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    Free Setanta Sports for new Top Up TV customers

    2008-08-04T10:14:02Z

    Top Up TV will offer new customers a free Setanta Sports 1 “season ticket” for the 2008/9 Barclays Premier League season.

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    Simply Media teams up with BT

    2008-08-04T10:26:12Z

    UK content provider Simply Media has inked a deal with BT to provide nostalgia-based titles for BT Vision's on-demand service for 12 months.

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    Ten Alps looks to eye-care TV

    2008-08-04T10:28:51Z

    Ten Alps is setting its sights on the UK's 18,000 eye-care professionals with the latest addition to its portfolio of business-to-business web TV channels.

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    All3M signs to myvideorights.com

    2008-08-04T11:04:43Z

    All3Media International has become the first super-indie partner of Peter Bazalgette-backed digital video distribution start-up myvideorights.com.

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    The Tudors fails to reign

    2008-08-04T11:23:43Z

    BBC2 drama The Tudors made a slightly underwhelming return on Friday with 2.3m (11.2%) tuning in for the first episode at 9pm.

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    Viewers enlist for Dad's Army

    2008-08-04T12:30:48Z

    BBC2's Dad's Army Night was fighting fit from 8pm on Saturday, with the three-hour block of programming averaging 2.6m viewers (14%).

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    Miss Marple outwits Miss Potter

    2008-08-04T13:20:14Z

    ITV1 detective Miss Marple got the better of BBC1 film Miss Potter at 8pm last night with 5.5m viewers (23.8%).

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    ITV expected to cut more costs

    2008-08-04T13:21:19Z

    ITV executive chairman Michael Grade is expected to unveil a fresh round of cost cutting, which could result include wide-ranging redundancies, when announcing half-year results later this week.

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    Sky News in multimedia reshuffle

    2008-08-04T14:01:59Z

    Sky News has introduced a number of changes to its newsroom, including the creation of its first ever multimedia production team.

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    ITV reorders National Movie Awards

    2008-08-04T15:49:35Z

    ITV is rolling out the red carpet again for coverage of the second National Movie Awards in September.

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    TV critics 5 August ‘08

    2008-08-05T09:35:18Z

    “Because it was pitched at a family audience of non-scientists, the first episode of the series was highly simplistic, a whistle-stop tour of first principles.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

  • people_nigel_lythgoe
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    Lythgoe quits American Idol; launching jv with Fuller

    2008-08-05T09:51:23Z

    British producer Nigel Lythgoe is to step down from American Idol after six years to form a new joint venture with long-term collaborator Simon Fuller.

  • people_dr_mark_hamilton
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    R1 agony uncle to front BBC doc

    2008-08-05T10:17:10Z

    Radio 1's Dr Mark Hamilton is to launch a crusade on underage binge-drinking in an investigative doc for BBC1 Northern Ireland.

  • people_malcolm_clark
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    Mentorn factual director quits to launch indie

    2008-08-05T10:23:03Z

    Mentorn Media's Malcolm Clark has quit his post as creative director: specialist factual to start up his own indie.

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    BBC factual developer joins Southern Star

    2008-08-05T10:35:43Z

    BBC factual developer Joe Evans has left the corporation to join Meerkat Manor-creator Southern Star Factual.

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    Dragons' Den incinerates rivals

    2008-08-05T10:46:06Z

    BBC2's business reality show Dragons' Den got the better of ITV1 for the third week running in the key 9pm slot last night with 3.4m viewers (14.6%).

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    BBC3 tops the charts with Kylie's Body Double

    2008-08-05T11:10:29Z

    BBC3's one-off factual show I'm Kylie's Body Double attracted 373,000 viewers (1.85%) at 9pm, making it the most popular multichannel show at the time but was given a run for its money by ITV2's film.

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    Man Utd signs Key 103

    2008-08-05T12:00:04Z

    Key 103 has signed a deal with Manchester United to become its official radio partner for the next three years.

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    C4 to present Britain through foreign eyes

    2008-08-05T12:20:32Z

    Channel 4 has commissioned a series of shorts from Tiger Aspect, to be filmed by foreign students on attachment with the indie.

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    Sky extends England cricket deal

    2008-08-05T12:29:20Z

    BSkyB has extended its rights to live England Test cricket in a four-year deal that will run from 2010 to 2013.