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BBC2 doc will recreate 17th-century farm
A team of academics has been challenged to run a farm in the way it would have worked in the 17th century for a BBC2 documentary series.
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Pop idol company sold for£100m plus
Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment, the creator of the Pop Idolformat, was this week bought by the US firm CKX for more than£100m. CKX, which owns the assets of the Elvis Presley estate, has made Fuller a director of the company. He is locked into the job ...
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Survival adds to BBC1 medical file
Patients battling life-threatening conditions are to be filmed as part of a major new series for BBC1 to be recorded over two years.
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BBC1 welcomes back Two Ronnies
The return of veteran TV comics Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett was warmly welcomed by BBC1 viewers, with 8 million tuning in.
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Ransley does crime for ITV1
The scriptwriter behind the BBC's forthcoming costume drama Fingersmithhas been signed up by ITV to write an original crime drama.
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BBC1 goes to Egypt
The lives of the ancient Egyptians and the archaeologists who uncovered them are being portrayed in a landmark BBC1 series. Discovering Ancient Egyptwill dramatise the tales of explorers who searched for artefacts from the ancient civilization, and recreate the lives of the pharaohs. The 6 x ...
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Passion for politics
Alastair Stewart believes that ITV News Channel can become a real force in rolling news reporting and is ready to fight off any threat of encroachment on impartiality by partisan networks, David Rowan discovers
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Losing the youth vote
Whether it's producing Question Timefor kids or putting presenters in parkas, broadcasters' attempts to get young people turned on to politics have more chance of winning awards than viewers, says Sam Delaney.
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Reporting from the killing fields
The independent camera operator/journalist has become indispensable to terrestrial and satellite news broadcasters ...
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Election fever
With the election date all but named, what tricks do the broadcasters have up their sleeves to convince a jaded electorate that their coverage will be worth tuning into?
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Little girls, big camera
Delissa Needham finds that it is physical barriers that are holding back women in the low-budget arena
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Benefit of the doubt
Thompson's swingeing cuts at the BBC are attracting a great deal of flak, but in the long-term he may yet be vindicated.
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By royal appointment
Establishing a rapport with the royals was crucial for a series about Windsor entitled The Queen's Castle. Producer/director Matt Reid describes his meetings with Prince Philip
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Adding mischief to politics
Rather than vie with the BBC and ITV over coverage of the general election, Channel 4 commissioner for news Mark Rubens is taking a more inventive approach.
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Gilligan's top 10 political bust-ups
Another day, another row between a politician and a journalist. Earlier this month, live on Newsnight, the Health Secretary John Reid challenged the programme's description of him as an
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NewsUnions fight back against BBC cuts
The BBC faces a showdown with angry unions over its latest round of job cuts, which will mean a fifth of the workforce being axed.
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NewsWillis defends BBC in-house
John Willis, one of the BBC's most senior programme executives, has warned that the rise of the independent sector could see the corporation's in-house production
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NewsITV and C4 win Freeview slots
ITV and Channel 4 have bagged Crown Castle's two vacant Freeview slots.
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NewsFive moves Trisha to morning slot
Five is planning to steal a march on ITV by moving Trisha Goddard's new show into the 9.25am berth where ITV1's Trisha has been airing for more than six years.
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NewsVidler to head Magic
Emap has hired former Capital FM managing director Andria Vidler to help make its easy listening station Magic the number one station in London.