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YTV turns back on indie outfit.
Yorkshire Television (YTV) has terminated another of its indie offshoots after severing ties with YAP, its joint-venture with Canadian production company Ace Pictures, writes Steve Aston
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BBC TO CELEBRATE LIFE OF ATTENBOROUGH.
The BBC is to screen a special programme marking the golden anniversary of David Attenborough's television career as part of a raft of new specialist factual programmes paid for by a doubling in investment in the genre over the next three years, writes Le
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On the Record stays on air.
BBC 1's heavyweight Sunday political discussion show, On the Record, will not be axed and will continue to play an important role as a 'serious political' programme in the BBC schedule, according to the head of the BBC's political review Sian Kevill, writ
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Ex-ITV Digital staff launch tribunal actions.
More than 150 former ITV Digital employees will this week launch employment tribunal cases against the administrator of the defunct DTT broadcaster in a bid to secure pay-off cash of around #1.5m, writes Paul Revoir
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MONCK FILLS C5 ROLE.
5 News managing editor Adrian Monck has been appointed as Channel 5 News deputy editor. He
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C4 TARGETS MORRIS.
Channel 4 is in talks with controversial satirist Chris Morris, creator of Brass Eye. Describing him
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R2 CONTRACT TO END.
BBC Radio 2 controller Jim Moir has hinted that he will give up his role at
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Dyke defends£1m bonuses.
BBC director general Greg Dyke has defended the #1m in bonuses paid to himself and other
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BBC faces indie rage over quota shortfall.
Accusations that the BBC is letting down the independent production sector gained further weight this week
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NewsPaxman apologises for intrusive interview with Lib Dem leader
BBC political linchpin Jeremy Paxman was forced to apologise yesterday after a Newsnight interview in which he interrogated Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy over his drinking habits, writes Luke Satchell
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Baying for blood
How did Jade from Big Brother become the object of such a searingly vicious hate campaign? ...
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Drama's queen
At 16 she was a working-class girl pushing a pram on a Leeds estate. Now she's one of Britain's most successful tel...
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Malone withdraws Telewest bond offer
The battle for control of Telewest has taken a surprising twist with billionaire John Mallone withdrawing his offer...
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AOL suffers a double blow
AOL Time Warner, the US internet and media group created at the height of the dotcom boom, lost one of the leading ...
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Fortuyn exhumation to be shown on TV
In death as in life Pim Fortuynm, the maverick Dutch politician, has the power to provoke controversy, and a decisi...
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Brits vie for Emmy awards
The macabre US funeral drama Six Feet Under, which has developed a cult following on Channel 4, has topped the list...
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Paxman apology for grilling Kennedy on drink
Jeremy Paxman made a rare apology yesterday after being accused of overstepping the mark in an interview with Charl...
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Liberty Media scraps Telewest bond offer
Liberty Media's attempt to influence the future of the UK cable company Telewest took another twist yesterday after...
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AOL's Pittman departs after shake-up sees Time Warner take control of board
Turmoil at AOL Time Warner, the world's largest media conglomerate, burst into the open yesterday with the resignat...
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'Six feet Under' buries rivals on Emmys shortlist
A black comedy about a family of dysfunctional undertakers, Six Feet Under, is leading the field of nominees for th...