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Commissions - Heggessey brings back drama favourites.
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has recommissioned three of the channel's dramas. Filming on a new 8
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Commissioning - Quickfire scores two BBC series.
Former Granada head of history Mark Fielder's new indie, Quickfire Media, has picked up its first
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Commissions - BBC signs Campbell for primetime show.
The BBC has signed TV and radio presenter Nicky Campbell to host its new primetime Saturday
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Commissioning - Commissioner's Q&A - Matt Tombs.
The head of entertainment and drama at UKTV is on the lookout for weekend event ideas for the group's new entertainment channel, UKTV G2, and is proud of the fact that UKTV Gold is not just a repeats outlet.
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Commissioning - ITV Saturday night show gives the talentless hope.
RDF Media is to produce a new Saturday night entertainment show for ITV in which two of Britain's top music managers will each have to transform a talentless group of friends into a credible band of performers, writes Glen Mutel.
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Format Focus: The making of the ? Show.
An improvised Finnish comedy, which has echoes of The Larry Sanders Show, The Office and Monty Python, sounds as if it would be irresistible to a UK audience, writes Michael Rosser.
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Top 10 Programmes on Sunday 7 March.
ITV1 had a stranglehold over viewers last Sunday with the commercial broadcaster convincingly taking the top
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Unique loses Radio 2 show.
Unique Productions is to lose another lucrative contract when its BBC Radio 2 show with Richard Allinson is axed, writes Michael Rosser.
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Murdoch vetoes launching Channel 6.
BSkyB chief executive James Murdoch has halted plans to set up a 'Channel 6' entertainment channel on the Freeview platform, writes Paul Revoir.
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Blaxill to 6Music.
Capital Radio creative director Ric Blaxill is quitting to take up the head of programmes position
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79 apply for BBC Chair.
The government has confirmed 79 applications have been received for the BBC chairmanship - significantly more
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RDF adds two agents to talent division.
RDF Media has doubled the size of its talent management team with the appointments of agents Michael Joyce and Craig Latto from Silver Fox Artist Management, writes Glen Mutel.
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ITV closes sales arm.
ITV is closing its multichannel sales arm as part of the merger process, with up to
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BBC debate draws solid ratings.
BBC1's Panorama debate over the role of the corporation brought the current affairs programme a respectable 2.4 million (15%), writes Jon Rogers.
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BBC revamps its learning division.
The BBC has appointed its first creative director for learning as part of a revamp of its educational output, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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US calls on BBC for ideas.
American Network CBS is looking to make a US version of the hit BBC1 drama Being April, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Noddy the cash cow.
Chorion, the owner of children's character Noddy, has said it will buy new assets after reporting
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Emap gears up for radio deals.
Emap has handed its managing director of programming, Mark Story, a beefed-up pan-group role as it
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MPs slam Ofcom for failure on ITV.
Ofcom is investigating ITV plc's plans to slash 400 jobs from its Central franchise as MPs
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Talent group opens.
The Stellar Network, a US-based talent agency, is to launch in the UK. BBC Films head