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NewsSky and Easynet agree terms
BSkyB has confirmed it has agreed terms to buy telecoms company Easynet in a deal worth£211m, in what some analysts believe will be the satellite giant's first acquisition in the broadband market.
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NewsSky News to be 'more informal and more flexible'
Head of Sky News Nick Pollard has said he wants the 24-hour rolling news channel to be known for more than just big events and breaking news.
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NewsCommander In Chief exec producer defends show
The French executive producer of new US drama Commander In Chief has hit back at UK terrestrial broadcasters' claims the show is 'jingoistic'.
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NewsSetanta & Benchmark prepare Premiership rights bid
Irish-owned sports broadcaster Setanta has said it would like to secure 'one match a week' from the auction of the 2007 to 2010 live Premiership football rights.
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NewsITV2 brings back Oprah
8am: American talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is to return to UK screens after a three-year absence.
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NewsPEER POLL: Reality TV
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is Five's Dan Chambers right to declare reality TV is 'on the way out'?
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NewsPost house of the year
Broadcast is searching to find the post house of the year to be announced at the Broadcast Awards in January.
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NewsITV1's Cold Blood chills 6.6m
ITV1's one-off crime drama Cold Blood was a big hit with the viewers, attracting a sizeable audience of 6.6 million (29.5%) at 9pm.
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Animal Planet looks at worst pets in UK
Animal Planet UK has commissioned three series for its winter season, including a Mentorn-produced show looking at the country's naughtiest pets, writes Susan Thompson.
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Sunset + Vine kits out fleet of yachts
TV Corp subsidiary Sunset + Vine has fitted an entire fleet of yachts with cameras in order to provide full coverage of the Volvo Ocean Race for ITV. The sports indie will make eight one-hour programmes for ITV1 and 32 weekly half-hour programmes for ITV4 following the race, which starts ...
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My family writers aim at comedy slot
BBC1 is hoping to crack the critical 8.30pm comedy slot with a new series from two of the writers of My Family and My Hero. Home Again, a 6 x 30-minute in-house series written by Ian Brown and James Hendrie, centres around a married couple - played by Samantha Janus ...
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BBC3 forks out for more Spendaholics
BBC3 has commissioned a third helping of its hit series Spendaholics from indie Betty. In Spendaholics out-of-control shoppers are cut off from their credit cards and given help to change their extravagant ways. The 6 x 60-minute series will start filming this month and is due to air early next ...
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C4 orders seventh series of Wife Swap
Channel 4 has picked up a further 6 x 60-minute run of RDF Media's Wife Swap to air late next year. The seventh series order has been made despite the sixth series still being in production. A further 6 x 30-minute run of the accompanying studio-based series Wife Swap The ...
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Commissioner's Q & A: Richard Melman
Channel director of The History Channel and The Biography Channel is open to ideas that will hold an audience for an hour - even if they are written on the back of a fag packet.
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Sky Movies contact
Sky Movies has appointed its first ever dedicated member of staff to deal with film production companies to develop and improve relationships with the independent sector. Lucy Criddle, former programme manager for Sky Box Office, has been promoted to the new role of acquisitions manager, pay and pay-per-view, and will ...
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Nat Geo prog head
National Geographic Channel UK has poached UKTV scheduler Jamil Ahmed to fill the newly created position of head of programming. Reporting to NGC UK's general manager Simon Bohrsmann, Ahmed, who has already joined, will head NGC's scheduling, presentation, reversioning and UK acquisitions teams. At UKTV Ahmed was launch scheduler for ...
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New Dublin channel
A new channel dedicated to the city of Dublin has launched on NTL. City Channel offers local news, sport and family programming 24 hours a day to the city's 450,000 cable subscribers. The service is set to be the first of several launched in the Irish Republic, with similar offerings ...
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BBC factual to phase out DigiBeta cameras
The BBC's plan to cut production costs has gone a step further, with its factual and learning department's proposal to phase out the use of DigiBeta cameras for the department's programmes.
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Experts raise doubts over move to tapeless
'Less tape' is more likely than 'tapeless' for programme delivery in the near future was the message that emerged from last Thursday's Broadcast Tapeless Production conference at Carlton Towers Hotel in London, writes Richard Dean.