All articles by Katherine Rushton – Page 61
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BBC approaches more indies over MyCBBC
The BBC is in talks with a range of indies about providing content for an expanded MyCBBC, the social networking site for kids developed by Twofour Digital.
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NewsSteven D Wright quits Shine after six years
Steven D Wright, creative director of entertainment at Shine, is leaving the company after six years.
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NewsCBBC asks kids to make faces
CBBC viewers will be able to appear in a new cartoon series after uploading photographs of themselves to its website.
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NewsFogle and Cracknell to ski Antarctic for BBC2
Adventurers Ben Fogle and James Cracknell are to swap their oars for skis in a new endurance challenge for BBC2.
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NewsChambers quits C4 for BBC Wales
Meredith Chambers, Channel 4's commissioning editor for documentaries, is to join BBC Wales as executive editor, factual and music.
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NewsEastEnders preparing child abuse storyline
EastEnders is to tackle the sensitive issue of child sex abuse for the first time later this year, in a taboo-busting storyline centred on Bianca Jackson's 15-year old stepdaughter Whitney Dean.
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NewsTranter denies US move
BBC director of fiction Jane Tranter has insisted she is going nowhere - and that she wants to commission more comedy drama in her current role.
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NewsBBC axes Out of the Blue
Out of the Blue, the Australian soap ordered by the BBC as a successor to Neighbours, is to be axed after just a single series.
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NewsSetback for TV Centre sell-off
The BBC's£300m plan to sell-off Television Centre is facing a new setback after the English Heritage announced it is “strongly” urging the government to impose a Grade II listing on the building.
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NewsDownturn threatens BBC budget
Spiralling inflation and plummeting property prices mean the BBC could have to make more redundancies.
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NewsBBC makes case for PSB plurality
The BBC is trying to prevent the PSB debate from becoming a tug-of-war with Channel 4 by urging Ofcom to maintain “institutional plurality” in the new PSB landscape.
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NewsSooty presenter buys rights to launch new TV format
Sooty presenter Richard Caddell has bought the rights to the classic children's puppet show and is aiming to launch a television format that will revive the brand.
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NewsSimson leaves NHU as cuts start to bite
The BBC's Natural History Unit is understood to have made around a quarter of its staff redundant in post-licence fee cuts, with key departures including former Wild strand editor Vyv Simson.
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NewsITV2 and iTunes agree major ad-funded tie-up
ITV2 is to strip an iTunes-branded music series across three weeks in one of the highest-profile advertiser-funded programming initiatives to date.
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NewsEx-soldier goes back to nature for BBC2
BBC2 is to send former SAS soldier Monty Halls to a remote Scottish idyll in an aspirational new series about “the ups and downs” of getting away from it all.
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NewsC4: Warm words from BBC not enough
Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan has warned that the BBC's proposals to share its resources must amount to “more than warm words” and make a “material difference” to its funding model.
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NewsBBC in discussion to set IPTV standard
The BBC is in talks with other public service broadcasters to agree a standard technology that would make IPTV content available on traditional television sets.
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NewsBBC proposals may change economics of broadcasting
The BBC could “transform the economics of the entire [broadcasting] sector” with a raft of new proposals, director general Mark Thompson has claimed
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NewsThompson resists BBCW profit share with C4
BBC director general Mark Thompson has sent out his clearest signal yet that the corporation will try and resist any deal to siphon off a percentage of profits from BBC Worldwide to Channel 4.
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NewsBBC presents radical plan to share resources
The BBC has made an unprecedented offer to share some of its resources with its commercial rivals in its submission to Ofcom for the regulator's report into the future of PSB in the UK.