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NewsBBC1 hunts pop factual docs with youth appeal
BBC1 controller Jay Hunt is looking for 10.35pm documentaries and popular factual series that will help skew the channel towards younger viewers.
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NewsBBC1 mobilises Land Girls for daytime drama push
BBC1 is stepping up its daytime drama push with a major period series about four women working in the Women’s Land Army during the Second World War.
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NewsPortillo takes trains back in time for BBC2 daytime
Former Tory cabinet minister Michael Portillo will embark on a series of epic British rail journeys as part of a stripped daytime series for BBC2.
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NewsC4 pilots Come Dine with Me follow-up
Channel 4 is lining up a new cookery format from ITV Studios, the producer of global smash Come Dine with Me.
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NewsRoss up against US rivals as chat show goes global
Jonathan Ross’ chat show will be available in more than 64 million US homes after BBC America picked up the programme.
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NewsCRR report could open possibility of ITV1+1 launch
ITV1+1 could launch on Freeview and satellite if the Office of Fair Trading gives the broadcaster the CRR reforms it wants.
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Trevor Eve to star in BBC1 version of kids bestseller
BBC1 is to turn Frank Cottrell Boyce’s bestselling children’s book, Framed, into a family show starring Trevor Eve.
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NewsC4 and BBCW deal: favourite, but not sealed
A Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide joint venture looks set to win government backing, but the two parties are yet to sign a draft proposal less than two weeks ahead of the Digital Britain report.
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Coolabi closes in on its buyout of Chorion's crime
Coolabi is expected to finalise its £40m buyout of Chorion’s crime division “within days”.
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Alan Titchmarsh springs into ITV1 seasonal show
Alan Titchmarsh is to front an ITV1 series on the seasons and climate change for ITV1.
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Guinness serves up music in Done and Dusted deal
DCD Media’s Done and Dusted will produce six hours of live programming on 24 September that will be broadcast direct to pubs and music venues to celebrate Guinness’ 250th anniversary.
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NewsRenovation, renovation, renovation on C4
Property Ladder creator John Silver and host Sarah Beeny are joining forces again for a Channel 4 series that will renovate homes beset by serious problems such as subsidence or pests.
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NewsHollyoaks tackles drink online
An online Hollyoaks spin-off is taking centre stage in a government strategy to use web drama to get youth-oriented campaigns to their target audience.
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NewsMultiplatform briefs 5 June 2009
Multiplatform news in briefs from Broadcast dated 5 June 2009 including Windfall Films, Possitive, Tern Digital and 4iP
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NewsBlue and PFL staff agree to take pay cut
More than 80% of staff at Blue and Prime Focus London have agreed to take a pay cut as an alternative to a programme of redundancies.
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NewsIndustry split over 3DTV standardisation
The broadcast industry is divided over whether or not to standardise 3D TV, according to new research from the Digital Television Group (DTG).
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Technology briefs 5 June 2009
Technology news in brief from Broadcast magazine dated 5 June 2009 including Erik Huggers, Panasonic, Grass Valley and Amberfin.
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NewsSolid debut for I'm a Celebrity US
The US remake of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here debuted on the NBC network with a solid 6.5m viewers, but was beaten by three CBS drama repeats in the same slot.
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ITV and UTV defend £100m budget for regional news
ITV and UTV have stepped in to defend Ofcom’s proposed £100m budget for regional news, after the BBC dismissed the figure as “fantasy”.
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NewsBGT sparks 350 complaints
Nearly 350 complaints were lodged with Ofcom last weekend over Britain’s Got Talent – but less than 16 of them were about the treatment of singing sensation Susan Boyle.