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    ITV1's Monday double whammy.

    2004-11-25T16:13:04Z

    ITV1 had its best Monday peaktime performance since early March 2003 thanks to a line up of I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me out of Here! and a triple helping of Coronation Street, writes Jon Rogers.

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    ITV's Killer Monday (22 November).

    2004-11-25T16:13:04Z

    I'm a Celebrity looks set to be another ratings success for ITV with the reality show

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    EXCLUSIVE HORTICULTURAL COVERAGE ON BBC.

    2004-11-25T16:13:03Z

    The BBC has signed a four-year deal for exclusive rights to the Royal Horticultural Society's four

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    £400M BILL TO SWITCH OVER-75s TO DIGITAL.

    2004-11-25T16:13:03Z

    Financial assistance should be given to the over-75s and the vulnerable during the switchover to digital

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    C4 to air more one-off drama.

    2004-11-25T16:13:03Z

    Channel 4 plans to increase its single drama output by screening one feature-length special each month, writes Maria Esposito.

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    Five doc looks at sex change of hearts.

    2004-11-25T16:13:03Z

    Five is to follow the journey of a transsexual who undergoes a series of painful operations to reverse her gender swap, writes Michael Rosser.

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    Street-Porter to star in second reality show.

    2004-11-25T16:13:02Z

    She may have branded it 'brain-rotting' television, but Janet Street-Porter is to appear in yet another reality TV series - this time with Five, writes Michael Rosser.

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    Murphy's Law to go to US.

    2004-11-25T16:13:02Z

    BBC1 detective drama Murphy's Law is the latest British drama series to be picked up for a US remake, writes Maria Esposito.

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    Allen offers staff help with setting up indies.

    2004-11-25T16:13:02Z

    ITV is trying to persuade regional programme-makers facing the axe to set up indies by offering

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    BBC3 drops Liquid Assets.

    2004-11-25T16:13:02Z

    The BBC3 series examining celebrities' finances, Liquid Assets, has been axed as part of the channel's shift away from showbiz-based content, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    JOHN WILLIS IN CALL FOR AUTHORED DOCS.

    2004-11-25T16:13:02Z

    BBC director of factual and learning John Willis has called for less homogenised television and more

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    AUCTIONWORLD FOLDS WITH DEBTS OF£14M.

    2004-11-25T16:13:02Z

    Teleshopping channel Auctionworld has gone into administration with debts of around£14m. The station went off

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    Sony Pictures looks at stake in Shine.

    2004-11-25T16:13:01Z

    Sony Pictures Television International has held informal talks with Elisabeth Murdoch's indie, Shine, about buying a stake in the indie, writes Colin Robertson.

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    Comment - Best in the world.

    2004-11-25T16:13:01Z

    Despite the soul-searching, we'll all be misty-eyed about the current era of British television in a few years' time, writes Conor Dignam, Editor.

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    Duncan bids for licence fee.

    2004-11-25T16:13:01Z

    Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan has called for direct access to the licence fee and

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    Bazalgette gains global brief.

    2004-11-25T16:13:01Z

    Endemol UK chairman Peter Bazalgette has become the indie's global head of creative operations as part of a move by Spanish owner Telefónica to shift power from the Big Brother creator's Dutch base to Britain, writes Maria Esposito.

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    All3Media launches German TV offshoot.

    2004-11-25T16:13:01Z

    All3Media is to further expand its international clout by launching a TV production company in Germany, writes Paul Revoir.

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    Heggessey bullish over Young drama.

    2004-11-25T16:13:01Z

    BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has defended a controversial decision to allow drama chief Mal Young to take a major new series he was working on with him to 19TV, which he joins in January, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    Off the record - Spoof Mark Thompson email.

    2004-11-25T16:13:00Z

    This is the spoof email doing the rounds at the BBC purporting to be from the

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    BBC set to cut 250 jobs with factual merger.

    2004-11-25T16:13:00Z

    The BBC's specialist factual and documentaries and contemporary factual departments - homes to shows such as Pompeii and What Not to Wear - are set to merge, in a move that could cost at least 250 jobs, writes Leigh Holmwood.