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Five's Sunday comedy move.
Having bet almost£500,000 per episode on Joey, Five is now gambling on Sunday nights as
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Indies serve up pilots for C4 breakfast slot.
Channel 4 is moving ahead with plans to run topical news shows in its breakfast slot and is considering pilots from at least four indies including Hat Trick Productions, writes Michael Rosser.
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BBC fears increase in mass protests.
BBC director of television Jana Bennett has warned that UK broadcasters face an unprecedented new type
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NewsC4's Yasmin gets 2.3m
Channel 4's one-off drama Yasminmanaged a solid peak audience of 2.3 million (11%) at the start as the broadcaster continued its strong run since the new year.
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NewsFathers 4 Justice in Big Bro protest
Police arrested 15 protesters from the Fathers 4 Justice campaign group early this morning (Friday) after they broke into the Celebrity Big Brothercompound in Hertfordshire.
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NewsVan Outen gets ITV1 drama role
Former Big Breakfast host and West End musical star Denise Van Outen is to join the cast of ITV1's drama Where the Heart Is.
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NewsOrton to get MipTV award
Peter Orton, the founder and chairman of HIT Entertainment, is to become the first Briton to receive the lifetime achievement award at the MipTV festival in Cannes.
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NewsBBC to air tsunami relief concert
The BBC is to broadcast the tsunami relief concert in Cardiff, which will feature stars such as Eric Clapton and Charlotte Church performing to raise money for the Asian disaster.
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NewsC4 reject Frost project
Channel 4 has passed over the latest television project from actress and fashion designer Sadie Frost and her Blueflower Production company.
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NewsInglish heads BBC political shows
The BBC has created a new role in its news division combining the leadership of its political programmes, analysis and research.
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NewsPEER POLL: Jerry Springer - The Opera
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Should the BBC have broadcast Jerry Springer - The Opera?
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NewsDead Man Weds falls to 2.7m
ITV1's struggling sitcom Dead Man Wedslost 700,000 viewers to average just 2.7 million (13%) at 10pm as Channel 4's Desperate Housewiveswent from strength to strength with 4.8 million (25.5%).
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BBC offloads Eve
BBC Worldwide has sold glossy women's magazine Eveto the Haymarket publishing group for an undisclosed sum. The decision to offload the title is part of the corporation's decision to sell off non-core activities, as set out in the commercial review it undertook at the end of ...
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Inmedia buys W1 playout facility
Inmedia has bought central London transmission facility Cast from Barnes Media Trust in a multimillion pound deal
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C4 in danger of£130m deficit
Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan has warned the 'digital deficit' facing the broadcaster could be as high as£130m by 2012 unless it receives support from the public purse.
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T4 to televise 2004 ?honours'
Channel 4's youth strand T4 plans to celebrate the best of music, film and TV in 2004 with its own honours list show.
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C4 grabs BBC two
Channel 4 has poached two BBC executives to boost its news and current affairs team. Mark Roberts is to leave the BBC documentaries and contemporary factual department to be an editor, while Angela Chan will move from the BBC's specialist factual, popular features and business unit to become a deputy ...
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Channel 4 bids for Natpe sales
After a three-year absence, Channel 4 International is returning to US television market Natpe. Christina Willoughby, head of international sales and co-production, will attend the Las Vegas event later this month alongside newly appointed sales executive Solange Riberio, who oversees the Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese territories. The distribution arm ...
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C4 doc at Sundance
Channel 4 feature-length documentary Unknown White Malehas been selected for competition by the Sundance Film Festival. Commissioned from indie Spectre Broadcast by C4's outgoing head of independent film and video, Jess Search, the film tells the story of Doug Bruce, who suffers from a rare form ...
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Blair to appear on T4 in election run-up
Channel 4's youth zone T4 has been given 'unprecedented' access to Prime Minister Tony Blair for a peaktime programme aimed at 16-25 year-olds. T4 presenter June Sarpong will host a studio discussion with Blair and a group of opinionated viewers. Produced by indie At It Productions, the 60-minute programme will ...