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NewsI'm a Celebrity team given Gest pass
The team behind I'm a Celebrity - Get Me out of Here!will be reunited with contestant David Gest for a fly-on-the-wall documentary series.
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C5 predicts viewing rise
Channel 5 will increase its regular audience share to more than 6 per cent by next year, C5 chief executive Dawn Airey claimed on Sunday, write Georgina Lipscomb and Ashley Davies.Speaking
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ITV boss slates BBC vision
The BBC is sacrificing its role as the powerhouse of UK television creativity for short-term ratings and commercial gain under the control of 'unaccountable', 'part-time' governors, ITV director of channels David
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Ofcom set-up hitch
The bursting of the dotcom bubble has been a significant setback in the creation of new super-regulator Ofcom, according to Independent Television Commission (ITC) director of programmes Sarah Thane, writes Colin Robertson.
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Choice chief looks ahead
BBC choice controller Stuart Murphy wants his channel to be like BBC 2 Newsnight presenters Jeremy Paxman and Jeremy Vine if it is allowed to become BBC 3, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Carlton lines up Page Three dating show.
Carlton Productions has bought the rights to the latest instalment of the Who Wants to ... format with a show offering the prize of a date with a Page Three Girl, writes Steve Aston.
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LWT's 'Nasty Nigel' picked for pop role.
LWT Controller of entertainment Nigel Lythgoe has quit the company to join former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller's indie, 19 TV.Lythgoe, who has become a household name after appearing on ITV's
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OKLAHOMA BOMBER DOC.
Investigative journalist Donal MacIntyre is set to front a 60-minute documentary about Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh on BBC 1, to be screened on the day of McVeigh's execution, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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Overseas TV sales threaten drama.
British drama is under threat because of an alarming decrease in sales of television shows abroad, according to Carlton International managing director Rupert Dilnott-Cooper, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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C4 to roll out indie scheme.
Channel 4 is set to roll out its regional independent research and development programme on a permanent basis and is pumping£500,000 into the scheme, writes Penny Hughes.
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BBC backs current affairs.
BBC Director of television Mark Thompson is set to beef up the corporation's current affairs output with a plan to make the genre a key part of the BBC 1 peaktime
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Authority to act on Sunrise.
London Asian radio station Sunrise breached broadcasting legislation after its chief executive Avtar Lit used the station to talk about his political ambitions, the Radio Authority said this week, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Dyke slams Fifa on rights
BBC Director General Greg Dyke has joined the argument over the price demanded for World Cup 2002 TV rights, singling out football's governing body Fifa as the 'real villain' in the debacle, writes Nick Radlo.
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Shine lands£10m+ Sky deal.
Elisabeth Murdoch has confirmed details of her new independent, Shine Entertainment, which has landed a two-year film and television output deal with BSkyB thought to be worth more than£10m, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BRIT FIRMS TAKE TWO OSCARS.
Two British firms were credited at last Sunday's (25 March) Oscar ceremony, writes Barbara Marshall. Mill Film's Tim Burke and Lola Post Production co-director Rob Harvey, formerly of Mill Film, picked
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Eutelsat makes move into UK broadband.
European satellite operator Eutelsat has hired UK digital content outfit Prism Entertainment, headed by former Fox Kids Europe managing director Rod Henwood, as its official content agent, as it gears up to launch a broadband PC TV service via digital sat
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Mendes sets up joint-venture.
Former Alliance Atlantis managing director Sonja Mendes and Beyond International director of co-productions and business development Juliet Grimm are launching a joint-venture television consultancy, writes Simon Ellery.
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Regulators get ready for Ofcom.
The five communication industry regulators have signed an agreement to share information and develop common policy positions in preparation for their proposed merger under Ofcom, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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C4 converges TV and new media.
Channel 4 is expected to overhaul its new media strategy in a move that will see a much closer relationship between the company's broadband development and its commissioning process.Broadband Lab head
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MTV to launch dance channel.
MTV Networks UK is to launch its seventh music channel - MTV Dance, writes Simon Ellery.