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Cartoon Network ready to grow up.
Cartoon Network is understood to be hatching plans to launch a grown-up version of its main channel, writes Steve Aston
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ITN WINS CONTRACT.
ITN has landed the contract to produce Channel 4's news for a further five years. The
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COUNTDOWN SECURE.
Channel 4 has confirmed the future of its daily quizshow Countdown by giving it a permanent
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Extra Doctors 'will keep ITV on its toes'.
In her first major move since becoming BBC daytime controller in March, Alison Sharman has ordered a number of 60-minute specials of lunchtime soap Doctors as part of a wider strategy to 'keep ITV on its toes', writes Leigh Holmwood
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ITV turns to short-run drama to lift ratings.
ITV is looking to order more shorter-run mainstream drama series to reclaim its dominance in peaktime, writes Steve Aston
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Entertainment DTT option hit.
Complicated rights and carriage deals could scupper plans to launch a new entertainment channel on the BBC/Crown Castle digital terrestrial platform, writes Paul Revoir
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Lion focuses on entertainment.
Lion TV has appointed its first head of entertainment, hiring former Endemol controller of entertainment, international Adam Wood, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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BBC faces indie rage over quota shortfall.
Accusations that the BBC is letting down the independent production sector gained further weight this week
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NewsPaxman apologises for intrusive interview with Lib Dem leader
BBC political linchpin Jeremy Paxman was forced to apologise yesterday after a Newsnight interview in which he interrogated Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy over his drinking habits, writes Luke Satchell
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Baying for blood
How did Jade from Big Brother become the object of such a searingly vicious hate campaign? ...
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Drama's queen
At 16 she was a working-class girl pushing a pram on a Leeds estate. Now she's one of Britain's most successful tel...
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Malone withdraws Telewest bond offer
The battle for control of Telewest has taken a surprising twist with billionaire John Mallone withdrawing his offer...
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AOL suffers a double blow
AOL Time Warner, the US internet and media group created at the height of the dotcom boom, lost one of the leading ...
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Fortuyn exhumation to be shown on TV
In death as in life Pim Fortuynm, the maverick Dutch politician, has the power to provoke controversy, and a decisi...
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Brits vie for Emmy awards
The macabre US funeral drama Six Feet Under, which has developed a cult following on Channel 4, has topped the list...
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Paxman apology for grilling Kennedy on drink
Jeremy Paxman made a rare apology yesterday after being accused of overstepping the mark in an interview with Charl...
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Liberty Media scraps Telewest bond offer
Liberty Media's attempt to influence the future of the UK cable company Telewest took another twist yesterday after...
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AOL's Pittman departs after shake-up sees Time Warner take control of board
Turmoil at AOL Time Warner, the world's largest media conglomerate, burst into the open yesterday with the resignat...
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'Six feet Under' buries rivals on Emmys shortlist
A black comedy about a family of dysfunctional undertakers, Six Feet Under, is leading the field of nominees for th...
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Paxman apologises to Kennedy for questions about drinking habits
Jeremy Paxman, the Newsnight presenter, had apologised to Charles Kennedy after he subjected the Liberal Democrat l...