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NewsJohnson to stay on as C4 chairman
The Ofcom board has reappointed Luke Johnson as chairman of Channel 4 for a further three year term.
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NewsLucas and Walliams at work on new BBC1 series
Matt Lucas and David Walliams are developing a new series for BBC1 featuring characters from Little Britain after signing a three-year exclusive deal with the corporation.
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NewsTalent to spearhead BBC1's autumn
BBC1 controller Peter Fincham has unveiled his autumn schedule, claiming that he is putting 'top talent' at the heart of the channel with new shows for Sarah Lancashire, Lenny Henry and Dawn French.
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NewsOnly 2.8m interested in Driving Mum and Dad Mad
ITV1's new documentary series Driving Mum and Dad Madgot off to a limp start at 9pm last night with an audience of just 2.8 million (14.1%) in the face of tough competition from BBC1 and Channel 4.
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NewsPanorama to make primetime comeback
Panoramawill return to a regular weekday primetime slot, airing for 30-minutes on Mondays at 8.30pm from January, BBC1 controller Peter Fincham announced today.
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NewsSky joins 'free' broadband battle
James Murdoch today unveiled a£400m investment in a 'free' broadband service for Sky customers as the satellite giant waded into the war for broadband customers.
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NewsVeteran presenters to return for last TOTP
Sir Jimmy Savile, Tony Blackburn, Mike Read and Pat Sharp will co-present the final edition of Top of the Popsbut the BBC has ignored calls for the show to return to BBC1 on a Thursday night for its swansong.
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NewsVoice of Mr Burns suffers work permit problems
Comedian Harry Shearer, the voice behind Mr Burns in The Simpsons , was forced to pull out of a BBC Radio 4 recording last night because of 'problems with his work permit'.
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NewsNew head of music for Choice FM
Urban radio station Choice FM has made former DJ Kirk Anthony its new head of music, giving him responsibility for the station's overall music programming.
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NewsComment: Broadband's brave new world
While most UK producers have generated little or no revenue from new media platforms to date, growth in VOD and download services over the coming months is likely to change this.
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NewsRebrand could follow RDF Rights restructure
RDF Rights is considering a rebrand that would see it operate at an arm's length from holding company RDF Media Group and could pave the way for a merger with another distributor.
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NewsFireworks lines up new deals for Emmy Awards
Fireworks International has struck a series of international sales for the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards, which will be broadcast live from LA on August 27 on NBC.
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NewsFremantle inks dinosaur deals at Discop
Fremantle International Distribution has concluded a raft of deals in central and eastern Europe with flagship factual series Prehistoric Parkgenerating strong sales.
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NewsEndemol targets Latin America for growth
Endemol International is continuing to grow its finished programme sales team, with the appointment of Ariel Tobi to the newly created post of sales manager, Latin America.
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NewsOrange CEO headlines Mipcom's mobile TV day
Sanjiv Ahuja, chief executive of mobile operator Orange, has been unveiled as the latest addition to the speaker line-up at this October's Mipcom.
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Off the Fence in Asian co-pro
Factual producer and distributor Off the Fence has teamed with France 5, Bang Singapore and the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) to co-produce the investigative documentary The Lost Kingdom of Guge.
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NewsBBC F&L hires three new execs
The BBC has hired three executives to head up development teams in different areas of its factual and learning department.
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NewsLove Island sinks to 1.5m
ITV1's Love Island could only scrape together 1.5 million (7.6%) viewers on Friday at 10pm - only 10,000 away from it coming bottom of the pile when compared to its terrestrial rivals in that time slot.
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NewsPokerFace ends with 5.8m
ITV1 quiz PokerFaceended on a high with 5.8 million (29.3%) people tuning in at 8pm, seeing off new BBC1 drama The Chase.
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NewsFive secures CSI rights for US channel
Five has signed a multi-million pound annual deal with US producer Alliance Atlantis for the exclusive video-on-demand rights to the CSI franchise, while securing access to screen repeat episodes on its new US acquisitions channel.