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FRESH PARTRIDGE ON BBC 2 MENU - A-HA!
Steve Coogan's comic anti-hero Alan Partridge is finally set to return to the screen in his first new series for five years as part of BBC 2's #106m autumn season, launched this week, writes Leigh Holmwood
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Pass quits Radio 2 for TV indie.
BBC Radio 2 was dealt a blow this week after one of its senior producers announced his decision to quit the corporation after 20 years, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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TV HOTSHOTS - 2002's sharpest shooters
ng computer graphics with dramatic reconstruction.Ginger Television senior producer Ed Stobart says Turner is ‘the best
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Tracy lands mega deal to stayt at ITV
Telly bosses are working on a mega deal to hold on to sexbomb Tracy Shaw after she threatened to quit Corrie after ...
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Subversive? My arse!
Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson was branded a subversive thug in secret MI5 files, a new TV documentary reveals....
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Capital in a tizz over Tarrant
Capital Radio shares are being dogged by fears that top presenter Chris Tarrant, 56, will quit the Breakfast Show s...
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BBC faces obscenity row over 'shocking' new lesbian drama
A drama featuring graphic lesbian sex scenes looks set to embroil the BBC in another furious row about standards. ...
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Voyage to the end of the earth
A new TV series recreates Captain Cook's epic journey of discovery to Australia. But could the 21st century crew ha...
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MI5 call Ricky 'a thug'
Security services kept files on Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson describing him as a 'political thug', a groundbre...
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Go it alone TV threat to football
The future of the Premiership is on a knife-edge, withy the current format, where the TV deal is collectively negot...
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Whipping up a synthetic controversy
What a pity that the intellectually supine executives who run British television feel that the only way they can se...
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AOL and AT&T agree $9bn deal over cable interests
AOL Time Warner and AT&T are to unwind a decade-long cable partnership. The $9 billion (£5.89 billion) deal will al...
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AOL pushes the plot along as it takes control of the script
AOL Time Warner is paying $3.6 billion to unravel a joint venture with America's biggest phone business that gives ...
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Special Branch kept files on Royle Family star
Ricky Tomlinson, star of the television comedy The Royle Family, was denounced as a 'subversive' and 'political thu...
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Berlusconi caught offside in TV fiasco
Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, found himself at the heart of a new row over conflict of interests y...
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AOL in market for cable acquisitions
AOL Time Warner is scouring the market for potential cable acquisitions, after dissolving its long-running partners...
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ITV to silence regional voices
Carlton and Granada are to risk further accusations that they are diluting their regional identities with plans to axe regional continuity voices from the beginning of programmes in the latest phase of ITV centralisation , writes Steve Aston
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Carlton founder member leaves
Carlton Broadcasting managing director Colin Stanbridge, one of the original team who bid for the Carlton ITV licence, has quit the company after more than 10 years' service, writes Steve Aston
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Hopes grow for U-turn over local radio ownership rules
The government is seeking to resolve its dispute with the commercial radio industry over the controversial local ownership 'three plus one rule' by early next month, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Sky plans E4-style shows
Sky One is taking steps to fend off rival E4 with plans to commission a number of reality comedy shows in an attempt to beat the Channel 4 entertainment channel at its own game, writes Paul Revoir