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NewsRunning Bare’s Edgar-Jones walks after row
Phil Edgar-Jones has quit Running Bare over a row about late night E4 panel show Dirty Digest.
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NewsGok Wan heads to China for C4
Gok Wan will visit China in a one-off looking at the scale and background of Chinese manufacturing for Channel 4.
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NewsHarman backs BBC's call for retrans fee reform
Shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman has backed the BBC’s call for retransmission fees to be waived when it appears on BSkyB’s platform.
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NewsUnison seeks legal advice over Clarkson comments
The country’s biggest union is seeking legal advice over whether Jeremy Clarkson should be reported to the police following his comments that striking workers should be shot in front of their families.
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NewsC4 to pilot comic trio’s Bad Sugar
Sharon Horgan, Julia Davis and Olivia Colman have created a Channel 4 comedy pilot with the writers of Fresh Meat and Peep Show.
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NewsUnions ballot members over 3% ITV pay offer
Bectu, the National Union of Journalists and Unite are balloting ITV members for the second consecutive year over the company’s offer of a 3% pay increase for 2012.
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NewsBallard’s 10 Star cuts ties with FremantleMedia
Bea Ballard’s 10 Star Entertainment is to cease operations and part company with minority backer FremantleMedia.
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NewsMcGregor back on BBC2 for Unicef docs
Ewan McGregor is to front a BBC2 documentary series charting the delivery of vaccines to some of the most deprived areas of the world.
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NewsEight hires to reinvent The Garden
The Garden is ramping up the scale of its ambition by making eight appointments, tripling its core team.
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NewsBectu and SIS LIVE at odds over insurance
Bectu has called on freelancers to reject “excessive and disproportionate” insurance demands being made by OB firm SIS LIVE.
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NewsPercy looks at Russia and the West in BBC2 season
Unseen interviews with poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, the president of Georgia and other top world politicians will form part of a Norma Percy BBC2 season investigating the West’s relationship with Russia.
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NewsPye and Walton’s start-up secures first format deals
Former 2waytraffic chairman Chris Pye and ex-Ionoco chairman David Walton have founded an entertainment formats company and already secured a brace of deals.
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NewsDMAX enters scripted reality with Superfans
Discovery Networks UK is to dip its toe into scripted reality with a show following some of the country’s most dedicated fans.
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NewsBBC3 trials long-form online push
BBC3 is trialling long-form online comedy as part of a major push in the genre that includes a Jack Whitehall sitcom and recommissions for Pramface and Him & Her.
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NewsCelebrities roll back the years for CBBC
Pop stars Nicole Scherzinger and One Direction will look back at their 12-year-old selves and everyday kids will be thrust into the frontline of the UK’s emergency services for two CBBC commissions.
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NewsC4 factual candidates emerge
The deputy head of factual role at Channel 4 looks likely to be hotly contested, with multiple contenders emerging, including a raft of internal candidates.
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NewsNutopia boosts senior team
Nutopia has hired five senior executives across the production and commercial arms of the business, in a move to bolster the company’s growth.
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NewsBBC3 eyes The Voice US
BBC3 is close to securing the rights of the US version of The Voice, to air after the UK version debuts on BBC1 next year.
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NewsC4 to use game to select Bank Job contestants
The contestants appearing in Channel 4’s forthcoming The Bank Job will have to be successful in an online head-to-head game to take part in the show.
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NewsC4 probes Queen Victoria’s secrets
The controversial relationship between Queen Victoria and her Muslim Indian servant Abdul Karim will be explored as part of Channel 4’s 2012 history documentary line-up.