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RatingsAuction House draws 1.7m average
TUESDAY: The final episode of Channel 4’s The Auction beat BBC2’s Shop Girls – as the World Cup coverage peaked with 8.6m.
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RatingsC5 doctors outperform C4 beauty queens
THURSDAY: Channel 4 doc Beauty Queen or Bust was outperformed by the final part of Channel 5 medical doc Trauma Doctors.
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Behind The ScenesMarvellous, BBC2
Peter Bowker’s BBC2 drama Marvellous gave young trainees from a range of backgrounds a chance to gain experience alongside the crew on a real TV production
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NewsITV ‘to relaunch Stars in Their Eyes’
ITV looks set to continue its revival of entertainment classics by bringing back Stars in Their Eyes with comedian Harry Hill, according to a report.
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NewsThe Weakest Link set for French makeover
BBC quiz The Weakest Link is to be remade for a second time in France, seven years after originally ended.
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NewsUK indies pick up Nat Geo orders
Nat Geo is to follow a space mission, meet the 9/11 emergency teams and take a nostalgic trip back to the 1990s in a slew of commissions from UK indies.
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NewsBodyshockers gets second run
Channel 4 will revisit the debate about body modification after commissioning another series of Bodyshockers.
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RatingsC4’s Auction House outbids slot average
TUESDAY: The opening episode of The Auction House was above Channel 4’s slot average despite competition from the World Cup.
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CommentSet voters free - or pay the consequences
Paid voting should be killed off in favour of free interaction, says Tom McDonnell.
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NewsC4 orders real-time voting show
Channel 4 is planning to steal a march on ITV by launching an interactive singing contest that hands viewers real-time voting power.
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NewsBBCW hands sales team £5m
BBC Worldwide has made a £5m investment in its international sales force as it bids to beef up its global distribution business.
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RatingsCelebrity Masterchef serves 4.4m
TUESDAY: Celebrity Masterchef cooked up an audience of 4.4m viewers, slipping by 300,000 from last year’s debut.
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NewsPrincess finalises management restructure
Princess Productions has completed a senior management restructure as it plans for its next stage of growth.
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NewsShine snaps up ITV & C5 series
Shine International has snapped up the international rights to two series including forthcoming ITV drama Code of a Killer.
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NewsSky Vision recoups 'eye-watering' Fortitude investment
Sky Vision has recouped its “eye-watering” investment in big-budget drama Fortitude after closing ten pre-sales for the Sky Atlantic series.
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RatingsBig Brother powers down from launch
FRIDAY: Big Brother continued to pull in the viewers for Channel 5, but lost half a million viewers from its launch episode.
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NewsHasselhoff returns to Berlin Wall for Nat Geo
David Hasselhoff is to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by fronting a Darlow Smithson film for Nat Geo.
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RatingsBig Brother launch locks in 2m
THURSDAY: Big Brother got underway on Channel 5 with an audience of 2.1m - in line with last year’s launch.
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NewsC5 takes on UKTV in UK storage format battle
Channel 5 is going head-to-head with UKTV in the storage space after the broadcasters commissioned similar series.
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NewsBBC3 to breathe new life into zombie genre
BBC3 may be on the chopping block but it plans to innovate ahead of its move online with a Release The Hounds-style crossgenre zombie gameshow.