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NewsPact and Equity reach terms for actors
Pact has resolved its long-running stand-off with actors union Equity over the appearances and international rights payments for actors in factual programmes.
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NewsJowell to review cricket rules... in 2008
Media Secretary Tessa Jowell is resisting a growing backbench revolt to restore cricket test matches immediately to free-to-air TV.
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NewsBBC orders first cross platform comedy
The BBC has launched its first cross-platform comedy series, making sketch show Man Stroke Woman available over the internet and mobile phones as well as television.
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NewsJanet Street-Porter hunts Michael Moore for Sky One
Janet Street-Porter is fronting an authored documentary for Sky One in which she attempts to discover the truth behind maverick filmmaker Michael Moore.
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NewsBlair thanks Jamie Oliver at TV Awards
ITV narrowly topped the BBC at last night's National Television Awards, scooping six gongs compared to the corporation's five.
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NewsCasualty @ Holby City draws 5.8m
BBC1's week-long series of Casualty @ Holby City had an upturn in its fortunes as the second episode attracted 5.8 million (26.7%) at 7pm.
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NewsBT poaches Sky staffer
BT has poached James Soames, BSkyB's head of marketing, DTH to help launch its TV over broadband service.
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NewsBT selects Phillips to make IPTV boxes
11.45am: BT has said it will use electronics company Philips to supply its TV over broadband set top box.
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NewsPeaktime show for Trisha
3.15pm: Chatshow host Trisha Goddard is to front a new peak time series investigating psychic powers for Five.
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NewsC4 pump£2m into Big Art Project
4.45pm: Channel 4 is hoping to do for public art what Jamie's School Dinners did for school cuisine, by pumping£2m into a scheme to create public artworks across the UK.
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NewsPrince Charles adds voice to Kiwi cartoon
4.45pm: Prince Charles became an unlikely TV star last night, voicing himself in a crude New Zealand animation series modelled on The Simpsons.
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NewsNorton to host Generation Game spin-off
5.15pm: The BBC has lined up Graham Norton for a one-off special of old favourite The Generation Game.
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NewsSky viewers to miss ITV4 launch
Sky digital subscribers are set to be locked out of the 1 November launch of ITV4 after it emerged the satellite broadcaster will not get the channel up and running until a week later.
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World Service moots Persian TV
BBC World Service director Nigel Chapman has suggested that he may launch more foreign-language TV channels and has targeted a Persian offering as the most likely contender.
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BT aims for VoD football
BT plans to bid for video-on-demand rights to Premiership football for the 2007-2010 seasons for its new TV-over-broadband service.
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NewsFuture of ITV News Channel hangs in balance
ITV executives are in eleventh-hour talks over whether to dump the ITV News Channel from Freeview, a decision that may spell the end for the three-year-old service.
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Tinopolis to bid for TV Corp
Welsh producer Tinopolis is poised to push ahead with its takeover bid for troubled indie TV Corp with a formal offer for the company.
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Sky One revs up motoring show
Sky One has commissioned the team behind its award-winning science show Brainiac to make a light-hearted, magazine-style series for petrolheads.
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NewsBBC radio rejects three-for-one deal
The BBC's drive to axe 3,780 staff across the corporation has hit a stumbling block after staff in the radio and music division registered an official 'failure to agree' over plans to merge three jobs into one.
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NewsSky News to air video clips from viewers
The identity of prolific complainant Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells could soon be revealed though a new Sky News service that lets viewers vent their spleens by videophone.