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NewsITV to bring Gervais' Flanimals to TV
ITV is to bring to life Ricky Gervais' best selling book Flanimalsfor a new series which will be narrated and written by the comic.
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NewsFormat focus: Master of Champions
Major US network ABC has given a new lease of life to a extreme Japanese talent format
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NewsBrook Lapping launches year two of trainee scheme
Brook Lapping Education, a division of Ten Alps, is offering internships for up and coming producers, after the successful launch of it graduate trainee scheme last year.
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NewsHollyoaks crew face redundancies
Hollyoaks producer Mersey Television is in talks with broadcasting union Bectu over plans to make redundancies among the programme's crew.
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NewsClassic FM signs up Richard E Grant
Classic FM has signed up actor Richard E Grant to host a new series looking into the lives of great Hollywood film composers.
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NewsSetanta pinches golf rights from Sky Sports
Setanta Sports has nabbed exclusive rights to the PGA Tour from Sky, starting from January 2007 and plans to launch a dedicated golf channel.
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Comment: Killing the radio star?
BBC's Bob Shennan asks what is the future for our radio brands?
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NewsYoung takes Desert Island Discs role
Five News presenter Kirsty Young has been named as the new host for BBC Radio 4's long-running series Desert Island Discs.
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NewsITV scores UEFA Cup rights
ITV has secured the UK broadcast rights for the final stages of the UEFA Cup for the first time, in a deal understood to be worth over£20m.
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NewsBBC's website proves to be World Cup favourite
World Cup coverage on the BBC's website has seen it take a 58% share of traffic to sports and gambling websites during the tournament, according to figures from internet research group Nielsen/NetRatings.
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NewsWimbledon wash out still brings 1.3m to BBC2
In traditional British fashion Wimbledon opened yesterday with a downpour and play was limited to only 44 minutes. But, despite the heavens opening, 1.3 million (7.2%) still tuned in to BBC2 to catch a glimpse of the first day's matches.
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NewsBBC & ITV divvy up World Cup quarter-final matches
ITV and the BBC have agreed the split of games for the quarter finals of the World Cup, excluding the England match which had already been bagged by BBC1 in a prior arrangement.
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NewsWorld Cup Watch: Italy's last minute penalty secures peak of 7.4m for ITV1
The closely fought match between Italy and Australia bought ITV1 a commanding peak audience of 7.4 million (48%) at 5.45pm as the European side won with a penalty in injury time.
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NewsBectu wants freelance recognition at the BBC
Broadcasting union hopes to get the backing of the freelance community to help it contest a new corporation-wide rate card.
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NewsBBC to host new indies day
BBC independents executive Krishan Arora is hosting two new indie briefing days aimed at companies who haven't had a BBC network commission or have recently won their first order from the corporation.
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NewsHomer's boss lands BBC Radio 4 role
The voice behind Homer's dastardly boss, Mr Burns, in The Simpsons has landed a starring role in a new comedy series for BBC Radio 4.
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NewsBBC goes behind bars with prison special
The BBC is to run a week of live programming from behind the bars of one of Britain's prisons in a daytime series fronted by Nick Knowles and Nadia Sawalha.
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Pocoyo scores hat-trick in Iberia
Granada International's pre-school co-production Pocoyo(52 x 7-minutes) has been acquired by Spanish public broadcaster TVE, as well as pay-TV channel Boomerang and Portugal 's RTP.
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Mercury racks up sales for Animal X
UK distributor Mercury Media has secured a deal with Norway's TV2 for its 10-part series on crypto-zoology Animal X: The Natural Mystery Unit.
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BBC Motion Gallery strikes mobile deal
BBC Motion Gallery, the footage sales arm of BBC Worldwide, has struck a deal with content aggregator Media Gateway to distribute BBC archive content to mobile phone and internet users in Europe and the Middle East .