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NewsNews Corp threatens to sue BBC
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is considering suing the BBC over its decision to change satellites and un-encrypt its services, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NewsDon Foster is Lib-Dem media spokesman
Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has appointed a party heavyweight as his media spokesman in the run-up to BBC Charter review, writes David Rose.
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NewsBudget increase for ITV
ITV owners Carlton and Granada have agreed a rise in the broadcaster's programme budget, hiking it up to£849m next year, following the government's decision to allow the two companies to merge, writes Paul Revoir.
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Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death (BBC1) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'Colosseum - like its spectacular predecessor Pyramid - took 10 minutes' worth of information and made it fill an h...
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Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death (BBC1) - Nancy Banks-Smith, Guardian
'Colosseum, scripted flatteringly in elementary Latin ('Victoria!'), was about those short-lived darlings of the ro...
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Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death (BBC1) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'In the past I've been cheerfully sniffy about BBC1's effortless attempts to Make History Fun. Annoyingly enough, t...
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Teen Big Brother: The Experiment (C4) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'Big Brother is to Teen Big Brother what being shot by firing squad is to being killed by having pintacks nailed in...
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Family (ITV) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
?Family is turning out to be a first-rate crime series, observed for a change from the standpoint of the Mafia-like...
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News7.7m see ITV1's Henry VIII
ITV1's£6 million historical drama adaptation of the life of Henry VIII won over a secure 7.7 milllion (34%), writes Jon Rogers.
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News Corp backs Murdoch Jnr for Sky role
The positioning of Rupert Murdoch's youngest son James Murdoch for the top job at BSkyB has been given the resounding backing of the president of News Corporation, the pay-TV group's largest shareholder, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Disney joins Freeview
Disney is set to launch a general entertainment channel on Freeview this winter targeting a family audience.
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NewsBaker takes Ramsden Sky One role
Sky One controller Sara Ramsden has quit only seven months after joining and Sky head of content and creative affairs James Baker is taking over, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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NewsAllsop quits Granada
Granada controller of format sales and acquisitions Malcolm Allsop is leaving the company to work as an independent consult in the international arena, writes Paul Revoir.
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NewsFremantle buys Aussie indie
FremantleMedia has bought Australian TV production company Crackerjack to develop Antipodean versions of Talkback formats such as How Clean Is Your House?, writes Michael Rosser.
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NewsChrysalis TV Group exec quits
Another senior executive from the Chrysalis TV Group has quit, a month after former Granada chief executive Steve Morrison and his management team took over the company, writes Colin Robertson.
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NewsC4 picks up Touchstone's 'Line of Fire'
Channel 4 has acquired the free-to-air and pay TV rights to Touchstone Television's new FBI drama, Line of Fire, writes Jane Marlow.
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NewsDr Who sold to Australia
BBC Worldwide has sold a selection of classic Doctor Whoprogramming to Australian broadcasters to mark the 40th anniversary of the iconic time lord just days after it was revealed the first new series for 14 years had been green-lit, writes ...
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Henry VIII (ITV1) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
?My chief worry about this Henry was his accent.?...
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Henry VIII (ITV1) - Nancy Banks-Smith, Guardian
'Ray Winstone played Henry VIII (ITV1) like an East End gangster.'...
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Henry VIII (ITV1) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'This Henry VIII seemed more likely to compose a football chant than pick out 'Greensleeves' on a lute.'...