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RDF reveals profits up for first results
RDF Media's first results since listing on the London Stock Exchange in May saw turnover increase 14% to£26.3m.
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Sky Match is on top
Sky One's entertainment show The Match - Live is the most watched non-sports multichannel programme so far this year.
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Thinkbox chairman
ITV director of customer relationship marketing Justin Sampson has been appointed as the first chairman of Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial television. Taking up the role from November, he will act as 'lead ambassador' for the body that represents eight TV channels including Channel 4, Five, GMTV, Turner Broadcasting, ...
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Baker's back at BBC
Former BBC Radio London presenter Danny Baker is to return to the station, just four months after quitting. Baker, who left the breakfast show in May to pursue 'personal projects' - believed to include working on a comedy drama for Five - will start the afternoon show this Monday, 17 ...
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Digital losses up
Digital Classics, the TV distribution and production business chaired by former Five chief executive David Elstein, has increased losses for the year to June from£590,000 last year to£616,000. Turnover during the period was£3,134,000, an increase of£980,000 on 2004.
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Footie high of 57.1%
England's 1-0 victory against Austria which put them through to the World Cup gave BBC1 a peak audience of 10.3 million (57.1%) at 5.30pm on Saturday (8 October). The entire coverage of the game drew 7.5 million viewers.
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Five to bring back Swinging sketch show
Five's first homegrown comedy commission, Swinging, a sketch show about relationships and sex, has been recommissioned by the broadcaster.
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BBC3 orders Little Britain studio show
Little Britain stars Matt Lucas and David Walliams are to star in a Trisha-style chat show in which they will be quizzed on aspects of the show by a studio audience.
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NewsMore4's adult entertainment has a seductive first night
More4's high-profile drama A Very Social Secretary managed to seduce viewers, helping the channel to a successful launch night.
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Vallely steps in
BBC2 channel executive Dominic Vallely has made a temporary move to become executive editor for entertainment commissioning and will deal with the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing and Strictly Dance Fever, as well as The Apprentice. The shows were being overseen by Fenia Vardanis, who left the job in September to ...
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Quick moves at ITV
ITV has appointed head of programme strategy communication Sally Quick to become the new editor of night-time and branded content. Based at Gray's Inn Road and reporting to controller of off-peak Steven Andrew, she will commission shows for late night as well as ad-funded programmes for across the schedule. She ...
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FX picks up comedy
The FX channel has boosted its comedy slate by buying a pair of sketch shows from Comedy Central. It has picked up the first two seasons of Chappelle Show, written and hosted by Dave Chappelle, for its Comedy Thursdays slot. It will air on FX from January next year. The ...
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Sky airs Star Wars
BSkyB has signed a major content agreement to show the entire Star Wars saga in 2006. Sky has bought exclusive UK TV rights from Lucas Films and Twentieth Century Fox for the films and will air them from August 2006 to coincide with the start of the pay-TV window for ...
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Latin Pop Idol next
Talent show Pop Idol is heading to Latin America. This is the 30th territory the format has been sold to. Indie Fremantle Media has partnered with Sony Entertainment Television (SET), one of Latin America's leading cable entertainment channels, to make Latin American Idol (working title). The show will begin airing ...
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Turner is back on TV with Housewives
Anthea Turner, the former GMTV presenter whose career hit the skids following a disastrous appearance in OK! magazine, has resurfaced with a new reality show for BBC3. RDF Media's 8 x 60-minute series Perfect Housewives (working title) will see the former Blue Peter presenter attempt to educate the nation's incompetent ...
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Five ups spend and axes The Farm
Five is increasing its programme budget to more than£200m next year, director of programmes Dan Chambers has confirmed. He said the budget for 2006 would be up at least£10m from the£190m signed off for this year, taking the budget to 'substantially more' than£200m. However, he said the extra cash would ...
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Wood leaves the street for Mersey TV
Coronation Street producer Tony Wood has confirmed he is joining Mersey Television as creative director. The former ITV head of continuing series, who spent two years running the broadcaster's flagship soap, is set to take up the newly created post in the new year. Based at the group's Liverpool production ...
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Ex Sky boss launches DTT service
Former BSkyB commercial director Martin Goswami is launching a DTT service offering Freeview channels and on-demand specialist content. Aggregator TV will be based on a Freeview box with broadband connection and PVR capabilities. Goswami has teamed up with former ITV director of channels Chris Griffin and Chris Goodhall, previously of ...
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BBC considers bond issue
The BBC is considering issuing a bond to help it pay for pensioners and disabled people to switch to digital television.
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11.30am: BBC1's coverage of England's 2-1 victory against Poland was a crowd pleaser with the audience peaking at 11.2 million (45%) for 30-minutes from 9pm.