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Ratings
BBC1 falls to lowest Sunday audience in 2 years
BBC1 slumped to its lowest peaktime share on a Sunday for two years as a repeat of Messiah 2 got just 2.9 million (12.5%) on Easter Day.
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NewsAirey chooses Turner Laing for deputy
Sky Networks chief Dawn Airey has appointed director of film channels and acquisitions Sophie Turner Laing as her deputy.
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NewsITV restructures news division
ITV has restructured the management of its news division creating a new role overseeing all the companies' 11 regional news services.
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NewsBBC gets new media head
The BBC has appointed a new controller of its interactive television services, replacing Emma Somerville who was promoted to the role of head of interactive TV programming earlier this year.
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Las Vegas (Sky One) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star
'This is glossy tosh. But it's unusually sophisticated and witty tosh.'...
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Hawking (BBC2) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'Fairly entertaining, at times mildly illuminating - but, above all, deeply and unashamedly corny.'...
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Hawking (BBC2) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'Stephen Moffat's ingenuity with the scientific exposition made you wince with disbelief.'...
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Hawking (BBC2) - Nancy Banks-Smith, Guardian
'You could spend 90 happy minutes in its company.'...
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NewsFox pulls UK indie shows
Mentorn and Lion Television have both been delivered a blow by US network Fox TV after their ambitious reality shows were yanked from the schedule after just a month.
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RatingsHawking provides a big bang for BBC2
BBC2's dramatisation of the early life of physicist Stephen Hawking proved to be a popular draw with a high of 3.9 million (18.3%) at 22.25 and managed to overshadow BBC1.
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Fake lottery winners run amok in latest Sky show
Sky One is continuing the trend for cruel reality shows with a series in which members of the public dupe friends and families into believing they've won the lottery.
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NewsByford to set out his stall
Acting BBC director general Mark Byford will attempt to rally staff morale next week with a major address in which he will launch an initiative to improve training and internal communication.
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Mentorn picks BBC exec for factual role
Mentorn has poached the deputy editor of Panorama to head its factual division weeks after the BBC swooped on the indie's director of development.
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4 Ventures plans gambling service
Channel 4 racing is to offer punters the chance to gamble via the on-screen red button for the first time in a new deal struck by 4 Ventures.
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ITV puts£20m into Midsomer
ITV has made another long-order commission, taking 16 episodes of Bentley Productions' detective series Midsomer Murders in a deal worth around£20m.
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NewsBBC reality show to look at family life
The BBC is developing one of its most ambitious shows ever - a docu-soap with Big Brother -style cameras installed in family homes throughout Britain.
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NewsLiving TV sends divorced couples on honeymoon
Divorced couples are to be flown back to their honeymoon destination to consider where it all went wrong for a Living TV series.
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NewsSky: bring BBC under Ofcom
BSkyB, has called on the government to bring the BBC fully under Ofcom and give BBC1 and BBC2 specific remits.