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NewsBBC has Great Expectations for Christmas schedule
Ray Winstone is to star in a BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.
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NewsProducer criticises TOWIE snobs
The Only Way Is Essex’s ex-story producer has criticised the “snobbery” surrounding the show’s Bafta win.
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NewsBBC staff offered 2% pay rise
The BBC is offering staff a 2% pay rise in response to a claim made by the joint unions in February.
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NewsSky's 3D Champion’s League feed goes global
Sky Sports’ 3D feed of the Champion’s League final tomorrow will be carried by nearly 20 broadcasters around the world.
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NewsBullough named CBBC Production boss
Helen Bullough has been appointed head of CBBC Production with responsibility for in-house series including Blue Peter and Newsround.
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NewsITV rebrands Emmerdale
Emmerdale has undergone a major rebrand as part of plans to modernise the ITV1 soap.
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NewsGeordie Shore sparks online buzz
MTV reality show Geordie Shore, produced by Lime Pictures, has established a strong social media buzz following its debut this week.
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NewsSomethin’ Else wins 2012 Legacy project
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.
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NewsVirgin Media puts Millionaire app on Tivo
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? has become the first TV show app to launch on Virgin Media’s connected TV service Tivo.
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NewsBox TV orders Pop Up Pop Quiz
Channel 4 and Bauer Media joint venture Box TV is producing an outdoor quiz show set on a giant inflatable set.
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NewsSpurlock to host Current series
Documentary-maker Morgan Spurlock is to front a 5 x 60-minute series 50 Documentaries To See Before You Die for Current TV.
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NewsStar hosts Demand 5
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.
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BBC4 and TVF back festival doc strand
BBC4 and TVF International are backing the first documentary strand at philosophy and music festival How the Light Gets In.
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BBC's Allen joins ISD
Multichannel broadcaster Ideal Shopping Direct has hired former BBC executive Marc Allen to “inject industry credibility” into its four retail channels.
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NewsBennett axes BBC3 comedies
BBC3 controller Zai Bennett has canned a trio of the channel’s comedies as one of his first moves in the job.
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NewsBBC scraps multiplatform commissioners
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.
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NewsBBC caught in six-day week row
Bectu and Directors UK are fighting an “unmistakable” increase in “exploitative” six-day-week freelance contracts being issued by BBC Vision Productions.
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NewsBig name drama set for BBC1
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”.
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NewsBennett sets out BBC3 stall
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.
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NewsUKTV weighs options as four execs move on
UKTV is reassessing its top-level structure following the departure of four high-profile executives in three months.