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    New year resolution

    2006-01-05T08:00:00Z

    Steven D Wright looks forward to a bumper start to 2006 with a host of new commissioners.

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    Generating the future

    2006-01-05T08:00:00Z

    User-generated content will gradually eat away at the hegemony of conventional broadcasting, writes Stuart Cosgrove.

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    Top 100 of 2005

    2006-01-05T08:00:00Z

    Philip Reevell reflects on a year in which reality shows may have dominated the schedules but the big ratings stories were to be found in drama, with the triumphant return of Doctor Who, and in comedy, as Little Britaintook the ...

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    Sky One brings in Living TV's Woolfe

    2006-01-05T07:50:32Z

    Living TV director of television Richard Woolfe has secured the post of Sky One controller, replacing James Baker who has moved to head Sky Interactive.

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    Tinopolis axes TV Corp name

    2006-01-05T07:50:30Z

    Tinopolis, the Welsh indie taking over Television Corporation, is hoping chief executive Peter Salmon and director of sport Jeff Foulser will stay on after its£36m reverse takeover is completed.

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    ITV eyes Jackson for Rosencrantz role

    2006-01-05T07:50:10Z

    Granada America chief Paul Jackson has emerged as the favourite to replace ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz, who has quit the network after 10 years.

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    Thorogood departs ITV daytime

    2006-01-05T07:50:06Z

    The shake-up in ITV's commissioning structure has claimed one of its first casualties - daytime editor Nick Thorogood.

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    IWC hire bolsters BBC factual team

    2006-01-05T07:50:00Z

    The BBC has poached IWC Media's director of contemporary factual programmes to join its new seven-strong line-up of commissioning executives.

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    Woolfe to head Sky One

    2006-01-04T16:10:35Z

    Living TV director of television Richard Woolfe has been appointed head of Sky One.

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    Milne slams BBC's lack of innovation

    2006-01-04T07:59:02Z

    Former BBC director general Alasdair Milne has slammed the corporation's current performance on drama and comedy and says he sees 'little sense of innovation' in the modern BBC.

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    Sky Movies to offer pin-protected movies

    2006-01-04T07:59:00Z

    BSkyB is launching pin-protected movies during its daytime schedule, allowing viewers access to unedited 15-rated films such as The Day After Tomorrowand Layer Cake.

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    ITV1's Poirot draws 7.4m

    2006-01-03T14:14:06Z

    ITV1's Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Mystery of the Blue Train out-performed BBC1's screening of the Oscar-winning Chicago at 9pm on New Year's Day with 7.4 million (30.2%).

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    Rebus attracts 8.4m

    2006-01-03T12:36:20Z

    Rebusattracted an audience of 8.4 million (32.7%) last night in its latest stand-alone episode which saw Ken Stott take over from John Hannah as the detective in the ITV1 crime drama.

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    Graef picks up OBE

    2006-01-03T11:29:39Z

    11.30am:Film-maker Roger Graef, the man behind ground-breaking fly-on-the-wall series such as Thames Valley Police, has been handed an OBE in the New Year's Honours List.

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    Xmas Doctor Who draws 9.8m

    2006-01-03T10:44:00Z

    The festive edition of Doctor Whohelped BBC1 to a convincing Christmas Day win with a peak audience of 9.8 million (42.9%) at 7.45pm.

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    Yoomedia sells Avago

    2005-12-23T11:48:06Z

    Interactive entertainment group Yoomedia has sold its Avago interactive gambling channel brand and associated intellectual property to gaming operator Gala Group.

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    Vaughan and Bacon to stay at Capital

    2005-12-23T11:16:22Z

    Capital Radio has pushed its relaunch back to 9 January as it announced that star DJs Johnny Vaughan and Richard Bacon have survived the station's revamp.

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    Ross Xmas special brings 5.4m to BBC1

    2005-12-23T11:11:50Z

    BBC1's It's Christmas with Jonathan Ross brought some festive cheer to 5.4 million (25%) at 8pm last night.

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    BBC pays 262 staff more than£100,000 each

    2005-12-23T10:03:40Z

    More than 250 BBC staff have been paid salaries of more than£100,000 this year, almost double the number in 2002.

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    Rosencrantz ends 10-year ITV reign

    2005-12-23T08:39:09Z

    ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz has quit after a decade overseeing some of its biggest hits.