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BBC children's chief aims to revive ITV fortunes
Nigel Pickard has been named as the successor to David Liddiment as ITV director of programmes ...
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ITV's odd couple in united front for doubters
Green and Allen turn on the charm to show they'll get on ...
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ITV names new top man 'with different approach'
ITV appointed Nigel Pickard as its director of programmes ...
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Soaps 'give a negative view of family life'
A report today by Labour's good parenting quango says that Britain's most popular soap operas give a negative view ...
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Man who gave us Ant and Dec gets top ITV job
ITV has hired the man who resurrected the television characters Basil Brush and Bill and Ben ...
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Granada and Carlton agree terms
Granada and Carlton agreed terms of their merger but said there were still regulatory hurdles to the deal ...
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ITV duo step up merger campaign
Granada and Carlton will step up their campaign to gain the support of regulators ...
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ITV poaches executive who rescued Basil Brush
ITV has appointed Nigel Pickard from Children's BBC as director of programmes ...
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ITV role for Nigel
Nigel Pickard, the man who brought Bill and Ben and Basil Brush back to the small screen, was last night given the ...
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Chance meeting that reunited TV's public school star with his lost father
When Ryan Bell swoppped the inner city streets for one of Britain's top public schools, it was a remarkable new sta...
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Unease over bosses' role in ITV merger
Granada yesterday revealed the details of its effective£1 billion takeover of Carlton, leaving some shareholders a...
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Monopoly fears over ITV deal
Carlton and Granada are to press ahead with a£3 billion plan to create a single ITV in the face of monopoly fears....
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Scarred by soaps
TV storylines 'encourage chuildren to believe that family breakdown is inevitable'. ...
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ITV merger won't save us from drivel
Once upon a time ITV was a force for dynamism and innovation. Forty or so years ago, while the BBC floundered in a ...
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NewsRegional TV faces crisis
Television production in the nations and regions is in crisis as commercial pressures force broadcasters to commission programmes from their own in-house departments and London suppliers, according to a major new report published this week, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsBBC in High Court apology
The BBC has been forced to apologise to the High Court after admitting it spent thousands of pounds developing its digital curriculum bid in strict violation of government rules, writes Leigh Holmwood
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NewsBig Brother exec quits BBC for 19TV role
BBC head of new entertainment development Conrad Green is jumping ship from the corporation after only one year to join pop svengali Simon Fuller's production outfit 19TV, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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NewsITV plc to spell turmoil
Carlton and Granada finally agreed terms of their much-anticipated merger yesterday but are unlikely to make any real progress on the deal for several months, writes Steve Aston
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BBC 3 prepares for launch
The BBC's new digital youth channel BBC 3 will launch in February and be given its own individual branding which will be distinctive from the BBC's other main TV channels, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Spectrum costs to become reality
The prospect of broadcasters having to shell out up to£15m per channel in spectrum charges will become a reality in a little over three years after the government this week gave the go-ahead for the controversial plan, writes Barbara Marshall