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Martin Burglar gives BBC interview
Indie Firefly has gained the first on-the-record interview with Brendan Fearon, the burglar who survived being shot by Norfolk farmer Tony Martin, for a BBC1 commission. The 60-minute drama-doc will also feature an interview with Martin and dramatic reconstructions of the break-in, when Fearon's fellow burglar Fred Barras was shot ...
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C4 puts£3.5m more into event drama
Channel 4 is pumping an extra£13.5m into drama next year after freeing up cash from its expired cricket rights deal. C4 will now invest£22m over the next year in a bid to air one event drama a month. The first recipient of the new cash will be a two-parter about ...
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VFG hire in administration
VFG Hire, which supplies cameras for Phoenix Nightsand Holby City, has gone into administration and could be sold within a fortnight. The company went into administration on Tuesday morning (1 March). So far 24 people have been made redundant but all 80 ...
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Fox quits capital after 17 years
Capital Radio drivetime DJ Neil Fox has quit after 17 years and will be replaced by former Blue Peterpresenter Richard Bacon. Bacon, who has DJ experience on Capital-owned Xfm, BBC Radio Five Live and digital station BBC7, will take over the slot this spring. The move ...
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Thomson to make HDTV boxes for BSKYB
Thomson is to be the first manufacturer of the set-top box for BSkyB's High-Definition Television (HDTV) service, set to launch in 2006. Speaking at the DVB World conference in Dublin on Wednesday (2 March), Sky chief operating officer Richard Freudenstein also announced that Sky's HDTV box would feature a similar ...
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News5.5m tuck-in to Jamie's School Dinners
Channel 4's series Jamie's School Dinnerswent from strength to strength last night with the second episode hitting a peak of 5.5 million (24%) at the end.
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NewsSpooks captures interactive Bafta
Spooks Interactivelast night won the top iTV accolade at the Bafta Interactive Awards. The red button offering picked up Bafta's Interactive TV award and was among three trophies that the BBC grabbed at the Café Royal, London.
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NewsBBC4 revives Quatermass Experiment
BBC4 has put a remake of 1950s classic live sci-fi drama The Quatermass Experimentat the heart of its summer season.
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NewsChristian body sues BBC
The BBC is being taken to court by a prominent Christian group over its decision to screen the controversial play Jerry Springer - The Opera.
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NewsTen Alps gets musical
Ten Alps, the indie co-founded by Sir Bob Geldof, is to launch a music events division and has poached a BBC Radio 1 executive to run it.
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NewsBBC slammed for paying Martin burglar
The BBC has been criticised for paying£4,500 for an exclusive interview with one of the men shot by Norfolk farmer Tony Martin.
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NewsPEER POLL: Nathan Barley
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is Nathan Barley funny (ha ha)?
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NewsTop Up TV rapped by ASA
Top Up TV, the pay-TV service for Freeview, has been reprimanded by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for trying to pass off five channels as 10.
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NewsBBC3 bags US Office remake
BBC3 has grabbed the rights to show the US version of smash hit sitcom The Office, which launches in on NBC at the end of the month.
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NewsBritain's Streets of Vice attracts 800,000
BBC1's controversial edition of its morning documentary Britain's Streets of Vice, which attracted around 200 complaints, gained an audience of just 800,000 (21%) at 9.15am, its lowest in the series.
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C4 puts£13.5m more into event drama.
Channel 4 is pumping an extra£13.5m into drama next year after freeing up cash from
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Strictly ... format to net BBC over£20m
Strictly Come Dancing is set to net over£20m for the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, the corporation said this week, writes Geoff White.
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Analysis - Do you feel lucky?
Lottery fever is way past its peak in the UK so as Camelot turns to multichannel in an attempt to widen its audience, the BBC is casting around for new concepts for the Saturday night show, writes Peter Keighron.
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Opinion - In my view - Is TV fair to teenagers?
Troubled teenagers may make great TV but the emphasis on the difficult ones is giving a misleading picture, says Daisy Goodwin.
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Comment - BBC's Carte Blanche?
The treatment of a complaint made by a participant in a 2002 BBC2 documentary shows how hard it is to hold the BBC to account for its mistakes, argues David Elstein.