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NewsFriends to swap C4 for Comedy Central
Comedy Central UK will become the new home of Friends next year after succeeding with a 12-month “all-singing, all-dancing” campaign to land the show from Warner Bros.
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NewsNickelodeon drops splat for ‘older’ identity
Nickelodeon UK is ditching its famous orange splat as part of a major global rebrand.
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NewsC4 earmarks prime AFP slots for new ent ideas
Channel 4 is opening up its 10pm and 11pm slots to AFP for the first time.
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NewsBragg heads back to the South Bank for last hurrah on ITV1
The South Bank Show, the long-running arts strand that was controversially ditched by ITV, is set for a last hurrah with a 10-part series mixing new interviews with archive footage.
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NewsBBC Trust orders review of sports rights spending
The BBC Trust is to launch a major review into the BBC’s spending on sports rights.
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NewsDon’t cave in on star salaries, BBC urged
Execs, in-house producers and indies have urged the BBC to stand firm on its refusal to reveal talent deals in the face of mounting media and political pressure.
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NewsProduct placement for Corrie, but not X Factor
ITV has drawn up a top 10 list of programmes that are ripe for product placement that includes Coronation Street and Emmerdale - but not The X Factor.
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NewsITV gearing up for fresh push on Studios content
ITV Studios is poised for a fresh content push under the commercial broadcaster’s new management, with programming executives across the business preparing for a closer alliance between commissioning and production.
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NewsTime Team ordered until 2013 but budget cut back
Channel 4 has moved long-running history series Time Team to Wales and guaranteed that it will air until at least 2013 - but has cut the budget by about 15%.
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NewsLove bridges The Generation Gap for BBC2 series
BBC2 is to send a group of young people into an old people’s home in a bid to persuade them the elderly should not be “consigned to the dustbin”.
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NewsUKTV beefs up spring schedule for Good Food
UKTV has beefed up the spring schedule of cooking channel Good Food with five culinary series from around the world.
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NewsSea Patrol UK to return
Wall to Wall series Sea Patrol UK is to get an extended 8 x 60-minute run for its second series.
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NewsFreeview: we will take a fifth of Sky HD customers
Freeview has predicted it will take nearly a fifth of Sky HD customers when it launches its own HD offering in March, following YouGov findings.
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NewsAndre’s tearful Sky interview sparks 865 complaints
Ofcom has received 865 complaints about Peter Andre’s breakdown in a live interview with Sky News presenter Kay Burley.
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NewsVirgin adds Discovery to HD package
Discovery is to join Virgin Media’s roster of HD channels just a week after the company announced plans to offer Eurosport HD.
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NewsC4 to drop Friends
Channel 4 is to wave goodbye to US comedy Friends after 15 years, freeing up slots on both C4 and E4 for new shows - with Comedy Central picking up the rights.
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NewsAndrew Mackenzie leaves C4 for Twofour
Twofour has ended its year-long hunt for a group creative director with the appointment of Channel 4 head of factual entertainment Andrew Mackenzie.
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NewsHotel Inspector heads Home
UKTV-owned channel Home has picked up the rights to the first three series of Five’s factual entertainment hit The Hotel Inspector.
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NewsMilitary History buys WW2 series
The Military History Channel is to screen new 10-part history series Britain at War after picking up the UK TV rights from Simply Media.
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NewsC4 asks: are you smarter than an 11-year-old?
Channel 4 plans to test the nation’s mathematics skills with a web game tied into a forthcoming edition of Dispatches.