel on Sky in January.

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    Food fight

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    With the boom in food programming, everyone wants seconds

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    What's next for Chris?

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Is it too early to write Chris Evans off?

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    Sky bets£400m on broadband market

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Sky's converged media initiative may have spooked the City but it's the right strategy.

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    Duo launch Synchronicity

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    The duo behind the BBC's big-budget kids show Shoebox Zoo has set up a Glasgow-based drama indie.