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One Life (BBC1) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'Last night's One Life was something special...the makers must have put in much time and skill in order to get inte...
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One Life (BBC1) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'This was a powerful story of a life genuinely hanging in the balance. It put Derren Brown's manipulative, ghoulish...
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One Life (BBC1) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'Positively Dickensian in its exploitation of our susceptibility to childish distress and? utterly indifferent to a...
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Grand Designs Revisited (C4) - Gareth McLean, Guardian
'Grand Designs Revisited (Channel 4) was, inevitably, great fun.'...
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The Human Mind: Personality (BBC1) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star
'This is science for kiddies, something you might expect on Newsround.'...
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Flying Through the Sound Barrier (C5) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'This somewhat chaotic programme was a nerd's delight, packed with snippets of technical information on jet planes,...
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R1 to clean up breakfast slot
BBC Radio 1 has pledged to banish swearing and sexual innuendo from its breakfast show after announcing that DJ Sara Cox will be replaced by drivetime host Chris Moyles early next year, writes Michael Rosser.
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New C4 100 greatest
Channel 4 has commissioned another instalment of its 100 Greateststrand, charting the top 100 sexy moments. Made by indie Shine Entertainment, the 180-minute show will ask viewers to chose their favourite erotic scenes from TV and film via the C4 website in order to compile ...
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BBC2 greenlights The Long Firm
Novelist Jake Arnott's gritty portrayal of 1960s east London gangland is to be brought to the small screen in a major four-part drama for BBC2 as part of controller Jane Root's push to refresh the genre on her channel, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC2 revisits country house life
BBC2 controller Jane Root has ordered a fourth series of Country House, which chronicles life on British historic estates, from Tiger Aspect. The 6 x 50-minute docu-soap, co-commissioned by Celia Taylor, will this time be set at the Earl of Normanton's Somerley estate, which hosts pop concerts, radio shows and ...
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C4I coughs up£2m for indie projects
Channel 4 International (C4I) is to set up a£2m development fund to develop international and commercial projects with the UK independent production sector. The fund, which is being overseen by C4I managing director Paul Sowerbutts, will be used to exclusively finance programme and concept development and discussions are already at ...
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BBC2 boost for Sumners
Manchester post facility Sumners has been commissioned by BBC Manchester to do all the post work on Britain's Best Sitcom, one of the largest BBC projects of next year.
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C4 seals Carr exclusive
Comedian Jimmy Carr has signed a one-year exclusive deal with Channel 4 that will see him fronting a new gameshow as well as developing his own projects. Carr, who won a Royal Television Society award for best newcomer this year, will host Distraction, made by ...
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C4 plans bold news strand
Channel 4's new head of news and current affairs, Dorothy Byrne, has made her first key decision, launching a major new UK-focused current affairs strand that she claimed will fly in the face of the politically correct and 'say the unsayable'.
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C4 orders Medici series
Lion Television has picked up a brace of history orders from Channel 4, including a four-part series on the Medici, writes Jon Rogers.
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BBC4 orders five-parter on music greats
BBC4 controller Roly Keating has commissioned a series of music documentaries from the BBC's in-house music entertainment department. The 5 x 60-minute pieces, to be executive produced by Mark Cooper, will look at stars such as John Martyn, John Mayall and Gil Scott Heron and will air from December until ...
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Buyout of 422 Manchester complete
The management of post facility 422 Manchester have this week completed a buyout of the company, just over a year after it was bought by the Barcud Derwen Group, writes Sam Espensen.
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Five seeks Ofcom approval to axe 7pm news
Five is set to call on new regulator Ofcom to allow it to axe its news bulletin from peaktime and open up its schedule to more popular shows, writes Michael Rosser.
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St Anne's takes on Henry VIII
St Anne's Post spent six months doing post-production on Henry VIII, a two-part TV drama starring Ray Winstone. Colourist Sam Hollingdale, who completed the grade, said that several battle scenes were given a steely blue look to make the swords and weapons glint and shine. For the execution scenes, as ...
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BBC Asia unit moves into mainstream
The BBC's Asian programme unit (APU) is preparing to move into mainstream programming for the first time with a BBC3 series explaining global conflicts, writes Leigh Holmwood.