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NewsNew BBC2 Choir series
Twenty Twenty will encourage schoolboys to take up singing in a follow-up to the Bafta-winning The Choir.
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C4 acquires Generation Kill and True Blood
Channel 4 has acquired the terrestrial rights to Golden Globe-winning vampire drama True Blood and Generation Kill, the Iraq war mini-series from the writer of The Wire.
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NewsTV’s most creative
Life on Mars has emerged as the UK’s most creative television show in Broadcast’s Creative Report 2007.
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NewsRDF takes Blast Films stake
RDF Media Group has completed its first deal through Ignite, the fund set up to invest in small indies.
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NewsUKTV budget swap
UKTV is cutting the commissioning budget of UKTV History and will pump the cash into UKTV Gold.
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Ratings
TV viewing at five-year high
The average TV viewer watched an average of 26 hours and 18 minutes of broadcast TV a week last year, the highest level viewing has been since 2003.
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The Queen to be the subject of C4 drama series
Channel 4 is to risk the ire of the monarchy with a five-part drama-documentary covering the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Thompson's email
Email from BBC director general Mark Thompson to senior management (27 Jan, 2009).
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No BBC bonuses until 2010; senior level pay freeze
None of the BBC's 24,000 staff will receive a bonus until at least 2010 and 400 of it most senior managers will have their pay frozen over the same period.
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NewsITV unlocks celeb DNA
ITV will attempt to discover whether political presenter Andrew Neil could be facing a life-threatening illness.
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NewsTWI to cut 130 jobs
Sports giant TWI is set to axe more than 130 posts as part of a stringent cost-cutting drive to help boost profits.
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BSkyB to create 1,000 jobs
BSkyB beat forecasts with 171,000 net new customers in the second quarter of 2008 and said it would create around 1,000 jobs as a result.
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Axe hangs over Heartbeat and The Royal
ITV has denied it plans to axe long-running drama Heartbeat, and spin-off series The Royal, but will not take a view on recommissioning either series until 2011.
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NewsOutrage at NHU cuts
The BBC's plan to cut almost a third of jobs at the NHU has prompted outrage among wildlife programme makers.
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NewsVirgin 1 investigates unsafe dogs
Virgin 1 will focus on the topical issue of dangerous dogs in a one-off documentary.
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Fresh calls to resurrect Top of the Pops
The promoter of music acts including U2 and Billy Bragg is lobbying the BBC to revive Top of the Pops in Neighbours' old time slot.
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BBC back to 'bonnets' with Emma
BBC Drama is to return to its Jane Austen heartland with a new period adaptation of the classic novel, Emma.
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NUJ slams BBC/ITV regional plans
The National Union of Journalists has condemned ITV and BBC's sharing plans for regional news bureaus, and has written to the Office of Fair Trading urging it to intervene.
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Campbell joins 'speaker idol'
BBC2 has enlisted former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell to share his skills in “the subtleties of persuasion” with teenagers in a search for Britain's best young speaker.
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Ratings
C4 gets a Shameless 3.1m
Channel 4's hit drama series Shameless was a popular draw at 10pm last night with the sixth series kicking off with 3.1m viewers (17.5% share).