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The end of the affair
Smug middle-class must-see or the most compelling drama of our time? Either way, Thomas Sutcliffe knows why Cold Fe...
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Digital chiefs start auction TV channel
Sit-Up, the television group run by two founders of ITV Digital, is launching a second live television channel late...
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Tarrant was unaware of 'strategic coughing' in quiz
Chris Tarrant, the presenter of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, did not hear the coughing that allegedly helped a c...
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BBC declares war on BSkyB in row over payments
The BBC yesterday directly took on BSkyB by refusing to pay the satellite group to broadcast its channels and decla...
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BBC to end BSkyB deal
The BBC yesterday said its digital television channels would no longer be broadcast through BSkyB's conditional acc...
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'Millionaire' host takes his turn in the hotseat
It being a trial about a quiz show, Judge Geoffrey Rivlin, QC, could not resist seizing his brief moment as a conte...
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BBC set to a save£85m by avoiding BSky B access fee
The BBC hailed a big breakthrough in digital broadcasting yesterday as it vowed to make all its channels available ...
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NewsITV studios investigated
ITV's dominance of broadcast studios in the north of England will be investigated as part of the Competition Commission's inquiry into the proposed merger of Carlton and Granada, it was revealed this week, writes Will Strauss
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BBC plots reality whodunnit show
The fiercest critics of reality TV warn the quest for ratings will end in a televised death. Those fears in a manne...
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Captain Scarlet's back
TV hero Captain Scarlet is to be revived after more than three decades-with no strings attaced, it was announced ye...
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Eastenders bosses didn't sack me...they wanted to promote me but i blew it
It's been a typical week for poor fat Barry in Eastenders. ...
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NewsThompson: C4 must embrace its core values
Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson has drawn up a list of what he believes are the channel's original core values and is calling on commissioners to use them to reinvigorate the corporation, writes Penny Hughes
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Hague, i got news for you
Former Tory leader William Hague is being lined up to present Have I Got News For You. ...
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NewsBBC satellite move to cost Sky£85m
The BBC radically changed the game in digital satellite this week by announcing plans to move all of its channels onto a new satellite, saving£85m in encryption charges to Sky over the next five years, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Crack in the sky
The BBC has cleared the way for a satellite TV company to compete with Sky.The Daily Mirror, page 21...
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Virgin adds second show for gulf troops
Virgin Radio has added an extra request show for members of the armed forces serving in the Gulf and their families after the success of its original Backing Our Boysprogramme. A spokesman said the response to the original show, which airs on Saturdays between 10.00 ...
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BBC2 lines up season of films on infidelity
A series of five films looking at themes of love and infidelity have been put together in a 50-minute special for BBC2 called Ways to Leave Your Lover. The 5 x 10-minute films features films by a number of different writers and directors such as ...
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Down to Earth goes in-house for fourth run
BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and controller of drama commissioning Jane Tranter have commissioned a fourth series of the Pauline Quirke-fronted Sunday evening drama Down to Earth. The 8 x 60-minute series, which tells the story of a family as they move from city ...
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La Plante back with trial and retribution
Lynda La Plante is going into production on a new two-part Trial and Retributionfor ITV in the autumn with Victoria Smurfit and Ben Cross added to the cast. The new episodes, the seventh outing in the Trial and Retribution series, will boast a guest cast ...