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NewsMad Men star joins BBC drama
Mad Men’s Elizabeth Moss will star in forthcoming BBC2 drama Top of the Lake, written and directed by Oscar winner Jane Campion.
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NewsDoherty to examine forest life for C4
Jimmy Doherty is examine the biology, ecology and social history of a Norfolk forest for a new Channel 4 series.
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NewsGuy Martin latest talent to join C4
Channel 4 has secured British motorcycle racer Guy Martin in an exclusive face for the channel - building on the talent recently signed up to the broadcaster.
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NewsC4 lines up real-life Fawlty Towers
Channel 4 is to feature a real-life Fawlty Towers in the second series of The Hotel, which is set to return early next year.
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NewsITN poised to replace Sky as C5 news provider
Channel 5 is set to appoint ITN to produce its news coverage having agreed a deal with Sky to terminate its existing contract early.
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NewsBBC hopes to attract "rivals" to Cardiff
The BBC’s newly-completed drama village in Cardiff could be expanded to include other broadcasters and indies in a similar way to MediaCityUK, Mark Thompson has hinted.
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NewsChannel 5+1 to launch next month
Channel 5 is preparing to launch a time-shifted channel across Freeview, Freesat and Sky from early December.
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NewsDownton Abbey to return for third series
ITV has confirmed a third series of hit period drama Downton Abbey.
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NewsRamsay to cook Christmas dinner live for C4
Gordon Ramsay will cook a turkey dinner live for Channel 4 on Christmas Day - while Alan Carr will take viewers into the New Year.
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NewsC4 to shake up commissioning structure
Ralph Lee and Sue Murphy look set to be the winners in an imminent Channel 4 commissioning restructure.
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NewsESPN tees up first golf tournament
ESPN is to televise golf in the UK for the first time having signed the rights to the Australian PGA Championship and Australian Open, as well as striking a deal to share the World Professional Darts Championships with the BBC.
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NewsC4 to probe Britishness in Bradford
The Citizenship test will be used as the basis of a social experiment in Bradford which will result in a group of people who failed it put together in a house by Channel 4.
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NewsC4 acquires Half Ton Killer
Mayra Rosales, a 500 kilogram (78 stone) woman, accused of beating her nephew to death is one of the main characters in a US documentary acquired by Channel 4.
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NewsC4 closes in on record spend
Channel 4 is entering its next phase of creative renewal with a revamp of More 4, a raft of new programming and plans to up its spend to an all-time high of £600m next year.
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NewsNo takers for Red or Black? Down Under
ITV and Simon Cowell’s Syco TV have failed to sell million-pound roulette format Red or Black? in Australia – one of the key territories where they were attempting to get it off the ground.
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NewsPioneer wins 2011 review docs for C4
Pioneer Productions is making two docs for Channel 4 that look back on 2011, one of which focuses on natural disasters and another on the spate of animal attacks on holiday-makers.
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NewsShaun Ryder to hunt aliens for History
Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder will consult Robbie Williams and professors Brian Cox and Steven Hawking about the possibility that mankind shares the universe with aliens for AETN’s History channel.
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NewsC4 viewers biggest users of social media
Channel 4 viewers are 36% more likely to regularly use the internet or mobile phones for social networking than the average 16+ adult, while E4 viewers are twice as likely, the channel has claimed.
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NewsBBC Radio ready to partner
Director general Mark Thompson has signalled that BBC Radio is to work more collaboratively with the commercial sector by opening up distribution of its content and via an Audiopedia audio archive.
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NewsGaunt and Whale warn BBC over local radio cuts
Radio industry veterans including Jon Gaunt and James Whale have warned the BBC that cuts to local speech radio will have a “damaging effect on society”.