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VH1 edges away from congested music market
Music channel VH1 is attempting to become a more general entertainment offering by introducing US feature films and high-profile documentaries into the mix, writes Paul Revoir
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NewsBBC appoints advocates for board
The BBC is to create two new senior support roles for its board of governors as it prepares for the rigours of the charter renewal process, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Lapping tracks bin Laden's rise
Brook Lapping is poised to travel the globe tracking down past associates of Osama bin Laden for a joint production for BBC2 and WGBH Boston, writes Michael Rosser
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ITV picks up Bridezillas
September Films has secured an ITV network order for a show it originally made for US broadcasters, writes Paul Revoir
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BBC hires team writing expert
The BBC is to develop more US-style 'team written' comedies, following the success of its long-running sitcom My Family, and has hired the creator of the series to spearhead the drive, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Poor results cool NTL Telewest merger talks
Cable giants Telewest and NTL this week reported heavy year-end losses, strengthening expectations that a merger will be at least a year away, writes Rosemary Gallagher
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Black to take The Bill to new heights
Thames Television's new head of drama Paul Marquess has poached the producer behind the recent success of BBC1's Doctors to be series producer on ITV1's long-running police drama The Bill, writes Penny Hughes
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Julie Walters to star in ITV1 one-off psycho-drama
Julie Walters has been lined-up to play the lead role in a one-off psychological drama for ITV1, writes Jon Rogers
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Granada and BBC launch training drive
The BBC and Granada are supporting a new training initiative to help lone parents and the disabled in the north-west get into the media, writes Rosemary Gallagher
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BBC to make Monkhouse specials
The BBC is to dedicate two special programmes to comedian Bob Monkhouse as he battles against prostrate cancer.
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Shine moves in on C4's Wright
Shine Entertainment chief executive Elisabeth Murdoch has poached Channel 4 commissioning editor for factual entertainment Steven D Wright to be her indie's creative director, entertainment, writes Penny Hughes
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You're tuned to Basra FM
The Army broadcasts pop music and advice on how to surrender.But is it just propaganda, asks Carol Midgley. ...
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ITV try to lure Angus
Sacked BBC presenter Angus Deayton is being wooed by ITV. Producers are said to have made him 'an offer he can't re...
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Millionaire juror leaves
A juror in the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? trial was discharged yesterday. ...
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British media is giving distorted account of war, claims Blunkett
David Blunkett used a trip to New York to voice distrust of British reporters in Iraq, implying that they were givi...
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Where have all the big guns of TV news gone?
The Times journalist Janine di Giovanni was on BBC Five Live last week, discussing the difficulties reporters have ...
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NewsBBC cleans up at BPG Awards
The BBC has swept the board at this year's Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) Television and Radio Awards winning a total of eight out of the 13 possible categories, writes David Wood
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Al-Jazeera speechless over expelled journalist
Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based pan-Arab television station, yesterday broadcast images from Iraq but suspended all com...
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Anger as BT cuts broadband wholesale prices
BT Group has unveiled further cuts to its broadband wholesale prices in an attempt to boost take-up of high-speed i...
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Blunkett accuses media over reports from 'behind enemy lines'
Media organisations reacted angrily yesterday to a speech by the home secretary, David Blunkett, iin which he attac...