All Broadcast articles in 22 October 2010
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RatingsInjection of viewers boosts Quacks
BBC2 enjoyed a good night as medical sitcom Quacks and its partition programming grew their audience
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NewsOne-off licence fee reduction mooted
BBC licence fee payers could get “a one-off reduction” in the £145.50 they pay every year if the plan for the corporation to fund the Welsh language service S4C falls through.
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NewsZeppotron names head of comedy
Endemol-owned indie Zeppotron has promoted formatted comedy editor Ruth Phillips to head of comedy.
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NewsStars look back for BBC2
One Foot In The Grave star Richard Wilson and Gavin & Stacey’s Alison Steadman are to offer candid reflections on their careers for BBC2’s Christmas season.
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NewsChannel 4 defends Harry docudrama
Channel 4 defended its broadcast last night of a “dramatised documentary” showing Prince Harry taken prisoner in Afghanistan as “sober and responsible”.
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NewsBBC3 hunts young documentary directors
BBC3 is giving emerging documentary directors the opportunity to secure a major commission that will form part of the channel’s next adult season.
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CommentMark Watson Kicks Off, ITV4
It has taken eight years to bring award-winning radio show Fighting Talk to TV in the guise of ITV4’s Mark Watson Kicks Off. Gregor Cameron reveals the blood, sweat and tears behind it.
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NewsGMG Radio readies troop specials
GMG radio stations Real and Smooth Radio are to air a Remembrance Sunday special as part of a series of programming dedicated to British troops.
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NewsChannel 5 quits Thinkbox
Channel 5 has left TV marketing body Thinkbox as it focuses its investment on programming and IPTV platform YouView.
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Vintage TV staffs up ahead of West End doc
Fledgling over-50s music TV channel Vintage TV has appointed Ian Davis as its commercial director as it passes 500,000 weekly viewers.
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NewsViewers to choose Sky Movies' Christmas schedule
Sky Movies will offer viewers the chance to create their own Christmas and Boxing Day schedules.
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NewsCompact secures £17m investment
Compact Media Group has announced a £17m investment from private equity house Lyceum Capital and appointed 2entertain founder Richard Green as executive chairman.
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NewsWelsh indies question S4C's independence
Indies have questioned the independence of Welsh-language broadcaster S4C following plans to merge it with the BBC.
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NewsPEC Video MD dies in bike accident
PEC Video managing director Derek Morgan, 53, has died from injuries he sustained in a motorcycle accident on the M1 motorway.
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RatingsPrince Harry dramadoc captures 900,000
THURSDAY: Channel 4’s controversial dramatised documentary depicting the results of Prince Harry being captured while serving on the front line in Afghanistan failed to top the million mark.
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First look: Skins US
MTV has released the first trailer for the US version of teen drama Skins.
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RatingsRecording an appetite for drama
High quality drama, the Inbetweeners and Lord Sugar pushed The X Factor out of the top ten most-recorded programmes for the first week of October.
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NewsBBC to screen women's boxing
Women’s competitive boxing will be shown live on the BBC for the first time next month, the corporation has announced.
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NewsBSkyB closes on 10m target
Satellite broadcaster BSkyB moved closer to its target of 10 million customers today as it added 96,000 subscribers in the first three months of its financial year.
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NewsMurdoch calls for coalition to 'stay the course'
Rupert Murdoch has backed the Government’s tough line on the public finances, urging the coalition to “stay the political course”.