All articles by Robin Parker – Page 103
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NewsTennant's Hamlet coming to BBC2
David Tennant is to bring his acclaimed stage performance of Hamlet to BBC2.
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NewsSky to be available on Xbox
Sky is to make live programming available on the Xbox 360 games console for the first time.
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Sofia's Diary gets 'edgier' third run
Sony Pictures Television is promising an “edgier” tone to its Bebo drama Sofia’s Diary when it returns for a third season.
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NewsVirgin 1 marks relaunch with Naked Office doc
Virgin 1 will kick off a relaunch designed to combine “humour and journalistic vigour” next month with a documentary about an office where staff work in the nude.
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Cherie Blair takes to the streets for Dispatches doc
Cherie Blair will join police patrols on some of Britain’s toughest estates in a follow-up to last year’s Channel 4 series, The Truth About Street Weapons.
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NewsRabbatts joins Shed board
Shed Media has appointed former Channel 4 head of education Heather Rabbatts to one of three non-executive positions.
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Endemol to produce Bebo music show
Endemol is to make a daily music magazine show for social networking site Bebo, to be funded by Samsung Mobile.
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Snog Marry Avoid goes abroad
BBC3 ‘make-under’ format Snog Marry Avoid? is to venture overseas to tackle the holiday style of Brits abroad in its third series.
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Teleshopping on PSB channels given green light
Ofcom has allowed teleshopping on commercial PSB channels for the first time, but has denied them a potential £44m in extra advertising revenue after standing firm on the amount of ads they are allowed.
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NewsCeleb Big Brother cleared over Coolio complaints
Ofcom has rejected 527 complaints about both the behaviour and depiction of rapper Coolio in this year’s Celebrity Big Brother.
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NewsSwearing TV chef sparks complaints
The BBC has apologised after 40 viewers complained about a chef using the f-word in a live pre-watershed show.
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BBC orders online sketch show from RDF
The BBC has commissioned an online sketch show featuring a vicar and a rabbi grappling with their laddish tendencies.
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C4 defends Come Dine With Me racism claims
Channel 4 has defended an episode of Come Dine With Me that attracted a “surprising” flurry of complaints over alleged racist remarks.
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Endemol wins first Polish commission
Endemol is to adapt its Dutch drama Roses and Vodka Lime for audiences in Poland - its first commission in the country.
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Five bags Breaking Bad
Five has bagged first-run UK rights to the second series of acclaimed US drama Breaking Bad.
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C4 axes Edinburgh Soho House
Edinburgh TV Festival institution Soho House has fallen victim to the cost-cutting at Channel 4.
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BBCW launches factual YouTube channel
BBC Woldwide has launched a factual YouTube channel after extending its deal with the video-sharing site.
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NewsC4-Five merger rejected by most Pact members
Two-thirds of indies believe RTL’s proposed merger of C4 and Five would be bad news for the industry, according to a Pact survey.
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Pay freeze at Ofcom; executive bonuses scrapped
Ofcom has frozen pay for all staff and scrapped this year’s bonuses for its executive committee.
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Attenborough to unveil 'missing link'
David Attenborough is set to explore the 47 million-year-old ‘missing link’ in human evolution in a primetime BBC documentary.