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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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NewsWhisper races off with first BBC1 commission
Whisper Films has won its first commission since being set up a year ago - a doc with the brother of Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton.
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NewsC4 commissioner quits for BBC Salford role
The commissioner of Made In Chelsea, Tool Academy and Playing It Straight is leaving Channel 4 to spearhead the BBC’s entertainment output in Salford.
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NewsBBC mulls Poliakoff returner
BBC2 is considering developing Stephen Poliakoff ’s five-part drama Dancing on the Edge into a returning series, set in the offices of a 1930s music paper.
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NewsBBC News channel blunders same day Trust praises
The BBC Trust has praised the BBC’s rolling news and Parliament coverage on the same day the BBC News channel broadcast the wrong verdict from the Harry Redknapp trial.
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NewsCoronation Street moves to Sunday over football clash
ITV is shifting an episode of Coronation Street to a Sunday night slot due to a clash with a high profile football match - leading the BBC to reschedule the final Call the Midwife.
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NewsLive Easter special moves from BBC3 to BBC1
BBC1 to to broadcast a live modern adaptation of the Passion story following a string of hit live events on BBC3.
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NewsBBC orders global childbirth doc
The BBC has ordered “a major global” documentary about childbirth around the world.
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NewsBBC unveils Diamond Jubilee concert plans
The BBC is promising to stage the biggest concert in its history to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
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NewsSkillset to boost creative apprenticeships
Skillset will financially incentivise 500 small creative businesses to take on their first apprentices, it has announced today.
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NewsBroadcasters lobby Cameron for cameras in court
The BBC, Sky and ITN have sent a letter to the Prime Minister David Cameron and party leaders Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband, to urge the ban on cameras in court to be lifted.
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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.
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NewsDavid Jason to direct BBC1 comedy
Only Fools and Horses star David Jason is turning his hand to directing for a new BBC1 sitcom set in a struggling family funeral parlour.
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News6 Music to celebrate decade on-air
Laura Marling, Spiritualized and Orbital are among the artists which will help BBC Radio 6 Music to celebrate its tenth anniversary with a series of live performances.
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NewsBBC4 acquires Lilyhammer
BBC4 has nailed the rights to a new mobster drama starring Sopranos actor Steve Van Zandt.
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NewsBBC4 to explore Catholicism
BBC4 is to explore modern Catholicism in Britain in a three-part series from Wingspan Productions and Jerusalem Productions.
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NewsBBC production faces streamlining for DQF
BBC management are mulling a major shake-up of the corporation’s in-house production arm, including the possible shedding of senior genre roles, it has emerged.
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NewsBBC1 secures comedy stars for Wodehouse
Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders are to star in a new BBC1 comedy series based on short stories by PG Wodehouse.
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NewsArtists Studio to produce BBC2 Cubitt thriller
A psychological thriller based on parallel storylines of two hunters, written by Allan Cubitt, is set to be a BBC2 serial scheduled for 2013.