All articles by Katherine Rushton – Page 42
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Film-makers to explore pop culture icons for BBC3
The Oscar-winning film-maker behind When We Were Kings is to investigate the Britney Spears phenomenon for BBC3.
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RDF swells exec ranks in top-level staff reshuffle
RDF Media Group has appointed two senior executives and a raft of group directors as part of a top-level reorganisation.
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The Broadcast InterviewDavid Frank, RDF Media Group
RDF Media Group’s chief executive tells Katherine Rushton how engineering a private equity-backed MBO just 18 months after Queengate has made him philosophical.
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Crufts to be streamed online
Crufts, the dog show dumped by the BBC over cruelty concerns, is to be streamed direct to viewers via its website.
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Project Canvas lined up for 2010 launch
The BBC hopes Project Canvas set-top boxes will hit the shops next year, making the plan to offer viewers easy access to the internet and on-demand services via their television sets more tangible than ever before.
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Five set to axe third of staff
Five will reveal plans for savage job cuts on Thursday 5 March - the day after ITV is expected to announce a major new round of redundancies of its own.
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BBC2 bids for success with antiques series
Flog It! presenter Paul Martin is to gamble people's savings on the antiques market in a new BBC2 daytime series.
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BBC1 to air Dimbleby art docs
David Dimbleby is to roam the world in search of British art from the past 2,000 years in a landmark arts documentary series for BBC1.
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BBC Sport boss hopeful on Salford
New director of BBC Sport, Barbara Slater, has said she is hopeful that more than a third of the department will make the move to Salford in 2011.
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BBC to bring back Five Days and Criminal Justice
The BBC is to turn Criminal Justice and Five Days into returnable brands by applying their stripped format to new casts and storylines.
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BBC Drama: Never mind the bonnets
Adaptations of classics are still BBC Drama Production's bread and butter, but now they're jostling for position with a new generation of bold contemporary series.
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Barbara Slater named BBC Sport director
The BBC has named former international gymnast Barbara Slater as its new director of sport.
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Folio to follow up Soho Blues for Five
Five has commissioned Folio to make a fast-turnaround follow up to its successful doc series Soho Blues.
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BBC signs Dale Winton to host lottery shows
Dale Winton is to front a host of new lottery shows - after striking a deal with the BBC understood to be worth nearly£750,000.
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Lyons: Don't make BBC a 'convenient piggy bank'
The BBC must not be allowed to become “the Lloyds Bank of the media world,” BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons has warned.
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BBC2 challenges celebrity chefs to make money
BBC2 will ask TV chefs to prove themselves in a busy restaurant in a spin-off of Reef TV's Put Your Money Where your Mouth Is.
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BBC execs vet Teletubbies repeats
Senior BBC staff are having to re-comply old episodes of Teletubbies that have already screened, as part of a BBC crackdown on compliance procedures.
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Blue Peter to be 'more like Top Gear'
BBC children's controller Richard Deverell has outlined his ambition to reinvent Blue Peter - by making it more like Top Gear.
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US may get 50 years of Corrie on-demand
ITV Studios managing director Lee Bartlett has revealed his ambition to launch Coronation Street in the US, as it endeavours to build the company's international footprint.
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Mosey: Olympics should be 'coming of age' for digital
The London Olympics should do for digital media what the 1930 abdication did for radio and the 1953 coronation did for television, the BBC's Olympics tsar will claim today.