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NewsThe Empire Fights Back
David Docherty argues that the BBC once ruled the analogue world, but now that golden age is over Mark Thompson's reforms are critical to its survival in the broadband era.
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Comment: The Empire Fights Back
David Docherty thinks that the BBC's reforms are critical to its survival in the broadband era
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Comment: Everything To Play For
The revival in the gameshow format offers big prizes for a top format, says Tim Hincks
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NewsFive picks up major Warner Bros drama
Five has secured the exclusive rights to big-budget Warner Brothers drama serial The Nine, one of the last high-profile, new season US shows that was still available from the LA Screenings.
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GI sells ITV miniseries to France
Granada International (GI) has sold a number of miniseries made by ITV Productions to broadcasters in France.
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Fremantle goes global with Got Talent
Fremantle Media is planning an international rollout of the Got Talent format, a co-production with Simon Cowell indie Syco, following a successful launch in the US.
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Nigerian film channel to launch on Sky
Zenithfilms, a London-based company distributing Nigerian programming to airlines which fly to Africa and America, is planning to launch a 24-hour channel on Sky in January.
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NewsSky bets£400m on broadband market
Sky's converged media initiative may have spooked the City but it's the right strategy.
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Duo launch Synchronicity
The duo behind the BBC's big-budget kids show Shoebox Zoo has set up a Glasgow-based drama indie.
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Taylor revisits Al-Qaeda for terror anniversary
Veteran reporter Peter Taylor is to make a new series of programmes on Al-Qaeda, timed for broadcast on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.
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BBC2 adds variety
BBC2 is reviving the variety show in a daytime series to be hosted by Brian Conley. Let Me Entertain You, being made by Lion Television, sees the studio audience vote on performers, with the winners from each show going through to a grand finale. The ...
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Anthony promoted
Urban radio station Choice FM has made former DJ Kirk Anthony its new head of music with overall responsibility for music programming.
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Ex-Sky man to launch broadband TV service
Aggregator, the London-based digital TV operator co-formed by former BSkyB commercial director Martin Goswami, will launch its first TV-over-broadband service this September.
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BT Vision loses second senior exec
BT's entertainment division has lost its second senior executive in four months, shortly before the launch of the company's TV proposition this autumn.
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C4 docu-drama to tell the story of Waco siege
Darlow Smithson will attempt to uncover what really happened during the infamous Waco siege in a big-budget feature for Channel 4 and the US Discovery Channel, its first commission since being acquired by IMG Media.
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Love Island is no match for Big Brother
In last week's 'triple whammy' of reality shows in peaktime it was ITV1's Love Islandthat suffered most against BBC1's Only Fools on Horsesand Channel 4's Big Brother.
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Wendy Martin
Former international programming executive Wendy Martin died on Thursday 13 July at her home in Malaga, Spain.