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NewsBBC teams up with Microsoft
The BBC has signed a contract with Microsoft to develop the technology to deliver its controversial£150m digital curriculum, which is due to launch in 2006 after extensive research and piloting.
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NewsLaw supports broadcasters against pirates
Broadcasters will be able to hit back against pirates who copy and sell their programmes thanks to new legislation which comes into force this week.
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NewsMcDonald gets special award
ITV newsreader Sir Trevor McDonald was moved to tears last night (Tuesday) after Prime Minister Tony Blair surprised him with a special recognition award at the National Television Awards.
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Wife Swap (C4) - Carol Midgley, The Times
'Wife Swap has become an opium for the masses, an Upstairs, Downstairs which allows us a glimpse of how the undercl...
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Can't Take It With You (BBC2) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'At times, I did wonder how many viewers will actually have wanted so much information about the posthumous finance...
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Days That Shook the World (BBC2) - Gareth McLean, Guardian
'Days That Shook the World does an excellent job of focusing on the individual stories with the bigger picture and ...
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer (BBC2) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star
'How can you not love a show where the cast list includes 'dead janitor' and 'dead nerd'?...
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The Mark Steel Lectures (BBC4) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'The Mark Steel Lectures is surprisingly funny for an informative programme, and surprisingly informative for a fun...
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Britain's Worst Driver (Five) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'I'm tempted to award Five the prize for the most irresponsible series on TV, Britain's Worst Driver.'...
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NewsC4 promotes Kawash to MD of 4Ventures
Channel 4 has promoted Anmar Kawash to become the new managing director of its commercial arm 4Ventures.
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NewsCarrington to take CBBC's acquisitions post
CBBC controller Dorothy Prior has appointed Michael Carrington as new head of children's acquisitions to take over from Theresa-Plummer Andrews, who is retiring next year.
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NewsUKTV drops UK Gold 2
UKTV is dropping its time-shift channel UK Gold 2, which shows UK Gold programmes 12 hours later, and replacing it with a new channel UKG2 targeting a younger, more contemporary audience.
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NewsLondon Tonight takes best news award
London News Network's (LNN) London Tonightwon best news programme at the Royal Television Society's London awards last night (Monday), just days after new owners ITN said they would radically revamp it.
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Looking for Victoria (BBC1) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'What a muddled, piecemeal and unoriginal thing was last night's Looking For Victoria.'...
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Looking for Victoria (BBC1) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'Looking for Victoria may have reinforced a lot of television cliches, but it effectively undermined several histor...
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Looking for Victoria (BBC1) - Carol Midgley, The Times
'Thanks to Scales' well-honed skill, it became an entertaining navigation - part drama, part documentary? Part two ...
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Lifer - Living With Murder (C4) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star
'It was a fascinating and, for the most part, deeply depressing documentary.'...
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Lifer - Living With Murder (C4) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'Lifer was the kind of old-school documentary that you now tend to see only when BBC4 repeats something from the ar...
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NewsITV bumps off Family
ITV's home-grown gangster drama Familylast night (27 October) got the bullet from its Monday night peaktime slot after failing to deliver big enough audience numbers, writes Conor Dignam.