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Floella to tackle racism for CBBC
Veteran Playschool presenter Floella Benjamin has been commissioned by the BBC to make a film about her early life and the racism she encountered on her arrival in England from Trinidad, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Moss to head Visual Voodoo
Former Chrysalis TV head Tony Moss has been named as the new head of ITN Factual division Visual Voodoo, writes Paul Revoir
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Zenith Entertainment chief executive stands down
Zenith Entertainment chief executive Steve Matthews has stood down from his post as a result of a serious illness, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Regional target hit, claims C4
Channel 4 director of television Tim Gardam this week claimed the channel will hit its 30 per cent regional programming target for the first time this year, writes Penny Hughes
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US networks buy more UK formats
British producers have strengthened their relationships with the major US networks with a rash of new programme deals, including a format deal from TWI in which couples compete to win a $1m dream wedding, write Leigh Holmwood & Steve Aston
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NewsLapping's fears for serious doc makers
Brian Lapping, one of the UK's most senior documentary makers, has warned that the climate for serious documentary makers is worsening and is unlikely to ever improve, writes Steve Aston
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Goldshield to sell drugs on TV
Drugs will soon be available via your television set, following the announcement yesterday that Goldshield the dire...
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Blow to BBC as carriage charge favours BSkyB
The BBC was dealt a blow yesterday when the government published its communications bill in which ministers failed ...
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Nausea TV offers unwelcome view of body politics
Even compared with the recent televisual eviscerations of Paul Burrell, Angus Deayton, Michael Barrymore, the Queen...
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Masterplan for the media
The bill setting out the government's ground plan for the wired world has been months in the making ...
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When Jeffrey met Maggie
She may have been the Iron Lady but the notoriously soulless prime minister seems to have had a distinctly saucier ...
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Labour urged to clip the BBC's wings
The government is facing parliamentary pressure to bring the BBC fully under the control of the new media regulator...
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Lights, camera, let the cutting begin
It was called the Y-cut. The audience was stunned into a queasy silence and the circus which was the first public ...
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Public service TV stations must pay Sky charges
The government has hinted that it may provide some tax benefits to compensate public service broadcasters after rej...
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BBC1 presents? 'The Truth' and nothing like the truth about Jeffrey Archer
It is Jeffrey Archer's life story - but not even as the criminal fantasist himself would have dared to imagine it....
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The cream of the Z-list grasps a chance to revive careers
At the start of last night's show, Davina McCall announced the significant numbers: 'Six celebrities, 10 days, no a...
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Bitch of Big Brother
Anne Diamond was last night brnaded he bitch of Celebrity Big Brother - before the show even started. ...
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EastEnders crisis
Soap hunk Dean Gaffney has told how top stars are living in fear of getting the axe from EastEnders. ...
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I wish that Big Brother woud curl up and die
He won the last one - but it's not something he's proud of. In fact Jack Dee says he wishes Celebrity Big Brother a...
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Archer & Maggie in TV romp
Margaret Thatcher, dressed in stockings and high heels, is to be seen seducing Jeffrey Archer in a new BBC comedy....