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NewsSky hits back at Lyons
BSkyB launched a counter-offensive last night after BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons named the broadcaster in an attack on the corporation’s critics.
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NewsLyons: public will see through BBC's critics
Sir Michael Lyons has warned BSkyB and other critics of the BBC that the public will see through any attempt to undermine the corporation for self-serving reasons.
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NewsArora to focus on out of London indies
The BBC’s indie champion Krishan Arora has been moved out of his existing role to focus on the production community outside London.
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NewsThompson "incredibly angry" at Times leak
BBC director general Mark Thompson has told staff he is “incredibly angry” about how the corporation’s strategy review leaked to the Times, and promised a “full investigation” to find out who was responsible.
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NewsC4 orders autism musical series
Autistic children will attempt to produce their own musical for the London stage in a forthcoming Channel 4 series.
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NewsITV calls time on Blue Murder
ITV1 crime drama Blue Murder has been dropped after five series on the channel, to make way for new properties.
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NewsITV's Bristol studios sale falls through
ITV has gone back to the drawing board after a £5m deal to sell its Bristol studios fell through.
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NewsBBC lines up more George Gently
The BBC has begun filming on two feature-length episodes of Inspector George Gently – the first to be filmed in north-east England.
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NewsTaylor to run BBC in-house entertainment
Katie Taylor has won the race to succeed Jon Beazley as head of BBC in-house entertainment.
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NewsReport: twice as many men on TV as women
Men appear almost twice as much as women on TV, with factual programming and news the worst offenders, according to research ordered by Channel 4.A pilot study, published to mark International Women’s Day (8 March) and undertaken as part of C4’s leadership of the Cultural Diversity Network, also revealed that ...
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NewsSky News plans female faces for Women's Day
Sky News will have an all female production and broadcasting team on Monday 8 March to mark the 99th anniversary of International Women’s Day.
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NewsGalloway attacks "dirty" Dispatches doc
MP George Galloway has attacked a Channel 4 Dispatches investigation into his relationship with the Islamic Forum of Europe , branding it a “dirty little programme”.
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NewsBafta redrafts nominations after C4 oversight
Channel 4 entertainment shows including Derren Brown’s The Events were accidentally left off the Bafta nominations longlist, it has emerged.
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NewsCrouch leaves GMTV as kids unit faces axe
GMTV chief operating officer Clive Crouch is leaving after 18 years and the unit that makes kids strands Toonattik and Action Stations faces the axe following the company’s integration review.
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NewsC4 viewers heap praise on Mowlam biopic
Ratings-busting drama Mo was the most praised show on Channel 4 last month – but viewers complained in droves about a technical hitch that saw The Godfather Part II transmitted in the wrong order.Scroll down for full list of “rated and slated”A total of 60 people contacted C4 to praise ...
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NewsITV to air live IPL cricket
ITV is to screen live cricket for the first time in more than 30 years after picking up the rights to the Twenty20 Indian Premier League.
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NewsSmith and Stapleton leave GMTV sofa in shake-up
GMTV News Hour presenters Penny Smith and John Stapleton are leaving the sofa as part of a wider shakeup of the morning programme.
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NewsCarnival cash boosts key ITV drama series
NBC Universal-owned Carnival Films is deficit-funding ITV1’s upcoming Julian Fellowes drama Downton Abbey to push its budget to about £1m an hour.
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NewsFive recruits Ross Kemp producer for factual commissioner role
Five has beefed up its factual commissioning team by appointing Bafta-nominated producer Matt Bennett to a new role.
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NewsDigital creatives slam BBC for betraying its charter
Digital creatives have blasted plans to cut the BBC’s £177m web spend by 25% as “bullshit” rhetoric that betrays the corporation’s charter.