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    C4 to show nudes before the watershed

    2009-04-14T10:28:56Z

    Channel 4 is to take a literal approach to stripped programming with a week-long series of masterclasses in painting nude figures.

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    Chapman regains Fifi rights

    2009-04-14T10:11:30Z

    Chapman Entertainment has not renewed its licensing partnership with Target Entertainment for popular kids brand Fifi and the Flowertots.

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    ITV's Primeval to get Hollywood treatment

    2009-04-14T09:53:56Z

    Impossible Pictures has teamed up with US film studio Warner Bros to turn ITV1 dinosaur drama Primeval into a Hollywood movie.

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    Tudors to return for fourth and final season

    2009-04-14T09:37:07Z

    Historical drama The Tudors is to bow out after a fourth and final series next year.

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    ITV confirms Iacono exit

    2009-04-14T00:09:20Z

    ITV president and managing director of global entertainment, Peter Iacono has left the broadcaster after just over a year in the post, the broadcaster has confirmed.

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    Disney exec joins Chorion

    2009-04-09T11:35:46Z

    Chorion, the rights owner behind the Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie titles, has hired former Playhouse Disney executive Paula Rosenthal as senior vice president of creative.

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    Huggers discusses iPlayer 3.0

    2009-04-09T11:22:03Z

    BBC future media and technology director Erik Huggers has promised a new look and feel for the iPlayer and vowed to boost its number of users.

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    Heartbeat and The Royal secures tourism deal

    2009-04-09T11:08:25Z

    Fears that resting production on iconic Yorkshire-based programmes Heartbeat and The Royal will harm tourism could be allayed thanks to a new commercial deal.

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    BBC2 to adapt Amis' Money

    2009-04-09T10:57:58Z

    BBC2 is to revisit the 1980s era of unbridled capitalism in a two-part adaptation of Martin Amis' novel Money.

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    Britain's Got Talent undergoes online overhaul

    2009-04-09T10:17:48Z

    Britain's Got Talent's website has undergone a revamp in a bid to increase interactivity with the ITV show.

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    MoMedia joins Lions' Tour

    2009-04-09T09:56:48Z

    Digital producer and distributor MoMedia International has won the mobile and online rights to rugby sporting event the British and Irish Lions' South African Tour.

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    Chorion in sale talks with Coolabi

    2009-04-08T19:41:27Z

    Agatha Christie-owner Chorion is poised to split in two after entering sale talks with listed kids producer Coolabi.

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    Tennant: final Doctor Who scripts made me cry

    2009-04-08T17:06:04Z

    Outgoing Doctor Who actor David Tennant has admitted he cried when he read the scripts for his final episodes as the Timelord.

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    BBC Mobile appoints ex-Kangaroo exec

    2009-04-08T12:50:33Z

    Mark Kortekaas, the former CBS executive who oversaw the technology behind the abolished Project Kangaroo, has taken up a new role heading up BBC mobile output.

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    ITV to air fewer acquisitions

    2009-04-08T11:54:08Z

    ITV has revealed it will show fewer internationally produced shows in the coming years as director of acquisitions Jay Kandola prepares to leave the broadcaster in June.

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    Viewers to help decide sporting 'crown jewels'

    2009-04-08T11:09:37Z

    The government is inviting viewers to tell them which national sporting events they want to see on free-to-air TV from today.

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    Shine to head down under

    2009-04-08T10:44:06Z

    Elisabeth Murdoch's Shine Group has hired Fremantle Media Australia chiefs Mark and Carl Fennessy to head up a new Australian division.

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    Peers call for contestable PSB funding

    2009-04-08T09:16:40Z

    The BBC could face a loss of licence fee revenue to other broadcasters if the government heeds a plea from the House of Lords communications committee to use it to solve the PSB funding crisis.

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    ITV Global seeks 50% co-pro deal on format sales

    2009-04-08T08:37:48Z

    ITV Global Entertainment will only sell formats to international broadcasters or producers if it can agree at least a 50% co-production credit for the shows.

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    Rival Media wins RTE2 agony aunt show

    2009-04-08T08:30:37Z

    Rival Media will ask youngsters to act as agony aunts in one of a pair of commissions from Irish channel RTÉ2.