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NewsThe Voice beaten by BGT on Twitter
Britain’s Got Talent beat The Voice in the social media battle on Saturday night, drawing 50,000 more tweets than its rival..
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NewsDRG sends UK athletes worldwide
Ahead of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games, distributor DRG has sold two documentaries featuring British athletes around the world.
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NewsE4 seeks new content after axings
Channel 4 is dropping a raft of E4 originations broadcast over the past year as the youth-skewed channel takes shape under new head of formats Dominic Bird.
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NewsBroadcast Indie Survey 2012
Broadcast’s annual Indie Survey is out now and subscribers can browse the league tables on Broadcast Greenlight.
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NewsRicochet hires Knight
Ricochet has appointed the BBC’s Simon Knight as its first director of factual entertainment.
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CommentWhere are all the expert women?
I’ve found it impossible to achieve gender parity in who we use on screen, says Tami Hoffman.
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NewsBBC1 hands former Goodie primetime comedy series
BBC1 is to hand comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor his first major series since The Goodies 30 years ago - a spoof news programme featuring animals.
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NewsWarner Bros ties with Japan's Asahi TV in development deal
The production arm of Warner Bros, the majority stakeholder in Shed Media, has struck a formats deal with major Japanese commercial broadcaster TV Asahi Corporation.
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NewsBlack Mirror nominated for Rose d’Or
Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror and Ricky Gervais’ Life’s Too Short have been nominated for international awards at the Rose d’Or Festival.
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NewsThe Voice opts for multiplatform content over spin-off
BBC1 talent show The Voice will be supported by a major multiplatform push by producer Wall to Wall that will effectively take the place of a spin-off show.
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FeaturesChildren of the Tsunami
Complete full post on the documentary about the children who survived last year’s disaster.
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NewsC5 spins-off Cowboy Traders
Channel 5 has ordered Ricochet to make Cowboy Traders, a series exposing dishonest tradesmen including bridal-shop owners and car dealers.
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RatingsTake Me Out pulls 5m
SATURDAY: Take Me Out lured its biggest audience of the series for the second consecutive week.
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NewsTwenty Twenty recruited for BBC1 conscripts drama
The final intake of National Service men is to be dramatised by Twenty Twenty in a new commission for BBC1 Daytime.
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NewsE4 calls for third Phoneshop
High street comedy Phoneshop will return for a third series on E4 at the end of the year.
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Behind The ScenesDeath Unexplained, BBC1
The second episode of our series showed why treating the dead as people, not just coroner’s cases, was so important, says Alice Perman.
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NewsWarner Bros to acquire 50% stake in Renegade
Warner Bros is nearing completion on a £5m deal to buy a 50% stake in Don’t Tell the Bride producer Renegade Pictures.
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NewsIndie bosses join Grierson board
Renegade Pictures’ Alex Cooke and Minnow Films’ Morgan Matthews have been appointed to the Grierson Trust board.
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NewsBBC3 comedy quiz to reveal state of the nation
Greg James and Russell Kane are to host new entertainment series for BBC3 that promises to reveal what the British public really think.