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    Comment: Why we all love trash TV

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    Steven D Wright finds he shares a love of trash TV with the commissioners

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    Living TV picks up US reality shows

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    Living TV has acquired the exclusive UK rights to new US reality series The Janice Dickinson Modelling Agencyand Daisy Does America from Fremantle Media Enterprises.

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    C4 doc to uncover the real Tony Blair

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    Channel 4 is to track the highs and lows of Tony Blair's premiership in a documentary series set to include both personal and political revelations.

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    Murphy: RDF too political for me

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    Former BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy is to spearhead a drive into comedy and drama for Twofour when he joins as creative director on 21 August.

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    McGolphin steps up

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    Dan McGolpin has taken over as BBC3's head of scheduling and planning.

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    Peers reject licence fee top-slicing

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    Peers have rejected the idea that the BBC should share some of its licence fee revenue with other broadcasters.

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    BritDoc winner

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    Tigerlily Films won the best British documentary award for 37 Uses for a Dead Sheepat the inaugural BritDoc documentary festival, held in Oxford last week.

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    Top TV appointment

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    Scottish-based training organisation Top TV Academy has appointed former BBC Scotland producer Ashe Hussain as its projects director.

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    Pitt makes move into indie sector

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    Former BBC creative director Ruth Pitt is to join indie Century Films as an executive producer.

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    Davie to take over from Abramsky

    2008-06-27T11:13:55Z

    Tim Davie has been named the new director of BBC audio and music.

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    Breakfast leads GMTV

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    BBC Breakfast has overtaken GMTV in the morning news ratings battle, in a further sign of viewers turning away from ITV1.

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    Sky One and ITV2 struggle to retain share

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    Sky One and ITV2, two of the most popular multichannel entertainment brands, have suffered a decline in their fortunes so far this year.

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    Spanish victory boosts ITV1

    2008-06-27T11:36:01Z

    Spain's Euro 2008 semi-final victory over Russia scored for ITV1 last night, with the match from 7.45pm averaging 7.2m viewers (32.8%).

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    Swain tipped for factual super commissioner role

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    Specialist factual commissioning editor Emma Swain has become the surprise favourite to land the BBC's new factual super commissioner job.

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    Millionaire jobs safe, says buyer

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    The company poised to buy Who Wants to be a Millionaire?has reassured staff working on the hit quiz show there will be no major job losses.

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    Ad slump sees C4 freeze budget

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has effectively frozen its programme budget as the impact of a dire advertising market begins to bite.

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    ITV Productions staff want sell-off

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    Leading figures within ITV Productions are pushing for the sale of ITV's in-house production arm, in a bid to turn the company into a super-indie.

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    Leader: Selling off the family silver won't help ITV

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    Broadcast editor Conor Dignam asks if selling ITV's production arm is a good thing

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    What's a VoD show worth?

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    How much will a downloaded episode of Green Wingor The F Wordbe worth to consumers? Less than the cost of a music video on iTunes, according to Channel 4.

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    Permira deal hands All3Media war chest

    2006-08-03T08:00:00Z

    All3Media is expected to hit the acquisition trail by the end of the year after its£320m sale to its management and venture capitalist Permira gave it a massive war chest.