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NewsVirgin adds Discovery to HD package
Discovery is to join Virgin Media’s roster of HD channels just a week after the company announced plans to offer Eurosport HD.
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NewsC4 to drop Friends
Channel 4 is to wave goodbye to US comedy Friends after 15 years, freeing up slots on both C4 and E4 for new shows - with Comedy Central picking up the rights.
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NewsAndrew Mackenzie leaves C4 for Twofour
Twofour has ended its year-long hunt for a group creative director with the appointment of Channel 4 head of factual entertainment Andrew Mackenzie.
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NewsHotel Inspector heads Home
UKTV-owned channel Home has picked up the rights to the first three series of Five’s factual entertainment hit The Hotel Inspector.
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NewsMilitary History buys WW2 series
The Military History Channel is to screen new 10-part history series Britain at War after picking up the UK TV rights from Simply Media.
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NewsC4 asks: are you smarter than an 11-year-old?
Channel 4 plans to test the nation’s mathematics skills with a web game tied into a forthcoming edition of Dispatches.
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NewsBBC TV religious coverage debated
Members of the Church of England’s national assembly are to debate a motion attacking the BBC over television coverage of religious and ethical issues.
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NewsBBC execs cut back on presents
BBC executives have dramatically tightened purse strings since their expenses started getting published – cutting back on claims for presents and extravagant schmoozing.
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NewsC4 site to share birth stories
Channel 4 has launched a site featuring video feeds from 40 cameras fixed within maternity wards to support documentary series One Born Every Minute.
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News"Cautious" product placement approved
Product placement is to be allowed on British TV but the Rovers Return won’t be able to sell real beer brands after the government opted for a “cautious approach”.
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NewsBBC spent £229m on talent last year
The BBC paid on-air talent more than £229m last year, including £54m for presenters paid over £150,000.
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NewsTrue-May: Midsomer will thrive with new Barnaby
The producer of Midsomer Murders says he is confident the programme will remain successful, despite shaking up the cast by replacing John Nettles.
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NewsMerger creates new broadcast fitness firm
Former ITN chief executive Mark Wood is to lead a new new health and fitness broadcast company following the merger of two lifestyle channel operators.
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NewsBBC2 re-orders comedy double
BBC2 has greenlit second runs of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle and Dave Gorman’s show Genius.
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NewsC4 to offer viewers a third Gok fix
Gok Wan is to re-team with fashion buyer Brix Smith-Start for a third series of Channel 4 series Gok’s Fashion Fix.
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NewsSky sells 10.4% ITV stake at £348m loss
BSkyB sold 10.4% of its stake in ITV for around £196m this morning – a loss of about £348m.
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NewsBBC4 doc vies with Avatar at green awards
A BBC4 documentary is to vie with James Cameron’s record-breaking movie Avatar for an environmental prize at the Cinema for Peace Awards next week.
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NewsBBC to reveal stars' pay to MPs only
The BBC has agreed to reveal licence fee-funded payments to some of its leading sports presenters to a House of Commons spending watchdog but not to the public.
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NewsBBC criticised for "sloppy" spending on events
The BBC’s accounting is “sloppy” and its refusal to open its books to the National Audit Office looks “inexplicably evasive and self-indulgent,” the House of Commons public accounts committee has said.
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NewsSky will cut ITV stake - finally
BSkyB has ended its lengthy battle to hang on to its 17.9% stake in ITV and will reduce it to the 7.5% threshold set by regulators.