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NewsBBC storms Comedy Awards
BBC3 comedy Gavin and Stacey stormed the British Comedy Awards last night collecting three accolades in a bumper night for the corporation.
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NewsDownload team films Love Island footage
ITV will send out a dedicated mobile and online production team to film exclusive footage for the new series of LoveIsland, in a first for the network. Clips from the celebrity match-making series, which is recorded on location in Fiji, will be available free exclusively ...
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Woolfe poaches Jones from Living
Sky One, Two and Three director of programmes Richard Woolfe has hired Living TV executive Steve Jones to become Sky One's commissioning editor for entertainment. As commissioning editor at Living TV, Jones was responsible for ordering and executive producing series including Extreme Makeoverand ...
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Consortium rivals C4 bid
Chrysalis, UTV and SMG are set to enter an agreement to make a joint consortium bid for the new DAB national commercial radio multiplex, rivalling Channel 4's bid for the platform.
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Celebrities roadtest diets for BBC2 show
Vic Reeves, Liza Tarbuck and Colin Jackson have signed up for a BBC2 programme which aims to test whether what you eat can really affect who you are.
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Bennett-Jones: BBC neglects older talent
Talent agent and Tiger Aspect chairman Peter Bennett-Jones has warned the BBC that it faces wasting established talent because of its obsession with youth.
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NewsLeader: Junk food fight
Broadcast editor Conor Dignam looks at the real effect of banning junk food ads
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NewsVicar of Dibley hangs up cassock
Long-running BBC1 sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, starring Dawn French, is being brought to its conclusion after 12 years, with a two-part Christmas special.
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NewsSharman unveils slate of factual commissions
Alison Sharman has unveiled her first major raft of factual commissions since becoming director of factual and daytime at ITV.
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NewsJunk food ad ban 'threatens kids TV' warns Pact
Producers' group Pact has warned that a ban on TV junk food advertising before 9pm would wipe out children's programme production for commercial channels and is calling for a£50m fund to bolster the industry.
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NewsHit hires Dunsford to advise on Euro launch
Hit Entertainment has hired Wayne Dunsford - the former BBC executive responsible for launching the corporation's Food channel globally - to work on its international children's channel launch.
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NewsWAGs to run clothes shop on TV
The queens of chav-chic and shopping, England's footballers' wives and girlfriends (WAGs), look set to compete against each other off the pitch, selling designer gear in a new series from Off the Radar productions.
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NewsSix Degrees to air on ITV1 primetime
ITV1 is to launch its first primetime US series in nine years - a drama from Lostcreator JJ Abrams described as a cross between Thirtysomethingand Cold Feet.
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NewsShaps defends Smarter Buying
ITV director of television Simon Shaps this week said some production companies were actively lobbying for performance-related payments for the shows they produce, rather than a flat licence fee.
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NewsSky to extend on-demand
Sky is planning to launch new broadband on-demand TV services for entertainment, lifestyle and kids programming within the next few months.
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Tern wins BBC Scotland double order
Indie Tern Television has received a double order from BBC Scotland. It is producing The Family Farm, a 6 x 30-minute observational documentary series that takes a poignant look at traditional family farming in Dumfries and Galloway, as residents fight to save Castle Douglas, one ...
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BBC wants more of Folio's peak successes
Folio Productions, part of the Tinopolis group, has been commissioned to make new series of BBC1 factual shows Traffic Copsand Car Wars. Traffic Cops, which has regularly pulled in about 5.6 million viewers has been ...
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Princess auditions for Bump & Grind
Flextech-owned youth channel Trouble, has recommissioned Princess Productions to make series three of dance reality series Bump & Grind. Atomic Kitten girl band member Liz McLarnon joins the panel of judges and will present alongside regular host Johny P.
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Sky One investigates Diana conspiracies
Sky One has commissioned MAP TV (Michael Attwell Productions) to produce an hour-long special examining the conspiracy theories behind the death of the Princess of Wales. Who Killed Diana?,set to broadcast ahead of the ninth anniversary of the Princess's death in August, will feature ...
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Commissioner's Q & A - Daniel Lennard
The senior director of original series and development, Cartoon Network Europe is a big fan of Aardman Animation and has more than£200,000 to spend on a half-hour animation