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    REM to play Q Radio launch

    2008-05-14T12:05:52Z

    REM will launch Bauer's music station Q Radio with an exclusive show featuring 15 tracks picked by them.

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    MIM to record play extracts

    2008-05-14T12:08:03Z

    Radio and TV indie Made in Manchester (MIM) will turn extracts from plays by 16 new writers into radio mini-dramas after winning a marketing, PR and new media contract for Manchester's 24:7 Theatre Festival.

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    ITV finds 'lost' Crossroads ep

    2008-05-14T12:24:17Z

    ITV is to air the earliest ever discovered episode of Crossroads on ITV.com this Friday to mark the relaunch of ITV.com's archive video section.

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    Ratings focus: Sky One's Gladiators eliminates rivals

    2008-05-14T12:29:16Z

    Sky One's revival of Gladiators fought off the might of the sunny weather as well as a number of terrestrial channels to make a successful comeback on Sunday 11 May.

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    Lone Star hails the cab for third transport film

    2008-05-14T12:35:37Z

    The indie behind Arena documentaries Underground and Little Platform, Big Stage is to complete its trilogy of films on London transport with a glimpse into the lives of taxi drivers.

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    Berbridge quits Moscow to join Leopard Films

    2008-05-14T12:41:19Z

    Leopard Films has hired a Bafta-nominated producer and director as its new head of programmes.

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    Fremantle signs US shows

    2008-05-14T12:50:52Z

    FremantleMedia Enterprises has acquired rights to four new US shows in a deal with Ice Road Truckers producer Original Production and BermanBraun.

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    Young Mums get Zeal

    2008-05-14T13:46:48Z

    BBC3 show Young Mums' Mansion could be remade around the world following a deal between indie Love Productions and distributor Zeal Entertainment.

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    Cohen: lessons to be learned from 360-degree commissions

    2008-05-14T14:08:26Z

    BBC3 controller Danny Cohen has admitted that Upstaged, one of the channel's major multiplatform commissions, did not work and has called for more distinctive web content in programme pitches.

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    BT launches Podshow

    2008-05-14T14:26:14Z

    BT has launched an online TV portal that enables users to create their own television and radio serials and make money by linking their shows with advertisers.

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    Microsoft to show C4 clips

    2008-05-14T14:28:51Z

    Channel 4 has licensed clips of shows including Skins, Peep Show and How to Look Good Naked to Microsoft's Messenger TV, which enables users to watch videos while sending instant messages.

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    Kate Modern ends in June

    2008-05-14T14:32:23Z

    Bebo's interactive web drama Kate Modern is to finish at the end of June after two series and more than 300 four-minute episodes.

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    Who fans mix own trailers

    2008-05-14T14:34:16Z

    Doctor Who fans can create their own trailer for the show with a new feature on the BBC's website.

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    ITV makes football mag

    2008-05-14T14:36:00Z

    ITV has produced a 12-page online interactive magazine to support ITV4 football series Legends.

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    Alistair Cooke at centre of BBC4 season on travel

    2008-05-14T15:14:36Z

    BBC4 has lined up a summer season on the expansion of travel in the 20th century, as seen through the lives and writing of figures such as Alistair Cooke and Laurie Lee.

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    Cornish town to get an extreme makeover

    2008-05-14T15:22:51Z

    UKTV Style will follow Extreme Makeover host Ty Pennington as he sets out to transform a rundown Cornish coastal town.

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    Is The Apprentice a genre-bender of a format?

    2008-05-14T15:24:45Z

    Is The Apprentice really a factual show? According to our weekly table, it is - and a highly successful one at that. In fact it was BBC1's most popular non-soap show this week, with 6.8 million/29% share on Wednesday at 9pm on BBC1.

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    Nesbitt in sectarian dramas

    2008-05-14T15:27:38Z

    James Nesbitt is to star in Five Minutes of Heaven, a one-off drama for BBC drama Northern Ireland about the murder of a Catholic teenager in Belfast in 1975.

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    Waking the Dead to return

    2008-05-14T15:30:53Z

    BBC1 dramas Waking the Dead and Silent Witness are to return in 2009.

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    C4's Duncan calls for end to 'squabbling' over PSB

    2008-05-14T15:33:16Z

    C4 chief executive Andy Duncan has said that its time for the industry to stop its “petty competitive squabbles” over the future of licence fee funding and sort out the future of public service broadcasting before its too late.