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NewsFilm4 ups Lavender to head of development
Film4 has promoted Sam Lavender to head of development. He replaces Katherine Butler, who was promoted to senior commissioning executive in September.
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NewsC4 to explore dawn of aerial warfare
Channel 4 is to recreate the aerial battles of World War One for a 90-minute documentary from Darlow Smithson Productions.
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NewsToksvig wades into TV ageism row
The television industry does not value older women as much as their male counterparts, and women tend to get ahead by being young and pretty, comedian Sandi Toksvig has claimed.
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NewsMore4 teams up with National Theatre for arts strand
More4 has created a new peaktime Saturday arts strand spanning ballet, theatre, literature and an offbeat ‘magic realist’ documentary.
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NewsCBS Reality secures Jerry Springer for launch
CBS Reality, one of the new channels to be launched in the UK next month by the US network giant, has added The Jerry Springer Show to its debut line-up.
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NewsBBC's Gaelic channel under review
The BBC Trust is to consider whether Gaelic TV channel BBC Alba should get a Freeview slot, as part of a review of the service launched today.
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NewsBBC's Byford defends BNP Question Time
BBC deputy director general Mark Byford has fought back against the criticism surrounding the BNP’s appearance on Question Time and stated “I don’t regret it”.
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NewsSky Sports breaks Ofcom sponsorship rules
Sky Sports gave undue prominence to Specsavers’ sponsorship of the Hawk-Eye technology used in its Ashes coverage, Ofcom has ruled.
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NewsBBC to release Freeview capacity
The BBC is to auction off two of its under-used Freeview streams, to stop them “sitting idle” in the run up to 2012.
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NewsC4 chair search enters final stage
Final interviews for the Channel 4 chair take place this week, with former ITV and GCap chair Richard Eyre reported to be in the running.
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NewsQuestion Time exec defends BNP show
Question Time executive editor Gavin Allen has defended last week’s episode, claiming it was driven by its audience and was “Question Time as normal”.
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Animal Planet orders third look at weird animals
Animal Planet International and the Science Channel have teamed up to order a third series of Icon Films’ wildlife series Weird Creatures with Nick Baker.
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NewsGriffin: Question Time was a "lynch mob"
BNP leader has called for a re-run of his Question Time appearance, claiming the show’s format was changed to turn it into a “lynch mob”.
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NewsBBC seals £25.5m cash boost for kids
The BBC Trust has rubber stamped an extra £25.5m for the BBC’s children’s budget over the next three years - money that will be used to improve online audio services and regain lost audiences on BBC1 and the CBBC website.
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NewsBig Ben dropped from News At Ten
ITV’s News At Ten is undergoing a revamp, which will see the image of the Big Ben clock face dropped from the title sequence.
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NewsC4 to profile Britain's fattest man
Channel 4 is lining up a documentary about “Britain’s fattest man” as he embarks on life-threatening surgery to lose weight.
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NewsBranson attacks Sky dominance
Sir Richard Branson has personally waded into the row over BSkyB’s alleged dominance of the pay TV market, comparing the satellite operator to British Airways of the early 1990s.
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NewsBSkyB now in 9.5m homes
BSkyB signed 94,000 new subscribers in the third quarter and has now rolled out Sky+HD to one in six customers – after ploughing an extra £37m into marketing.
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NewsKay to front Royal Variety show
Comedian Peter Kay will host 2009’s Royal Variety Performance in Blackpool, with a little help from Hollywood superstars Bette Midler and Whoopi Goldberg.
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NewsBBC defends BNP Question Time appearance
The BBC has defended the appearance of Nick Griffin on a Question Time in which the BNP leader gave a twitchy performance and described homosexuals as “creepy”.