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Five swims with sharks
Five is to dive into the world of the great white shark with a week of live shows this autumn.
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NewsLiving launches own development division
Living TV is setting up an in-house development department to help generate and make new original shows.
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UKRD ups turnover
Radio group UKRD said this week turnover had grown 10% year on year in the first 10 months of the financial year, leaving it on course to report turnover in the region of£9m for the full year. Operating profit is set to be in the region of£400,000 for the 12 ...
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C4 slides with end of Big Brother
Channel 4 failed to maintain last week's record-breaking ratings performance, with its weekly audience share falling by 28%.
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NewsBuerk's polemic attracts only 700,000
Michael Buerk's polemic on Five's new series Don't Get Me Startedonly managed an average of 700,000 (3.4%) at 7.15pm despite acres of media coverage.
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NewsThe critics
Two new series stole the screen last night on the strength of their subject matter. Michael Buerk in Don't Get Me Started(Five) provoked a tyrade by the critics, and Channel 4's Kill Me If You Canproved fascinating.
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NewsFX launches timeshift channel
FX, the Fox-owned channel airing on Sky, is launching a time-shift service.
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NewsCasualty viewers to play God
The BBC is gearing up for a major experiment in interactive TV, offering viewers of this Saturday's Casualtyprogramme the chance to vote on how the programme ends.
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NewsITV lines up live soap quiz
ITV1 has commissioned a live soap quiz that will pit three 100-strong teams of fans from EastEnders, Coronation Streetand Emmerdaleagainst each other.
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NewsBarker departs IWC
IWC Media director of contemporary factual Adam Barker has left the company for family reasons.
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NewsUtley joins Cosgrove Hall
BBC Worldwide director of TV distribution Anthony Utley has been appointed managing director of animation house Cosgrove Hall Films, the company behind Engie Benjyand Danger Mouse.
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NewsUKTV hires commercial director
UKTV has poached Discovery's Laurence Dawkin-Jones to take up the role of commercial director.
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NewsThe Bigger Picture entertains 3m
BBC1's investment in poaching comedian Graham Norton from Channel 4 looks like it is finally beginning to pay-off as The Bigger Picturegot its highest audience of its run so far with 3 million (21%) at 10.35pm.
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NewsTV execs unclear of switch off plans
The majority of TV executives say the government needs to outline a clearer strategy for digital switchover.
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NewsThe critics: Taxidermy: Stuff the World
Taxidermy: Stuff the World- a rare insight into the little-known world of taxidermy - was a strange and absorbing hit, according to the critics.
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NewsFlextech sales chief quits
Mark Howe, the managing director of Flextech sales house IDS, has left the company after 13 years with no job to go to.
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NewsDr Who goes mobile
BBC Worldwide has signed its first deal to licence full-length TV programmes for broadcast on mobile phones.
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NewsBBC embroiled in Canadian TV row
The BBC has been accused by broadcasting unions of helping undermine a strike at Canadian broadcaster CBC.
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NewsSky unveils HD line-up
BSkyB has unveiled the first six channels to be offered as part of its High Defnition (HD) TV package, which launches next year.
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News'Birt to call for end to BBC's licence fee monopoly'
Former BBC director general Lord Birt is expected to tell broadcasters that the corporation should share out licence fee money with other television companies, when he gives his keynote MacTaggart lecture in Edinburgh later this week.