Susan Thompson

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    Gameshow indie for sale

    2007-10-22T16:12:41.627

    12 Yard Productions is up for sale, with first round bids from interested parties expected by the end of this week.

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    Thompson faces staff battle

    2007-10-22T15:35:01.193

    Support for Mark Thompson plummeted this week ahead of the unveiling of the corporation’s strategy to staff.

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    New BBC Films structure

    2007-10-04T13:17:38.653

    BBC Films has been restructured following last month’s news that boss David Thompson has quit.

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    Jane Garvey to host Woman's Hour

    2007-09-18T11:55:00

    BBC Radio 5 Live veteran Jane Garvey is to join Radio 4's Woman's Hourteam as a presenter, replacing Martha Kearney who left in April to become the main presenter of World at One. [ALL]

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    BBC hires digital technology head for iPlayer

    2007-09-17T14:20:00

    The BBC has drafted in a new head of digital media technology, Anthony Rose, who is responsible for delivering the 'next generation' of BBC iPlayer. [ALL]

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    Twofour hires former Leopard exec

    2007-09-07T08:00:00

    Twofour Broadcast has hired former Leopard Films head of programmes Bernard Periatambee as a development executive. [ALL]

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    Virgin Media mulls own news channel

    2007-09-06T08:00:00

    Virgin Media is considering launching a news channel to rival Sky News with ITN as its content supplier.

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    Wall to Wall starts£25m sale process

    2007-09-06T08:00:00

    The sale of Who Do You Think You Are?producer Wall to Wall has been kick-started with an information memorandum sent to interested parties.

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    Oscar winner savages BBC over Storyville cuts

    2007-09-06T08:00:00

    Kevin Macdonald, whose Oscar-winning documentary One Day in Septemberappeared on Storyvillelast year, has hit out at the BBC claiming it has 'forgotten its remit to produce informative programmes'.

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    Sky airs doc to kick off new Prison Break

    2007-09-06T08:00:00

    Sky One will celebrate capturing Prison Breakfrom Five by airing a 60-minute special on the show the day before it screens the first episode of season three.

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    BBC2 daytime quiz to exercise viewers' brains

    2007-09-06T08:00:00

    BBC2 has commissioned a daytime quiz series designed to exercise the brain.

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    Oscar winner attacks BBC

    2007-09-05T09:40:00

    Kevin Macdonald, whose Oscar-winning documentary One Day in Septemberappeared on Storyvillelast year, has hit out at the BBC, claiming it has 'forgotten its remit to produce informative programmes'. [ALL]

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    Murdoch: premium rate phone-ins are grubby

    2007-09-04T10:40:00

    BSkyB chief executive James Murdoch has said that the satellite broadcaster decided against launching premium-rate phone quizzes on its channels because they felt 'pretty sleazy'. [ALL]

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    Doctor Who series five delayed

    2007-09-03T19:15:00

    The fifth series of Doctor Whohas been postponed by a year, throwing David Tennant's future as the Timelord into further doubt. [ALL]

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    Sky News regrets airing Diana crash pictures

    2007-09-03T11:00:00

    Sky News has apologised for airing photographs of Princess Diana being given oxygen at the scene of the Paris car crash that lead to her death. [ALL]

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    Freesat appoints managing director

    2007-09-03T10:25:00

    The launch director behind Freeview, Emma Scott, has been given the managing director job at Freesat, BBC and ITV's planned free-to-view satellite service. [ALL]

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    GCap poaches Paul Jackson

    2007-08-31T14:20:00

    Virgin Radio boss Paul Jackson has quit to join GCap as managing director of Capital Radio. [ALL]

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    Sky News opts out of live Diana coverage

    2007-08-31T13:20:00

    Sky News has opted out of broadcasting live coverage of the Princess Diana service of thanksgiving - a move that has stunned rival newscasters. [ALL]

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    Paxman fights corner against budget cuts

    2007-08-30T08:00:00

    Edinburgh:'So are you going to sack Paxo?' the BBC chairman Sir Michael Lyons was asked by a fellow Edinburgh festival-goer following Jeremy Paxman's hard-hitting MacTaggart lecture.

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    Life on Mars creators given drama greenlight

    2007-08-29T08:00:00

    BBC1 has given the greenlight to Bone Kickers, a new drama from the co-creators of Life on Mars.[ALL]

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