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Tames goes to Nova
Roger Tames, ITV Tyne Tees' head of sport, is to leave the broadcaster to join production company Nova International. Tames will take up the position of head of sports programmes within the company's FilmNova division next month.
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Trisha challenges psychics for Five
Chatshow host Trisha Goddard is to present a new peaktime series investigating psychic powers for Five. The show will see Goddard and a panel of experts challenge people who claim psychic abilities to undergo scientific tests of their powers. Britain's Psychic Challenge, produced by Goddard's indie, Town House TV, will ...
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Norton plays celebrity game
The BBC has lined up star presenter Graham Norton for a special celebrity edition of The Generation Game. Generation Fame, produced in-house, will see celebrity families taking part. The special, produced by Martin Scott, is understood to be part of the corporation's Christmas line-up. Meanwhile, the BBC has also commissioned ...
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Robinson doc leads strand on ageing
Time Team host Tony Robinson has been signed up by Channel 4 to present a personal documentary about his 89-year-old mother. In Me and My Mum Robinson reveals the dilemmas he faced putting his mother into a care home. The Love Production film will air as part of a strand ...
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1Xtra head takes over R1 playlist
Radio 1 has given responsibility for its playlists and music policy to George Ergatoudis, head of music at sister digital station 1Xtra. He replaces Alex Jones-Donelly, who left the station in August after eight years in the role to join music giant EMI. Ergatoudis had been head of music at ...
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BBC scheme to train comedy writers
The BBC has announced a£150,000 comedy apprenticeship scheme to groom new writers. The scheme aims to have every new in-house comedy joined by an apprentice who will learn about production and contribute ideas. The first two apprentices are already at work on two comedies in production - James Quinn is ...
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Interview: Michael Grade
After reforming the governors and fresh from an unholy row about the level of the BBC's next licence fee settlement, chairman Michael Grade tells Conor Dignam what the corporation is doing right and what it could do better.
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You're beautiful to me
Having inadvertently offended commissioning editors everywhere, Steven D Wright tries to atone - with shameless flattery.
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A super-size talent for change
Super-Size Me auteur Morgan Spurlock has taken his brand of campaigning humour from film onto television.
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Colour me digital: DI unravelled
Digital intermediate (DI) is the new buzzword floating around film-based post houses - but what does it mean for the TV industry? David Wood investigates while Kevin Hilton looks at the new skills the process will require of Soho's online editors and colourists.
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Under fire at BBC news
Dismissing criticisms that BBC TV news has lost its nerve, its new chief, Peter Horrocks, is more interested in discussing his reforms to the news and his ambitions to put News 24 ahead of Sky News, writes Steve Clarke.
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Growing up in public
BBC3 has had its fair share of critical and popular successes, notably in comedy, yet it continues to struggle with its PSB brief - leaving a fine line for Stuart Murphy's successor to tread.
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Watching the future
Watching content on the move and on many different platforms is inevitable, says Andrew Heselwood, but in all the excitement over new delivery methods content must remain king.
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Blowing the BBC's trumpet
Talk of a brain drain may be exaggerated but the BBC could do more to sell itself as a creative place to work, writes Kenton Allen.
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Is this the revolution?
Are changes to governance at the BBC more window-dressing than genuine transformation, asks Lisa Campbell, Deputy Editor.
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NewsGrade: I will not stifle creativity
BBC chairman Michael Grade has vowed not to let his legacy be one of cutting back on creativity, despite announcing more stringent measures to hold the corporation to account.
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NewsC4 in£2m public art project
Channel 4 is hoping to do for public art what Jamie's School Dinners did for school cuisine, by pumping£2m into a scheme to create civic artworks across the UK.
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NewsBennett hires news exec to police WoCC
BBC director of television Jana Bennett has promoted a former BBC news executive to police the corporation's controversial new Window of Creative Competition (WoCC).
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NewsSky News to air video clips from viewers
The identity of prolific complainant Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells could soon be revealed though a new Sky News service that lets viewers vent their spleens by videophone.
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NewsBBC radio rejects three-for-one deal
The BBC's drive to axe 3,780 staff across the corporation has hit a stumbling block after staff in the radio and music division registered an official 'failure to agree' over plans to merge three jobs into one.