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NewsMandelson attacks BBC impartiality
The BBC has denied allegations that its news coverage is influenced by Sky, the TV broadcast arm of The Sun newspaper owner News International.
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NewsBravo to follow Katie’s boyfriend in ultimate fight
Bravo will follow Katie Price’s cage-fighting boyfriend Alex Reid as he prepares to take on the current Middleweight Ultimate Challenge World Champion.
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NewsTop BBC execs tighten purse strings
Senior BBC execs reigned in their spending habits in the three months to July – signalling that the harsh light of public scrutiny is affecting their ability to schmooze talent.
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NewsC4 calls time on Wife Swap
Wife Swap and How Clean Is Your House? have become the latest Channel 4 formats to fall victim to the broadcaster’s plan to clear the decks for new shows over the next 18 months.
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NewsC4 examines foreigners' role in UK history
Channel 4 has commissioned three indies to produce a 4 x 60-minute series of drama documentaries looking at the role that foreigners have played in key moments in British history.
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NewsIndia season tops C4 doc slate
An India season, life on the maternity ward, teen BNP members and Amy Winehouse’s dad are among the highlights of C4’s documentary slate over the coming months.
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NewsGoogle new writers, Guild tells TV execs
The Writers’ Guild has advised TV execs to “Google” writers they have not worked with before, give feedback within eight weeks and to leave their “internal politics” out of script editing, in a new ‘good practice guide’ to working with TV writers.
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NewsITV Studios brands set to become iPhone apps
Flagship ITV Studios brands including Dancing On Ice, This Morning, Coronation Street and I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! will be turned into ‘freemium’ iPhone applications as part of ITV’s push to adopt new technologies.
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NewsHadlow on hunt for ‘smart’ drama series
BBC2 plans to air regular 30-minute dramas at 10pm and is on the hunt for more “smart” returning series to stop the channel’s drama output feeling too bitty.
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NewsITV, STV: business partners only
The war of words between STV and ITV has entered a new phase, with both sides declaring the current networking arrangements should be torn up to make way for a strictly commercial partnership.
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NewsDad’s the word for BBC4 with documentary slate
BBC4 is to investigate the truth behind the cliché “every child needs a father” in a slate of films about fatherhood.
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NewsBBC science head bows out after landmark series
BBC head of science John Lynch is to step down at the end of this year, and will leave the BBC altogether in 2010 after delivering a major landmark series about the history of science.
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NewsCBeebies audio trial proves a turn-off with Radio 7 listeners
The BBC has all but given up on children’s radio after a trial CBeebies block on Radio 7 lost the slot 40% of its listeners in the six months it was running.
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NewsMonty Halls to escape to Outer Hebrides for BBC2
BBC2 has ordered a second series of Monty Halls’ Great Escape from Tigress Productions.
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NewsDoc explores when to take car keys away from elderly
BBC1 will look at the dilemma facing the families of many elderly drivers in a 1 x 60-minute documentary from Matchlight.
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NewsCamilla Campbell named head of C4 drama
Camilla Campbell, the commissioner behind Shameless, is to replace Liza Marshall as Channel 4 head of drama, Broadcast can reveal.
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NewsBBCW wins 2Entertain appeal
BBC Worldwide has triumphed over Woolworths’ liquidators in an appeal case over the value of DVD publishing business 2Entertain.
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NewsITV places CSA into voluntary liquidation
ITV has put its remaining interests in cinema advertising company, Carlton Screen Advertising (CSA), into creditors voluntary liquidation.
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NewsBurns victim to host Five News
Five News is to hand presenting duties to a man with extensive facial burns in a bid to generate debate around disfigurement.