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BBC faces obscenity row over 'shocking' new lesbian drama
A drama featuring graphic lesbian sex scenes looks set to embroil the BBC in another furious row about standards. ...
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Voyage to the end of the earth
A new TV series recreates Captain Cook's epic journey of discovery to Australia. But could the 21st century crew ha...
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MI5 call Ricky 'a thug'
Security services kept files on Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson describing him as a 'political thug', a groundbre...
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Go it alone TV threat to football
The future of the Premiership is on a knife-edge, withy the current format, where the TV deal is collectively negot...
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Whipping up a synthetic controversy
What a pity that the intellectually supine executives who run British television feel that the only way they can se...
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AOL and AT&T agree $9bn deal over cable interests
AOL Time Warner and AT&T are to unwind a decade-long cable partnership. The $9 billion (£5.89 billion) deal will al...
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AOL pushes the plot along as it takes control of the script
AOL Time Warner is paying $3.6 billion to unravel a joint venture with America's biggest phone business that gives ...
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Special Branch kept files on Royle Family star
Ricky Tomlinson, star of the television comedy The Royle Family, was denounced as a 'subversive' and 'political thu...
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Berlusconi caught offside in TV fiasco
Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, found himself at the heart of a new row over conflict of interests y...
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AOL in market for cable acquisitions
AOL Time Warner is scouring the market for potential cable acquisitions, after dissolving its long-running partners...
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ITV to silence regional voices
Carlton and Granada are to risk further accusations that they are diluting their regional identities with plans to axe regional continuity voices from the beginning of programmes in the latest phase of ITV centralisation , writes Steve Aston
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Carlton founder member leaves
Carlton Broadcasting managing director Colin Stanbridge, one of the original team who bid for the Carlton ITV licence, has quit the company after more than 10 years' service, writes Steve Aston
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Hopes grow for U-turn over local radio ownership rules
The government is seeking to resolve its dispute with the commercial radio industry over the controversial local ownership 'three plus one rule' by early next month, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Sky plans E4-style shows
Sky One is taking steps to fend off rival E4 with plans to commission a number of reality comedy shows in an attempt to beat the Channel 4 entertainment channel at its own game, writes Paul Revoir
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GMTV in push to make digital cash
Breakfast broadcaster GMTV is looking to secure extra cash by reselling items from its morning strands to digital channels and has hired former Meridian director of programmes Richard Simons to oversee the push, writes Steve Aston
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BBC recruits for general factual
The BBC's general factual department is to undergo a radical shake-up in the way it develops new programmes, with the creation of a new 60-strong development team and a£1.5m cash injection after fears that not enough was being commissioned, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Freeview still short of three channels
Time is running out for Crown Castle to fill the three vacant channels on the new DTT platform it is operating with the BBC, after the two companies confirmed the service will launch from the end of October, writes Paul Revoir
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Bullseye show will bare all
Indie Bullseye Television has been commissioned to make a naked Blind Date-style game-show in which contestants will be encouraged to embark on a one-night stand and then be filmed having sex, writes Paul Revoir
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NewsJowell wakes up to indies' discontent
The government has called on one of the original architects of BBC director general Greg Dyke's One BBC project to conduct a review of the UK programme supply market, as it moves to repair its tattered relationship with the independent production community, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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NewsThompson to call for return to C4's 'glory days'
Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson is expected to issue a clarion call to programme-makers to help return C4 to its glory days as the country's most exciting and innovative channel when he delivers the annual MacTaggart Lecture in Edinburgh on Friday (23 August), write ...