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C5 entertainment bolsters its output.
Channel 5 is ramping up its entertainment output with two major new gameshows and a second series of The Mole. Controller of entertainment Alan Nixon has commissioned Pearson Television to make a
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Bender resigns C4 but moots return to 4Later.
Channel 4 commissioning editor, night-time Darren Bender has resigned but is in talks with the channel about a new role focusing on the drama side of late night zone 4Later, writes Ashley Davies.
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HISTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL TO AIR ON RADIO 4.
Actor and musician Graham Fellows is recording a 6 x 14-minute series for BBC Radio 4 based on one of his comic characters. Brian Appleton's History of Rock 'n' Roll will
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Priory spin-off underway for E4.
Ginger Television Productions is working on a spin-off from its Channel 4 celebrity chatshow The Priory for E4, writes Ashley Davies.
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BBC 3 to show 'funky' dramas.
BBC choice controller Stuart Murphy is planning to turn BBC 3 into the home of cutting-edge drama and has earmarked more than a quarter of the channel's budget to achieve the
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STATIC 2358 TO CREATE STAR BRAND.
London-based interactive outfit Static 2358 has been hired by Asian broadcaster Star TV to create a new on-screen brand. Static, the company behind FilmFour's branding, is creating the full on-screen identity
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Gary Rhodes series for BBC 2.
BBC leisure and factual entertainment has won three commissions for BBC 1 and BBC 2, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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COURTNEY QUITS WEST 175 OVER STRATEGY.
Rohan Courtney has resigned as chairman and director of West 175 Media Group with immediate effect, owing to differences of opinion over the strategic direction of the company. West 175 founder
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Dyke and Jones claim 11th hour influence over the white paper.
BBC director general Greg Dyke and Carlton channels chief executive Clive Jones are understood to be boasting about how they acted together to influence the communications white paper at the 11th
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C4, BBC, and Bazal confirm Celebrity Big Brother
Six surprise celebrities to take part in week long version of cult reality show for Comic Relief
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C4, BBC, and Bazal confirm Comic Relief Celebrity Big Brother
Six surprise celebrities to take part in week long version of cult reality show
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Bectu members vote for BBC action
BBC and BBC Resources staff vote in favour of industrial action after coporation seeks to cut expense claims
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BBC and Discovery plan fishing series
Channel 4 commissioning editor, music Jo Wallace has ordered a 60-minute documentary on rock band The Manic Street Preachers' concert, to take place in Cuba, from Endemol Entertainment UK's production arm,
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Dreem Teem DJ's to air on UKTV's Play UK
BBC Radio 1 DJs the Dreem Teem are to break into TV with a new 8 x 30-minute show for UKTV's Play UK..Ordered by outgoing Play UK channel editor Myfanwy
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BBC orders second series of The Lampies
BBC controller of children's Nigel Pickard has commissioned indie Red Baloo to produce a second series of cartoon The Lampiesto air on BBC 1.The 26 x 10-minute
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Virgin Radio to go on world tour
Virgin Radio has announced a series of events as part of its new strategy to focus on 'real' music rather than chart hits.The station has lined up the Virgin Radio
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Cartoon Network feeling sheepish
Cartoon Network is to premier a new 13 x 30-minute animated series, Sheep in the Big City.The story centres on the eponymous Sheep, who leaves the farm to live in
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Air gets first order
Donna Air's fledgling indie, Airhead & Money, has nailed its first commission, a 5 x 30-minute series for E4, writes Ashley DaviesDonna in Need will follow Air as she
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Manic Street Preachers to get documentary
Channel 4 commissioning editor, music Jo Wallace has ordered a 60-minute documentary on rock band The Manic Street Preachers' concert, to take place in Cuba, from Endemol Entertainment UK's production arm,
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ITC issues new interactive guidelines to protect viewers
Viewers must know when they are being sold to and content must remain free of commercial influences