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CNBC keen to go with GfK
Business channel CNBC Europe is in advanced talks to sign up to electronic ratings system GfK after pulling out of Barb last week.
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Challenge picks up new celeb poker show
Challenge, the Flextech-owned entertainment channel, has picked up two new US shows involving Hollywood stars playing poker and a behind-the-scenes look at Las Vegas. Celebrity Poker Showdown will see the likes of Mena Suvari and Matthew Perry compete for a charity prize pot of $250,000. ...
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NewsCilla comeback on Living
Cilla Black is returning to live entertainment television this winter in a three-hour spectacular for Living TV.
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BBC's Olympic peak
Nearly 9 million people accessed the BBC's interactive coverage of last month's Athens Olympics, the corporation has revealed. The figure is a record for interactive usage and, according to director general Mark Thompson, heralds the 'coming of age' of the medium. Around 8.96 million digital satellite viewers pressed the red ...
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NewsSky's Wakeling to stay until 2008
Vic Wakeling, managing director of Sky Sports, has signed a new contract that will see him remain at the pay-TV broadcaster until 2008.
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NewsCommunity Channel gets breakfast slot
The Community Channel is to begin broadcasting in a prime breakfast slot on Freeview for the first time after being bumped up from its previous night-time graveyard shift.
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Kemp on guns for Sky One doc
ITV's former star signing Ross Kemp has landed his first TV role since relinquishing his golden handcuffs deal with the network.
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Nickelodeon exec quits for Disney role
Nickelodeon UK managing director Nicky Parkinson is leaving the company to take up the role of senior vice-president and managing director, branded television, Walt Disney TV International Asia Pacific in Hong Kong.
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CNBC exits Barb
CNBC Europe has pulled out of ratings body Barb saying that the measurement system fails to accurately reflect ratings figures. The business channel, a joint-venture between US network NBC and Dow Jones, has not renewed its subscription to Barb on the grounds that the system only measures viewing inside private ...
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ABC1 unveils key shows for Freeview launch
Disney's new Freeview channel ABC1 will launch this month with two flagship dramas from US parent network ABC. Long-running soap General Hospital will be making its UK debut alongside relationship drama Once and Again (pictured). Produced by The Bedford Falls Company with Touchstone Television, Once and Again stars Sela Ward ...
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NewsStarters orders for Racing UK
Racing UK, the channel owned by 30 of the UK's leading race courses, has secured a permanent broadcast slot and announced that it will cost a maximum of£20 a month.
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NewsMurphy seeks therapy
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has said he wants to create a new portfolio of programmes dealing with issues such as therapy and bereavement as he seeks to build his channel's factual output.
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NewsSky One takes on C4 in battle of Springfield
Sky One is to screen a brand new episode of The Simpsons every week from the autumn in a bid to capitalise on a major advertising campaign pushing the animated show on Channel 4.
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NewsSky rivals Elstein with Hallmark bid
BSkyB has tabled a bid to buy the Hallmark Channel in the UK. If successful it would be the first time in the satellite giant's 15-year history it has bought, rather than built, a channel.
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Felt Music launches Soho facility
The music composers that worked on the BBC's animated series Hamilton Mattress have opened a composition company in Soho called Felt Music.
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Digital Heaven ditches Avid for Final Cut Pro
West London post house Digital Heaven has ditched its Avid machines and become a dedicated Final Cut Pro facility.
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NewsCrunch time for Sky One
Sky One controller James Baker this week unveiled a new look and upmarket programme line-up in a bid to stem the channel's diminishing audience.
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Vaughan pens sitcom for MTV
Johnny Vaughan has written a new sitcom about two small-time drug dealers that will mark MTV's first foray into comedy drama.
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NewsBBC4 to feature atheism series
BBC4 unveiled an autumn schedule led by highbrow series on atheism and the power of light this morning (Wednesday).
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News'Flash mob' opera headlines BBC3 autumn
BBC3 is to try its hand at opera for the first time when it stages a 60-minute live event from a mainline railway station in October, in one of the highlights of its autumn schedule.