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Castle docu-soap for BBC1
The BBC has commissioned a docu-soap which charts a 17-strong family's decision to quit their lives in England and move to a dilapidated 19th-century Scottish castle.
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MP brands Ofcom a 'disgrace'
Ofcom was plunged into a political row this week when MPs openly accused it of siding with ITV over production cuts rather than acting in viewers' interests.
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Entwistle exits Newsnight
The editor of BBC2's Newsnight George Entwistle is to leave the programme to head the BBC's new topical arts unit, overseeing the launches of new culture and media shows.
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MacIntyre's Big Sting (Five) - Rupert Smith, Guardian
'MacIntyre's Big Sting was the most outrageous piece of television I've seen for a long time.'...
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MacIntyre's Big Sting (Five) - Simon Edge, Daily Star
'This big sting was the kind delivered by a butterfly not a bee.'...
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MacIntyre's Big Sting (Five) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'Five has thrown its hat into the ring to provide the most unintentionally funny character of the week by returning...
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MacIntyre's Big Sting (Five) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'I found something grubby and unpleasant about the formula, with its use of deceit and its triumphalist tone as eac...
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NewsTerry Lloyd news bursary set up
ITN and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) have set up a bursary in memory of reporter Terry Lloyd, who was killed in Iraq a year ago, to give young journalists the opportunity to break into TV news.
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Amnesia (ITV1) - Jim Shelley, Daily Mirror
'As is traditional with ITV two-parters, the whole thing turned bonkers.'...
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Hustle (BBC1) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'Hustle came to the end of its first run showing signs that it had reached the bottom of the plot barrel.' ...
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Holidays in the Danger Zone (BBC4) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'Such bleakness hasn't prevented these programmes from being gripping.'...
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NewsCRCA: bring BBC under external regulation
The Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA) has added its voice to calls for the BBC to be brought under independent external regulation as the deadline for submissions to the government's charter renewal consultation closed yesterday today (Wednesday).
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NewsPressure grows against ITV centralisation
Presure is mounting on Ofcom and the government to act to halt what MPs fear is an increasing trend by ITV to concentrate its television production in London and one or two regional centres.
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NewsLudos in partnership deal with DITG
Format house Ludos, the company set up by Action Time founders Stephen Leahy and Trish Kinane in 2002, has signed a partnership deal with technology company The Digital Interactive Television Group (DITG).
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NewsC4I signs Aussie deals
Channel 4 International (C4I) has signed two major package deals with Australian Pay TV channels at this year's MIPTV.
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Amnesia (ITV1) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'The longer it went on the less plausible Amnesia became.'...
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Amnesia (ITV1) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'If it were possible for a TV drama to wear a T-Shirt, Amnesia's would surely read: 'Conventional Thriller - and Pr...
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Amnesia (ITV1) - Rupert Smith, Guardian
'It settled down to a piece of entertaining storytelling that made some demands on the audience's intelligence.'...
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Amnesia (ITV1) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'You might have wondered if the makers of Amnesia plumped for so brazen a cliché as casting John Hannah as a moody,...
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NewsRoot confirms Discovery role in US
The BBC has confirmed that BBC2 controller Jane Root is to leave to take control of the Discovery Channel in the US in mid-May.