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    Lion promotes Snowball

    2012-02-24T08:30:00Z

    Lion Television has promoted Andrew Snowball into a new senior role at its Scottish base.

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    Turner across Ballooniverse

    2012-02-24T08:30:00Z

    Turner Broadcasting has ordered a live-action pre-school series featuring a balloon artist and a magician from 2 Sides TV for Cartoonito.

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    Sky app offers F1 fans split-screen viewing options

    2012-02-24T08:30:00Z

    Sky is planning to offer F1 fans the ability to watch races in a multi split-screen mode via its iPad app and website.

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    DCMS calls for TV tax breaks

    2012-02-23T09:30:00Z

    The DCMS has called on the Treasury to safeguard the future of British-made animation and high-end drama by introducing tax breaks, Broadcast has learned.

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    ‘Tax breaks can earn the UK £1bn’

    2012-02-23T09:30:00Z

    Tax breaks for British-made high-end drama would “transform” the industry and could yield a net return of £1bn annually to the UK economy, a report submitted to the government has claimed.

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    So Wrong It's Right returns to R4

    2012-02-23T20:00:00Z

    Radio 4 comedy panel show So Wrong It’s Right will return in May for a third series in the 6.30pm slot.

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    UTV ousts chairman

    2012-02-23T13:25:00Z

    UTV has ousted its chairman John B McGuckian because of his “close association” with one of the Northern Irish broadcaster’s biggest shareholders.

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    Woolfe exits Prime Focus for ‘new venture’

    2012-02-23T09:30:00Z

    Former Channel 5, Sky 1 and Living controller Richard Woolfe has left post-production house Prime Focus after less than a year.

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    ITV1 plans push on weekend mornings

    2012-02-23T09:30:00Z

    ITV1 is targeting a major push on original content for weekend mornings and is lining up a rival to BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen plus a fresh stab at Let’s Do Lunch With Gino & Mel.

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    C5 takes global road trip for Gadget Show revamp

    2012-02-23T09:30:00Z

    Channel 5’s The Gadget Show is set for its biggest shake-up after 16 series, swapping its studio for an international road trip format and dropping three presenters.

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    Foyle’s War to return to ITV1

    2012-02-23T11:32:00Z

    ITV1 is to revisit Foyle’s War after the rights to detective series were rescued from defunct indie Greenlit.

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    STV profits fall 88%

    2012-02-23T09:42:00Z

    Scottish broadcaster STV saw its profits plummet to £600,000 as the cost of settling its legal dispute with ITV hit home.

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    ITV set to lose out in HMRC actors dispute

    2012-02-23T09:30:00Z

    ITV is poised to lose a second court appeal in a long-running legal battle with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to avoid paying substantially more tax for hiring high-profile actors.

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    Sky 1 picks up C4 pilot Chickens

    2012-02-23T09:30:00Z

    Sky 1 has plucked Simon Bird, Jonny Sweet and Joe Thomas’ comedy Chickens from Channel 4 in a deal that will see Big Talk Productions produce its first show for the channel.

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    BBC Bristol execs exit ahead of factual move

    2012-02-23T09:30:00Z

    Bristol-based BBC execs Andrew Jackson and Ben Gale are leaving the corporation amid the relocation of its Birmingham factual team to the city.

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    The Voice opts for multiplatform content over spin-off

    2012-02-23T09:30:00Z

    BBC1 talent show The Voice will be supported by a major multiplatform push by producer Wall to Wall that will effectively take the place of a spin-off show.

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    BBC3 rejigs QT spin-off

    2012-02-23T09:30:00Z

    BBC3 series Young Voters’ Question Time is being overhauled, rebranded and expanded into a regular monthly format, with Formula One presenter Jake Humphrey taking on hosting duties.

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    Frostrup series leads Sky Arts into new era

    2012-02-23T09:30:00Z

    Mariella Frostrup is to front a Sky Arts series in which the likes of Damien Hirst, Sir Paul Smith and Manolo Blahnik discuss the world’s most desirable objects before donating their own prized possessions for a charity auction.

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    World Productions plans move into comedy following sale

    2012-02-23T09:30:00Z

    World Productions will look to push into comedy and add to its drama development slate, following its acquisition by Marcus Evans Entertainment.

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    Educating Essex shifts location for return to C4

    2012-02-23T09:30:00Z

    Fixed-rig documentary series Educating Essex is set to be recommissioned by Channel 4 – but with the cameras moving to a new school in a different part of the country.