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TV betting scam foiled
Betting on the BBC's Great Britons poll has been halted after students tried to fix a win for Isambard Kingdom Brun...
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Big let-down
Or how the latest celebrities lined up for the Big Brother house are distinctly C-list. ...
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Kings of the catchphrase? Suits us, Sir
It has been one of the most successful TV comedy programmes of recent times and now the Fast Show has become part o...
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Jowell poised to allow major radio consolidation
The government is today expected to bow to intense lobbying from the radio industry and permit major consolidation ...
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Vivendi falls on rumours of Eu. 480m offer for French football TV rights
Vivendi Universal continued to scare investors yesterday, as reports surfaced that the media giant had paid a high ...
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ITV merger gains support
The creation of a single ITV yesterday moved a significant step closer after Carat, the UK's largest media buying a...
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BBC cast axed in Hollywood Robbie
The BBC has sold its Robbie The Reindeer Christmas specials to the United States in a£5 million deal, but the Brit...
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Palace order Duchess to scrap Parkinson chat
Buckingham Palace has ordered the Duchess of York to pull out of a television interview with Michael Parkinson amid...
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Like a bit of Fast talk, do you Sir?
Comedy series The Fast Show is the new king of TV catchphrases. ...
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Old newshounds back on the scent for Channel Five
Some of the most famous faces from television news have been lured out of retirement and sent back on the road as r...
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Space is final frontier for Russian TV
Russian television is to stage a reality game show in which the winner will be sent into space. ...
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'At last I can be nasty'
Hugh Bonneville has played a succession of likeable buffoons in films as varied as Iris and Notting Hill. But in t...
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Spanish pay-TV deal in jeopardy
The future of the merger between Spain's two leading pay-television groups was uncertain late yesterday after the c...
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Fergie pulls out of Parky show
The Duchess of York yesterday pulled out of appearing on BBC 1's Parkinson show amid fears she will further embarra...
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Vivendi hands US media assets to Diller
Barry Diller, veteran media entrepreneur, will take full control of Vivendi Universal's US media and entertainment ...
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Softbank aims to win with internet TV
Softbank yesterday unveiled a strategy intended to transform itself from troubled internet investment vehicle into ...
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Phew, what a scorchio!
Cult comedy The Fast Show has been crowned king of the one-liners ' with 26 entries in a new catchphrase dictionary...
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Byford leads global celebrations
BBC World Service director Mark Byford has lined himself up as the star turn in a 60-minute show set to form part of the global news service's 70th birthday celebrations next month, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Carlton makes major factual appointments
Carlton is expanding its factual entertainment department with the appointment of three series executive producers, including the producer of ITV 1's ratings winner I'm a Celebrity?Get Me Out of Here!, writes Steve Aston
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Murdoch aims to lift Sky ARPU
BSkyB is aiming to increase the amount of revenue it gets from its 6.3 million existing subscribers next year by convincing them to buy additional and more advanced set-top boxes, writes Paul Revoir