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STAKEHOLDER REVIEW
United Business Media and the Daily Mail & General Trust are believed to want to offload their shares in ITN. The move would allow the three remaining shareholders, Carlton, Reuters and
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NEW EDITOR FOR APTN
News agency APTN has appointed MyMovies.net editor Nick Thomas as its entertainment editor. He is charged with overseeing the editorial content of the news agency's entertainment bulletins and programmes and will
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£200,000 FOR SKILLSET
Training body Skillset has been awarded a grant of almost£200,000 from the London Development Agency for training initiatives within the capital. Part of the money is earmarked to organise another
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C5 USES KIOSK MEDIA
Channel 5 is using kiosk media technology to add interactivity to its live Saturday morning kids show 5 Gets Out of its Box. The show, to tour Blackpool and Leeds in
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TALENT SIGNS SOAP STAR
Talent Television has signed actor Craig Fairbrass, who plays EastEnders villain Dan Sullivan, to star in three new drama series. The actor has already completed one non-broadcast pilot for ITV -
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PONGWIFFY FINDS STARS
Comedy duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are to provide the voices for the two main characters in Telemagination animation Pongwiffy which is to be shown on CITV. The 26 x
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FESTIVAL NEWS UPDATE
Broadcast News, the daily online news service of produxion.com, will be updated regularly with breaking news from the Guardian Edinburgh International TV Festival from 24-26 August. For details, log on to
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Mersey ups drama
Mersey Television has promoted Jo Hallows to the new post of head of drama development as the independent's long-running Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks expands from three to four episodes every week
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Express plans radio venture
Express Newspapers owner Richard Desmond last week appeared to confirm ambitions to expand into radio following the appointment of former Capital Radio director of programmes Richard Park as a consultant, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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Radio First soccer station to air
Radio First is launching its first radio station dedicated to football fans this weekend to coincide with the start of the football season, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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BBC property plan approved
Media Secretary Tessa Jowell has approved the BBC's plan to hand over its central London properties to a private-sector developer in a£500m deal, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NewsMicrosoft stakes its claim as IPTV provider
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has hailed IPTV as the future of broadcasting, and announced that the company's Xbox 360 games console is to double as an IPTV set-top box.
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Sky puts reality in pole position
The UK version of controversial reality show Temptation Island will form the centrepiece of Sky One's autumn schedule.The 12 x 60-minute series has been produced for the channel by Granada and
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C4 orders doc on genital surgery
Channel 4 commissioning editor, science Dan Chambers has commissioned RDF Media to produce a series exploring genital operations, writes Penny Hughes.
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FOR MILLS' EARS ONLY
Cactus is to produce a 10 x 30-minute series For Your Ears Only, presented by Radio One DJ Scott Mills, writes Simon Ellery.
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BBC strengthens ethnic output
BBC multicultural commissioning executive Maxine Watson has unveiled a raft of new programmes for BBC 2 as part of her brief to develop original strands intended to reflect 'real diversity'.The programmes,
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NewsThe Farm completes Shameless
The Farm has completed post-production on the fourth series of Company Television's award-winning drama Shameless, which returned to Channel 4 this week.
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Mentorn wins C4 deals for ecology docs
Mentorn Barraclough Carey (MBC) has secured two one-off commissions from Channel 4 including a film looking at the effects of climate change in the year 2050, write Colin Robertson and Jon Rogers.
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Alias explains cancellation at Siggraph
Alias Wavefront blamed 'severe economic restraints' for the cancellation of its user group conference at Siggraph this year following unsuccessful attempts to charge attendees a $200 (£140) fee, write Jo Scott and Barbara Marshall.