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Ratings
A feast of viewers
Food - in one form or another - featured heavily in the schedules this week as BBC2 and Channel 4 served up a TV treat.
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CBeebies gets rights to Cosgrove series
Cosgrove Hall Films has received a shot in the arm with CBeebies picking up the UK broadcast rights to its new animated pre-school series Ruby to the Rescue.
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ITV Studios teams with Shine
ITV Studios and Shine Group have signed a deal to create daytime and entertainment formats for ITV.
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Minder so good for Five
Five's remake of TV classic Minder did the business for the broadcaster with an average audience of 2.4m (9.5%) at 9pm last night.
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Hunt defends Thatcher sacking
BBC1 controller Jay Hunt has defended sacking Carol Thatcher from The One Show for refusing to apologise for her use of “completely inappropriate and racist” language.
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Doctor Who goes HD
Doctor Who has made the move to high definition (HD), a year earlier than originally envisaged by executive producer Russell T Davies.
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Grade apologies for ITV football gaffe
Millions of football fans were left fuming last night as ITV cut away to adverts in the dying minutes of an FA Cup tie, missing the only goal, leading to more than 1,000 complaints.
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Switch to Minder, Five urges ITV1's football fans
Five attempted to hijack ITV1's coverage of the Everton v Liverpool FA Cup tie last night with guerrilla pitch-side advertising that implored TV viewers to turn over to watch its new version of Minder.
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Video
Video: The launch of Sky News, 1989
Watch the opening moments of the first Sky News, 20 years after its launch on 5 February 1989.
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BBC announces new Knowledge structure
The BBC's Knowledge controller George Entwistle has announced a shake-up of the division's commissioning structure, focusing on genres.
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John Sergeant turns tourist guide
Strictly Come Dancing star John Sergeant is to try his hand at being a tourist guide for a three-part ITV series.
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BBC radio given a year to control costs
BBC radio shows cost 'significantly' more than its commercial rivals, mainly due to large salaries paid to its presenters, the National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed.
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MasterChef serves up 4.4m
BBC2 cookery competition MasterChef continued to go from strength-to-strength last night with a tasty 4.4m viewers (17.4%).
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BBC Trust set to announce kids TV results
The BBC Trust will say on Tuesday whether the BBC needs new rules for the way it runs its children's services in light of the decline in kids programming.
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Torchwood trailer released
Video: The BBC has unveiled a sneak peek of sci-fi drama series Torchwood before it makes the transfer from BBC3 to BBC1 later this year.
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Fewer spend a night with Paris
ITV2's new high-profile reality series featuring socialite Paris Hilton lost ground last night as 407,000 (1.83%) watched at 9pm.
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Wire in the Blood axed
ITV has pulled the plug on Robson Green's long-running crime drama series, Wire in the Blood.
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Parthenon makes friends in Norway
Parthenon Kids has picked up the worldwide distribution rights to animated preschool show City of Friends, one of the first children's series to be produced in Norway.
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Horrocks 'leaks' BBC promotions on Twitter
BBC head of newsroom Peter Horrocks has inadvertently revealed that Andrew Roy has replaced Richard Porter as BBC World News' head of news.
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Five strike£250,000 Uefa deal with Aston Villa
Five and Aston Villa have signed a new deal for exclusive live coverage of the club's home games for the next two rounds of the Uefa Cup campaign.