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NewsSky wins exclusive world cup cricket rights
The Independent Television Commission has cleared BSkyB to broadcast live and exclusive coverage of this year's Cricket World Cup, writes Steve Aston
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NewsBig Brother 3 housemate gets second series
Former Big Brother 3 housemate Adele Roberts has eked out her fifteen minutes of fame after being asked to front a second series of her ITV regional youth show, writes Steve Aston
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NewsBBC plans 'Sport Academy'
The BBC is to launch a new sports series along the lines of Fame Academy which will help ?nurture young British talent' although it will not have contestants kicked out by a public vote, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Crossing over to camp.
Crossroads is back and this time it's as camp as a bottle of coffee.Yvon Grace, the
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Programming - Dambusters fly again on C4.
Channel 4 is marking the 60th anniversary of the Dambuster raids with a two-part recreation from
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PROGRAMMING - SOMETHIN' ELSE WINS SECOND R2 SOUL SERIES.
BBC Radio 2 controller Jim Moir has commissioned indie Somethin' Else to produce a further 12
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PROGRAMMING - SKY ONE PICKS UP TRANSFORMERS ARMADA.
Sky One has acquired animation Transformers Armada (left) - starring the Autobots and Decepticons - from
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PROGRAMMING - WALES' AVANTI TO MAKE ANOTHER CABLE TV.
Welsh indie Avanti Television has been recommissioned to make music show Cable TV for BBC 2
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PROGRAMMING - THE BBC REMEMBERS THE HOLOCAUST.
The BBC is to mark Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January with a series of programmes
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PROGRAMMING - NICHOLAS LYNDHURST JOINS MURDER IN MIND.
Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst is to star in the third run of BBC
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PROGRAMMING - WISE BUDDAH WINS RAFT OF COMMISSIONS.
Indie Wise Buddah has been commissioned to make a string of programmes for the BBC and
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PROGRAMMING - WARK CLEMENTS AND ROD HULL.
Wark Clements' name was omitted as the producer for Channel 4's documentary on Rod Hull and
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Liddiment to produce Kay Mellor drama.
Former ITV director of channels David Liddiment has announced his first TV project since quitting the network last year, writes Steve Aston.
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ITV pins hopes on new sitcoms.
ITV controller of comedy Sioned Wiliam is hoping to improve the channel's flagging comedy reputation with
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Programming - BBC 3 launch offers 'radical' drama.
A 'radical and edgy' film about a man sucked into the Leeds underworld written by the winner of a BBC new writing initiative is to be one of the key dramas on digital youth channel BBC 3, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Programming - Groovy looks at trend for overseas brides.
Newcastle-based indie Groovy Films is to shed light on the growing number of British men looking to other countries to find a wife, with a series jointly commissioned by Bravo and Tyne Tees, writes Steve Aston.
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TOTP SOLD TO FRANCE.
French terrestrial channel France 2 has signed a deal with BBC Worldwide to make its own
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SPOOKS SET TO HIT US SCREEN.
Spooks, Kudos' successful BBC 1 drama about the British security services, has been snapped up by
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Celador LE exec poached by BBC
BBC head of entertainment Wayne Garvie has poached a key development executive from Celador Productions to oversee some of the BBC's main light entertainment shows, including Weakest Link, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Carlton/PBS tie-up to make Olympics doc
Carlton is to produce a series on the Ancient Greeks' Olympics for Channel 4 as part of the next $9m (£5.6m) tranche of programmes to come from its development deal with the US network PBS, writes Steve Aston