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    C4's Sex Education Show rated and slated

    2009-05-13T00:48:00Z

    Channel 4 shows The Hospital and The Sex Education Show v Pornography divided audiences last month, with viewers singling both shows out for praise and scorn.

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    Canvas partners hit back at critics

    2009-05-13T00:42:00Z

    Project Canvas’s partners, the BBC, ITV and BT, have fought back against critics of the IPTV joint venture, saying that the initiative will transform the TV industry.

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    BBC pays libel damages to West Ham duo

    2009-05-13T00:40:00Z

    The BBC has paid undisclosed libel damages to West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola and first-team coach Steve Clarke after a contributor claimed on Radio 5 Live they were planning to take over at rival club Chelsea.

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    Grey's Anatomy star cast in BBC hospital drama

    2009-05-13T00:38:00Z

    Grey’s Anatomy’s Kevin McKidd is to star in another medical drama – a BBC production that transplants Greek classic The Odyssey to a British city hospital.

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    UKTV unveils Good Food rebrand

    2009-05-13T00:35:00Z

    UKTV has licensed the Good Food name from shareholder BBC Worldwide and will use it for its tenth and final channel rebrand when it replaces UKTV Food next month.

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    Katy Brand returning to ITV2 for third series

    2009-05-13T00:33:00Z

    Comedian Katy Brand will be returning to ITV2 this autumn with a third instalment of Katy’s Brand’s Big Ass Show.

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    C4: Top 10 slated (April 09)

    2009-05-13T00:20:00Z

    Top 10 programmes most criticised by people who contacted Channel 4 viewer enquiries in April 2009 (quote is an example of viewer comment).

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    C4: Top 10 rated (April 09)

    2009-05-13T00:19:00Z

    Top 10 programmes most appreciated by people who contacted Channel 4’s viewer enquiries in April 2009 (quote is an example of viewer comment).

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    C4 hopeful of BBCW tie-up by mid-June

    2009-05-12T23:56:00Z

    Channel 4 could be just weeks away from reaching a partnership deal with BBC Worldwide to plug its £150m funding gap and head off further damaging cuts to its creative output.

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    BBC presenter clashes with peer over salary

    2009-05-12T23:50:00Z

    Labour peer Lord Foulkes has hijacked a BBC News Channel interview about MPs expenses to launch a blistering attack on BBC presenter salaries.

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    Sky airs Project Canvas objections

    2009-05-12T23:42:00Z

    BSkyB has attacked the BBC Trust’s decision to not carry out a full market review on the BBC, ITV and BT broadband joint venture Project Canvas.

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    Wild at Heart wins fifth series

    2009-05-12T23:40:00Z

    ITV has commissioned a fifth series of Wild at Heart, scotching rumours that the Africa-based drama could be axed.

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    C4 orders McCain-funded sports show

    2009-05-12T23:02:00Z

    Channel 4 has ordered a grass roots athletics show that will be sponsored by frozen food manufacturer McCain Foods.

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    BBC3 orders Russell Tovey comedy

    2009-05-12T22:54:00Z

    BBC3 has commissioned a broadcast pilot set entirely in a couple’s bedroom, starring Being Human actor Russell Tovey.

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    BBC poaches C4's Ahmed in new Knowledge hirings

    2009-05-11T23:06:00Z

    Channel 4’s Aaqil Ahmed has been poached to run the BBC’s religion and ethics department as part of the second round of Knowledge appointments – in which four of the key commissioning jobs have been handed to existing BBC staff.

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    Split won't affect ITV2's Katie and Peter Stateside

    2009-05-11T23:04:00Z

    ITV has no plans to pull Katie Price and Peter Andre’s fly on the wall series Katie & Peter: Stateside, despite the couple announcing their separation today.

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    BSkyB rules itself out of bidding for ITV local news

    2009-05-11T22:57:00Z

    BSkyB has ruled itself out of providing local news for ITV, saying that joining any of the news consortia would not fit with Sky News’ status as an “independent, commercially funded news service”.

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    C4 rapped over Ramsay; pre-watershed sex cleared

    2009-05-11T22:46:00Z

    Ofcom has rapped Channel 4 over Gordon Ramsay’s swearing immediately after the watershed – but has cleared pre-watershed sex that was “at the edge of acceptability”.

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    Emmerdale censured over violence

    2009-05-11T22:33:00Z

    A fist-fight between Emmerdale brothers Mathew and Carl King has been criticised as too violent for a pre-watershed audience by media regulator Ofcom.

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    BBC2 developing new Sarah Waters drama

    2009-05-11T22:27:00Z

    BBC2 is eyeing an adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel The Night Watch as a one-off feature-length drama.