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Camp Orange hits the UK
Nickelodeon is launching a UK version of its international reality format Camp Orange, which sees eight kids sent to compete in a series of bush challenges in the Australian outback.
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NewsITN extends 4Music deal
ITN Productions has signed a two-year deal with 4Music to supply entertainment news for its weekday morning TV show following a three month pilot.
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NewsBBC draws up online plans for London 2012
The BBC is finalising its plans for how its coverage of the London 2012 Olympics will be structured online.
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NewsC4 plans King of… Twitter campaign
Channel 4 is to support Claudia Winkleman’s talkshow King Of… with an active Twitter strategy that will see one viewer crowned King Of Tweets.
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Prime Suspect heads to the US
ITV’s seminal crime drama Prime Suspect is to be adapted for US audiences for the first time.
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NewsITV to call time on Taggart
ITV has pulled the plug on Taggart after 28 years, forcing STV to go it alone on the murder drama.
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NewsC4 ready for challenging 2011
Channel 4’s executive team has pledged to bolster its risk-taking content despite the pressures of tougher market conditions.
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NewsBBC to publish guidance on hiring and firing stars
The BBC is set to publish guidance for producers on how to avoid legal pitfalls when hiring and firing on-screen talent, following Miriam O’Reilly’s successful discrimination suit last year.
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NewsNorman: we had to break old ITV culture
ITV bosses have had to break down a stagnant culture internally to set the company on the path to transformation, chairman Archie Norman has told the company AGM.
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NewsC4 downgrades Dickson’s role following exit
Channel 4 is downgrading its deputy head of documentaries role following the departure of Simon Dickson.
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NewsBBC’s Hare set for axe as viewers switch off
The BBC is to drop Saturday night format Don’t Scare The Hare after it failed to attract enough viewers - and didn’t impress those who did tune in.
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NewsSky 1 orders Maverick series; hunts entertainment format
Sky 1 has ordered its second fact ent series from Maverick TV in three months and is on the hunt for a £2.5m entertainment show to rival those of its terrestrial competitors.
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NewsThis Morning to push interactive boundaries
ITV is ramping up viewer influence on This Morning by introducing viewer votes on cookery items, live cook-along features via Skype and interactive interviews.
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NewsITVS America ups stakes with first order for ITV1
ITV Studios America is to make its first show for ITV1 as part of a raft of entertainment commissions won by the in-house production business.
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NewsC4 orders STV pub quiz series
Pub quiz fanatics will travel across the UK to test their general knowledge in an STV Productions daytime format for Channel 4.
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NewsCrozier: product placement revenues "negligible"
ITV chief executive Adam Crozier has admitted that product placement revenues will be “negligible” as the advertising tool finds its feet in the UK.
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NewsC4 board sees pay fall by £855,000
Channel 4’s executive and non-executive board members total pay fell by £855,000 in 2010, the broadcaster’s annual report has revealed.
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NewsGallery: BBC Salford
As the first BBC employees take up residence at MediaCityUK in Salford, new pictures have been released of the corporation’s new northern base where BBC Breakfast, Radio 5 Live, children’s, learning, future, sport and technology will be based.
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NewsC4 to make mischief with new line-up
Channel 4 is to show people taking Class A drugs and aims to build a national database showing how changes in diet can cure common ailments, part of its commitment to a new risk-centred strategy.
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NewsPatten: BBC must apologise faster
The BBC should respond to complaints more quickly and present a united front when doing so, the new Trust chairman has said.