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CommentTo Catch A Paedophile
Series producer/director Lesley Gardiner recounts the story behind ITV1 documentary To Catch A Paedophile, which begins tonight.
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CommentTV is thinking outside the box
TV sets that plug into broadband could challenge pay-TV operators.
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CommentUniversity Challenged
Mat Appleton, head of client services for ENVY, discusses the challenges facing graduates trying to find work in TV.
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CommentWelcoming reduced revenues
The TV industry must swap Chablis for Coke Zero if it is to change.
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CommentFilling Big Brother’s big boots
Forget creative renewal, Channel 4 will need a cash cow to replace Big Brother.
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CommentWhy the BBC needs to worry about Murdoch’s MacTaggart
James Murdoch’s MacTaggart speech has sparked a debate in which the BBC must get more involved, writes Conor Dignam.
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CommentIt’s festival time! Don’t let the side down at Edinburgh
Attendees need to shake off bland and put the spirit back into the festival, says Ash Atalla.
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CommentA new era for Channel 4?
As the broadcaster prepares to wind down Big Brother, summer 2011 can’t come fast enough for Robin Parker.
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CommentBroadcast on... The X Factor
As the new series of The X Factor prepares to launch, ITV has provided a first look to a select gathering. Broadcast’s Kate McMahon was there to see the good, the bad and the downright awful.
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CommentCredit worries mean it is a bumper year for television
Despite the current gloom, TV advertising is still an effective medium, says Elaine Bedell.
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CommentWhy R1 should not be privatised
Just days after Tory leader David Cameron’s faux pas on Christian O’Connell’s Absolute Radio’s breakfast show, his shadow broadcasting minster has taken a swipe at the BBC and threatened that a future Conservative Government would sell off Radio 1, writes Paul Robinson.
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CommentUK VoD: competition or chaos?
Will Kangaroo, Canvas and Hulu be too much choice for consumers?
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CommentNo place for Alan Partridge regional snobs in TV today
Promoting production outside London is a blessing in diversity, says Stuart Cosgrove.
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CommentTaggart star turns to Tartan
Taggart star John Michie explains how he turned his hand to producing and presenting, and embarked on the chequered past of Tartan for a major factual series on STV.
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CommentBroadcast on... Wuthering Heights
Broadcast was invited to a sneak preview of ITV’s big budget bonnet bonanza Wuthering Heights and met the team who faced the production challenges head on.
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CommentFincham: why is ITV always on trial?
We’re not bad guys - we’re pumping millions into indie sector, says ITV programming boss.
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Comment‘Cocoa for the eyes’ has the edge over edgy telly
What would you rather watch, a choo-choo trip or an animal autopsy? By Robert Popper
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CommentMaking the bigger picture with David Hockney
Bruno Wollheim has spent four years producing a doc about artist David Hockney that will air on BBC1 tonight. Here he writes about the challenges of being a one man indie and the minority status now associated with arts TV.
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CommentLeader: Matt Brittin - an unlikely DG
Broadcast editor-in-chief Chris Curtis analyses the rationale behind the appointment of the former Google exec to run the BBC
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CommentToo much true crime is suffocating the documentary sector
Exec producer Neil Grant reveals his disillusionment at the glut of predictable films and his fears for the genre’s future