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RatingsA bumper year for Big Brother
The fifth series of Channel 4's Big Brother ended with a peak of 9 million (47.8%) as Portuguese transsexual Nadia Almada won the reality show.
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Granada wins ABC pilot
Granada USA has secured a broadcast pilot commission from US broadcaster ABC for a show in which two strangers swap wallets and use their contents to live new lives for a week.
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NFTS brings in Bolland to build up TV courses
The National Film and Television School (NFTS) has poached BBC Scotland head of entertainment and comedy Mike Bolland to head a revamped television department at the college.
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BBC2 seeks advice from Widdecombe
Tory MP and well-known battleaxe Ann Widdecombe is to become TV's latest agony aunt with a new BBC2 series in which she dishes out no-nonsense advice.
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Thorogood takes ITV daytime job
UKTV head of lifestyle Nick Thorogood has taken the role of editor of daytime at ITV.
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C4 talks over merger with Jowell
Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson has met with media secretary Tessa Jowell to discuss the viability of a proposed merger with Five.
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Humphreys joins C4 as pact ends
Channel 4 has marked the end of its no-poaching agreement with Five by signing the channel's recently departed commissioning editor for factual entertainment, Liam Humphreys.
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NewsRDF to make C4 rival to BBC2's The Apprentice
Channel 4 is enlisting three charismatic millionaires for a formatted documentary to rival BBC2's The Apprentice.
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NewsFive movies rival pay-TV
Five is to premiere Hollywood blockbuster Terminator 3 before any of its pay-TV rivals after securing a major new movie deal with Sony Pictures Television International.
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NewsSubs overtake ads as TV's main earner
Subscription has overtaken advertising revenue as the biggest source of income for British television for the first time in the medium's history.
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Ricochet scores property orders
Lifestyle indie Ricochet has followed up the success of its Channel 4 hit Supernanny by winning more than 50 hours of commissions from both Channel 4 and the BBC.
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UBC snaps up Smooth
UBC Media has bolstered its production clout by acquiring Smooth Operations , the largest regional radio indie in the UK.
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TV must not exploit world's remote tribes
We are concerned by Tom Beard's comments about the future of “anthropological” TV series (Broadcast, 04.04.08).He disagrees with the assertion that there are “supposedly a wealth of traditional communities that have little or no contact with the rest of the world,” claims that “a lot of these groups do ...
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Optomen names Hoppe to head US subsidiary
Optomen Television, the indie behind The Naked Chef and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares , has appointed a new head of its US subsidiary, Optomen Productions.
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Sky may allow content share
Sky+ customers could soon be able to send recorded TV programmes to each other over the internet and download content onto devices such as laptop computers.
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LRC expands in Lancashire
The Local Radio Company (LRC), the group run by former Jazz FM chief executive Richard Wheatly, has further expanded its portfolio with the£2.26m acquisition of a Lancashire radio operator.
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C4 overtakes BBC2 in ratings
Channel 4 has reasserted its ratings dominance over BBC2 after a decade of playing second fiddle.
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BBC farms out history show to regions
The BBC's new landmark primetime history show, British Isles: A Natural History , fronted by Alan Titchmarsh, is to break with convention by handing over chunks of the series to the nations and regions.
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Baxendale in return to ITV
Actress Helen Baxendale is to star in her first role on ITV since the end of hit series Cold Feet , with a romantic comedy about a single mum.