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Kenyon Confronts returns for third series
BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and BBC head of current affairs Peter Horrocks have commissioned a third series of investigative strand Kenyon Confronts, before the second run begins airing at the
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Aston goes into receivership
UK manufacturer that dominated video character generation market for nearly 30 years calls in receivers
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NewsYooMedia looks for love
Interactive media group YooMedia is looking to exploit the surge in popularity of social networking sites by launching a free online dating service.
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ITN signs£216 million ITV news contract
News operation secures longer-than-expected six-year deal running to 2009
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More upheaval for CITV as Granada rejigs kids
ITV's plans to build a children's media empire on the back of its CITV brand suffered a further blow this week after it emerged that Granada has been forced to downsize
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BEEB TO AIR AFRICAN CUP
The BBC has won the rights to screen the African Nations Cup football tournament, due to be held in Mali in January and February next year, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NewsFive Days thrills 6.7m
BBC1's new taut thriller Five Daysgot off to a cracking start at 9pm last night (Tuesday 23 January) with an audience of 6.7 million (26.9%) while ITV1's new genealogy series You Don't Know You're Bornstumbled to 3 million (12%).
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BBC may be ITV Digital's saviour
A deal between the BBC and ITV Digital to make their services available through cut-price set-top boxes could be concluded before the end of the year, writes Simon Ellery.
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Chowns quits ITV 2 for PIRS
ITV 2 commercial director Andrew Chowns has finally left the struggling channel to become chief executive of Producers' Industrial Relations Services (PIRS), the body that represents ITV's production arms and indie
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CHX WINS C4 COMEDY ORDER
Entertainment and comedy specialist Channel X has changed its name to CHX Productions, hired three new senior staff and unveiled its first animation project, writes Simon Ellery.
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Mortimer mooted quitting
BBC deputy controller of general factual David Mortimer has admitted he considered quitting the corporation after 129 posts were axed from the troubled factual and learning department.Mortimer made the disclosure at
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NewsKeith Allen to explore God TV
Actor Keith Allen is to front a controversial Channel 4 documentary focusing on the British-owned Christian broadcaster God TV.
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Sky entertainment head goes to indie
September films has poached the driving force behind Sky One's original programme output to become the indie's first director of programmes, writes Steve Aston.
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Cable giants launch interactive strategy
NTL and Telewest have taken a step closer towards a full merger after launching a joint interactive strategy - dubbed the 'broadband Treaty of Rome', writes Simon Ellery.
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Initial back in Breakfast race
Endemol Entertainment UK production arm Initial has re-entered the race for the Big Breakfast slot less than two months after dropping out of the bidding, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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BBC tx service is delayed
The BBC has been forced to postpone the launch of its new commercial television transmission service after it emerged that the White City building set to house it will not be ready in time, writes Barbara Marshall.
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Bain moves to 'bold' Shine
Mentorn Barraclough Carey (MBC) head of entertainment Rosetta Bain has become the latest senior industry figure to defect to Elisabeth Murdoch's fledgling indie, Shine, writes Steve Aston.
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Gardam unveils C4 restructure
Channel 4 director of programmes Tim Gardam has unveiled an editorial restructure at the channel.The changes see the creation of a new C4 broadcasting group headed by Gardam which will include
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STRANDED DOWN UNDER
Channel 4 has ordered a£3m follow-up to RDF Media reality format Shipwrecked (above) that will see viewers control the lives of six participants living in the Australian rainforest, writes Penny Hughes.
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BBC FINDS TREASURES
More than 100 long-lost radio programmes and over a dozen television shows have been restored to the BBC archive after the corporation made an appeal for missing recordings. Among the haul