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Cash in the attic found again on BBC1
Leopard Films is making a fourth series of Cash in the Attic for BBC1. Head of daytime Alison Sharman has ordered 15 x 30-minute shows as well as 10 x 45-minutes. The programme, which sees a team of valuers go into people's homes to try ...
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RatingsSecond Shameless adds viewers
The second episode of Channel 4's drama series Shameless on Tuesday (20 January) managed to increase its audience by 200,000 viewers from the previous week. The 60-minute episode at 22.00 drew an average of 2.5 million viewers, equating to a share of 13.6%. The third ...
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C4 and BBC agree to backdate terms
Channel 4 and the BBC have agreed that the new terms of trade they are currently negotiating with indies will be retrospectively applied to deals made after 6 January - the date Ofcom's new codes of practice came into effect. The agreements were made in principle with industry body Pact ...
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Disney puts off DTT launch until April
Disney has delayed the launch of its Freeview channel until April so that further research can be conducted into its title and schedule. Although no launch date or title has been officially announced, it was expected to begin broadcasting this month under the name Daytime. But industry sources claimed that ...
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Channel 4 makes film of life of Princess
Channel 4 has ordered a feature-length dramatisation of the life of Princess Margaret. Filming on Margaret Rose will begin in spring. Indie Touchpaper will produce the piece, while playwright Craig Warner makes his screenwriting debut. C4 head of drama John Yorke said:
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Bernard aims for 2012 radio switch-off
Ralph Bernard, executive chairman of radio group GWR, has called on the government to set a deadline of 2012 to switch off the analogue radio signal. The move would bring radio in line with TV, which has been set a switch-off deadline between 2006 and 2010. Bernard has written to ...
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Panormama: A Fight to the Death (BBC1) - Rupert Smith, Guardian
'Watching Panorama's pre Hutton verdict special, A Fight to the Death was like sitting through one of those intermi...
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Bob Monkhouse's Comedy Heroes (Five) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'Five surely did the right thing in persisting with Bob Monkhouse's Comedy Heroes - even though, for one big reason...
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Bob Monkhouse's Comedy Heroes (Five) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'Unfortunately it turned out to be, if not a swindle, then a misjudgement.'...
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ER (C4) - Charlie Cathpole, Daily Star
'Before her first shift was over, Neela (Parminder Nagra) had been racially abused, blamed for the death of one pat...
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ER (C4) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'It still knocks the spots off any other television hospital drama.'...
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RatingsPanorama special turns off viewers
BBC1's unscheduled Panorama programme A Fight to the Death failed to engage the viewers with a paltry 2.3 million (10.1%) and was convincingly beaten into third place by Channel 4 and ITV1.
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The BBC's nerves rattle
As the BBC's policy-makers try to second guess criticisms which may arise from the forthcoming Hutton report into the Kelly affair, is the corporation now exercising excessive caution, asks Jessica Hodgson
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NewsAscent Media appoints new head team
Post-production giant Ascent Media has moved quickly to replace it's departing senior management team of Sam Husain and Simon Kay by appointing a new finance director and two new managing directors.
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Inventions That Changed The World (BBC2) - Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail
'While Tim Marlow (Great Artists 2, C5) depends on knowledge and his skill at communicating Clarkson uses jokes, wr...
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Making Babies the Gay Way (C4) - Paul Hoggart, The Times
'Making Babies the Gay Way sounded like a cheesy 1970s comedy starring Larry Grayson, rather than a serious program...
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Making Babies the Gay Way (C4) - Gareth McLean, Guardian
'Making Babies the Gay Way was tawdry, tiresome tabloid crap? this was cheap and nasty guff of which Channel 4 shou...
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Making Babies the Gay Way (C4) - Jim Shelley, Daily Mirror
'It must have been possible for Channel 4 to make a programme about gay parenting that was neither tacky nor depres...
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Making Babies the Gay Way (C4) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
?Instead of fighting its corner, it simply and rather persuasively showed us what some gay couples are prepared to ...