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New Tricks secures first ever BBC double
The BBC has handed an unprecedented double series commission to Wall to Wall's detective drama New Tricks, in what it claimed is a move to give more security to indies.
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Mason quits ITV Interactive
ITV Interactive commissioner Debbie Mason has unexpectedly quit the broadcaster with no job to go to after only seven months.
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Five weighs up multichannel options
Five is looking to launch a crime channel or a female-skewed lifestyle channel, as it gears up to make its first step into multichannel television.
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BBC creative director takes over at Community Channel
The Community Channel has hired the former creative director at BBC learning, Nick Ware, as its new channel controller.
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Smith to edit Watchdog
Sandy Smith, the BBC current affairs producer nominated for a Bafta for his film on the Brighton bomb at the 1984 Tory party conference, has been appointed editor of Watchdog.
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Sky poaches Discovery exec for factual role
Sky One has poached Discovery Channel executive Emma Read to become commissioning editor for specialist factual.
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Digital Classics to buy up indies
Digital Classics, the AIM-listed TV distribution and production business chaired by former Five chief executive David Elstein, has become the latest company to announce plans to buy up a series of other producers.
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8mm wins backgammon series
8mm Productions has won a commission from gaming channel Pokerzone to cover the forthcoming backgammon world championship. The indie will make High Stakes Backgammonas a 4 x 60-minute series following the event in July. 8mm Productions chief executive and creative director Andy Bell is producing with Pokerzone's ...
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NewsLove Island celebs appeal to 4.4m
The flirtatious goings-on in ITV1's Celebrity Love Islandhit a high of 4.4 million (21%) at the beginning as the show moved to its regular 10pm slot.
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NewsBumper profits for Channel 4
Channel 4's profits soared last year to£46m thanks to record advertising revenues and a threefold rise in operating profits from 4 Ventures, its commercial arm.
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NewsVirgin poaches Xfm's O'Connell
Virgin Radio has poached Xfm's award-winning breakfast DJ Christian O'Connell.
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NewsMP calls for BBC cuts debate
Labour MP Austin Mitchell has made a fresh bid to get a Parliamentary debate on job cuts at the BBC.
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NewsNUJ slams BBC Governors
The National Union of Journalists has accused BBC Governors of 'betraying licence fee payers' over their refusal to meet the union to discuss job cuts at the corporation.
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NewsStrong hand for Brits at NY Upfronts
British producers have had a good showing at the New York Upfronts, the annual event where US TV networks present their new autumn schedules to advertisers, with the BBC, RDF Media, Ricochet and Granada all picking up recommissions.
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NewsGoodwin quits Talkback
Talkback editorial director Daisy Goodwin, one of the TV industry's most successful programme makers, has quit.
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NewsCelebrity Love Island seduces 5.3m
ITV1's widely touted new reality show Celebrity Love Islandgot off to a modest start with an average of 5.3 million (23.4%) over 90-minutes from 9pm.
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NewsSky man to head Heart FM
Chrysalis Radio has appointed Sky Networks director of marketing Barnaby Dawe to the role of managing director for flagship London station Heart 106.2.
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NewsBBC trials 'itunes' for TV
The BBC is offering viewers the chance to download TV programmes over the internet with a new initiative it hopes will become 'iTunes for the broadcasting industry'.
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NewsEmap launches FHM TV
Lads' mag FHM is to launch a music TV channel on Friday featuring the sexiest female bums in music and videos for viewers to air-guitar along to.
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NewsDeadline looms for C4 racing talks
Channel 4 will decide whether to continue screening horseracing coverage at the end of the month after issuing racing authorities with a 31 May deadline to put up a suitable offer.