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    BT launches Podshow

    2008-05-14T14:26:14Z

    BT has launched an online TV portal that enables users to create their own television and radio serials and make money by linking their shows with advertisers.

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    Microsoft to show C4 clips

    2008-05-14T14:28:51Z

    Channel 4 has licensed clips of shows including Skins, Peep Show and How to Look Good Naked to Microsoft's Messenger TV, which enables users to watch videos while sending instant messages.

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    Kate Modern ends in June

    2008-05-14T14:32:23Z

    Bebo's interactive web drama Kate Modern is to finish at the end of June after two series and more than 300 four-minute episodes.

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    Who fans mix own trailers

    2008-05-14T14:34:16Z

    Doctor Who fans can create their own trailer for the show with a new feature on the BBC's website.

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    ITV makes football mag

    2008-05-14T14:36:00Z

    ITV has produced a 12-page online interactive magazine to support ITV4 football series Legends.

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    Alistair Cooke at centre of BBC4 season on travel

    2008-05-14T15:14:36Z

    BBC4 has lined up a summer season on the expansion of travel in the 20th century, as seen through the lives and writing of figures such as Alistair Cooke and Laurie Lee.

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    Cornish town to get an extreme makeover

    2008-05-14T15:22:51Z

    UKTV Style will follow Extreme Makeover host Ty Pennington as he sets out to transform a rundown Cornish coastal town.

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    Is The Apprentice a genre-bender of a format?

    2008-05-14T15:24:45Z

    Is The Apprentice really a factual show? According to our weekly table, it is - and a highly successful one at that. In fact it was BBC1's most popular non-soap show this week, with 6.8 million/29% share on Wednesday at 9pm on BBC1.

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    Nesbitt in sectarian dramas

    2008-05-14T15:27:38Z

    James Nesbitt is to star in Five Minutes of Heaven, a one-off drama for BBC drama Northern Ireland about the murder of a Catholic teenager in Belfast in 1975.

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    Waking the Dead to return

    2008-05-14T15:30:53Z

    BBC1 dramas Waking the Dead and Silent Witness are to return in 2009.

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    C4's Duncan calls for end to 'squabbling' over PSB

    2008-05-14T15:33:16Z

    C4 chief executive Andy Duncan has said that its time for the industry to stop its “petty competitive squabbles” over the future of licence fee funding and sort out the future of public service broadcasting before its too late.

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    Five orders US killer doc double

    2008-05-14T15:46:45Z

    Five has commissioned two documentaries that track the grisly stories behind some of the most notorious and horrifying crimes in recent US history.

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    North-west gains£2.8m for digital skills

    2008-05-14T15:50:58Z

    The North West Development Agency is pumping£2.8m into digital industries in the region to boost media skills.

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    RDF West raids rivals for producers

    2008-05-14T15:55:47Z

    RDF Television West has poached senior producers from Diverse and Touch Productions as part of an expansion strategy that will see it produce more than 200 hours for terrestrial broadcasters this year.

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    First look at Life on Mars US

    2008-05-14T15:59:01Z

    Following news that US network ABC has green lit a full series of time-travel cop drama Life on Mars, the first footage from the American version has emerged.

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    Century takes majority holding in Molinare

    2008-05-14T16:32:24Z

    The owners of Molinare have sold a majority shareholding in the company to India-based Century Communications.

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    M2 team launch Rocket facility

    2008-05-14T16:35:43Z

    The team behind M2 have launched Rocket, a new post company based in the same Berners Street building and staffed by 30 members of the original facility.

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    Southgate quits BBC

    2008-05-14T16:40:30Z

    BBC Resources chief executive Mike Southgate is leaving the corporation after six and a half years.

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    More awards for Boy A

    2008-05-14T17:01:14Z

    Channel 4 drama Boy A was the big winner at the Bafta Craft Awards last week, bagging a hat trick of prizes in the fiction/entertainment category.

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    BBC3 hopes to lure teens with afternoon opening

    2008-05-14T17:03:26Z

    The BBC has petitioned the Trust to extend BBC3's hours into the afternoon, and is planning to give some of the extra space to its teen strand Switch.