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NewsSky to invest £500k into arts
Sky Arts has created a £500,000 annual fund which it will use to invest in new arts projects and emerging artists.
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NewsBBC1 orders live weather show
BBC1 is hunting live and interactive programmes and has kicked off by ordering The Weather Show Live (w/t) from Love Productions.
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NewsSchlesinger to leave BBC comedy
Paul Schlesinger, the award-winning executive producer of BBC4 sitcom Twenty Twelve and Comic Relief, is to leave the corporation.
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NewsMiriam O'Reilly back on BBC1
Miriam O’Reilly, the woman who won an ageism industrial tribunal against the BBC, is to become co-host of BBC1 daytime’s Crimewatch Roadshow.
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NewsChannel 5 acquires William and Kate film
A feature-length dramatisation of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s romance has been picked up for broadcast by Channel 5.
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NewsMister Maker returning to CBeebies
CBeebies has recommissioned two series for transmission on the pre-school channel later this year, one of which has secured new sales in Australia and Thailand.
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News"Second class" travel for BBC boss
A BBC executive whose taxi bills are among the biggest at the corporation has revealed she has been using second class rail travel as she visits staff to discuss efficiencies.
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NewsBBC considers quitting White City
The BBC is considering moving out of White City as part of a radical shake up of its London property.
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NewsThomson: DQF process a success
BBC chief operating officer Caroline Thomson has given her full backing to the bottom-up DQF process and hinted it could become the model for how the BBC effects change in the future.
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NewsFX UK snaps up rights to Spielberg’s alien invasion
FX UK is to air Steven Spielberg’s new alien drama Falling Skies three weeks after its US broadcast, after snapping up the UK rights from Turner Broadcasting System International.
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NewsTrue North puts focus on features after UKTV deal
Indie True North is ramping up its features output following its first deal with UKTV home and gardening channel Home.
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NewsFry to name 100 favourite gadgets for C4 list show
Channel 4 has ordered a three hour North One list show fronted by Stephen Fry in which the technology evangelist will count down his favourite gadgets.
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NewsC4 goes behind the scenes with Frankenstein cast
Channel 4 has ordered a behind-the-scenes documentary about Danny Boyle’s stage adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
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NewsSecurity Men marks Aherne’s ITV1 return
ITV1 has greenlit Caroline Aherne’s first comedy series in a decade as part of a concerted scripted comedy push.
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NewsWhy should we stay in Bristol, BBC asks indies
The BBC has asked indies in Bristol to make a case for why the corporation should remain in the city rather than move more production to Cardiff.
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NewsFlaws appear in DQF drama plan
The BBC proposal to repeat highend drama in daytime or overnight would barely save any money, Broadcast has discovered.
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NewsITV writes off Carbon and Crackit indie investment
ITV is to close down Carbon Media and write off its stake in Crackit Productions.
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NewsSky to air previously unseen 3D Nazi footage
Sky is to broadcast unaired footage and photographs of Nazi soldiers in 3D following the discovery of World War II recordings.
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NewsBig Brother returns on C5
Endemol plans to draft in a big-name executive producer from outside the company to lead the resurrection of Big Brother on Channel 5.
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NewsITV bets on Cowell gameshow
Simon Cowell and ITV are creating an epic gameshow in which thousands of contestants compete to win a million pounds - on the spin of a roulette wheel.