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    Have I Got News For You lands Forsyth

    2003-06-10T14:42:45Z

    Bruce Forsyth, the ex-Play Your Cards Right host and one of TV's most durable entertainers, is to present the last in the current series of Have I Got News For You at the age of 75, writes Luke Satchell

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    Teletubbies eye world domination

    2003-06-10T14:11:29Z

    BBC Worldwide has struck a deal for its most successful children's brand Teletubbies with Toys 'R' Us to bring a range of new Teletubbies centred activities to children across the world, writes Sam Matthews

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    The TV is one of the family

    2003-06-10T10:11:57Z

    It goes on first thing in the morning...it's still on last thing at night. ...

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    Kids shun kids' TV

    2003-06-10T10:09:28Z

    Not one programme made for children appears in the Top 10 television shows watched by youngsters last year. ...

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    Ford fixes it as Bob

    2003-06-10T10:07:04Z

    Indiana Jones star lined up as toddlers' hero. ...

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    Telewest creditors demand new deal

    2003-06-10T10:05:19Z

    Cable company Telewest yesterday admitted that, despite nine months of talks, major creditors wanted more than the ...

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    TV Spooks in attack at mosque

    2003-06-10T10:03:08Z

    A controversial episode of Spooks was repeated on TV last night - despite a mosque being defaced after the spy dram...

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    Do try this at home

    2003-06-10T10:00:08Z

    Celador and Whoosh have developed a way for viewers to text answers to quiz shows. ...

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    It couldn't happen here

    2003-06-10T09:58:13Z

    In the UK, regulation is the price for relaxation of ownership rules. Not so in the US. ...

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    BBC2 comedy drama honoured at Banff

    2003-06-10T09:47:16Z

    Tomorrow La Scala!, BBC2's critically acclaimed comedy drama starring Jessica Stevenson, picked up a prestigious award at the Banff television festival last night, writes Colin Robertson in Banff

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    Now TV children leave Grange Hill for Albert Square

    2003-06-10T09:29:15Z

    Children are watching up to two-and-a-half hours of television each day, most of it adult programmes rather than sh...

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    Simon back and he's ruder than ever

    2003-06-10T09:26:17Z

    Scathing Telly judge Simon Cowell reduced Rik Waller's ex-girlfriend to a weeping wreck when she auditioned for Pop...

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    Hooked on cartoons

    2003-06-10T09:23:29Z

    Children say they can't imagine life without round the clock TV. ...

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    Huff blows Telewest rescue off course

    2003-06-10T09:21:49Z

    Telewest's painstaking restructuring of its debt laden balance sheet was thrown into chaos yesterday after bondhold...

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    BBC camera teams are a 'men's club'

    2003-06-10T09:18:41Z

    The BBC routinely refuses to employ female camera operators on its highest profile programmes, an employment tribun...

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    Children who 'can't live without' constant TV

    2003-06-10T09:17:03Z

    Television has become the 'background noise' for a generation of children who no longer regard radio as required li...

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    Children prefer Eastenders to Blue Peter

    2003-06-10T09:14:30Z

    Most of the television watched by children is intended for adults, with Eastenders their favourite show, according ...

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    Freeview take-up gathers pace

    2003-06-10T09:10:54Z

    Freeview is now in around 1.6 million homes, with 800,000 new customers since its launch in October last year adding to the 800,000 who had the now defunct ITV Digital, the BBC has confirmed, writes Rosemary Gallagher

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    Television revision with BBCi

    2003-06-10T09:02:01Z

    Children studying for their GCSE's will now be able to do so through their television sets after the BBC decided to extend its successful online Bitesize service to interactive TV, via any BBC channel on SkyDigital.

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    Chase to kill off The Sopranos

    2003-06-10T08:56:08Z

    The next series of HBO's mafia drama The Sopranos will definitely be the last, the show's creator David Chase has confirmed, writes Colin Robertson in Banff