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Profile: Tony Wood - Breaking free from Street life
After 15 years on the country's most popular soaps, Tony Wood has returned to his roots at Mersey TV and is relishing the chance to spread his wings.
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Why Rome wasn't built in a day
The BBC and HBO's attempt to create a lavish costume drama with Rome nearly came to grief as production was halted after three episodes had been shot - so began an epic campaign to save it. Andy Stout reports.
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Comment: Make this your mission
John Geraint issues a rallying call for targets to make broadcasters other than the BBC commission network production from the UK nations
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NewsMurphy joins BBC exodus to indies
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has become the latest high-profile figure to quit the BBC, after being poached by Wife Swap producer RDF Media.
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NewsRDF continues expansion
RDF Media is pushing ahead with its growth strategy, kick-starting takeover talks with IWC Media and hiring BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy as creative director.
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NewsDigital UK plans target schools
English, maths, science? and digital switchover could be the new lesson plan facing schoolchildren across the UK.
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NewsBroadcasters spurn Commander In Chief
Commander In Chief, the biggest hit of the new American TV season, has yet to find a British home with terrestrial networks rejecting the 'jingoistic' nature of the series.
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NewsFive u-turn is game on for reality
Five has commissioned a new reality show just a week after channel boss Dan Chambers said he was banning them from the channel.
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Sky One probes world's oldest profession
Sky One is delving into the world of courtesans and call girls with a three-part series on prostitution.
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Meet TV's average Joe
The great and good of the freelance community might consider themselves anything but average but Broadcast has exposed what the typical TV freelancer is like.
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CPS improves media access
News crews and documentary makers are to be given greater access to prosecution material, following a new deal with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo).
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Tinopolis steps up TV Corp bid
Major shareholders in troubled indie TV Corp are pressuring the company's board to accept a takeover bid from Welsh producer Tinopolis.
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NewsHow Homechoice got ahead of the curve
Sky is making a£150m bid for Easynet and is also understood to be casting its eye over west London on-demand TV business Homechoice. Susan Thompson reports on why the cutting-edge company could be a target.
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BBC films tower block makeover
The BBC is spending two-and-a-half years filming the regeneration of a London tower block for a landmark BBC1 documentary.
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NewsBBC4 secures largest ever audience
5pm: BBC4, the corporation's digital arts and documentaries channel, gained its best ever ratings last week with an audience share of 0.8% in multichannel homes.
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NewsTalks fail to pacify Sky shareholders
4.45pm: Preliminary talks between BSkyB and its major UK shareholders, aimed at preventing a potential rebellion over proposals to increase the stake News Corp has in the satellite company, have ended in deadlock.
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NewsMPs: BBC Manchester move must happen
Labour MP's have warned BBC chiefs they will face a political backlash if they renege on their plan to move to Manchester.
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NewsGranada International securedeal with TV Polaska
4pm: Granada International has sold the rights to 11 Hollywood TV movies and a selection of classic films to Poland's state broadcaster, TV Polaska
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NewsC4 launch 'living war memorial' online
3.30pm: Channel 4 has partnered with the Imperial War Museum to launch online, Lost Generation, a 21st Century war memorial.
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NewsAlastair Campbell to guest edit Five News
3.15pm: Former Labour spin master Alastair Campbell is to be let loose by Five as a guest editor of the channel's 7pm news bulletin.