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NewsGavin and Stacey boost iPlayer numbers
BBC3 comedy Gavin and Stacey had more than 250,000 hits on BBC iPlayer in the week following its Bafta win.
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NewsDuchess fails to grab ratings crown
ITV1's new documentary two-parter The Duchess in Hull failed to secure the ratings crown last night at 9pm but still managed a respectable audience of 5m (21.2%).
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NewsCome Dine With Me served to Spain and Netherlands
Channel 4 cookery show Come Dine With Me is to be remade for audiences in Spain and the Netherlands.
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NewsLaverne takes 6 Music mic
BBC 6 Music has hired Lauren Laverne to host a new radio show as part of a new-look evening schedule.
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NewsCameras to follow Irish students in the US
Motive is to follow three Irish students working on summer placements in the US for an ob doc series for Irish broadcaster RTÉ.
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NewsBurnham under pressure over cricket
Media Secretary Andy Burnham is under pressure to make a policy decision that would plunge him into head-on collision with satellite broadcaster BSkyB.
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NewsLivingstone joins LBC
LBC 97.3 has signed ex-mayor of London Ken Livingstone to present his own afternoon phone-in show.
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NewsNews Corp grows Premiere stake
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has raised its stake in German pay-TV operator Premiere AG to 25%.
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NewsPace snares BT Vision set-top box deal
BT Vision hopes to secure 'two to three million subscribers' after signing a deal with Pace for next-generation personal video recorders.
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NewsTV critics 20 May '08
“Quite beautiful and hangs about the street corners of your mind.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.
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NewsBBC making Proops biopic
The BBC is developing a biopic of the former Daily Mirror agony aunt Marje Proops who worked until she died aged 85.
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NewsFrank: Fincham will work with RDF
RDF boss David Frank has been personally assured by ITV director of television Peter Fincham that the broadcaster is “open for business” with the super-indie.
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NewsExtreme Sports gig goes to Arqiva
Arqiva has won a five-year contract to playout the Chello Zone-owned Extreme Sports Channel to Sky.
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NewsR4 listeners accuse BBC of censorship
Listeners to BBC Radio 4's Today programme have accused the corporation of censorship after it announced that it would axe the show's online messaging board next month.
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NewsQualcomm snaps up mobile-TV spectrum
American mobile technology firm Qualcomm has bought 40 Mhz of UK L-Band radio spectrum for£8.3m.
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NewsLink Research sells wireless systems to SIS
SIS Outside Broadcasts, formerly BBC Outside Broadcasts, has invested ‘several hundred thousand pounds' in L1500 wireless camera systems from Link Research.
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NewsIonoco unveils phone-in graphics innovation
Software developer Ionoco has come-up with a new technology for television phone-ins that it says will help to both restore public trust in broadcasters and act as entertainment.
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NewsLinks of the week
This week BSkyB unveiled its Sky Player, the BBC invited fans to make their own Doctor Who trailers and ITV revealed a new online football magazine.
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News7.2m support FA Cup final
BBC1's live coverage of the FA Cup final between Portsmouth and Cardiff City was the predictable ratings hit with the match being watched by 7.2m viewers, over half of the viewing public at the time.
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NewsUltimate Force fires blanks
ITV1 managed to secure an all hours share of just 13.3% yesterday, its lowest Sunday in nearly two years, as Ultimate Force returned with just 3.5m viewers (15.3%) at 9pm.