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BBC forces producers to cut talent budgets
The BBC is compelling producers to pass on budget cuts to on-screen talent, by demanding a minimum pay reduction for some shows' presenters and actors.
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Shine makes TV quiz for BBC1
BBC1 has commissioned Shine Television to make a Buzzcocks-style quiz show about TV.
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C4 plans Bible follow-up to history of Christianity
Channel 4 is to follow up Christianity: a History with a series of personal interpretations of the Bible.
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MPs revive top-slicing threat
MPs and peers reignited the PSB funding debate this week, rejecting media secretary Andy Burnham's favoured partnership between Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide and putting licence fee top-slicing back on the agenda.
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MediaCity owners pin hopes on ITV U-turn
MediaCityUK owner Peel Media is still hopeful of persuading ITV to move to the Salford site despite the broadcaster ruling out a deal last month.
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Rival Media wins RTE2 agony aunt show
Rival Media will ask youngsters to act as agony aunts in one of a pair of commissions from Irish channel RTÉ2.
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ITV Global seeks 50% co-pro deal on format sales
ITV Global Entertainment will only sell formats to international broadcasters or producers if it can agree at least a 50% co-production credit for the shows.
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Inbetweeners surges ahead
The return of E4's teenage comedy The Inbetweeners got off to a flying start.
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Peers call for contestable PSB funding
The BBC could face a loss of licence fee revenue to other broadcasters if the government heeds a plea from the House of Lords communications committee to use it to solve the PSB funding crisis.
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Shine to head down under
Elisabeth Murdoch's Shine Group has hired Fremantle Media Australia chiefs Mark and Carl Fennessy to head up a new Australian division.
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Viewers to help decide sporting 'crown jewels'
The government is inviting viewers to tell them which national sporting events they want to see on free-to-air TV from today.
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ITV to air fewer acquisitions
ITV has revealed it will show fewer internationally produced shows in the coming years as director of acquisitions Jay Kandola prepares to leave the broadcaster in June.
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BBC2 suffers peaktime collapse
A series of new BBC2 shows failed to bring in the viewers last night as the channel suffered its second worst peaktime performance since at least 2001.
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BBC Mobile appoints ex-Kangaroo exec
Mark Kortekaas, the former CBS executive who oversaw the technology behind the abolished Project Kangaroo, has taken up a new role heading up BBC mobile output.
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Man United help ITV1 to become champions
Manchester United's Champions League quarter-final was a sizeable attraction last night, peaking with 7.6m viewers (30.7%) at 9.15pm for 15 minutes.
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Tennant: final Doctor Who scripts made me cry
Outgoing Doctor Who actor David Tennant has admitted he cried when he read the scripts for his final episodes as the Timelord.
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Chorion in sale talks with Coolabi
Agatha Christie-owner Chorion is poised to split in two after entering sale talks with listed kids producer Coolabi.
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MoMedia joins Lions' Tour
Digital producer and distributor MoMedia International has won the mobile and online rights to rugby sporting event the British and Irish Lions' South African Tour.
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Britain's Got Talent undergoes online overhaul
Britain's Got Talent's website has undergone a revamp in a bid to increase interactivity with the ITV show.
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Sky beats BBC2 and Five with Chelsea victory
The Champions League quarter-final clash between Liverpool and Chelsea was a popular choice with the viewers last night as the entire coverage from 7pm averaged 1.5m (7.6%), a bigger audience than either BBC2 or Five at the time.