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    Living TV's L-Word ads in hot water

    2005-07-01T10:30:33Z

    Living TV's raunchy advertising campaign for lesbian drama The L-Wordhas sparked hundreds of complaints.

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    ITV bags Liverpool Champions League bid

    2005-07-01T10:22:32Z

    ITV has signed a deal to broadcast Liverpool's defence of the Champions League title after securing the rights to the home and away legs of the club's first qualifying match.

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    Five owner buys into Russia

    2005-07-01T10:15:41Z

    Five majority shareholder RTL Group has acquired a 30% shareholding in Russian TV and production group REN TV.

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    Living grows paranormal output

    2005-07-01T10:07:56Z

    Living TV is beefing up its paranormal strand with two prime-time commissions fronted by Most Hauntedpsychic Derek Acorah.

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    BBC shuts down Cult website

    2005-07-01T10:00:14Z

    The BBC is to shut down its Cult television website as part of a drive to make 10 per cent savings across its new media operation.

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    Drug firm blasts Ofcom over complaints 'delay'

    2005-07-01T09:53:48Z

    Lawyers for drugs giant Novartis have hit out at regulator Ofcom for taking two years to back its complaint against a Channel 4 programme.

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    Ratings gloom for BBC2 and ITV

    2005-07-01T09:28:54Z

    BBC2 is the terrestrial channel that has suffered the sharpest drop in its audience share over the first six months of the year, falling by just over 10%.

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    PEER POLL: Big Brother

    2005-07-01T08:00:00Z

    Does Big Brotherreallly 'smash racial stereotypes', as Trevor Phillips claims?

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    Humphrys defends interviewing style

    2005-06-30T11:35:23Z

    A defiant John Humphrys told politicians yesterday he had no intention of going 'easy' on them and would walk out of the BBC if told to do so by his bosses.

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    Telewest rolls out TV on demand

    2005-06-30T11:32:05Z

    Telewest has confirmed the launch of its TV-on-demand service, which will be called Teleport.

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    Another black Wednesday for BBC1

    2005-06-30T11:22:35Z

    In the battle between Channel 4 and BBC1 over heavyweight documentaries, C4's Cutting Edgeprogramme came out on top with a hefty average of 4.5 million (22.2%), as BBC1 slumped to its worst peaktime performance since December last year.

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    Five orders doc about oldest mother

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Five has commissioned At It Productions to make an hour-long observational documentary about the world's oldest mother as part of the channel's popular science strand, Extraordinary People.

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    Commissioner's Q & A: Rebecca Johnson

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    The commissioning editor of Bravo, Trouble and Challenge, is hoping to stir up more debate with Booze Britain 2and says nothing is too risqu as she goes in search of a successor to The Word.

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    BBC2 lines up new archive programme

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    BBC2 is making a follow-up to its surprise hit documentary The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon. The Lost World in Colouris the channel's second collaboration with the British Film Institute and uses rare archive footage of one of earliest instances of ...

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    Motive films more Gaelic games for RTE

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Motive Television's Dublin production arm has been commissioned by RTE Sport to make Rise and Shine(working title), a new live Gaelic games series. The 10 x 60-minute weekly show will air from late July and will feature action, interviews, guest appearances and 'irreverent chat'. The executive ...

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    Grizzly tales to come back on CiTV

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    CiTV has commissioned two new series of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kidsfrom Honeycomb Animation and Elephant Productions. The Bafta-nominated series, narrated by Nigel Planer, is based on the successful books by Jamie Rix and will return to the screen in the new year for a 26 ...

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    Granada to make celeb show in US

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Granada America is to produce a Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes-style show for US network NBC, working titled I'm a Celebrity But I Want to be a Pop Star.

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    Bisexual Girls makes its US mark for Betty

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Betty TV has made its first mark in the US market - selling Bisexual Girlsto US broadcaster Independent Film Channel.

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    Play School to be remade in Maori

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Play Schoolis to be remade in the Maori language after BBC Worldwide sold the rights to the format to a New Zealand producer. Maui Productions will make 260 x 30-minute episodes of the classic children's series, renaming its characters for the Maori audience. Humpty Dumpty will be called Hamuti Tamuti, ...

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    Format focus: Ultimate Raid

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Celebrities pick the books, music and movies that have formed the cultural backdrop to their lives.