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EasternEnders
The queen of curry, Madhur Jaffrey, is to join EastEnders as a matriarch figure for the new Ferreira family. ...
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Why EastEnders adultery is not faithful to real life
It has a reputation as Briain's bleakest soap, but the storylines of EastEnders pale in comparison with real life: ...
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Who is the best bruv?
Telly bosses are planning the ultimate Big Brother special to find the fly-on-the-wall series' Champion of Champion...
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NTL ends its viewers exodus
Cable TV company NTL reported a return to customer growth yesterday after more than a year of defections as it batt...
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Truth stranger than fiction
A scientific review of Eastenders has found that the infidelity, prostitution and illegitimacy portrayed in the soa...
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The celebrity fix
They appeared an isolated group in the thick of the of the Australian jungle battling with torrebtial downpours, po...
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BBC to spend millions on leadership training for 5,000
The BBC is to send more than 5,000 staff on an eight-day resedential management training course in a multi-million-...
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Puttnam in bid to block changes on cross-media ownership
Lord Puttnam yesterday insisted that he would press on with the so-called 'Murdoch Ammendment' to the Communication...
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This was your life!
This Is Your Life is facing the axe after a 48-year run - because young stars think it is naff. ...
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Naked ambition of TV wannabes
Desperate Big Brother 4 hopefuls have been proving they will do just about anything to get on the programme. ...
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Revolutionary deal as TV adaption of Dr Zhivago is sold...to Russia
In the televisual equivalent of selling coals to Newcastle, Granada has persuaded a Russian TV channel to buy its l...
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The Explainer - Radio advertising
The rajar results for the first three months of the year were not good news for the commercial radio industry. ...
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TV executive dies from DVT after skiing accident
A Young TV executive collapsed and died from deep vein thrombosis after flying home from a skiing accident in Canad...
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NewsLive TV to make its comeback on Sky
Live TV, the infamous cable television channel that gave the world News Bunny and Topless Darts, is set to return, writes Rosemary Gallagher
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NewsC4 sets up 4 Broadband channel
Channel 4 is launching a factual and entertainment broadband channel, 4 Broadband, to showcase programmes and clips from the broadcaster's back-catalogue, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsNTL to be bought out of ITV News
Carlton and Granada are to take full control of the ITV News Channel by buying out NTL Europe's 35% stake, writes Paul Revoir
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NewsBig Brother house stays open till 2008
Big Brother is set to stay on British screens until at least 2008, even if ratings fall for the main Channel 4 show, according to the C4 executive in charge of it, write Leigh Holmwood and Paul Revoir
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NewsITV pushes on with back-room merger
The back-room merger of Carlton and Granada continued this week as the pair announced that all planning and scheduling operations will be moved to centres in London and the north from next month, writes Paul Revoir
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West End's DGP goes east for Channel 4
Soho post house DGP has cut and graded A Bit of Oriental, a new show for Channel 4 produced by Spiritworld. The 1 x 30-minute programme is a light-hearted documentary that looks at the lives of Oriental women and how they are perceived in British ...
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BBC4 to look at the greatest historians
BBC4 has ordered a major 3 x 50-minute series that aims to bring the world's greatest historians to life. Great Historians, to be executive produced in-house by Jonathan Gili, will use actors to explore the work of Edward Gibbon, author of ...