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NewsC4 drama's Yorke looks ahead
Channel 4's new head of drama John Yorke is keen to shed the channel's 'bleak' drama image by screening 'modern, urban drama with a sense of hope and joy'.
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Celeb boxing is back on the box
Celebrity boxing is back with a bang after the Beeb hammered out a deal with the sport's governing body ...
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Beeb crony wins a lotto
BBC chairman Gavyn Davies has just cashed in another£5 million worth of shares in investment bank Goldman Sachs ...
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£3m deal for TV's master historian
Historian Simon Schama will be paid£3 million to produce two new television series for the BBC ...
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Granada warns on ad revenues
Granada television boss Charles Allen claimed his company is staging an ITV 'fightback' with programmes such as the...
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Bob tells all on TV
Bob Dylan will speak for the first time about his early career in a BBC documentary to be made by Martin Scorsese ...
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Buoyant Granada pledges fightback at ITV
Granada declared that an ITV 'fightback is well under way' as the company delivered financial results well ahead of...
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Schama's£3m BBC deal makes him a higher earner than Starkey
The television historian Simon Schama is being offered a£3m exclusive deal to produce two new series for the BBC a...
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Granada heralds fightback for ITV
Granada yesterday reported stronger than expected interim results, but warned that 'advertising revenue remains dif...
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BBC to put history on daytime TV
The BBC announced two new series tackling history for its daytime schedules ...
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Granada reaps ratings battle rewards
Granada started to redeem itself yesterday by increasing interim profits by 35 per cent ...
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A big slice of real-life cheese
American Michael Essany may belong to a bygone era but he's here and he's too bizarre to ignore ...
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NewsTaylor's fears for broadband market
Heavy-handed regulation by Ofcom could further hinder the stop-start growth of broadband in the UK, a senior broadband figure has warned, writes John Plunkett
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NewsElstein to review licence fee
Former Channel Five chief executive David Elstein has been hired by the Tory party to conduct a wide-ranging review of the BBC licence fee in the run up to the corporation's Charter Renewal, writes David Rose
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The Hospital launches UK's first high-definition studio
The first high definition studio in the UK will open its doors in less than eight weeks time as part of the first phase of the opening of The Hospital, the new state-of-the-art creative centre spearheaded by entrepreneur Paul Allen and former Eurythmics front man Dave Stewart.
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BBC Broadcast takes generationQ
BBC Broadcast, the fourth commercial spin-off from the licence-fee funded corporation, has asked Quantel to implement a major new production system based on its generationQ technology, writes Dominic Timms
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NewsFreeview boosts switch-off hopes
Freeview has overtaken BSkyB as the key driver in the take-up of digital TV, giving a boost to government hopes of meeting its ambitious analogue switch-off target of 2010, writes John Plunkett
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NewsAllen hails 'ITV fightback'
Granada chairman Charles Allen today (20 May) announced a 35% increase in interim pre-tax profits to£65m and promised: 'The ITV fightback is well underway', writes Luke Satchell
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TV heading for DV/HD future
In less than three years time all UK television programmes will be shot on either low cost DV cameras or high definition video, a leading facilities company head claimed today.