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Sky One scores soccer goal-fest
Sky One has commissioned North One Television to make a series listing the 50 greatest goals scored by the England national team. England's 50 Finest Goals, 2 x 60-minutes, will see an expert panel pick the top goals and feature interviews with the goal scorers. The ...
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Nancy invited into footballers' homes
Nancy Dell'Olio, the partner of England football coach Sven-Goran Erikkson, is to guest present MTV show Footballers' Cribs, the UK football version of its successful original US show, Cribs. Launching on Sunday 12 June, the series sees footballers such as Liverpool's Harry Kewell, Blackburn's Robbie Savage and Manchester United striker ...
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Ofcom raps ITV for skydiving footage
Ofcom has slammed ITV after it broadcast footage of a skydiver plummeting to his death in a daytime entertainment show. A viewer complained to the watchdog after ITV2 programme Sally Jesse Raphael showed two skydivers colliding in mid-air, leading to one of the men dying and the other being crippled. ...
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Format focus: Going Hollywood
Trainees show just how hard it is to break into the LA entertainment industry - even if you have Method Man as a mentor - in this US reality series.
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Ofcom poised to reveal Manchester FM licence winner
Ofcom will today (Thursday) announce who has won the FM radio licence for Manchester - one of the few major licences the regulator is putting up for grabs.
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Five enjoys removeable feast
Five has greenlit a new series following engineers as they attempt to move entire buildings.
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Emap rethinks SRH takeover offer
Emap may have to boost its pound;374m offer for radio group Scottish Radio Holdings by a further£40m in order to take control of the Glasgow-based group.
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Nats to pioneer remote editing
Clients of Nats Post Production will soon be able to cut basic offline edits from home, in their office or out on location thanks to a partnership the facility is forming with an internet-based editing company.
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Discovery us takes on Pop Nation
Jane Root, the former BBC2 controller who now runs the Discovery Channel in the US, has commissioned Pop Nation: America's Coolest Stuff, a show about contemporary collectables, from Tiger Aspect Productions. The 8 x 60-minute series gives viewers valuations on items such as records and comics ...
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Davies to look at technology framework
Ofcom's new director of radio and multimedia, Peter Davies, has said his first major task will be to establish a framework for regulating emerging technologies, such as broadcasting via the internet and mobile phones.
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MTV secures second run of Date My Mom
Princess Productions has scored a high-volume second renewal for its dating format Date My Momfrom US music channel MTV.
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Thompson continues talks with unions
BBC director general Mark Thompson and union negotiators sat down for more crisis talks as Broadcast went to press in a bid to resolve the ongoing dispute over job cuts. The meeting followed an invitation from Thompson last week, who asked unions to meet him so he could 'clarify' the ...
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CNN's quest for high-profile figures
CNN is making a new light-hearted series based around its London anchor Richard Quest in which he interviews high-profile figures such as former US president Bill Clinton and the Dalai Lama. Each episode of Quest, a 12 x 30-minute series due to air monthly from 9 ...
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Discovery looks to develop modern history channel
Discovery Networks Europe is considering setting up a contemporary history channel in the UK.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Meredith Chambers
Meredith Chambers, C4 commissioning editor, Cutting Edge and documentary series, is looking for ambitious, narrative series and admires what Jamie Oliver has done for TV
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CBBC chief lined up as keynote speaker
New CBBC controller Alison Sharman is to give the keynote speech at this year's Showcomotion Children's Media Conference in Sheffield on 8 and 9 July. This year's event will focus on the pressures facing children's TV and will feature other speakers including CiTV controller Estelle Hughes, CBBC head of acquisitions ...
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Goodman to take Capital director role
GCap Media, the merged GWR and Capital Group, has promoted regional programme director Nik Goodman to the role of programme director for Capital FM, writes Colin Robertson.
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ITV films tourette's sufferers on camp
ITV1 is to explore the effect of Tourette's syndrome with a film following a group of British sufferers as they head off to a US summer camp exclusively for people with the condition. Teenage Tourette's Camp, a 90-minute film from Shine, will follow five teenage Brits ...
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Dreyfus caged by Tiger
Gimme Gimme Gimmeactor James Dreyfus is to star as a struggling actor turned gangland convict in a new ITV1 comedy.
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CNN wired for broadband
Global news channel CNN International is set to be available to internet users from the autumn as part of planned new broadband service.