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Labour urged to clip the BBC's wings
The government is facing parliamentary pressure to bring the BBC fully under the control of the new media regulator...
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Lights, camera, let the cutting begin
It was called the Y-cut. The audience was stunned into a queasy silence and the circus which was the first public ...
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Public service TV stations must pay Sky charges
The government has hinted that it may provide some tax benefits to compensate public service broadcasters after rej...
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BBC1 presents? 'The Truth' and nothing like the truth about Jeffrey Archer
It is Jeffrey Archer's life story - but not even as the criminal fantasist himself would have dared to imagine it....
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The cream of the Z-list grasps a chance to revive careers
At the start of last night's show, Davina McCall announced the significant numbers: 'Six celebrities, 10 days, no a...
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Bitch of Big Brother
Anne Diamond was last night brnaded he bitch of Celebrity Big Brother - before the show even started. ...
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EastEnders crisis
Soap hunk Dean Gaffney has told how top stars are living in fear of getting the axe from EastEnders. ...
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I wish that Big Brother woud curl up and die
He won the last one - but it's not something he's proud of. In fact Jack Dee says he wishes Celebrity Big Brother a...
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Archer & Maggie in TV romp
Margaret Thatcher, dressed in stockings and high heels, is to be seen seducing Jeffrey Archer in a new BBC comedy....
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Born to be warriors
They were the world's most formidable fighters. But as a new TV series makes clear, Sparta's military regime was ma...
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Celebs seek Big brother career boost
They have been dismissed as D-list rather than C-list by critics. But the incarceration of six celebrities inside t...
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Archer - saint, sex god, statesman
(Well, at least that's how he'll be seen in a fantasy TV show).Mail, page 9...
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Good Lord, Archer
Margaret Thatcher is to be depicted in a naked sex romp with Jeffrey Archer in a new TV satire. ...
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Outrage as Doctor Frankenstein cuts up human for ITV
Maverick ignores jail threat to hold aloft heart for crowd. ...
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Celeb six enter the world of Big Bruv
Famous faces go into the house for ten days of fun and frolics. ...
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NewsBSkyB under attack in 'must carry' row
ITV is to lead a campaign against BSkyB in the run-up to voting on the Communications Bill in a bid to force down the price the satellite giant charges public service broadcasters for access to its platform, write David Rose & Conor Dignam
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NewsMen & Motors takes nudity down a gear
Granada Sky Broadcasting (GSB) has toned down the sexual content of its Men & Motors channel after concerns that it was becoming too racy, writes Paul Revoir
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NewsITV lines up big-budget version of Dracula
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has strengthened his penchant for big-budget adaptations of classic texts, giving Granada the go-ahead for a multimillion pound adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, writes David Wood
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NHU chief set for new role
The head of the BBC's Natural History Unit (NHU), Keith Scholey, is poised to leave his job to become full-time controller of the BBC's specialist factual department, sparking fears that the traditionally independent Bristol unit could be brought under tighter control from London, writes Leigh ...
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BBC's general factual review delayed again
The long-awaited review of the BBC's general factual commissioning system has been delayed again, leaving staff increasingly frustrated and fearing that it may never be published, writes Leigh Holmwood