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ITV1's Millionaire? loses out again
Ratings banker has met its match in Casualty and spin-off Holby City while Channel 4 finds Channel 5 more than a handful in peak-time
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SMG offers redundancy to all staff
Scottish and Grampian ITV franchise holder invites its 1,700 workforce to file voluntary redundancy applications and refuses to rule out compulsory cuts
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NewsBBC4 gets back into Thick of It
BBC4 is bringing The Thick of Itback for another special, picking up from where the hour-long Christmas edition left off.
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ITV Digital slashes fees
Broadcaster offers premium packages to subscribers for£1 a month in desperate bid to reduce churn
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Granada to reward good ideas with slice of profits
Staff responsible for successful formats to reap back-end rewards following company-wide pay freeze
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Al Jazeera eyes UK expansion
Arabic broadcaster considers spin-off services such as a documentary channel showcasing work from independent Arabic film-makers
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Broadband projects to enjoy tax-breaks
Government mulls package of ideas including film industry-style tax breaks for content providers to help it achieve its flagging 'Broadband Britain' goal
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Producers pour scorn on C4's indie plan
Indie heads raise anti-competitiveness concerns as Wall to Wall managing director and member of Pact's television policy group Alex Graham is accused of a conflict of interest
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BSkyB takes sci-fi mutants primetime
Sky One has bought 22 x 60-minute sci-fi series Mutant X for its primetime line-up from US producer Tribune Entertainment.Sky One deputy head of broadcast and production Kate Marsh and
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Wark Clements to make BBC Scotland factuals
Glasgow-based indie Wark Clements has secured two factual commissions from BBC Scotland commissioning editor for television Ewan Angus, writes Penny HughesThe first order is Great Scots, a 3 x 60-minute series
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Channel 5 set to air BFM crime series
Channel 5 senior programme controller Chris Shaw has commissioned indie BFM Productions to make a series exploring 100 years of forensic photography.The 3 x 60-minute series, called Shooting the Crime, will
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Channel X strikes deals for fans and pans
E4 commissioning editor Damon Beesley has ordered a new quiz show from indie Channel X in which two teams of fans are pitted against each other.The 20 x 30-minute Fanorama will
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Paranormal special broadens uk horizons
UK Horizons channel editor Dominic Vallely has commissioned two new programmes for a special themed weekend called Haunted.Secrets of the Paranormal, produced by BBC Worldwide's interactive arm, will be a 60-minute
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Offspring go-ahead for Alliance Atlantis
The BBC has bought 52-minute factual show Offspring from Alliance Atlantis Television Distribution.The series, produced by Barna Alper Productions, is set in a new world of reproductive technology, looking at
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Peter Williams Television to make series on human cloning
Maidstone-based indie Peter Williams Television has secured a raft of new commissions, including a series for Channel 4 on human cloning, writes Leigh HolmwoodThe 3 x 60-minute as-yet-untitled series, ordered by
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NewsITV offers UKTV's Clinton-Davis top features job
ITV has lined up UKTV executive Jo Clinton-Davis to head its features commissioning.
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Fflic talks its way into S4C slot
Welsh production company Fflic has received two commissions from S4C.Commissioner for factual programmes Cenwyn Edwards has ordered Welsh in a Week, a 15 x 30-minute series following 15 different people in
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ITV orders documentary drama on The Great Escape
ITV controller of documentaries and features Dianne Nelmes has ordered a one-off exploration of the events which inspired the war movie The Great Escape from the team behind Channel 4's high-rating