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Irish comics set for BBC2
The co-writer of Channel 4 hit comedy Father Ted , Arthur Matthews, is working on an all-Irish comedy sketch show for BBC2, writes Paul Revoir.
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Millionaire offers $10m prize in US
Celador Productions' hit quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire ? is to be relaunched in the US with a jackpot of $10m, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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ITV1 to be 'home of motor-sport'
ITV1 is planning to devote its Sunday afternoon schedule to motor-sport after securing rights to the World Rally Championship (WRC).
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BBC1 series to look at greats of UK design
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has green lit two major arts series looking at key British designers and how different areas of the country have influenced artists, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NewsBBC in crisis over Hutton's verdict
Davies resigns l Gilligan claims 'unfounded' l BBC editorial system 'defective'
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NewsHutton calls BBC to account
Whoever ends up running BBC News once the dust has settled over Lord Hutton's excoriating attack on its journalism will face a much more complex round of restructuring than originally anticipated.
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NewsRDF cleans up at Broadcast Awards 2004
RDF Media and its hit show Wife Swap dominated this year's Broadcast Awards, winning in four categories.
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BBC abandons plans for more investigations
The BBC has quietly scrapped plans to create a standalone news investigations unit.
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Extreme wins rights to celebrity race
Extreme Entertainment has picked up the exclusive television rights to celebrity-led motor-racing marathon, The Gumball 3000 Rally. The indie will produce both a 6 x 30-minute series and a 90-minute special, following six racers throughout the six-day event from Paris to the Sahara and back. It will also provide an ...
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News'Alternative' radio survey shows Radio 1 fall
Radio 1 is continuing its downward spiral, loosing over a million listeners in just three months according to controversial new research.
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NewsHodgson joins GWR
Patricia Hodgson, former chief executive of the Independent Television Commission, has joined the board of Classic FM-owner GWR.
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The Miners' Strike (BBC2) - Rupert Smith, Guardian
'Steven Condie brought us face to face with the ugly truth of 1984.'...
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The Miners' Strike (BBC2) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
?BBC2's offering was definitely stronger than Channel 4's - though it too suffered from the feeling that most of it...
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The Miners' Strike (BBC2) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'The Miners' Strike, BBC2's TV history of that crucial clash? was a self-consciously mythologising affair - a Band ...
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NewsHutton 'to criticise' BBC?
The BBC was preparing for strong criticism in today's publication of the long-awaited Hutton report after leaks to The Sun newspaper blamed the corporation for a
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NewsJohnson takes C4 chairman brief
A former advertising executive who went on to become one of the country's leading catering entrepreneurs has been named by Ofcom as chairman of Channel 4.
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NewsSMG's Cruickshank confirms departure
Don Cruickshank has confirmed his resignation as chairman of Virgin Radio owner SMG.
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SRH reports growth
Scottish Radio Holdings has said it made a strong start to its financial year, with like-for-like revenues fro the three months to December rising 7.7%.
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NewsNUJ slams Saville request
A move to prosecute two television journalists for contempt for refusing to betray confidential sources to the Bloody Sunday Tribunal in Northern Ireland would be 'utterly wrong,' the National Union Journalists (NUJ) has said.