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C4's cricket loss frees 200 hours.
Channel 4 is to put an extra 200 hours worth of commissions up for grabs after losing the rights to cover live cricket, writes Susan Thompson.
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Bill Oddie fronts BBC2 springtime special.
Ornithologist Bill Oddie is to return to BBC2 screens next year to front a huge interactive survey into the British springtime, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC1 pitches cop drama at Sunday night revival.
BBC1 is set to reschedule the second series of its police drama 55 Degrees North to
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Pilsworth looks to buy up indies.
Mick Pilsworth, the former Chrysalis TV chief, is putting together City investment to fund a buying
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Channel 4 to take E4 onto Freeview.
Channel 4 is planning to turn its digital entertainment network E4 into a free-to-air service and
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Only gays in the village are not for Sky One.
Sky One has dropped its light-hearted reality series The Only Gays in the Village, in which four gay men were sent to work in 'gay-free' rural village, over concerns it didn't fit the channel's new image, writes Paul Revoir.
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A BBC Christmas carol
Mrs Broadcast has endeavoured in this ghostly little tale, to raise the ghost of an idea, which shall not put our readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season or with us.
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NewsRoyal Variety show draws 8.5m
The glitz of The Royal Variety Performance drew viewers to BBC1 as the show attracted a peak of 8.5 million (38%) at 9.40pm.
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Sci-Fi on spending spree
The Sci-Fi channel has picked up a slew of new drama series including Paramount's primetime NBC hit Medical Investigation.
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RTS west winners
Testimony Films won the best network factual award for the third year in a row at the RTS West of England Awards, for Britain's Boy Soldiers , part of Channel 4's Secret History strand. Other winners included BBC Bristol in ...
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Teachers' TV playout
Teachers' TV has awarded three-year contracts to Ascent Media Network (AMNSE) Services Europe and NTL Broadcast to supply playout, transmission and satellite delivery for the channel. Programmes will be played out from the Central Playout Facility in Stephen Street, connected by fibre to a teleport in Winchester, uplinked and ...
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Sandler to objective
Indie Objective Productions has appointed former Planet 24 production director Paul Sandler as joint managing director. Sandler, who joins after Christmas, will work alongside founding partners Andrew O'Connor and Michael Vine to oversee Objective's growing slate. Objective is currently making a new series of Derren ...
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Genealogy travels
Wall to Wall has sold its hit BBC2 genealogy format Who Do You Think You Are? to broadcasters across Europe. France's M6 has licensed the idea while channels in Italy, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands have also snapped up the rights. 'Active discussions' are also ...
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Prism makes gaming show for Jetix
Prism Entertainment is to make PXG, a gaming show, for Jetix, the soon-to-be rebranded Fox Kids UK. Aimed at the 'techno-kid' generation, the show covers the latest in gaming reviews, hints, tips and cheats. Produced and directed by Prism Entertainment's Andrew Forgham, the show will launch on 12 February in ...
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Gallagher to front sky showbiz series
Sky One has poached Elaine Gallagher from Channel X Productions to become series editor of Entertainment Tonight - the weekly showbiz news magazine due to premiere in the UK on 7 January. Gallagher will be based at Paramount Pictures in LA and report to Sky ...
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The year of Freeview
Greg Dyke, Mark Thompson and the Channel 4/Five merger may have dominated the media headlines of 2004 but the real story of the year has been quietly ticking away in the background: Freeview.
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Five orders Zig Zag gossip show
FIVE has commissioned Zig Zag Productions to make a humorous, weekly popular culture review show, in which up-and-coming comedians look back at the week's celebrity gossip and news.
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Five snaps up Nat Geo wildlife shows
Five has picked up a package of shows from the National Geographic Television International (NGTI) catalogue including Battle of the Arctic Giants, Into the Tornado, Land of the Anaconda, Dolphins: The Wild Side and Honey Badgers of the Kalahari. ...
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Mandrill films live nuptials
Mandrill Television is to film a series of weddings and show them live as part of Discovery Health's biggest ever order.
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Pannaman snaps up JCA Facilities
Nick Pannaman, the founder of post-production group TVP, has made a surprise comeback with the purchase of broadcast services company JCA TV Facilities.