Small MPU – Page 2016
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Ofcom to tackle 'regional' issue
Ofcom is planning a crackdown on what counts as a regional operation for indie producers and could insist on senior indie staff living in the area where the office is based, writes Jane Marlow.
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News Corp may sue BBC over satellite
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp-oration is considering suing the BBC over its decision to change satellites and un-encrypt its services, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Fremantle in fresh bid for indie status
Fremantle Media is preparing to make a fresh plea to Ofcom in an effort to regain indie status, writes Michael Rosser.
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R2 deputy sought
BBC executive Lesley Douglas is set to succeed Jim Moir as controller of BBC Radio 2 and is now considering who to appoint as her deputy. Douglas, who is currently head of programmes at R2, will take over the position on 5 January when Moir retires. She will also be ...
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FX UK creative chief
Fox International has appointed Mark Brooks as creative director of FX UK, its new general entertainment channel, which is being launched on the Sky platform early next year. A former freelance producer/ director, he will report to vice-president, broadcasting and marketing Jason Thorp. News Corp president Peter Chernin said this ...
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Chambers stalls five factual hiring
Five's new director of programmes, Dan Chambers, has postponed appointing a new controller of factual and may eventually decide not to fill the role he vacated last month. A Five spokesman said Chambers would see how deputy controllers of factual Justine Kershaw and Alex Sutherland cope with handling the role, ...
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Disney plans entertainment channel
Disney is to launch a new channel on Freeview, initially airing daily between 06.00 and 18.00. It will not carry the Disney brand but will broadcast exclusive general entertainment content from Disney libraries. Disney UK branded TV managing director Paul Robinson, who will run the new channel, said: 'If you ...
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Unions reject granada pay offer
Broadcast unions Bectu, the National Union of Journalists and Amicus have unanimously rejected Granada's pay offer of 2%. Around 60 union representatives met on Tuesday (14 October), where they agreed to ask the company for a new offer. Granada offered a cash rise of 2% to all employees who had ...
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Hodgson in plea for less Ofcom duties
Patricia Hodgson, the chief executive of the Independent Television Commission, has called for fewer duties and responsibilities to be imposed on new super-regulator Ofcom once it takes over from the ITC. In a speech at the Treasury on Wednesday night (15 October), Hodgson said Ofcom has been charged with deregulating ...
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When Michael Portillo Became a Single Mum (BBC2) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'It gives one a warm glow that Michael Portillo should take the trouble to learn for himself what it's like to mana...
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When Michael Portillo Became a Single Mum (BBC2) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'Michael Portillo was taking part in, essentially, a version of Wife Swap.'...
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When Michael Portillo Became a Single Mum (BBC2) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'In short, they wanted to entertain us with a posh bloke out of his depth up North.'...
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When Michael Portillo Became a Single Mum (BBC2) - Jim Shelley, Daily Mirror
'It was the most cynical, shameless attempt yet by Michael Portillo to re-invent himself.'...
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When Michael Portillo Became a Single Mum (BBC2) - Gareth McLean, Guardian
'This was a sweet and gentle film, rather than an urgent and political one.'...
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When Michael Portillo Became a Single Mum (BBC2) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star
'He oozed niceness as he struggled to feed four Merseyside kids for a week on a budget that would be loose change f...
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RatingsPortillo brings in 5.1m to BBC2
When Michael Portillo Became a Single Mum gave BBC2 its third highest audience for any show on the channel so far this year with its audience hitting 5.1 million (22.4%), writes Jon Rogers.
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Cutting Edge: Beauty Queens and Bloodshed (C4) - Robert Hanks, Independent
'The thing I admired about it was the way it found and kept a grip on a streak of black humour: not in terrifically...
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Cutting Edge: Beauty Queens and Bloodshed (C4) - Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail
'After last night's documentary, one can't imagine any self respecting young woman wishing to be associated in any ...
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Cutting Edge: Beauty Queens and Bloodshed (C4) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'Cutting Edge explained in gripping detail what happened when these two regimes met - and it did so in such a way t...
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Superstars (C4) - Alun Palmer, Daily Mirror
'For an hour at least, viewers of a certain age were transported back to their flickering black-and-white sets and ...