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NewsSTV waiting on Taggart decision
STV is confident its ITV1 drama Taggart will be recommissioned – despite extending its financial borrowing facility in case it is not.
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NewsBSkyB and Ofcom on collision course
BSkyB is set for a legal battle with Ofcom after the regulator proposed forcing the satellite giant to offer its premium sports and movie channels to rival pay TV operators for fixed sums.
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NewsBBC reveals controller salaries
The BBC’s four main TV channel controllers took home at least £880,000 combined last year, but none of them troubled the corporation’s list of the top 15 earners.
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BBC paid out for Bennett's stolen handbag
Jana Bennett claimed £500 to help replace a stolen handbag in 2008/09, and the BBC forked out £641.25 for its television controllers to “discuss projects” at a dinner.
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Gardner spent almost £8,000 on hospitality
Julie Gardner spent more on entertaining than any BBC executive bar Mark Thompson last year, in her role as BBC Wales head of drama and BBC head of independent drama commissioning in the nations and regions.
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NewsExpenses: the hidden cost of Sachsgate
The BBC paid more than £2,200 to fly Mark Thompson’s family home after the director general cut short his holiday to deal with the Sachsgate affair.
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NewsTaxis, handbags and lunches: BBC expenses laid bare
The BBC is to publish the names, salaries and line-by-line expenses of its top earners and decision-makers, as part of a new transparency drive across the corporation.
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NewsMeet the Natives to get Amish twist
Keo Films is to bring Amish youths to Britain in a follow-up to Channel 4’s “reverse anthropology” series, Meet the Natives.
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NewsFive lines up Brain battle for entertainment drive
Five will kick off its move into entertainment under Richard Woolfe with a Krypton Factor-style gameshow.
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Twitter texts will promote C4 doc on Wild survival
Channel 4 will launch Tigress’ new extreme survival series Alone in the Wild with a 10-week Twitter campaign, based on a basic health and safety check.
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NewsThompson: BBC may axe regional partnership
BBC director general Mark Thompson has warned that the corporation could pull its regional news-sharing proposals if the government does not change its mind on top-slicing.
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C4 is committed to docs but price worries remain
Channel 4 has committed to making another 40 editions of Dispatches and 30 of Cutting Edge in 2010, but factual producers still fear the effects of the channel’s cost-cutting.
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BBC1 goes Around the World with XM25 scheme
Former Touch Productions execs Nick Watts and Joseph Maxwell have teamed up with Nasa for the first project from their new company, Burning Blue Media.
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NewsBBC to tighten taste rules in wake of Sachsgate
The BBC is to implement new production guidelines to guard against “malicious intrusion, intimidation and humiliation” and make sure that they are “never celebrated for the purposes of entertainment”.
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NewsBBC3 to air live Schools Question Time
The BBC is to broadcast Schools Question Time live for the first time – with two airings on BBC3 and BBC1 in the same evening.
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NewsPublic wants BBC to pursue risk
A BBC report commissioned in the wake of the Sachsgate scandal has found that the British public wants the corporation to pursue creative risk and accepts that offence may be caused in the process.
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NewsScarlett Johansson pulls out of ITV2 doc
Actress Scarlett Johansson has pulled out of starring in a new four-part series for ITV2.
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NewsBBC Radio plans Whitman and Holiday docs
BBC Radio is taking a look at some of America’s leading cultural icons – with a doc on the poet Walt Whitman on BBC Radio 4, and a Radio 2 special on Billie Holiday, fronted by Neneh Cherry.
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NewsThunderbirds creator fighting to reclaim rights from ITV
Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson has made a public plea to ITV bosses to return the rights to his iconic 60s puppet show, after being locked in a legal battle.
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NewsESPN prepares to unveil Premier League channel
ESPN and Sky are set to unveil details of the new channel that will show Premier League games at the end of this week.