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The Impressionable John Culshaw (ITV1) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star
'Culshaw, who made his name on the BBC's Dead Ringers, is a hugely gifted mimic.'...
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My Week in the Real World (BBC2) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'You knew it was going to be fun watching Claire Short make a dork of herself on a reality show, but not this much ...
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My Week in the Real World (BBC2) - Jim Shelley, Daily Mirror
'[A] cross between Celebrity Faking It and When Michael Portillo Became a Single Mum.' ...
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My Week in the Real World (BBC2) - Gerard O' Donovan, Daily Telegraph
'As programme ideas go, My Week in the Real World has enormous merit.'...
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My Week in the Real World (BBC2) - Sam Wollaston, Guardian
'A weird hybrid - Grange Hill meets Faking It meets Question Time.'...
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RatingsFamily Business fails once again
BBC1's drama Family Business failed again to break the 3 million mark last night (25 February) with just 2.7 million (12%) as Channel 4 and ITV1 streak ahead in the ratings.
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The Carlton carve-up
As Carlton's HQ closes its doors and many of the company's staff are passed over for jobs at ITV plc in favour of their Granada counterparts, Paul Revoir and Colin Robertson ask if the merger was a whitewash
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The Bill (ITV1) - Robert Hanks, Independent
'This was, you could tell, complete and utter rubbish. Great TV though.'...
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NewsMilligan to join Sky in summer
Five deputy chief executive Nick Milligan will join BSkyB in the summer in the newly-created role of Sky Media managing director, the company has confirmed.
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The Carrot or the Stick (C4) - Paul Hoggart, The Times
'The effect was faintly ridiculous rather than inspiring.'...
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The Carrot or the Stick (C4) - Gerard O'Donovan, Daily Telegraph
'The format is a winner, and the next couple of weeks promise to be very amusing indeed.'...
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NewsSetanta snares SPL footie
The BBC has lost the rights to screen live Scottish Premier League after the league handed the four-year contract to Irish broadcaster Setanta.
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NewsBBC drops objections to Top Up TV
The BBC has dropped its objections to sharing the Freeview electronic programme guide (EPG) with pay-lite operator Top Up TV.
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NewsC4 cools merger speculation
Channel 4 today moved to play down reports that it has begun talks to merge with Five, saying it was no where close to a possible deal.
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RatingsFive scores with football
Five's live Uefa Cup football coverage of Liverpool's match against Levski Sofia scored a convincing win for the broadcaster with 3.1 million (13.l%) at 19.45.
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BBC hints at Kilroy return.
Robert Kilroy-Silk was forced out of his lucrative daily talkshow for branding Arabs 'suicide bombers, limb-amputators (and) women repressors', but the BBC said this week it would be happy to let him front another show for the corporation, writes Leigh Ho
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ITV cuts 400 jobs in Central 'massacre'.
Up to 400 jobs will be axed at Central Television as part of ITV plc's cost-cutting
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Burns warning on BBC governors.
Lord Burns, who is leading the government's review of the BBC's Royal Charter, this week gave the clearest indication yet that the BBC governors in their present form are unlikely to survive, writes Conor Dignam.
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FIVE VIEWERS TO GO HOME WITH GERI.
Five has lined up former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell as the next subject of its At