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TCM free for month
Turner Classic Movies will be free to air on both NTL and Telewest for the month of December. The deal will give the Time Warner-owned movie channel exposure to an additional 2.5 million UK homes. The Biography Channel and UKTV Gold have already announced that they plan to air for ...
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Rapture TV return
Digital music channel Rapture TV is set to return to the screen yet again this month after striking an agreement with educational free-to-air service the Musicians Channel. Rapture TV, which went off air in July, will air dance music videos in the midnight to 12pm window on the Musicians Channel's ...
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Celebrities line up for Xmas Millionaire
Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Alex Ferguson will be sitting in the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? hot seat as part of two special episodes of the ITV1 hit quiz this Christmas. The specials form part of ITV1's festive schedule, which includes a ...
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BBC to answer Barwise and Gardam
The BBC is due to publish its response to the government-backed Barwise and Gardam reports into its digital television and radio services on Friday (3 December). The document is expected to be an initial response to media secretary Tessa Jowell, and not include major detail about overhauls of the services, ...
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Ford takes control of drama at Five
Five head of acquisitions Jeff Ford has been handed an enhanced role overseeing drama. He will continue with his usual duties, but will now take additional responsibility for Family Affairs and commission about 10 hours of new drama a year. He will be assisted by ...
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Aird Joins Neame at Carnival Films
Carnival Films' incoming managing director Gareth Neame has made his first appointment. Former BBC development executive Christopher Aird, who worked with Neame on BBC1 hits Spooks and Redcap , is to join the indie as a drama producer. He is ...
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Public service publisher is a 'ghetto'
Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson has warned that Ofcom's proposed£300m publicservice publisher could become a 'ghetto' that fails to attract enough viewers to justify its existence. Speaking at a conference on the future of broadcasting organised by the Voice of the Listener and Viewer this week, Johnson warned that 'preserving ...
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BBC's Batten-Foster moves to Flashback
Andy Batten-Foster is leaving the BBC to join indie Flashback Television, producer of Superhomes. A senior creative editor at BBC Factual, Batten-Foster will work at Flashback's London and Bristol offices with a brief to create programming opportunities at BBC1 and BBC2. His programme credits ...
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Handle with care
The cuts in ITV's regional hours need to be managed more sensitively by Ofcom.
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NewsITV faces£70m hit as viewing slumps
Audiences for ITV's flagship reality show I'm a Celebrity? Get Me out of Here! have fallen by around 2 million an episode compared with the last series in January.
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NewsIndies strike new BBC deal
Indies will be able to sell programmes originally commissioned for BBC1 and BBC2 to multichannel outlets just six months after they first air following a new deal announced by the BBC this week.
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NewsSky spies gap for lifestyle channel launch
BSkyB is considering launching a lifestyle channel to increase its share of the multichannel audience.
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NewsBurns warns on licence fee
Commercial broadcasters could be invited to bid for chunks of the TV licence fee in a bid to strengthen the BBC's accountability, the government-backed BBC Charter review panel has suggested.
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Takeaway exec moves to Target
Target Entertainment has lined up the executive producer of ITV hit show Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway , Ed Forsdick, to take over its new in-house production arm.
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DJ Jezza in the frame to replace Trisha
Capital FM DJ 'Jezza' is being courted by Granada to be the successor to ITV talkshow host Trisha following her defection to Five.
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Van Klaveren gets cost-cutting job at BBC news
BBC director of news Helen Boaden has appointed Adrian Van Klaveren as her deputy and has charged him with implementing a cost-cutting strategy across the division.
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Vice grips BBC mornings
Daytime television audiences used to a staple fare of cheap talk shows and Australian soaps had better brace themselves - BBC1 has commissioned a hard-hitting morning show featuring pornography, prostitution and hard drugs.
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Powers exits C4 for Endemol
Sharon Powers, the Channel 4 commissioning editor behind this year's 'evil' Big Brother , is jumping ship to become executive producer of the Endemol show.
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NewsC4's chairman warns of PSP 'ghetto'
Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson has warned that Ofcom's proposed£300m Public Service Publisher - could become a 'ghetto' that fails to attract enough viewers to justify its existence.
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NewsBurns calls for 'midway' licence review
The panel looking into BBC Charter review has said the corporation's licence fee should be reviewed during the next Charter period and that it had sympathy for alternative governance arrangements.