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Cabinet media adviser says licence fee must go
An influential adviser on media policy to the government is to make a high-profile case for abolition of the licenc...
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RM leads fight against BBC 'digital curriculum'
RM, the listed educational software specialist will seek High Court action this week against the BBC, to challenge ...
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Quiz blokes are bums blasts Tarrant
Quiz host Chris Tarrant has attacked male contestants on the hit show, claiming they're 'up their own arse'. ...
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Hol of a wife swap!
The creators of row-fuelled telly show Wife Swap are planning an even more explosive new series, which will see cou...
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TV autopsy in the clear
Channel 4 did not break TV rules by screening a public autopsy, watchdogs said yesterday. ...
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I'm expecting a heavy fall of mumbo jumbo
Former broadcaster pours scorn on BBC weather bulletins. ...
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Radio First makes comeback
Radio First, the digital station chaired by former Football League chairman Keith Harris, will be returning to Aim ...
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NewsGround Force crosses the pond
BBC America has signed its first independent production venture after ordering an 8 x 60-minute US-based version of Endemol UK's garden makeover show, Ground Force, writes Colin Robertson
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NewsBBC news to axe 60 jobs
Around 60 posts are to be axed within the BBC's huge news department as part of a comprehensive cost-cutting exercise, writes Leigh Holmwood
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NewsBRMB gets its fingers burnt
Birmingham radio station BRMB has been fined£15,000 after it admitted breaching health and safety laws during a competition stunt that left three participants with severe burns and permanent scars, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsAllcroft and Thomas The Tank Engine reunited
Britt Allcroft is to be reunited with her popular Thomas The Tank Engine characters after agreeing to join the board of Hit Entertainment - the children's group that bought her former indie, writes Colin Robertson
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NewsFame Academy cash to fund performers' bursary
The BBC is to use the£1m-plus profits from its reality format Fame Academy to create a performing arts bursary for young people, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Reid in TV rant
Former EastEnder Mike Reid has lashed telly bosses for putting too much soap on our screens. ...
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You too can look a total Dickinson
Bargain Hunt smoothie David Dickinson is to be the BBC's next makeover guru - by helping viewers look just like him...
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Cartoon pervert on BBC 3
The BBC's new digital TV channel is to screen a comedy cartoon series featuring a paedophile. ...
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Fourtou and Diller in move to free up Vivendi to sell assets
Jean-René Fourtou, chairman of Vivendi Universal, and Barry Diller were last night discussing ways to unscramble th...
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BBC3 chief defends programming
Three Manchester men suffering a collective quarter-life crisis and a dysfunctional Asian family were revealed by t...
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Are you sticking comfortably
Looks like poor old Eammon Holmes has been eating too many pies. ...