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FX lands Fat Actress for UK
Multichannel broadcaster FX has acquired exclusive UK rights to Cheersstar Kirstie Alley's much-hyped new comedy reality show, Fat Actress.
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Lion follows Dickens' trip
Lion TV Scotland is to produce a major new documentary for the BBC chronicling Charles Dickens' travels around the US.
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C4 suffers Friday night slump
Channel 4 suffered its second worst peaktime performance on a Friday since 1992 as comedy Nathan Barleydrew an average of just 700,000 (3.3%) at 10pm.
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Martin Burglar gives BBC interview
Indie Firefly has gained the first on-the-record interview with Brendan Fearon, the burglar who survived being shot by Norfolk farmer Tony Martin, for a BBC1 commission. The 60-minute drama-doc will also feature an interview with Martin and dramatic reconstructions of the break-in, when Fearon's fellow burglar Fred Barras was shot ...
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C4 puts£3.5m more into event drama
Channel 4 is pumping an extra£13.5m into drama next year after freeing up cash from its expired cricket rights deal. C4 will now invest£22m over the next year in a bid to air one event drama a month. The first recipient of the new cash will be a two-parter about ...
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VFG hire in administration
VFG Hire, which supplies cameras for Phoenix Nightsand Holby City, has gone into administration and could be sold within a fortnight. The company went into administration on Tuesday morning (1 March). So far 24 people have been made redundant but all 80 ...
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Fox quits capital after 17 years
Capital Radio drivetime DJ Neil Fox has quit after 17 years and will be replaced by former Blue Peterpresenter Richard Bacon. Bacon, who has DJ experience on Capital-owned Xfm, BBC Radio Five Live and digital station BBC7, will take over the slot this spring. The move ...
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Thomson to make HDTV boxes for BSKYB
Thomson is to be the first manufacturer of the set-top box for BSkyB's High-Definition Television (HDTV) service, set to launch in 2006. Speaking at the DVB World conference in Dublin on Wednesday (2 March), Sky chief operating officer Richard Freudenstein also announced that Sky's HDTV box would feature a similar ...
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A job worth doing
Maxim Jago thinks that small budgets are the best way to judge the talent of newcomers to the industry.
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So you wanna be in the mobiles?
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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Do you feel lucky?
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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Man on the Street
This is the first interview Tony Wood has done since he became Coronation Streetproducer just over a year ago and, in some ways, it's wasted on Broadcast. When asked for an exclusive for Broadcast readers the best he can come up with ...
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No job for a woman... or ethnic minorities
The strong line-up of female executives in the running for the BBC1 controllership doesn't mean the picture further down the ladder has changed. Skillset's new research shows women in broadcasting are still getting a raw deal.
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In My View - Is TV fair to teenagers?
Troubled teenagers may make great TV but the emphasis on the difficult ones is giving a misleading picture.
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BBC's carte blanche?
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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The pop culture champion
After pioneering nostalgia shows at the BBC, Alan Brown is shaking off the licence fee shackles for Talkback Thames and populist programme-making.
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Thompson's PR problem
The price of the BBC's shift in management style from Greg Dyke to Mark Thompson is staff discontent. ...
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A Modest Revolution
Axing the BBC governors may sound dramatic but the government's green paper falls far short of radical reform.
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NewsGrade to head new BBC Trust
BBC chairman Michael Grade will remain at the head of the corporation despite the government's decision this week to abolish the board of governors after 77 years.
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NewsBBC still faces top slicing
The BBC may have won the battle for a new 10-year Charter and licence fee but the threat of top slicing has been left hanging over the corporation.