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NewsBBC reveals comedy plans
A Ruth Jones comedy is among a raft of projects on BBC1’s radar as it bids to plug the hole left by Miranda and now Mrs Brown’s Boys.
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NewsComedy leads BBC3 revolution
Shane Allen has pledged that BBC3’s move online will boost the quality and quantity of its comedy output after being promised a budget of more than £10m under the plans.
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NewsFeatures & formats at risk from BBC3 online move
BBC3 formats such as Don’t Tell the Bride and Sun, Sea and Suspicious Parents could become potential casualties of BBC3’s proposed move online.
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NewsBlast! delivers Post Office doc to BBC2
The Tube producer Blast! Films is to turn its attention to the Post Office for its latest BBC2 ob-doc series.
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NewsSnowman & Snowdog takes off as paid-for game
Channel 4 is releasing a third version of The Snowman and Snowdog game which will require users to pay to download it for the first time.
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NewsBBCW plans Paramount theme park rides
Doctor Who and Top Gear are among the BBC brands that could be turned into theme park rides after BBC Worldwide struck a deal with a major British resort firm.
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NewsBBC3 online plans revealed
A fifth of BBC3’s new £30m digital budget will be ploughed into short-form content as the corporation bids to put the channel at the heart of young audiences’ online worlds.
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NewsGuy Martin short films race onto Channel 4
Guy Martin’s Passion For Life has become the first show from Channel 4’s online Shorts platform to make the leap onto linear television.
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NewsKudos lands Channel 4 comedy pilot
Broadchurch actress Olivia Coleman will feature in a Channel 4 comedy pilot from Kudos Film & Television to be penned and directed by Bafta-nominated Will Sharpe.
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NewsGold digs out Bob Monkhouse joke books
UKTV has ordered a documentary series about the life of Bob Monkhouse for Gold.
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NewsC4: retrans fees worth £200m to commercial PSBs
Channel 4 chief executive David Abraham has claimed that securing retransmission fees from pay-TV platforms could be worth up to £200m each year to commercial PSBs.
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NewsToast of London to return for third outing
Channel 4 has commissioned a third series of Objective Productions’ comedy Toast of London.
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NewsIan Hislop urges BBC to become more 'pugnacious'
Ian Hislop has called on the BBC to become “more pugnacious” BBC after a period of cautious programming.
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NewsEducating… heads to Cardiff
Channel 4’s Educating… strand is to leave England for the first time with a fourth series set in the Welsh capital city.
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NewsC5 revs up dashcam car show
Channel 5 has commissioned a driving clips show from Shine North featuring an array of ‘dashcam’ footage.
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NewsBBC extends late evening regional news bulletins
The BBC is to double the length of its late evening regional news bulletins in the run-up to next year’s general election.
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NewsBBC1 lures Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is to make his first series for BBC1 - a three-part investigation into food waste.
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NewsTern secures 20 hours of BBC nations output
Tern Television has picked up over 20 hours of commissions from BBC Scotland and Northern Ireland, including a six-part documentary about Britain’s leading ski resort.
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NewsSTV and unions agree pay deal
STV has had its 2015 pay offer “unanimously” accepted by union members, days after ITV’s proposed pay deal prompted a ballot over strike action.
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NewsITV orders Planet's Got Talent
A back-flipping dog and a man who washes himself in soup are set to appear in an ITV spin-off of Britain’s Got Talent.