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Skinner's Shane taken by Paramount
Paramount Comedy 2 has acquired Frank Skinner's ITV1 sitcom Shane and will screen the first series next year. The 7 x 30-minute comedy series, produced by Avalon Television, features Skinner as a wise-cracking minicab driver whose career and family life is slowly disintegrating. It will ...
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Yentob undecided
BBC creative director Alan Yentob has still not decided whether to front the forthcoming BBC1 series A Picture of Britain , despite having been asked by channel controller Lorraine Heggessey in May. The 6 x 60-minute series, which will look at the relationship between different ...
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NewsCrunch time for Sky One
Sky One controller James Baker this week unveiled a new look and upmarket programme line-up in a bid to stem the channel's diminishing audience.
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NewsFive explores dark side of Richard & Judy
Five is to reveal the 'darker side' of rival Channel 4's biggest stars with exposés of daytime stars Richard and Judy and TV chef Gordon Ramsay.
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NewsBBC's ballroom dancers poised to battle Bart
The BBC is to pit a nightly spin-off of its popular Strictly Come Dancing series against The Simpsons when the animation transfers to Channel 4.
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Watson uses drinking film to slate reality TV
Veteran documentary-maker Paul Watson is to make his first film for the BBC in a decade with a landmark special on binge drinking which he will also use as a retort to reality television.
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Anderson quits ITV
ITV controller of current affairs, arts and religion Steve Anderson will leave the broadcaster next week after seven years, with no job to go to.
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Olympic medal winners sign up for Superstars
Fresh from bringing home a gold medal as part of Britain's coxless four, Olympic rower James Cracknell has been handed a new challenge - winning BBC1's Superstars.
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E4 pits old comics against new
Endemol UK will attempt to see whether old-time comic heroes are better than the new breed with its first commission out of its new Bristol Studios offshoot.
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Distraction on route for US
Channel 4 comedy gameshow Distraction is to be remade for US audiences complete with British host Jimmy Carr.
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NewsKeating boosts BBC2 docs
Documentaries on BBC2 are to get a 'significant' boost following the agreement of a new strategy for the genre by controller Roly Keating.
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Vaughan pens sitcom for MTV
Johnny Vaughan has written a new sitcom about two small-time drug dealers that will mark MTV's first foray into comedy drama.
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NewsBBC4 to feature atheism series
BBC4 unveiled an autumn schedule led by highbrow series on atheism and the power of light this morning (Wednesday).
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NewsC4 International teams up with Big Wave
Channel 4 International (C4I) has signed a two-year deal with regional indie Big Wave Productions to develop new high-end factual series and factual entertainment formats.
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News'Flash mob' opera headlines BBC3 autumn
BBC3 is to try its hand at opera for the first time when it stages a 60-minute live event from a mainline railway station in October, in one of the highlights of its autumn schedule.
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NewsSky One unveils autumn offensive
Sky One controller James Baker last night unveiled a new look and upmarket programme line-up in a bid to convince its diminishing audience that its days of simply offering 'The Simpsons and shagging' are behind it.
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NewsGalaxy re-signs Mobo deal
The Galaxy Network has secured live broadcast rights to the urban music Mobo Awards for the fifth year running.
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News'Unfair' Today criticised by Ofcom
BBC Radio 4 flagship show Today has been rapped by Ofcom for being 'unfair'.
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NewsTiger moves into radio
Tiger Aspect, the independent production company behind Mr Bean and The Vicar of Dibley , has picked up its first radio commissions.
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NewsBBC Weather gets PlayStation treatment
The BBC has turned to PlayStation-style technology to update its weather bulletins with a new 3D service that lets forecasters zoom around the country as if they were playing a computer game.