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Crossroads faces the axe.
They axed half the cast, demolished the infamous shaky set and turned the sauce factor up to 11 - but not even Emma Noble in a hot-tub could revive the fortunes of ITV's troubled soap Crossroads, which is set to be axed from its teatime slot within weeks,
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BBC'S PAEDOPHILE HUNT.
The BBC is to follow up its controversial series The Hunt for Britain's Paedophiles with a
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Grace departs ITV as Pickard arrives.
ITV controller of children's and youth Janie Grace is quitting the network centre just 10 days
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NewsAllen asks for 10% of licence fee
The government should hand over 10% of the BBC's licence fee to commercial broadcasters to help prop up public service broadcasting, according to Granada chairman Charles Allen, writes Colin Robertson
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Straight Outta Salford
Wes Butters, a 23-year-old last heard on local radio, takes over that great British institution, The Radio 1 Chart ...
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Battle Station
ith its broadcast of Osama Bin Laden's videos and exclusive footage of the Afghan war, the tiny satellite station a...
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ITV hits at ?BBC bias' in Bafta awards shortlist
When emotional award-winners hold aloft distinctive Bafta mask at the television awards ceremony later this month, ...
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I was betrayed by Bashir, rages Jackson
Michael Jackson yesterday made an official complaint to the television watchdog over the controversial documentary ...
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Cable TV boss picked to take helm at Channel 5
Channel 5 yesterday finally ended its search for a boss by appointing cable television executive Jane Lighting as i...
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Uncertainty deepens over future of Canal Plus
The uncertainty over the fate of Canal Plus deepened last nigh as Jean-René Fourtou, chief executive of Vivendi Uni...
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Jacko: I was betrayed by TV's Bashir
Devastated Michael Jackson plans to sue the makers of this week's controversial TV documentary after claiming they ...
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Tricky Dicky dies 4 times
Coronation Street chiefs are set to film not one but four grisly deaths for the soap's triple killer Richard Hillma...
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Drossroads faces the axe again!
Troubled soap Crossroads is facing the axe - just three weeks after a glitzy makeover ...
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NewsLighting confirmed as Five chief
Flextech chief executive of content Jane Lighting has finally been confirmed as the new chief executive of Five and will join in April, writes Luke Satchell
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I've told you not to call me on the golf course
When the space shuttle Columbia crashed America's top news anchors raced to the studio. Well, most did ...
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ITV urges rethink on production grouping
ITV has appealed to the government to keep its regional production wings on a level playing field with foreign-owne...
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Penalise BBC on fee, says TV chief
Granada chairman Charles Allen has argued that the BBC should lose 10% of its licence fee to fund public service pr...
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Pay-TV executive to head to Five
Jane Lighting has been confirmed as the next chief executive of Five, the UK terrestrial television channel. ...
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TV team to search for wreck of Belgrano
The team that found the Titanic and the Bismarck will begin hunting this month for the wreck of the General Belgran...