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NewsBBCW pays £17m to complete 2entertain buy-out
BBC Worldwide has paid £17m to buy the remaining 40 per cent stake in DVD publisher 2entertain.
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NewsEndemol's Thomson drafted in at Tiger Aspect
Tiger Aspect will not directly replace former managing director Andrew Zein and has instead hired Endemol’s Richard Thomson as its director of operations.
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News19 Entertainment to wind back London office
Staff at 19 Entertainment are considering voluntary redundancy packages as indie behind American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance plans to wind back its London presence.
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NewsBoomerang signs £4m deal with S4C
Indie Boomerang Plus has signed a three-year £4m deal to produce content for S4C’s pre-school service Cyw.
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NewsC4 viewers heap praise on Mowlam biopic
Ratings-busting drama Mo was the most praised show on Channel 4 last month – but viewers complained in droves about a technical hitch that saw The Godfather Part II transmitted in the wrong order.Scroll down for full list of “rated and slated”A total of 60 people contacted C4 to praise ...
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NewsBBC3 lines up stunt dating show
BBC3 has commissioned a pilot of a dating format from Shed Media’s Twenty Twenty that gives jilted lovers a chance to win back their ex-partners.
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NewsCrouch leaves GMTV as kids unit faces axe
GMTV chief operating officer Clive Crouch is leaving after 18 years and the unit that makes kids strands Toonattik and Action Stations faces the axe following the company’s integration review.
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RatingsClint hangs BBC2 and C4 out to dry
Docs and comedy on BBC2 and Channel 4 lost out to a Clint Eastwood western from 42 years ago on Five last night.
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NewsBafta redrafts nominations after C4 oversight
Channel 4 entertainment shows including Derren Brown’s The Events were accidentally left off the Bafta nominations longlist, it has emerged.
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NewsGalloway attacks "dirty" Dispatches doc
MP George Galloway has attacked a Channel 4 Dispatches investigation into his relationship with the Islamic Forum of Europe , branding it a “dirty little programme”.
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NewsBBCW wins US celebrity ice dancing order
BBC Worldwide is to produce a spin-off ice dancing show for ABC based on its successful Dancing with the Stars format.
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NewsSky News plans female faces for Women's Day
Sky News will have an all female production and broadcasting team on Monday 8 March to mark the 99th anniversary of International Women’s Day.
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NewsFilm4 HD to launch exclusively on Virgin
Channel 4 is to launch its HD version of Film4 exclusively on Virgin Media this summer.
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RatingsLet's Dance sidelines Ant and Dec
BBC1’s Let’s Dance for Sports Relief pushed all the right buttons for viewers on Saturday night, leaving Ant and Dec’s new ITV1 gameshow in its wake.
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NewsReport: twice as many men on TV as women
Men appear almost twice as much as women on TV, with factual programming and news the worst offenders, according to research ordered by Channel 4.A pilot study, published to mark International Women’s Day (8 March) and undertaken as part of C4’s leadership of the Cultural Diversity Network, also revealed that ...
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Sky's Michael Wilson to host Jazz FM series
Jazz FM has launched a new weekly magazine show hosted by former Sky business editor Michael Wilson.
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RatingsBBC2's Solar System proves ratings wonder.
The Wonders of the Solar System proved a wonder for BBC2 last night, with the new documentary series falling only 1m viewers short of BBC1’s Seven Ages of Britain.
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RatingsThe Mentalist catches lacklustre Winner
ITV1 and Five were neck-and-neck at 9pm on Friday night, with Michael Winner’s Dining Stars and US drama The Mentalist both watched by 2.1m.
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NewsSaturday Kitchen criticised for swearing - again
Ofcom has rapped BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen Live for broadcasting the f-word, months after escaping censure for a similar slip-up.
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NewsTaylor to run BBC in-house entertainment
Katie Taylor has won the race to succeed Jon Beazley as head of BBC in-house entertainment.