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NewsX Factor admits enhancing contestants' voices
The X Factor is embroiled in another production row after bosses admitted using technology to make some contestants’ voices sound better.
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NewsBid to list every BBC show ever broadcast
Researchers are poring over thousands of back copies of the Radio Times to put together a list of every BBC programme ever broadcast.
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NewsSky News appoints first sports editor
Sky News has appointed Nick Powell to the new role of sports editor as it revamps its coverage ahead of the launch of Sky Sports News HD.
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NewsDisney unveils autumn slate
Disney has ordered a second series of its CGI series Jungle Junction from UK indie Spider Eye Animation as part of a slate of new and returning shows for the autumn/winter season that includes the final season of Hannah Montana.
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News'Too white' BBC seeks sitcom ideas
The BBC is seen as “too white and middle class” and is aiming to make more multicultural sitcoms, it has announced.
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NewsS4C exec admits 'I wasn't Newsnight editor'
The man brought in as S4C’s interim boss has been forced to confirm he had not been the editor of Newsnight and Panorama, despite stating so on his company website.
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NewsOfcom study reveals UK's media addiction
Consumers are spending almost half their waking hours watching TV and using their mobiles and other communications gadgets, a study has found.
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NewsWorld Cup boosts TV watching time
Wall to wall coverage of the World Cup boosted the number of hours people spent watching television in the first six months of this year, according to research published today.
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NewsBBC bid to put brakes on The Stig's Top Gear book
The BBC is fighting to keep Top Gear’s mystery driver The Stig from revealing his identity, it has emerged.
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NewsIndie peaktime share soars
Indies commanded more than half of peaktime spending by public service broadcasters for the first time in 2009, but their share of daytime TV spend was at a 10-year low.
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NewsBBC accused of bias over Panorama report on raid
The BBC is facing a protest this weekend following its Panorama documentary on the Israeli raid on a Palestinian aid flotilla, with complaints beginning to flood in after a campaign by lobby groups.
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NewsThompson: pensions strike will be no help
The BBC and unions remain at loggerheads over the broadcaster’s proposed pension cuts, as director general Mark Thompson warned staff this week that industrial action will have no effect.
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NewsZolkwer moves into ITV comedy hot seat
Claire Zolkwer is to become ITV’s new comedy supremo, with Michaela Hennessy-Vass leaving the broadcaster.
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NewsSTV to air Shed web drama Being Victor
Shed Media’s web drama Being Victor will transfer to TV this autumn after the producer struck a deal with Scottish broadcaster STV.
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NewsOptomen takes C5’s order for daytime cooking show
Optomen, All3Media’s latest acquisition, has cooked up a new advertiser-funded series for Channel 5 that aims to help viewers prepare quick meals.
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NewsMale TV experts outnumber women four to one, study shows
City University has applied for a grant to study the representation of women in the media after an initial study into news programmes found that male experts outnumbered women by four to one.
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NewsMiddle Child wins Sky 1 deal for RSPCA ob-doc
Fledgling indie Middle Child Productions has won its first major commission: a 20-part ob-doc for Sky 1 following frontline RSPCA officers at work.
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NewsUKTV adds Peep Show to Dave
Dave will add Peep Show to its roster of comedy series after 4Rights sold 30 hours of programming to UKTV.
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NewsHawking’s Universe heads to C4
Channel 4 has bought Darlow Smithson’s Stephen Hawking’s Universe, a 4 x 60-minute science series that originally aired on Discovery in the US and the UK.
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NewsAsian Network orders new docs
Threatened radio station BBC Asian Network has unveiled a series of 15 commissions which will run until April, kicking off with a special investigation into the Pakistan flooding disaster.