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    Homegrown revamp for aspirational Five

    2007-08-30T08:00:00Z

    Five has pledged to step up its original commissions and spend less on US imports as part of a move to make the channel feel more British.

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    WTS buys Video Europe projects arm

    2007-08-30T08:00:00Z

    Broadcast hire company Video Europe has agreed to sell its projects division to WTS Broadcast in a multimillion-pound deal.

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    Plenty of questions over trust - but few answers

    2007-08-30T08:00:00Z

    Edinburgh:Trust in TV was the inevitable central theme of this year's Edinburgh TV Festival, but solutions to the crisis in viewer confidence were few and far between.

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    Paxman fights corner against budget cuts

    2007-08-30T08:00:00Z

    Edinburgh:'So are you going to sack Paxo?' the BBC chairman Sir Michael Lyons was asked by a fellow Edinburgh festival-goer following Jeremy Paxman's hard-hitting MacTaggart lecture.

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    Indie Profile: Above the Title

    2007-08-30T08:00:00Z

    Behind the mic: David Morley.

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    RTL marks Five's value down£83m

    2007-08-30T08:00:00Z

    Higher than expected programming costs have contributed to Five owner RTL slicing£83m from the value it puts on the broadcaster.

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    Exclusive music for C4

    2007-08-30T08:00:00Z

    At It Productions is producing web-only live music performances to promote the third series of Transmission with T-Mobileon Channel 4.

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    C4 to add four more channels to 4oD

    2007-08-30T08:00:00Z

    Channel 4 is poised to add four more third-party channels to its 4oD service this autumn as it moves closer to becoming an online content aggregator.

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    More 4 doubles doc output

    2007-08-30T08:00:00Z

    More 4 has reasserted its commitment to international documentaries by doubling the number of new films in the True Storiesstrand to 40 over the next year.

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    C4 goes back to basics

    2007-08-30T08:00:00Z

    Edinburgh:Channel 4 chose attack as the best form of defence at the Edinburgh TV Festival, firing its opening salvo with the announcement that Celebrity Big Brotherwould be rested in 2008 after this year's troubled show.

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    IBC showcases tools for posting 3D content

    2007-08-30T08:00:00Z

    The growing interest in digital 3D content has prompted manufacturers to develop a raft of products to address the problem of post-producing stereoscopic images.

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    BBC3 lines up Friday night entertainment

    2007-08-30T08:00:00Z

    BBC3 controller Danny Cohen is lining up a Friday Night Live-style entertainment show as part of a strategy to attract younger viewers to the channel.

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    Blinkx sign 28 partners

    2007-08-30T08:00:00Z

    Video search engine Blinkx has signed 28 partnerships with special interest media companies, including Cycling TV, Wedding TV, travel guide specialist Geo Beats and Eye Music Network, which owns more than 3,500 pop videos.

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    Broadcast letters - August 31 2007

    2007-08-30T08:00:00Z

    Letters to the editor from Broadcast dated August 31 2007

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    Crime probed by Virgin 1

    2007-08-30T08:00:00Z

    Virgin 1 will lift the lid on the multicultural secret criminal organisations operating across the UK today in a 10 x 30-minute series.

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    Ricochet hires NBC exec for US push

    2007-08-29T11:35:00Z

    Supernannyindie Ricochet Television has hired NBC executive Jennifer O'Connell as senior vice president of its North America office.

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    Hit US shows made available on iTunes

    2007-08-29T11:20:00Z

    MTV Networks International, The Walt Disney Company and Apple have joined forces to allow UK iTunes downloads of full-length television shows from some of America's biggest channels.

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    ITV2 takes boxers on a ghost hunt

    2007-08-29T08:15:00Z

    ITV2 is lining up Amir Khan, Joe Calzaghe and Chris Eubank to take part in its Ghost Hunting With...franchise next year. [ALL]

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    Life on Mars creators given drama greenlight

    2007-08-29T08:00:00Z

    BBC1 has given the greenlight to Bone Kickers, a new drama from the co-creators of Life on Mars.[ALL]

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    Blog: A presenter's view of Edinburgh

    2007-08-29T08:00:00Z

    Presenter Kate Garraway waxes lyrical about Paxo's GMTV rant, fighting for recognition with Kirstie Allsopp and being inspired by the next generation of television makers. [ALL]