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NewsCelebrity life-share leads ITV2’s autumn schedule
Actress Scarlett Johansson will invite Fearne Cotton to experience her Hollywood lifestyle in a shadow-a-celebrity series for ITV2 this autumn.
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CBeebies dishes up food series targeted at tots
The BBC is to teach preschoolers how to cook and where their food comes from, in a new CBeebies cookery show.
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NewsC4’s Luke Johnson to exec credit crunch doc
Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson is to get his first executive producer credit, on Studio Lambert’s first cinema documentary.
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Tiger's Fell to go freelance
Tiger Aspect drama exec Richard Fell is to go freelance after entering a period of consultation over his post.
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RatingsChat that falls on deaf ears
Comedian Graham Norton’s latest show for BBC1 has yet to find its footing with Saturday audiences.
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NewsTarget backer plans fund of £150m for production
A fund of up to £150m is being planned by the financial asset management company that backs Target Entertainment to help indies bridge production funding gaps.
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NewsC4 sends producer Wild for sole survivor doc
Channel 4 will cross a frontier in survival programming by dropping a TV producer into the Canadian wilderness for 12 weeks with just a camera and a backpack.
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RatingsBBC develops ‘holy grail’ to revamp the ratings
The BBC is developing a new audience measurement tool that has nailed the “holy grail” of audience metrics by factoring in all timeshifted and online viewing.
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NewsTen Alps in move to tap Asian content market
Super-indie Ten Alps is finalising plans to set up a base in Asia after ruling out plans to buy any more UK producers.
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NewsCrackit links with Mammoth in bid to optimise skills
Crackit Productions and Mammoth Screen have formed an unlikely partnership to share production tips, ideas and ways of working.
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NewsIndies vie for a place on news consortia scheme
Indies and broadcasters are already jostling to take part in the three independent news consortia pilot schemes, proposed in the Digital Britain report, which will provide regional news on ITV1.
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NewsC4 has Grand Designs on ITV1's Honest
The start of Channel 4's sixth series of Grand Designs got off to a cracking start with a sizeable 4.3m viewers (17.4%), putting it on a par with ITV1's drama Honest.
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NewsTV Critics 17 January '08
'Queer as Folk with phaser guns'. Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.
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NewsPurnell: BBC licence fee could be shared
The prospect of the next BBC licence fee being shared with other broadcasters has edged closer after culture secretary James Purnell said that public sector broadcasting needed to change radically to survive after switchover.
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NewsTV Critics 18 January '08
'This was tosh, and lazy, derivative tosh'. Read on for more cutting criticism on last night's TV.
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NewsWorking Title reveals TV plans
Working Title, the company behind hit movies such as Atonement and Bridget Jones' Diary, is planning a return to TV drama.
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NewsHedge fund ups stake in Virgin Media
Hedge fund SRM Global Master Fund has again raised its stake in cable giant Virgin Media to 9.1%, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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NewsBranagh returns to Radio 3
Actor Kenneth Branagh will play Cyrano de Bergerac in a BBC Radio 3 production of the play to be transmitted on Easter Sunday (23 March).
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NewsWeakest Link to replace Neighbours
Neighbours is to be replaced by The Weakest Link when the long running soap moves from BBC1 to Five.
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NewsITV1 seeks Trial and Retribution on BBC1
ITV1's ever-popular detective series Trial and Retribution made a successful return last night with a sizeable 6.5m viewers (27.7%) at 9pm.