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NewsThompson warns government: "We can't do this again"
Mark Thompson has fired a warning shot across the bow to prevent the government from imposing future cuts on the BBC.
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NewsBBC confirms 2,000 job cuts
Around 2,000 BBC staff will lose their jobs by 2017 and a further 1,000 will move to Salford, where BBC3 will relocate as part of the corporation’s cost-cutting measures revealed this morning.
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NewsBBC2 orders Wartime Farm series from Lion TV
BBC2 has commissioned a third version of Lion TV’s successful …Farm format, this time looking at rural life during World War II.
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NewsCurrent TV to expose booze and sex danger
Current TV has ordered three docs and its first series recommission as part of a season planned for the run-up to Christmas that tackles the dangers posed by unlicensed alcohol and unprotected sex.
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NewsTalkback wins CBBC order for science sitcom
Talkback Thames is moving into the children’s space with a CBBC commission for a science-based kids’ sitcom.
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NewsC4 exec joins Ukrainian broadcaster
A Channel 4 factual entertainment executive producer has left to join a prominent Ukrainian broadcaster.
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NewsC4 rekindles 2005 ‘gay or straight’ dating format
Dating reality format Playing It Straight is being remade for Channel 4 following its first outing in 2005.
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Cwmni Da revives doc on history of toilet
BBC4 and Welsh broadcaster S4C have revived plans to produce a history of the toilet.
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NewsSnowball wins first commission at Lion TV’s Glasgow arm
Lion TV’s Glasgow division has received its first original order since Andrew Snowball was appointed this summer to oversee operations.
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NewsE4 recruiting 100 viewers to push shows online
E4 has launched a marketing initiative under which 100 viewers will be given access to its shows ahead of broadcast in exchange for promoting them online.
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NewsNetflix snaps up Being Human in first UK deal
Netflix has signed one of its first UK content deals, buying the UK original of Being Human and the US remake.
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NewsBBC signs last-minute pledge on DQF job cuts
The BBC has signed an eleventh-hour deal with Bectu over how it will carry out redundancies in the run-up to its Delivering Quality First announcement this week.
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NewsComedy Central drops Dirty Sexy Funny to focus on scripted
Comedy Central has scrapped hidden-camera show Dirty Sexy Funny: Olivia Lee and put the brakes on its topical news show development to focus on scripted content.
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NewsStandard to enter race for London TV licence
The London Evening Standard will officially enter the race to run a local television station in the capital, Broadcast has learned.
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NewsITV1 has another crack at Lemon primetime show
Keith Lemon has been lined up to host a second ITV1 pilot as the channel steps up efforts to establish him as a primetime star.
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NewsITV1 cancels Paul O’Grady chat show
ITV1 has called time on Paul O’Grady’s primetime chat show – ending the host’s second spell with the commercial broadcaster.
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NewsChannel 4 flips supply model in ‘radical’ twist
Channel 4 is flipping the traditional commissioning model by inviting digital specialists to come up with “format-breaking” multiplatform ideas to be produced ahead of collaboration with indies.
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NewsEU blocks pubs showing "decoded" Premier League games
The European Court of Justice has ruled that the FA Premier League cannot prevent the sale of foreign decoder cards for domestic use but broadcasting matches publicly is an offence.
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NewsHorror Channel schedules "banned" season
Chello Zone’s Horror Channel has acquired eight of the “most controversial films made in the history of horror” for a new season of content dubbed Season of the Banned.