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The Bill (ITV1) - Robert Hanks, Independent
'This was, you could tell, complete and utter rubbish. Great TV though.'...
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The Carlton carve-up
As Carlton's HQ closes its doors and many of the company's staff are passed over for jobs at ITV plc in favour of their Granada counterparts, Paul Revoir and Colin Robertson ask if the merger was a whitewash
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My Week in the Real World (BBC2) - Sam Wollaston, Guardian
'A weird hybrid - Grange Hill meets Faking It meets Question Time.'...
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My Week in the Real World (BBC2) - Jim Shelley, Daily Mirror
'[A] cross between Celebrity Faking It and When Michael Portillo Became a Single Mum.' ...
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My Week in the Real World (BBC2) - Gerard O' Donovan, Daily Telegraph
'As programme ideas go, My Week in the Real World has enormous merit.'...
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My Week in the Real World (BBC2) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'You knew it was going to be fun watching Claire Short make a dork of herself on a reality show, but not this much ...
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The Impressionable John Culshaw (ITV1) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star
'Culshaw, who made his name on the BBC's Dead Ringers, is a hugely gifted mimic.'...
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Back to Reality (Five) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'The producers have tried to synthesise what only emerges gradually in mor successful formats.'...
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Milligan to leave Five for BSkyB
Five is set to lose its deputy chief executive, Nick Milligan, who is quitting to join BSkyB in a move that fuels speculation about a bid by Rupert Murdoch for the terrestrial channel, writes Conor Dignam.
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Secret Policeman among winners at RTS awards
Mark Daly, the investigative reporter behind the acclaimed BBC documentary The Secret Policeman , has been awarded young journalist of the year by the Royal Television Society (RTS), writes Lisa Campbell.
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Ideal World in bid to expand factual fare
Ideal World is looking to increase its contemporary factual output with the appointment of its first head of documentaries, writes Glen Mutel.
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MacQuarrie takes control
BBC Scotland head of programmes Ken MacQuarrie is to become the national division's controller in April, taking over from John McCormick who is retiring, writes Glen Mutel.
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R1 lines up new duo
Radio 1 duo Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley will hand over their headphones to Colin Murray and Edith Bowman when they leave the BBC station next month, as exclusively revealed in Broadcast last week. Murray and Bowman, who present the 10.00 till 13.00 slot across the weekend on R1, are ...
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ITV nabs boat race
ITV has poached the exclusive TV rights to the Oxford vs Cambridge Boat Race, which the BBC has been broadcasting since 1926. Sources said that both broadcasters offered similar amounts of money for the 2005 to 2009 package, but ITV had offered broader coverage, including a documentary in advance of ...
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Shine picks Gwilliam
Indie Shine has appointed Sian Gwilliam as its deputy head of production. She will report to director of production Joe McLusky and be charged with helping to oversee the management of the production slate in features and entertainment and working with the creative directors to secure new business. Gwilliam was ...
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Doubleband backed
Channel 4 and the NIFTC/ Invest Company Development Fund are to put£165,000 into Belfast-based DoubleBand Films, as part of C4's Creative Cities programme. DoubleBand regularly pitches to C4 - its recent output for the channel includes George Best's Body, Seven Days that Shook Sven ...
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London facilities take Discreet kit
Three major London post companies have upgraded their facilities with the purchase of Discreet kit. Among the orders are the first installations of the manufacturer's new Smoke and Flame on the SGI Tezro workstation. Discreet did not reveal how much the deals are worth, writes ...
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3 Mills to be sold and used for Olympic bid
East London facility 3 Mills Studios is being sold to the London Development Agency (LDA), which plans to use it as a media centre if Britain's bid to host the 2012 Olympics is successful, writes Farah Jifri.
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Bubble TV finds jobs from start
Sound mixer Chris Phinikas' new London audio facility, Bubble TV , has opened its doors with a string of jobs already underway.
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One hires animators
One Post has taken on two 3D animators for its CGI operations. Duncan McWilliams joins One from The Hive, where he worked on projects for AOL, Bloomberg and Disney. Before The Hive, McWilliams worked at DigM Digital Media and as a freelance graphic designer. Also joining is Michiel de Kraker, ...