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NewsDaybreak to replace GMTV brand
ITV’s flagship morning show GMTV is to be renamed Daybreak as part of a £1.5m shake-up that will see Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley take on presenting duties.
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NewsPension fury at BBC
The BBC’s overhaul of its pension scheme has provoked a furious reaction on the letters page of Ariel, the corporation’s in-house magazine.
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NewsAbsolute and MTV join forces for 80s push
Absolute Radio has partnered with MTV for the first time in a joint venture that will see programming air across both radio and television.
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NewsFive and UKTV order emergency series
Five has commissioned a new ‘blue light’ series with UKTV following the high speed experiences of biker police and paramedics.
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NewsOnline Baddiel series nets 17,000
UKTV’s first online commission, FC Dave starring David Baddiel, has racked up 17,000 views in the five weeks since its launch.
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NewsAl Murray fronts topical ITV comedy pilot
Al Murray is piloting an “apocalyptic, yet upbeat” ITV1 show that aims to take a comic look at the week’s events.
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NewsLewis to return for fifth series
ITV has ordered four more episodes of established detective drama Lewis.
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NewsNo One Show return for Christine Bleakley
Christine Bleakley will not return to The One Show when the programme comes back from its break next week, the BBC has confirmed.
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NewsJailed nursery nurse’s family to speak out in doc
The immediate family of Vanessa George, the Plymouth nursery nurse jailed for child abuse, are to speak in a HanrahanMedia doc for AETN UK’s Crime & Investigation Network.
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NewsFive lines up ‘all-singing, all-dancing’ gameshow
Ant & Dec indie Gallowgate is tuning up to produce a music gameshow for Five as part of the broadcaster’s ambitions to score a shiny-floor hit.
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NewsTurner channels want in on the live action
Turner Broadcasting’s new chief content officer, Michael Carrington, is making the inclusion of live-action programming a priority for his predominantly animationbased channels Boomerang and Cartoon N
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NewsBBC Children’s to target teens with extra budget
BBC Children’s plans to use some of its recently approved extra budget to try to attract more teenage viewers to its CBBC channel.
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NewsFrontrunners emerge for BBC commissioning role
Watchdog editor Jeff Anderson and BBC executive producers Lisa Edwards and Alison Kirkham are thought to be in the running to succeed Jo Ball as commissioning editor for features for BBC1 and BBC2.
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NewsITV breaks new ground in Baby Cow app transfer
Baby Cow has won an ITV commission for an animated series in what is thought to be the first time an iPhone app has been turned into a TV show.
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NewsC4 plans follow-up series to My Beautiful Face doc
Channel 4 is to turn its Bafta-nominated Cutting Edge documentary Katie: My Beautiful Face into a four-part series.
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NewsStreet Striker to return
Ad-funded football talent contest Coke Zero Street Striker, presented by Wayne Rooney, has been recommissioned by Sky 1 HD for a third series to start filming in August.
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NewsPineapple spin-off set for a nationwide tour
Sky 1 is to turn the follow-up to Pineapple Dance Studios into a live event that it plans to take around the country.
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NewsBBC audio chief defends digital radio strategy
BBC director of audio Tim Davie has defended the corporation’s digital radio strategy but admitted the industry needs a “step change in all areas” to achieve its digital switchover target.
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NewsProducers slam Trust’s support for online cuts
Multiplatform producers campaigning for the BBC to rethink its online strategy have given short shrift to the BBC Trust’s backing for the proposed 25% budget cut.
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NewsITV to put bosses to the test
ITV’s 150 senior managers are to undertake psychometric tests to assess whether they have the right skills for their jobs as part of a overhaul that sees the departure of ITV Studios bosses Lee Bartlett and Remy Blumenfeld.