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NewsBroadcast Digital Awards 2016: open for entries
The Broadcast Digital Awards 2016 have opened for entries – with new categories including best scripted and non-scripted short.
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NewsSteve Backshall lands first ITV wildlife show
Bafta award-winning TV naturalist Steve Backshall is to present his first wildlife documentary for ITV.
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NewsO’Leary and D'Acampo open Italian restaurant for ITV
Dermot O’Leary and Gino D’Acampo are piloting a live entertainment show for ITV in which they will open their own Italian restaurant.
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NewsBBC Trust raps ‘misleading’ natural history docs
The BBC Trust has censured the Natural History Unit (NHU) for two serious editorial breaches concerning “misleading” scenes in wildlife documentaries involving the same producer.
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NewsDiscovery hit by currency fluctuations
Discovery Communications’ international business was hit by foreign currency fluctuations over the last twelve months.
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NewsSky News wins big at RTS Journalism Awards
Sky News picked up five gongs at this year’s RTS Television Journalism Awards, while Newsnight was awarded the scoop of the year prize for its Kids Company report.
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NewsBBC4 orders hipster doc
Tinopolis Group indie Mentorn Media is investigating the rise of the hipster for BBC4.
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NewsPaul Lee to exit US network ABC
Paul Lee, the British boss of ABC, is leaving the Disney-owned broadcaster after six years.
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NewsArchers editor takes over EastEnders
EastEnders’ showrunner Dominic Treadwell-Collins is leaving the soap this spring to be replaced by The Archers editor Sean O’Connor.
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NewsSexy Beasts shipped to Russia
Lion Television’s unorthodox dating show Sexy Beasts has been snapped up by Russia’s CTC Network.
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NewsUKTV turns Home into free channel
UKTV is to expand its free-to-air footprint by handing pay-TV channel Home a slot on Freeview.
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NewsChannel 5 eyes original VoD content
Channel 5 will begin prioritising original content for its revamped video-on-demand (VoD) service as part of plans to grow its base of young and registered users.
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NewsITN and Pact call for BBC online transparency
ITN and Pact have led calls for the BBC to be more open and transparent about the way it commissions online content.
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NewsSelect committee’s BBC verdict
Hannah Gannagé-Stewart unpicks last week’s CMS Committee report on the BBC’s future
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NewsPeter Bazalgette’s ITV task in spotlight
Leading industry figures have hailed “pathological problem-solver” Peter Bazalgette as the right man to maintain ITV’s momentum when he takes over as chairman later this year.
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NewsCharlotte Moore to tackle indie fears
BBC content supremo Charlotte Moore is preparing to address indie uncertainty over the corporation’s radical commissioning restructure, as the race to lead BBC2 begins in earnest.
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NewsTrust freezes S4C funding
BBC Trust chairman Rona Fairhead has written to S4C Authority chair Huw Jones to confirm that the Welsh-language broadcaster’s funding will remain at £74.5m until 2017/18.
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NewsBBCW opens Nordic division
BBC Worldwide plans to capitalise on Norway’s growing appetite for British programming by launching BBC Worldwide Productions Nordics.
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NewsTory lords: scrap BBC charter and keep C4 public
The BBC Trust and royal charter should be scrapped and the broadcaster protected from any “government interference”, according to two influential Conservative peers.
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NewsBBC2 checks back in to Marigold Hotel
Twofour’s social experiment The Real Marigold Hotel is to return to BBC2 for a second series.