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C4 will not fill Bellamy's role.
Channel 4 will not appoint a commissioning editor, nations and regions to replace Julian Bellamy, following his promotion to head of factual entertainment last week, writes Penny Hughes.
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Maverick hires 4 Learning ed.
Birmingham-based indie Maverick Television, producer of Channel 4's Celebrity Wheelchair Challenge, has poached 4 Learning managing editor, programme support Kate Norrish, writes Penny Hughes.
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Creative briefs - News in brief.
Bernard Heyes Design has produced graphics and effects work for a 90-minute BBC2 special on DNA
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Programming - Movie stars to be next C4 list.
Channel 4 has asked Yorkshire TV to produce another 100 Greatest ... marathon, with a six-hour
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Programming - Somethin' Else wins C4 order.
Indie Somethin' Else has secured a rare TV commission with a six-part music show for Channel 4, to be presented by former Saturday Show front man Joe Mace and Tom Findlay from dance band Groove Armada, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Programming - Five to look at 'super machines'.
Indie Pioneer Productions, the self-styled creator of TV 'weather porn', has won a brace of commissions from Five and the Travel Channel, writes Penny Hughes.
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Tivo calls time on UK PVR strategy.
Personal video recorder (PVR) Tivo has been pulled out of the UK in a move which
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Fame Academy exec given BBC formats job.
The BBC has rewarded the executive producer behind its recent Fame Academy reality show with a permanent job as creative head for format entertainment, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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What Not to Wear gets BBC1 outing.
BBC2 makeover strand What Not to Wear, which features acerbic presenters Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine dishing out fashion advice to shell-shocked members of the public, is to transfer to BBC1 for a celebrity special, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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JOBS CUT AT BBC NEWS.
The BBC's news division is to axe 102 staff posts and make 61 redundancies as part
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SKY'S MARSH TO ITALY.
BSkyB deputy director of broadcasting Kate Marsh is joining News Corporation's Italian pay-TV outfit Stream to
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POSTMAN PAT MOVES.
Cosgrove Hall Films, the company behind Andy Pandy and Engie Benjy, is to make the new
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TV ROLE FOR BB3'S ALEX.
Nickelodeon has signed Big Brother 3's Alex Sibley to host a new mass phone-in gameshow called
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BBC1 JOB FOR LIDDLE.
Former Today editor Rod Liddle has been signed up as a team captain on the new
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BBC fills top jobs at NHU and children's.
The BBC has filled its two vacant senior programming posts by promoting CBBC head of programming
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Endemol hires for new posts.
Big Brother executive Philip Edgar-Jones and Dominic English, the producer behind the now defunct 11 O' Clock Show are to take up newly created senior positions at Endemol UK, writes Penny Hughes.
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'Stop bleating,' Howells tells TV execs.
Broadcasting minister Kim Howells has called on broadcasters to stop 'bleating' about unfair competition and concentrate on producing better programmes, writes David Rose.
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BBC4 comeback for legendary After Dark.
Controversial late-night live discussion show After Dark, in which actor Oliver Reed famously tried to give American feminist Kate Millett a drunken kiss, is to be resurrected by BBC4, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Ratings - BBC1's afternoon play gets off to sweet start.
BBC1's gamble of putting big names in one-off daytime dramas appeared to have paid off this week, with the launch of The Afternoon Play on Monday, writes Luke Satchell.
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BASHING CELEBS BANNED.
The BBC has scrapped its BBC2 celebrity boxing show after the British Boxing Board of Control