All articles by Katherine Rushton – Page 56
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BBC2 film revisits The Satanic Verses
BBC2 is to examine the controversy around Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses - despite silence from the author and his publisher for fear of reprisals.
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NewsCash injection deal sets Pulse racing
Cross-sector producer Pulse Films, best known as a producer of music videos and commercials, is embarking on an acquisition and hiring spree funded by Sir Harry Solomon, the food and property mogul.
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NewsC4's Millionaire earns 4.1m
Channel 4's Secret Millionaire continued to dominate Tuesday night ratings, once again beating BBC1 drama Mutual Friends.
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NewsChelsea Flower Show remains rooted at the BBC
The BBC has renewed its contract with The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) for exclusive rights to broadcast all of its major flower shows.
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NewsDanny Dyer returns to Bravo
Bravo has signed Danny Dyer to front a new series about reformed killers and crime bosses.
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NewsBBC jumps on board container story
The BBC is to track a shipping container around the world for a year to illustrate the global economic story in an easily tangible way.
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NewsBBC Trust to review licence fee collection
The BBC Trust is to ask the public if the BBC is too heavy handed in the way that it collects its licence fee, as part of a wide-ranging review launched today.
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NewsPromotion for BBC Trust comms chief
The BBC Trust's communications chief Tina Stowell is to move across to the BBC's senior management team as head of corporate affairs.
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NewsNew Blue Peter team complete
Blue Peter has named Joel Defries as its new presenter, completing its line up for the new series which starts on CBBC on 23 September.
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BBC4 takes a poetic look at UK landscape
Poet and novelist Owen Sheers will trace the relationship between six classic poems and the British landscape in a BBC4 series.
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NewsBBC plans power shift to regions
The BBC is to hand network commissioning power to the nations for the first time in what is being hailed as a “radical reshaping” of its structure.
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NewsBBC4 to chart life of the ‘queen of romance'
Dame Barbara Cartland is next in line for the BBC4 drama biopic treatment, with Dinner Ladies actress Anne Reid playing the novelist in her later years.
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NewsDCD hires ex Prospect director
DCD Media has made Prospect Pictures managing director Liam Hamilton its first business development director and hired Fiona Morris as its first executive producer working across the group's different indies.
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Preschool Bo on the Go! lands six deals
Halifax Film has sold its preschool series Bo on the Go! into six new territories, in a flurry of deals through its sister company, Decode Enterprises, writes Katherine Rushton.
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NewsBBC under fire over£10m flights bill
The BBC has defended criticisms that it spent more than£10m on flights last year - including£3m on business and first class fares.
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NewsKumar named controller of bbc.co.uk
The BBC has appointed Seetha Kumar as controller of bbc.co.uk, responsible for making sure the service does not repeat the£36m overspend which came to light in May.
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NewsBBC hires multimedia Mogull
Erik Huggers, director of future media and technology at the BBC, has recruited Kerstin Mogull to the newly created role of divisional chief operating officer.
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NewsCBeebies returns Night Garden to bedtime hour
In the Night Garden has returned to CBeebies Bedtime Hour, ending a four-month hiatus that sparked fury among parents of toddlers.
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NewsDCD inks£1.8m licensing deal
DCD Media has signed a substantial licensing deal with internet broadcaster Classical TV Limited, which will allow it to make inroads into its convertible debt.
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NewsITV franchise trio kicks off battle over programme costs
UTV, SMG and Channel Television are poised to appoint an independent consultancy to establish how much they should pay for ITV programming, as part of a bid to reduce their contribution.