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BBC abandons plans for more investigations
The BBC has quietly scrapped plans to create a standalone news investigations unit.
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Extreme wins rights to celebrity race
Extreme Entertainment has picked up the exclusive television rights to celebrity-led motor-racing marathon, The Gumball 3000 Rally. The indie will produce both a 6 x 30-minute series and a 90-minute special, following six racers throughout the six-day event from Paris to the Sahara and back. It will also provide an ...
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News'Alternative' radio survey shows Radio 1 fall
Radio 1 is continuing its downward spiral, loosing over a million listeners in just three months according to controversial new research.
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NewsHodgson joins GWR
Patricia Hodgson, former chief executive of the Independent Television Commission, has joined the board of Classic FM-owner GWR.
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The Miners' Strike (BBC2) - Rupert Smith, Guardian
'Steven Condie brought us face to face with the ugly truth of 1984.'...
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The Miners' Strike (BBC2) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
?BBC2's offering was definitely stronger than Channel 4's - though it too suffered from the feeling that most of it...
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The Miners' Strike (BBC2) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'The Miners' Strike, BBC2's TV history of that crucial clash? was a self-consciously mythologising affair - a Band ...
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NewsHutton 'to criticise' BBC?
The BBC was preparing for strong criticism in today's publication of the long-awaited Hutton report after leaks to The Sun newspaper blamed the corporation for a
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NewsJohnson takes C4 chairman brief
A former advertising executive who went on to become one of the country's leading catering entrepreneurs has been named by Ofcom as chairman of Channel 4.
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NewsSMG's Cruickshank confirms departure
Don Cruickshank has confirmed his resignation as chairman of Virgin Radio owner SMG.
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SRH reports growth
Scottish Radio Holdings has said it made a strong start to its financial year, with like-for-like revenues fro the three months to December rising 7.7%.
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NewsNUJ slams Saville request
A move to prosecute two television journalists for contempt for refusing to betray confidential sources to the Bloody Sunday Tribunal in Northern Ireland would be 'utterly wrong,' the National Union Journalists (NUJ) has said.
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NewsNew focus for ITV News
ITV News has unveiled its new look and£1m state of the art set, which will accompany its re-launch on 2 February, the day the merger between Carlton and Granada becomes official.
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The Afternoon Play (BBC1) - Rupert Smith, Guardian
'Johanna Baldwin's agreeable fable didn't break new ground - in fact if anybody else tries to tell me that men are ...
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The Afternoon Play (BBC1) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'It's a little bit When Harry Met Sally, with a twist of The Philadelphia Story, and a dash of Richard Curtis.'...
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The Afternoon Play (BBC1) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star
'It was so trite and predictable, it wouldn't have been scheduled as an evening play in a month of Mondays.'...
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Bosom Pals (BBC1) - Peter Conchie, Independent
'The success of Bosom Pals - and, on balance, I think it was a success - was its tenderness.'...
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Bosom Pals (BBC1) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'All that's lacking is a decent script - even though no fewer than seven writers are credited.'...
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NewsBBC clears schedules for Hutton
The BBC is to rip up its regular daytime schedule tomorrow (Wednesday) in order to bring gavel to gavel coverage of the Hutton report.