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    Cartoon Network accepts Quest

    2008-02-15T11:05:10Z

    Cartoon Network has acquired UK broadcast rights to animated comedy-adventure series World of Quest from Canada's Cookie Jar Entertainment.

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    Jim Godfrey quits ITV

    2008-02-15T10:59:23Z

    ITV's director of corporate affairs Jim Godfrey is leaving the broadcaster next month to set up his own PR company.

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    Freesat will 'struggle'

    2008-02-15T10:16:42Z

    Freesat will “struggle” to take off when it launches this spring because BSkyB has already made the satellite business its own, according to Top Up TV chief executive officer Nick Markham.

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    Shine completes Reveille deal

    2008-02-14T16:07:08Z

    Shine has completed its deal to buy US producer and distributor Reveille for an undisclosed fee, believed to be around£97m.

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    5m have Grand Designs on C4

    2008-02-14T14:38:10Z

    Channel 4's property show Grand Designs gained its highest audience of the current series so far last night with 5m viewers (20.5%) tuning in at 9pm.

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    TV critics 14 February '08

    2008-02-14T12:24:11Z

    'The whole thing looks like a massive CGI heavy-metal festival a long time ago.' Read on for more cutting criticism of last night's TV.

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    Guto Harri quits BBC for PR

    2008-02-14T11:52:23Z

    BBC political correspondent Guto Harri is to leave the corporation after more than a decade to join PR firm Fleishman-Hillard as a senior policy adviser.

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    BBC3 greenlights Phoo Action series

    2008-02-14T11:08:47Z

    BBC3 has ordered a full run of tongue-in-cheek kung-fu drama Phoo Action just days after broadcasting its pilot.

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    Ten companies account for 60% of post spend

    2008-02-13T17:57:51Z

    Consolidation and polarisation are the watchwords of this year's Broadcast Post Survey, with the 10 largest companies and groups accounting for nearly 60% of the money spent on television editing, graphics and finishing in the UK

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    ITV Productions poaches HBO exec for digital role

    2008-02-13T17:52:20Z

    ITV Productions has poached an HBO executive to become its first director of digital productions.

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    Lacklustre Lily fails to lure viewers to relaunched BBC3

    2008-02-13T17:46:33Z

    BBC3's relaunch suffered a wobbly start this week with chat show Lily Allen and Friends debuting with just 255,000 viewers/1.95% share on Tuesday (12 February).

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    5 Live football series transfers to TV

    2008-02-13T17:45:52Z

    The BBC is turning its Radio 5 Live football phone-in 606 into an interactive TV programme.

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    Rajar: Radio figures were wrong

    2008-02-13T17:35:44Z

    Radio audience measurement body Rajar is withdrawing its latest set of audience figures for the fourth quarter of 2007 because data it published for nearly 300 stations was wrong.

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    Cinderella search script

    2008-02-13T17:28:03Z

    The BBC has signed Gavin and Stacey writers/performers Ruth Jones and James Corden (below) to script the TV film at the centre of a new talent search format.

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    BBC Arabic TV sets date

    2008-02-13T17:25:24Z

    The BBC will launch the BBC Arabic Television service on 11 March following several months of delays.

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    Breath upgrades dubbing theatre

    2008-02-13T17:23:58Z

    Breathe Post Production, the post facility formed by the merger of Strongroom and Air Studios, has spent£350,000 updating and upgrading its Hampstead dubbing theatre.

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    Red Planet in drama hire

    2008-02-13T17:21:01Z

    Red Planet Pictures has recruited Carly Rich-Conway from Wall to Wall to become drama development executive.

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    Five and Talkback to revive Minder

    2008-02-13T17:18:31Z

    His trademark sheepskin and “'Er indoors” catchphrase may belong to another era but that hasn't stopped Five from planning to revive Arthur Daley in a remake of Minder.

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    Ascent picks up new diTTo scanner

    2008-02-13T17:17:38Z

    Ascent Media has become the first company in the world to purchase the new 16mm/35mm version of the Cintel diTTo film scanner.

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    C4 asks customers to turn round firms

    2008-02-13T17:15:31Z

    Channel 4 is to fight back against bad customer service for a new Back to the Floor-style factual entertainment series that it hopes to turn into a returning format.