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    8.8m see Comic Relief Does Fame Academy

    2005-03-07T12:38:36Z

    BBC1's musical line up on Saturday night was a hit with the viewers as a high of 8.8 million (39.3%) saw Comic Relief Does Fame Academyat the end of its results show.

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    Corrie's 'Killer Katy' draws 14m

    2005-03-07T11:52:22Z

    ITV1's soap boosted the channel's ratings on Friday night with the 'Killer Katy' storyline on Coronation Streetwith almost 14 million (56.7%) at 7.45pm.

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    Sky One traces Yuschenko poisoning

    2005-03-07T11:07:35Z

    Sky One has commissioned Talkback Thames to make a documentary on last year's mysterious poising of Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yuschenko.

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    IWC releases BBC Holyrood tapes

    2005-03-07T10:58:18Z

    Scottish indie IWC is to release to the media the rushes of two interviews from its BBC documentary about the controversial Holyrood building.

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    ITV1 loses 10% of viewers

    2005-03-07T10:16:16Z

    Younger viewers are deserting ITV1 in their droves according to new figures, which reveal that overall audiences for the network have slumped by around 10% in the first two months of 2005.

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    DJ Tommy Vance dies

    2005-03-07T10:13:08Z

    Former Radio 1 DJ Tommy Vance died in hospital yesterday at the age of 63.

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    Root in talks over BBC1

    2005-03-07T10:07:32Z

    Former BBC2 controller Jane Root has held talks with BBC chiefs about the possibility of returning to the UK to become controller of BBC1.

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    C4 buys stake in Oneword radio

    2005-03-07T10:02:59Z

    Channel 4 has kicked off its expansion into radio by taking a controlling stake in a national digital station.

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    Birt to give MacTaggart lecture

    2005-03-07T09:58:48Z

    Former BBC director general John Birt has been lined up to give this year's prestigious MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV festival.

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    Evans in talks for radio return

    2005-03-07T09:49:36Z

    Chris Evans has held talks with three major radio groups over fronting a new weekly show that would be broadcast nationwide across the main commercial radio stations.

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    Production - So you wanna be in the mobiles?

    2005-03-04T16:03:15Z

    Third generation mobile phones have tremendous potential, and the race is on to produce the first really compelling content. Peter Keighron reports.

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    Comment - BBC's Carte Blanche?

    2005-03-04T16:03:14Z

    The treatment of a complaint made by a participant in a 2002 BBC2 documentary shows how hard it is to hold the BBC to account for its mistakes, argues David Elstein.

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    Analysis - Do you feel lucky?

    2005-03-04T16:03:13Z

    Lottery fever is way past its peak in the UK so as Camelot turns to multichannel in an attempt to widen its audience, the BBC is casting around for new concepts for the Saturday night show, writes Peter Keighron.

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    Opinion - In my view - Is TV fair to teenagers?

    2005-03-04T16:03:13Z

    Troubled teenagers may make great TV but the emphasis on the difficult ones is giving a misleading picture, says Daisy Goodwin.

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    Strictly ... format to net BBC over£20m

    2005-03-04T16:03:10Z

    Strictly Come Dancing is set to net over£20m for the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, the corporation said this week, writes Geoff White.

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    C4 puts£13.5m more into event drama.

    2005-03-04T16:03:05Z

    Channel 4 is pumping an extra£13.5m into drama next year after freeing up cash from

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    Britain's Streets of Vice attracts 800,000

    2005-03-04T12:52:46Z

    BBC1's controversial edition of its morning documentary Britain's Streets of Vice, which attracted around 200 complaints, gained an audience of just 800,000 (21%) at 9.15am, its lowest in the series.

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    BBC3 bags US Office remake

    2005-03-04T10:37:40Z

    BBC3 has grabbed the rights to show the US version of smash hit sitcom The Office, which launches in on NBC at the end of the month.

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    Top Up TV rapped by ASA

    2005-03-04T10:33:03Z

    Top Up TV, the pay-TV service for Freeview, has been reprimanded by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for trying to pass off five channels as 10.

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    PEER POLL: Nathan Barley

    2005-03-04T10:26:23Z

    The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is Nathan Barley funny (ha ha)?