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NewsC4 to pilot comic trio’s Bad Sugar
Sharon Horgan, Julia Davis and Olivia Colman have created a Channel 4 comedy pilot with the writers of Fresh Meat and Peep Show.
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NewsUnions ballot members over 3% ITV pay offer
Bectu, the National Union of Journalists and Unite are balloting ITV members for the second consecutive year over the company’s offer of a 3% pay increase for 2012.
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NewsMcGregor back on BBC2 for Unicef docs
Ewan McGregor is to front a BBC2 documentary series charting the delivery of vaccines to some of the most deprived areas of the world.
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NewsPercy looks at Russia and the West in BBC2 season
Unseen interviews with poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, the president of Georgia and other top world politicians will form part of a Norma Percy BBC2 season investigating the West’s relationship with Russia.
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NewsDMAX enters scripted reality with Superfans
Discovery Networks UK is to dip its toe into scripted reality with a show following some of the country’s most dedicated fans.
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NewsBBC3 trials long-form online push
BBC3 is trialling long-form online comedy as part of a major push in the genre that includes a Jack Whitehall sitcom and recommissions for Pramface and Him & Her.
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NewsCelebrities roll back the years for CBBC
Pop stars Nicole Scherzinger and One Direction will look back at their 12-year-old selves and everyday kids will be thrust into the frontline of the UK’s emergency services for two CBBC commissions.
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NewsC4 factual candidates emerge
The deputy head of factual role at Channel 4 looks likely to be hotly contested, with multiple contenders emerging, including a raft of internal candidates.
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NewsBBC3 eyes The Voice US
BBC3 is close to securing the rights of the US version of The Voice, to air after the UK version debuts on BBC1 next year.
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NewsC4 to use game to select Bank Job contestants
The contestants appearing in Channel 4’s forthcoming The Bank Job will have to be successful in an online head-to-head game to take part in the show.
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NewsC4 probes Queen Victoria’s secrets
The controversial relationship between Queen Victoria and her Muslim Indian servant Abdul Karim will be explored as part of Channel 4’s 2012 history documentary line-up.
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NewsBBCW launches festive promo for iPlayer
BBC Worldwide is offering global iPlayer customers a free episode of festive themed content every day until Christmas.
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NewsFresh Meat tops 4oD chart
Channel 4 comedy drama, Fresh Meat, was the most watched series on 4oD in October by half a million views.
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NewsDCI Banks set to return
ITV1 is on the brink of commissioning a second full series of Stephen Tompkinson crime drama DCI Banks.
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NewsSky Arts resurrects South Bank Show
Melvyn Bragg’s The South Bank Show is returning to TV for Sky Arts in 2012 after a three-year hiatus.
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NewsGrayson Perry to explore class and taste for C4
Turner prize winning artist Grayson Perry will explore taste and class for Channel 4 in a three-part series due to be shown next year.
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NewsDavid Morrissey to star in C4 riots drama
The riots that engulfed parts of London this summer will be at the centre of the new Channel 4 drama starring David Morrissey.
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NewsS4C is ‘secretive and arrogant’, says report
A new report published by S4C has painted the Welsh broadcaster as secretive, arrogant and politically naive.
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NewsRichard Life to leave ITVS
Richard Life, ITV Studios Global Entertainment’s head of acquisitions and co-productions, is to step down at the end of the year.
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NewsITV1 to review the year in news
Mark Austin is to front a two-part review of the year in news for ITV1.