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New Tricks locks down two more series for BBC1
Popular BBC1 drama New Tricks will run until at least 2011 after the broadcaster ordered two further series.
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NewsProspect Pictures composes Chopin and Elgar docs
Prospect Pictures will reveal the lesser-known sides of classical composers Chopin and Elgar in two 90-minute docs for BBC4.
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NewsSky Real Lives picks up Little Couple
Sky Real Lives has acquired US reality series The Little Couple from Endemol’s Worldwide Distribution.
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NewsCBeebies head counts himself out of kids’ role
CBeebies controller Michael Carrington has ruled himself out of the running for BBC Children’s controller - leaving Nickelodeon UK boss Howard Litton and CBBC head of drama and acquisitions Steven Andrew as frontrunners.
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NewsBBC boss hits back at Murdoch
Mark Thompson has launched a return attack on James Murdoch, savaging his MacTaggart as “desperately out of touch” with the views of the audience.
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NewsMark Thompson's letter to staff about the BBC's future
BBC director-general Mark Thompson’s email to corporation staff regarding the future of the BBC.
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NewsTrust review set to shrink BBC
The BBC Trust has fired the starting gun on a process which is likely to see the BBC rein in the size and scope of its activity – said by a senior BBC exec to be “as big as Creative Futures”.
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NewsBBC Trust chairman's open letter to licence fee payers
Michael Lyons’ open letter to licence fee payers issued on 9 September, 2009.
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NewsBritish producers help Emirates NHU get off the ground
British wildlife film-makers have spread their wings into Abu Dhabi with a commission to produce a local natural history series about the Arabian Continent.
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NewsBlighty to premiere Morris dancing mockumentary
UKTV has secured the first-run rights to upcoming British cinema release Morris: A Life with Bells On.
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NewsITV's hopes to rejoin FTSE 100 fall short
ITV has to wait a while longer to rejoin the FTSE 100, after hopes it could be in line for a promotion back to blue-chip status fell short today.
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NewsAnimator aims copycat claim at BBC
A graphic designer has accused the BBC of copying his characters for its Kerwhizz cartoon - a claim the corporation has denied.
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NewsAllsopp takes budget home makeover nationwide
Kirstie Allsopp will try to stage the biggest second-hand sales and craft fairs the UK has ever seen in a second series of Kirstie’s Homemade Home.
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NewsC4 chair calls for new senior TV talent
Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson has called for more fresh blood at the upper levels of the broadcasting industry.
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NewsWatch keeps Dancing with the Stars
UKTV has reacquired the rights to ABC’s Dancing with the Stars as the US version of Strictly enters its ninth series.
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American football to air on BBC radio
American football will be broadcast live on Radio 5 Live this season following a deal between the BBC and the National Football League (NFL).
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NewsBBC Trust to examine compliance in wake of Sachsgate
The BBC Trust is to examine the BBC’s compliance procedures for radio and whether it has done enough to toughen them up after Sachsgate.
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NewsBBC to air women's Euro soccer final
England women’s first major football final in 25 years is to be screened by the BBC on Thursday (10 September).
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NewsBBC unveils HD autumn schedule
Hole in the Wall, The Thick of It, Shaun the Sheep and new comedy Home Time are all set to join the BBC’s HD channel this autumn – but Top Gear is still absent.
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NewsSky 1 forced to drop Moors Murders doc
Sky 1 has dropped its planned doc on the search for the remains of Moors Murder victim Keith Bennett after his mother pulled out of the show.