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NewsShaw exits C4 to join BBC
Tanya Shaw is leaving Channel 4 to join the BBC’s factual features and formats commissioning team.
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NewsExecs anxious over lack of ent hits
A blockage in the pipeline of big, home-grown entertainment formats is causing anxiety across the industry, execs admitted at Edinburgh.
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NewsThe broadcasters’ wishlist
Commissioners and controllers used the Edinburgh International TV Festival to outline the gaps in their schedules. Here’s Broadcast’s guide to what you need to be pitching to whom
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NewsAbraham: a new TV duopoly is emerging
Channel 4 wants to establish itself as the “creative counterweight” to a new broadcasting duopoly, chief executive David Abraham told the Edinburgh International Television Festival.
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NewsDNI and NGC throw down gauntlet to terrestrial rivals
Discovery Networks International and National Geographic Channels are going head to head with similar content strategies – but have set their sights on competing with the terrestrial channels.
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NewsTigress set for survival challenge
Explorer Ed Stafford is to attempt to stay alive for 60 days on a remote island without supplies in an extreme survival series for Discovery Channel.
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NewsC5 examines why former soldiers become criminals
Channel 5 is to investigate the growing number of ex-servicemen who end up in prison in a two-part documentary.
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NewsNetflix defends UK content spend
Netflix chief creative officer Ted Sarandos has hit back at claims the US company has artificially inflated the cost of digital rights by overpaying for acquisitions.
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NewsPact challenges BBC quotas
Pact raised questions with the BBC Trust about in-house guarantees ahead of last weeks’ Edinburgh International Television Festival – at which the size and scope of Vision Productions came under scrutiny.
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NewsC4 hands Ramsay teatime slot
Gordon Ramsay will be taking a teatime slot on Channel 4 teaching viewers how to cook in dishes from around the world in a home cooking course.
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NewsCitizen Khan sparks 185 complaints
The BBC has received 185 complaints about the portrayal of the Muslim community in its new post-watershed sitcom Citizen Khan.
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NewsDiscovery doc to celebrate life of Neil Armstrong
Discovery Channel is to air a fast-turnaround doc examining the life of Neil Armstrong following his death last week.
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NewsSky Living’s Gates set for US remake
Gates, the new Sky Living comedy starring Gavin & Stacey’s Joanna Page, is being piloted for US audiences by NBC.
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NewsBBC Scotland puts 35 jobs at risk
BBC Scotland has placed 35 jobs at risk of redundancy as it bids to make cutbacks under the Delivering Quality First initiative.
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NewsNew Daybreak logo unveiled
A new Daybreak logo has been unveiled ahead of the relaunch of the ITV breakfast show on 3 September.
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NewsC4 rapped over Daddy Daycare breach
Channel 4 has been rapped for including footage of a three year-old girl without informing her parents, in Daddy Daycare.
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NewsITV1 commissions Ice Cream Girls drama
ITV has ordered a three-part drama series starring Lorraine Burroughs based a best selling novel by Dorothy Koomson.
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NewsITV escapes heat over N-word song lyrics
Ofcom has ruled that a use of the N-word broadcast on ITV Yorkshire’s Calendar News has been appropriately dealt with by the broadcaster.
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NewsInbetweeners star to front Comedy Central sitcom
Inbetweeners star Blake Harrison is to front a new sitcom on Comedy Central - the second original UK series from the MTV-owned channel.
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NewsEdinburgh TV Festival round-up
At-a-glance guide to Broadcast’s full coverage from the Edinburgh International TV Festival 2012.