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BBC2 bids for success with antiques series
Flog It! presenter Paul Martin is to gamble people's savings on the antiques market in a new BBC2 daytime series.
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BBC1 to air Dimbleby art docs
David Dimbleby is to roam the world in search of British art from the past 2,000 years in a landmark arts documentary series for BBC1.
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Gub Neal quits Box TV to pioneer US-style studio
Drama veteran Gub Neal has quit Box TV to set up a pioneering UK studio structure that will place writers at the heart of programme production.
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Woolfe to move to Five sooner than expected
Richard Woolfe will take up his role as Five channel controller on 20 April, Broadcast can reveal.
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Fremantle ups its game with stake in Ludia
Fans of The Bill could soon be using their Nintendo Wii to walk the streets of Sun Hill after Fremantle Media bought a minority stake in Canadian video game specialist Ludia.
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London job cuts on the horizon at Discovery EMEA
Discovery Networks EMEA is to “decentralise” some of its London-based support services, affecting between 20 and 30 staff.
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Being Human to return
BBC3 has commissioned a second series of Touchpaper Television drama Being Human.
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BBC Sport boss hopeful on Salford
New director of BBC Sport, Barbara Slater, has said she is hopeful that more than a third of the department will make the move to Salford in 2011.
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‘Channel surfing' next big thing for iPlayer
BBC iPlayer is developing an application that will mimic stumbling across shows by channel surfing.
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Wells and Middleham launch indie start-up
Two former ITV Studios entertainment heavyweights have teamed up to create a new indie for high-end, shiny-floor entertainment shows.
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BBC3 gets weighty with diet-and-dilemma docs
BBC3 is to tackle some of the major issues facing young women - ranging from diets and plastic surgery to rehab and abortion.
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Mackie reunites the Cold Feet team for rom-com
Cold Feet exec producer Andy Harries and director Declan Lowney will be reunited for an ITV -comedy-drama series about six friends negotiating life and love.
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Real Hustle producer to ‘screw' consumers
The team behind The Real Hustle is to give members of the public “the consumer experience from hell” in a new BBC3 series.
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BBC to bring back Five Days and Criminal Justice
The BBC is to turn Criminal Justice and Five Days into returnable brands by applying their stripped format to new casts and storylines.
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BBC America signs up for Kudos' Iraq war drama
Kudos Film and Television's BBC1 Iraq drama Occupation is being part financed by BBC America and will star Murphy's Law actor James Nesbitt.
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C4/Five in the dark over ITV merger proposal
ITV has approached neither Channel 4 nor Five about its reported proposal for a three-way merger to create a single commercial rival to the BBC, Broadcast understands.
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Barbara Slater named BBC Sport director
The BBC has named former international gymnast Barbara Slater as its new director of sport.
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Cardiff spectrum bid won by Cube
Bafta-winning multimedia company Cube Interactive has won the bid for a new spectrum licence in Cardiff from Ofcom.
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Optomen bolsters top team
Optomen, the indie behind Gordon Ramsay's F Word, has strengthened its senior team by promoting two of its in house producers to editors.
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Folio to follow up Soho Blues for Five
Five has commissioned Folio to make a fast-turnaround follow up to its successful doc series Soho Blues.