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NewsNetflix to hit UK in early 2012
Subscription video-on-demand service Netflix, which has 25 million members across the US, Canada and Latin America, will launch in the UK and Ireland early next year.
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NewsWhittingdale uses Knox trial to justify cameras in court
The televising of the Amanda Knox trial helped John Whittingdale understand the case and sympathise with her, he revealed at a debate about allowing cameras into the court room.
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NewsLinehan turns off The IT Crowd
Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd will not be returning for a fifth series but will wrap up with an extended special, creator Graham Linehan has confirmed.
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NewsITV1 secures Westlife's final TV appearance
ITV1 is to capture Westlife’s final TV appearance together in a special celebration of the band’s career.
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NewsSky 1 mixes cooking and business for pilot
Sky 1 has ordered an hour-long cookery pilot from Splash Media which will give amateur cooks the chance to turn their homemade products into business opportunities.
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NewsC4 serves up live daytime cookery show
Channel 4 is lining up its first live daytime cookery show since Mel and Sue’s Light Lunch in 1997.
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NewsSky names Hurford-Jones ent commissioner
Sky has appointed Antonia Hurford-Jones as commissioning editor for entertainment to oversee shows such as A League Of Their Own and order fresh content.
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NewsBBC1 orders Citizen Khan sitcom
Comic performer and broadcaster Adil Ray is to take his Down the Line character Mr Khan to BBC1 for a studio sitcom.
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NewsBBC2 goes underground
The BBC is getting unique access to the London Underground for a new documentary series.
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NewsC4 to live stream hippo being eaten
Channel 4 is to reveal the food chain in action by live broadcasting the consumption of a dead hippo in the wild over five days.
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NewsDoc planned on 100-year-old marathon runner
A British centenarian who recently became the oldest man to run a marathon is to be the subject of a new documentary.
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NewsCurrent TV orders films from Salford youth
Four local youth groups in Salford have been selected to make eight films to be shown on Current TV as part of a new apprenticeship scheme.
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NewsBaby Jake grows for Darrall Macqueen
Kids indie Darrall Macqueen is to produce a second series of Baby Jake for CBeebies.
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NewsITVS hires BBC drama exec
ITV Studios has poached the BBC executive behind The Curse of Steptoe and a Monkey Kingdom producer to join its new drama unit.
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NewsDQF axe falls on BBC comms team
The BBC has informed 16 members of its communications team that they are to be made redundant - one of the first waves of compulsory cuts as part of Delivering Quality First.
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NewsC4 drops Vacation, Vacation, Vacation
Kirsty Allsopp and Phil Spencer’s holiday show Vacation, Vacation, Vacation, will not be returning to Channel 4 for another series.
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NewsBBC's Ariel to go online only
The BBC’s in house newspaper is to fold after 75 years and has gone online only as part of the corporation’s Delivering Quality First cuts.
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NewsITV and Pact back in talks over terms
ITV and Pact are back in negotiations over concerns that the broadcaster is increasingly ignoring the Terms of Trade.
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NewsBSkyB and BBC clash on fees
Gloves come off as ITV, C4 and C5 wade in and report claims retransmission fees will soar.
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NewsC4 calls time on Comedy Labs
Channel 4 is replacing its long-running Comedy Labs initiative with an E4 comedy pilot scheme as it attempts to clarify the objectives of its talent ladder schemes.