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NewsBBC to let local people file news stories
Broken paving stones, litter and parking problems could become the focus of BBC news bulletins under a new scheme to let local people moonlight as TV reporters.
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NewsBBC3 judged best entertainment channel
BBC3 won the Best General Entertainment Channel Award at the inaugural Broadcast Digital Channel Awards last night (Wednesday).
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NewsITV buoyant after fee cut
ITV has scored another major victory after Ofcom agreed to slash its annual licence fee payments by more than half, saving the company at least£135m a year.
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NewsC4 quiz channel to launch on Freeview
Channel 4 is stepping up its commercial activity with plans to launch a live quiz channel on Freeview before the end of the year.
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Feeling the heat at ITV
Claudia Rosencrantz admits to being under pressure at the helm of ITV entertainment after high-profile flops, celebrity overkill and the need to deliver new audiences. But, insists the unflappable entertainment boss, it was ever thus.
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Championing the role of titles
Broadcastgets inside the mindset of the designers as three programme branding pitches are put under the microscope, while below David Wood explains why the end credits have yet to go up on the title sequence market.
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A matter of course
Suzy Bashford discovers how IWC sees training as a vital investment for the future of the firm - and of TV.
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Taking on the news giants
Risk-taker, ambitious and self-confessed news junkie - new ITV News Channel editor Ben Rayner talks tough about the challenges for the future.
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Will film slump hit TV?
With unfavourable exchange rates and the removal of tax breaks hitting profitability, many studio and post businesses which do TV work will be hard hit by the drop in their film work. Michael Grade is no stranger to bad news these days - whether it's in his role as BBC ...
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Giving us a natural high
As the audiences for Andy Murray's Wimbledon run and the Champions League final show, sport still offers us the ultimate in drama and entertainment, writes Lawrence Duffy.
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Slow and steady wins
Is the promise of quick mega bucks behind a rash of commissions for sketch shows, asks Kenton Allen.
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BBC3 defies its critics
Subject to criticism from day one, BBC3 has fought back to fulfil its remit - and pick up a Broadcast Digital Channel Award.
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Five orders doc about oldest mother
Five has commissioned At It Productions to make an hour-long observational documentary about the world's oldest mother as part of the channel's popular science strand, Extraordinary People.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Rebecca Johnson
The commissioning editor of Bravo, Trouble and Challenge, is hoping to stir up more debate with Booze Britain 2and says nothing is too risqu as she goes in search of a successor to The Word.
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BBC2 lines up new archive programme
BBC2 is making a follow-up to its surprise hit documentary The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon. The Lost World in Colouris the channel's second collaboration with the British Film Institute and uses rare archive footage of one of earliest instances of ...
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Motive films more Gaelic games for RTE
Motive Television's Dublin production arm has been commissioned by RTE Sport to make Rise and Shine(working title), a new live Gaelic games series. The 10 x 60-minute weekly show will air from late July and will feature action, interviews, guest appearances and 'irreverent chat'. The executive ...
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Grizzly tales to come back on CiTV
CiTV has commissioned two new series of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kidsfrom Honeycomb Animation and Elephant Productions. The Bafta-nominated series, narrated by Nigel Planer, is based on the successful books by Jamie Rix and will return to the screen in the new year for a 26 ...
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Granada to make celeb show in US
Granada America is to produce a Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes-style show for US network NBC, working titled I'm a Celebrity But I Want to be a Pop Star.
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Bisexual Girls makes its US mark for Betty
Betty TV has made its first mark in the US market - selling Bisexual Girlsto US broadcaster Independent Film Channel.
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Play School to be remade in Maori
Play Schoolis to be remade in the Maori language after BBC Worldwide sold the rights to the format to a New Zealand producer. Maui Productions will make 260 x 30-minute episodes of the classic children's series, renaming its characters for the Maori audience. Humpty Dumpty will be called Hamuti Tamuti, ...