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C4 heats up Fridays with new comedies
Channel 4 plans to revive its flagging Friday night line-up this winter with a new series from the producer of The Office and hit US comedy My Name is Earl.
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NewsRoberts takes executive roleat Coronation Street
Former Coronation Street producer Kieran Roberts, who oversaw some of the soap's most successful storylines, including the Richard Hillman serial killer plot, has been made executive producer of the show.
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Daytime Sudoku shows set for battle
The BBC and ITV are gearing up for a battle of the Sudoku shows, with both channels preparing to unleash daytime quizzes based on the Japanese craze.
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ITV News Channel sees Freeview hours cut in half
The ITV News Channel has been given a last-minute reprieve on the Freeview platform but has had its hours slashed in half.
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BBC news cuts delayed
Hundreds of BBC news staff are being kept waiting to hear if they will be allowed to take voluntary redundancy, as the NUJ and management hold further talks on the department's future.
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BBC1 updates Jekyll and Hyde
Coupling writer Stephen Moffatt is to write a modern version of DrJekyll and Mr Hyde for BBC1.
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NewsBroadcasting House architect dropped
The group developing BBC Broadcasting House has ditched the architect in charge of the scheme after running into 'creative differences' over the project.
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NewsITV plans 'imminent' acquisitions
ITV Consumer chief executive Jeff Henry said today he was close to making a series of acquisitions.
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NewsFootball scores for ITV4's launch...
ITV4 had an impressive launch night yesterday as the channel soared to an all-hours share of 3.23% in multichannel homes.
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News...but misses the net on ITV1
ITV1's live coverage of Liverpool's Champions League tie against Anderlecht was something of a muted affair with a peak audience of just 5.6 million (24.3%) at 9pm.
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NewsBlaze confirms CD:USA deal
Blaze Television has secured a deal with US multichannel operator DirecTV to produce an American version of ITV1 pop show CD:UK.
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NewsTony Blair Rock Star headsC4 winter season
Tony and Cherie Blair both feature in Channel 4's winter season unveiled by the broadcaster this morning but the Prime Minister is unlikely to be happy with his TV portrayal.
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NewsSex Traffic up for five craft awards
Eight members of the production team that worked on the Granada-produced docu-drama Sex Traffic are up for gongs at this month's RTS Craft and Design Awards
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NewsUnions bid to reduce World Service cuts
9.30am: Broadcasting unions will sit down with BBC bosses next week to try to reduce the number of people set to be axed from the World Service staff.
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NewsC4 revives Comic Strip
8.30am: Channel 4 is reviving Comic Strip Presents... 23 years to the day since it first aired on the broadcaster's opening night.
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NewsPeter Kay to run 6 Music
8am: Comedian Peter Kay and various chart-topping acts are to take charge of BBC digital station 6 Music's programming as part of The BBC 6 Music Selector.
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NewsC4 appoints new commissioning editor
8am: Channel 4 has hired Kashaf Chaudhry, the producer of The Real Da Vinci Code, to join its science, history and religion department.
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NewsSecond helpings for Beyond Boundaries
8am: BBC2 controller Roly Keating has ordered a second series of disability adventure travel programme Beyond Boundaries while the first series is still on air.
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NewsGoldman Sachs man launches indie
8am: A former Goldman Sachs executive has launched a television production company to provide new revenue streams for high profile sporting clients of his financial services business.
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NewsSMG to support Gaelic channel
8am: Ofcom has raised a further£400,000 a year towards funding a new Gaelic TV Channel after agreeing to change ITV broadcasters Scottish TV and Grampian TV's indigenous language requirements.