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R2 to pre-record Jonathan Ross show
Jonathan Ross is to pre-record his Radio 2 show to make sure it is “watertight” against future editorial breaches.
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BBC4 to dramatise life of Fonteyn
Anne-Marie Duff, star of The Virgin Queen and Is Anybody There?, is to play late ballet icon Dame Margot Fonteyn in a BBC4 biopic.
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STV to launch new daily show The Hour
STV has revealed plans for its new daily magazine show The Hour - set to launch next Tuesday.
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iTunes Festival returns to ITV2
Kasabian, Oasis and Snow Patrol are set for ITV2 this summer, with commissioners ordering a second dose of the iTunes Live: London Festival.
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BBC awarded £17.5m in bonuses despite cuts
The BBC paid £17.5m in bonuses last year to 9,777 staff – despite trenchant job cuts throughout the corporation.
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Five bags Breaking Bad
Five has bagged first-run UK rights to the second series of acclaimed US drama Breaking Bad.
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Sky commissioners to rejoin Woolfe at Five
Five has poached two key commissioners from Sky for the head of entertainment and head of factual jobs.
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Thompson admits cuts risk quality of BBC News
BBC director general Mark Thompson has admitted cuts in BBC News risk damaging its quality – but pledged to “correct it immediately” if it does so.
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C4 axes Edinburgh Soho House
Edinburgh TV Festival institution Soho House has fallen victim to the cost-cutting at Channel 4.
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T4 orders celeb eye-view doc
Channel 4 has ordered a showbiz pilot from Whizz Kid Entertainment where a pin-hole camera fixed at eye-level follows celebrities for a day to see how they really live.
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Gladiators out, Gray in at Murphy's Sky 1
Stuart Murphy has stamped his authority on Sky 1 by axing Gladiators and Don’t Forget the Lyrics and luring Duncan Gray to the channel as commissioning editor for entertainment.
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MPs reject licence fee freeze
More than 150 MPs voted to freeze the BBC licence fee at last year’s level yesterday - but the Tory motion was comfortably defeated in the House of Commons.
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BBC to publish its top level exec expenses
The expenses spotlight is set to turn on the BBC later this year when the corporation begins publishing details of claims made by its executive board members.
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BBCW launches factual YouTube channel
BBC Woldwide has launched a factual YouTube channel after extending its deal with the video-sharing site.
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Hadlow plans to give BBC2 feel-good factor
BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow is planning to give the channel an “optimistic” overhaul and aims to put more firepower behind its arts coverage.
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Sky meets The Pacific
Sky Movies has acquired HBO’s The Pacific, the big budget WWII drama from the creators of Band of Brothers.
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C4-Five merger rejected by most Pact members
Two-thirds of indies believe RTL’s proposed merger of C4 and Five would be bad news for the industry, according to a Pact survey.
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ITV's future technology department faces axe
The man behind ITV’s push to embed adverts in online content and develop its technological abilities is facing redundancy as part of ITV’s cost-cutting measures.
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BBC staff angry at £10m Discovery commission
BBC Natural History Unit staff are upset after its former head, Keith Scholey, won a £10m-plus commission from Discovery with an idea similar to one they also pitched.