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NewsBBC News outlines DQF cuts
BBC News staff have been told of widespread cuts to correspondent and editor positions, as it seeks to save 20% from its budget while incorporating journalists from the World Service.
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NewsSky Anywhere renamed Sky Go
Sky’s forthcoming Anywhere service, which will give its 10m subscribers free access to Sky Player and Sky Mobile TV, has been renamed Sky Go and will launch next month.
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NewsOur War to air on BBC1
DOC/FEST: BBC1 is to broadcast Our War, the BBC3 doc about young soldiers in Afghanistan, following its critical and ratings success.
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NewsHodgson to leave BBC for Ofcom
Patricia Hodgson is leaving the BBC Trust to take up a new role at Ofcom, having been passed over for the top job at the corporation.
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NewsChapman to unify BBC music offering
The BBC has promoted Ben Chapman to the newly created post of online head of popular music to drive a single multiplatform strategy across Radio 1, Radio 2, 1Xtra and 6 Music.
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NewsMulhern to front ITV1 quiz pilot
Britain’s Got More Talent host Stephen Mulhern is to front a new ITV1 gameshow pilot made by the team behind The Chase.
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NewsC4 helps hoarders face their addiction
Channel 4 has ordered a factual series from Twenty Twenty that will attempt to help people who cannot help hoarding bric-a-brac.
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NewsLinsey to police standards
The BBC has promoted controller of entertainment commissioning Mark Linsey to the Vision board and charged him with supervising editorial standards across all its channels.
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NewsC4 wins murder trial access
Channel 4 and Windfall Films are planning to create the most ambitious courtroom documentary series on British TV in more than 15 years.
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NewsSky makes £600m content pledge
Sky has revealed it spent £380m on UK-originated programming in the year to July 2011 and plans to boost investment to £600m a year by 2014.
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NewsSnow/Murthy to front C4 docs
Channel 4 News presenters Jon Snow and Krishnan Guru-Murthy are to front Dispatches and Unreported World docs as part of a strategy to boost current affairs output.
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NewsCITV set to revive Fort Boyard
Former Channel 5 adventure gameshow Fort Boyard is set to be revived as an ITV children’s show.
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NewsC4 specialist factual to woo male audience
Channel 4 head of specialist factual Ralph Lee has been briefing indies that his department is seeking programmes to attract male viewers to the channel.
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NewsITV chiefs concerned at Loose Women’s five-month wobble
Loose Women has stumbled in the ratings since the start of the year, prompting concern among ITV executives.
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NewsMore 4 and BBC4 set for gypsy docs clash
More 4’s True Stories will go toe-to-toe with BBC4’s Storyville after commissioning a documentary about bare-knuckle fighting in the traveller community.
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NewsITV2 links with Cadbury for US gameshow remake
ITV2 is to reversion NBC gameshow Minute To Win It as part of a major new commercial partnership with confectionery company Cadbury.
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NewsBBC3 orders trio of disability docs for Fresh strand
BBC3 controller Zai Bennett and documentaries commissioning editor Charlotte Moore have ordered three 60-minute films for the Fresh strand that have disability as their central theme.
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NewsGallowgate boss Ed Forsdick dies aged 45
Ed Forsdick, managing director of Ant & Dec’s production company Gallowgate, has died suddenly while on holiday.
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NewsC5 orders celeb news from ITN
Channel 5 has ordered ITN Productions to produce two daily entertainment news bulletins for digital channels 5* and 5USA.
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NewsBaby Cow teams with BBC Comedy North
Steve Coogan indie Baby Cow is to develop comedy scripts for production out of MediaCityUK in Salford with the BBC’s in-house comedy department.