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BBC 1 orders primetime satire
Goodness Gracious Me producer to make 30-minute pilot of satirical news show to air later this year
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Ball and Hall in headline bout over News 24
BBC News chief squares up to Sky counterpart over future of 24-hour rolling news service
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Mansfield and Nelmes step up in ITV reshuffle
Granada TV hires Grant Mansfield as programmes chief while ITV daytime boss Dianne Nelmes is successor
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Sky Box Office and FilmFour flick digital switch
Movie channels to air exclusively on digital from April
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This week's quotes
'I was never in television. I was a political lobbyist for Channel 4. If I was going to miss it I wouldn't have left.'Michael Grade, formerly of Channel 4, now non-executive chairman of Octopus Television
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Government to reform broadcast and telecom laws
Ministers expected to relax media ownership and content legisation to keep UK at forefront of digital revolution
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Mansfield, Nelmes step up ITV ladders
Granada Television has picked ITV Network Centre controller of documentaries, features and arts Grant Mansfield to be its new director of programmes in a move that sees ITV daytime chief Dianne
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Worldwide sets up US joint-venture
BBC Worldwide has struck a $100 million (£61.7 million) deal with a US merchant bank, as media secretary Chris Smith prepares to deliver his verdict on the future funding of the BBC, writes Steve Clarke.
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C4 considers NTL for E4 partnership
Cable giant NTL is understood to have talked to Channel 4 about becoming an equity partner in the broadcaster's planned general entertainment channel, E4, writes John Plunkett.
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BBC 2 picks Rees to edit History Zone
Laurence Rees has been named editor of BBC 2's History Zone, the channel's regular Saturday night 90-minute history slot, writes Tim Dams.
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Planet 24 prepares second Blackwood run for C4
Planet 24 is about to go into production on a second 8 x 30-minute series of late-night chat show The Richard Blackwood Show (right) for Channel 4's spring schedule. The recommission
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Carlton to examine life of commuters for ITV
Carlton Productions has won a 60-minute commission from ITV for a documentary on the daily life of commuters travelling into London. Commuter Wars is being produced by Carlton's factual programming department
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Timothy and Leonard to lead cast on daytime Doctors
BBC Production's drama serials department has lined up Christopher Timothy (All Creatures Great and Small) and Jacqueline Leonard (EastEnders) to head the cast of new BBC daytime drama, Doctors. Known by
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Planet Wild's garden show returns to C4
Liverpool-based Planet Wild has been recommissioned by Channel 4 for a second series of The Gardener's Garden. The 8 x 30-minute series will air in June, looking at the gardens of
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Wyatt & Wyatt embark on sailing series for Discovery,
Discovery Networks Europe (DNE) has commissioned indie Wyatt & Wyatt to make a 7 x 30-minute series on the evolution and technology of sailing.Wind Driven will seek to 'demystify the serious
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Sky One snaps up Nelvana's animated Rescue Heroes
Sky One head of acquisitions Penny Harris has bought a 13 x 30-minute run of producer and distributor Nelvana's animated series Rescue Heroes. It is Nelvana's first sale to Sky One
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Francis leaves Invicta FM and heads for Capital
Capital Radio 95.8 has poached DJ Neil Francis from its sister station, Capital-owned Invicta FM, to front a new evening show between 22.00 and midnight. Francis, who hosted Invicta's breakfast show,
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BBC Radio 1 to stage Summer Love parade in Leeds
BBC Radio 1 has announced plans for a Leeds-based annual summer street music festival. Love Parade UK will be based on the Berlin Love Parade festival, which has been taking place