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  • Impossible?
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    C5 magic show disappears from schedule

    2011-05-31T12:46:00Z

    Channel 5 has pulled magic-based gameshow Impossible? after just two episodes but will give it a second shot when it revives Big Brother later this year.

  • Ray Winstone
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    BBC has Great Expectations for Christmas schedule

    2011-05-31T08:56:00Z

    Ray Winstone is to star in a BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.

  • The Only Way Is Essex
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    Producer criticises TOWIE snobs

    2011-05-31T08:47:00Z

    The Only Way Is Essex’s ex-story producer has criticised the “snobbery” surrounding the show’s Bafta win.

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    BBC staff offered 2% pay rise

    2011-05-27T16:00:00Z

    The BBC is offering staff a 2% pay rise in response to a claim made by the joint unions in February.

  • Champion’s League
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    Sky's 3D Champion’s League feed goes global

    2011-05-27T12:48:00Z

    Sky Sports’ 3D feed of the Champion’s League final tomorrow will be carried by nearly 20 broadcasters around the world.

  • Helen Bullough
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    Bullough named CBBC Production boss

    2011-05-27T12:47:00Z

    Helen Bullough has been appointed head of CBBC Production with responsibility for in-house series including Blue Peter and Newsround.

  • Emmerdale
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    ITV rebrands Emmerdale

    2011-05-27T12:13:00Z

    Emmerdale has undergone a major rebrand as part of plans to modernise the ITV1 soap.

  • Geordies Shore
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    Geordie Shore sparks online buzz

    2011-05-27T12:06:00Z

    MTV reality show Geordie Shore, produced by Lime Pictures, has established a strong social media buzz following its debut this week.

  • somewhereto
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    Somethin’ Else wins 2012 Legacy project

    2011-05-27T11:58:00Z

    Channel 4 Education and youth communication agency Livity have appointed Somethin’ Else to produce a series of films to support somewhereto, their online project to find vacant spaces that young people can take over.

  • Millionaire app
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    Virgin Media puts Millionaire app on Tivo

    2011-05-27T11:57:00Z

    Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? has become the first TV show app to launch on Virgin Media’s connected TV service Tivo.

  • Rickie and Melvin
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    Box TV orders Pop Up Pop Quiz

    2011-05-27T11:53:00Z

    Channel 4 and Bauer Media joint venture Box TV is producing an outdoor quiz show set on a giant inflatable set.

  • Morgan Spurlock
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    Spurlock to host Current series

    2011-05-27T11:47:00Z

    Documentary-maker Morgan Spurlock is to front a 5 x 60-minute series 50 Documentaries To See Before You Die for Current TV.

  • Channel 5
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    Star hosts Demand 5

    2011-05-27T11:44:00Z

    The Daily Star website has begun hosting Channel 5’s VoD service Demand 5 as owner Richard Desmond seeks to increase tie-ups between his media businesses.

  • News

    BBC4 and TVF back festival doc strand

    2011-05-27T11:41:00Z

    BBC4 and TVF International are backing the first documentary strand at philosophy and music festival How the Light Gets In.

  • News

    BBC's Allen joins ISD

    2011-05-27T11:39:00Z

    Multichannel broadcaster Ideal Shopping Direct has hired former BBC executive Marc Allen to “inject industry credibility” into its four retail channels.

  • How Not To Live Your Life
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    Bennett axes BBC3 comedies

    2011-05-27T11:35:00Z

    BBC3 controller Zai Bennett has canned a trio of the channel’s comedies as one of his first moves in the job.

  • Becoming Human
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    BBC scraps multiplatform commissioners

    2011-05-26T12:37:00Z

    The BBC is scrapping the role of multiplatform commissioners and cutting ten more jobs from BBC Vision as part of its restructure of BBC online.

  • BBC
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    BBC caught in six-day week row

    2011-05-26T08:30:00Z

    Bectu and Directors UK are fighting an “unmistakable” increase in “exploitative” six-day-week freelance contracts being issued by BBC Vision Productions.

  • Any Human Heart
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    Big name drama set for BBC1

    2011-05-26T08:30:00Z

    William Boyd and Sally Wainwright are both writing 9pm BBC1 dramas as part of a 25-hour slate designed to “challenge what popular mainstream drama is on the channel”.

  • Zai Bennett
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    Bennett sets out BBC3 stall

    2011-05-26T08:30:00Z

    A new Sharon Horgan comedy, a British Hurt Locker “but with laughs”, and a season tackling unemployment are among the first commissions by new BBC3 controller Zai Bennett.