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Kudos lands Channel 4 comedy pilot
Broadchurch actress Olivia Coleman will feature in a Channel 4 comedy pilot from Kudos Film & Television to be penned and directed by Bafta-nominated Will Sharpe.
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Gold digs out Bob Monkhouse joke books
UKTV has ordered a documentary series about the life of Bob Monkhouse for Gold.
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C4: retrans fees worth £200m to commercial PSBs
Channel 4 chief executive David Abraham has claimed that securing retransmission fees from pay-TV platforms could be worth up to £200m each year to commercial PSBs.
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Toast of London to return for third outing
Channel 4 has commissioned a third series of Objective Productions’ comedy Toast of London.
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Ian Hislop urges BBC to become more 'pugnacious'
Ian Hislop has called on the BBC to become “more pugnacious” BBC after a period of cautious programming.
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Educating… heads to Cardiff
Channel 4’s Educating… strand is to leave England for the first time with a fourth series set in the Welsh capital city.
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C5 revs up dashcam car show
Channel 5 has commissioned a driving clips show from Shine North featuring an array of ‘dashcam’ footage.
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BBC extends late evening regional news bulletins
The BBC is to double the length of its late evening regional news bulletins in the run-up to next year’s general election.
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BBC1 lures Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is to make his first series for BBC1 - a three-part investigation into food waste.
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Tern secures 20 hours of BBC nations output
Tern Television has picked up over 20 hours of commissions from BBC Scotland and Northern Ireland, including a six-part documentary about Britain’s leading ski resort.
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STV and unions agree pay deal
STV has had its 2015 pay offer “unanimously” accepted by union members, days after ITV’s proposed pay deal prompted a ballot over strike action.
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ITV orders Planet's Got Talent
A back-flipping dog and a man who washes himself in soup are set to appear in an ITV spin-off of Britain’s Got Talent.
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Clare Balding signs two year deal with C4
Clare Balding will anchor the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio but scale back her horse racing duties after signing a two-year deal with Channel 4.
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BBC News boss hits back at government criticism
James Harding has argued that BBC News will be “undeterred” in holding politicians to account following government anger over its autumn statement coverage.
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Veteran BBC producer joins Ukip
Veteran BBC News producer Paul Lambert has joined Ukip as director of communications.
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Chris Tarrant to front RDF quiz show pilot
Chris Tarrant is lining up his first major quiz show since Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? with a new pilot produced by RDF Television.
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BBC ousts rivals in Writers' Guild nominations
The BBC has secured every TV nomination in this year’s Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards.
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BBC Radio 4 Extra to air Serial podcast
BBC Radio 4 Extra is to air much-hyped true crime podcast Serial after striking a deal with the US producers.
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Plans to "reinvent" BBC3 submitted to the Trust
The plan to “reinvent” BBC3 as an online channel has been submitted to the BBC Trust and will be open to public scrutiny from January 2015.
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C4 picks up US yo yo doc
Channel 4 has acquired feature length yo yo documentary World on a String from nascent distributor Scorpion TV.