LATEST NEWS HEADLINES
Channel TV calls for police action on awards scandal
Channel TV has called for a criminal investigation into the British Comedy Awards phone-in scandal, after members of the TV production team “deliberately” changed the 2005 People’s Choice Awards from Catherine Tate to Ant and Dec.
Boyle quits Mock the Week
BBC2’s topical panel show Mock the Week will return for two more series – but without outspoken panellist Frankie Boyle.
Bradshaw and Starkey clash over Marr interview
Culture secretary Ben Bradshaw has stepped up his criticism of Andrew Marr’s interview with Gordon Brown, lambasting an “error of judgement” that was “part of the trivialisation and degradation of our political discourse”.
Channel fined £80,000 over Comedy Awards phone-in scandal
Channel TV has been fined £80,000 by Ofcom for its part in the phone-in scandal that saw Ant and Dec wrongly given a 2005 British Comedy Awards.
LATEST BBC NEWS
BBC hires Merton for Hollywood and Euro cinema docs
Comedian Paul Merton is to front his first factual show on BBC2 in one of two commissions drawing on his love of cinema.
BBC seeks out indies for hour-long Wonderlands
The BBC is to extend the length of its Wonderland docs from 40 minutes to an hour and open the strand to indie producers for the first time.
LATEST ITV NEWS
Channel TV calls for police action on awards scandal
Channel TV has called for a criminal investigation into the British Comedy Awards phone-in scandal, after members of the TV production team “deliberately” changed the 2005 People’s Choice Awards from Catherine Tate to Ant and Dec.
Channel fined £80,000 over Comedy Awards phone-in scandal
Channel TV has been fined £80,000 by Ofcom for its part in the phone-in scandal that saw Ant and Dec wrongly given a 2005 British Comedy Awards.
LATEST CHANNEL 4 NEWS
C4 to mark tsunami anniversary
Channel 4 is to mark the fifth anniversary of the 2004 Asian tsunami with a feature-length documentary that edits amateur footage of the disaster.
Wife Swap cleared over baby concerns
Ofcom has backed the producers of Wife Swap over an episode in which a baby was shown living in a dirty flat and eating chips.
FIVE
Five asks indie Gallowgate to Name That Tune
Five has tasked Ant & Dec’s indie Gallowgate with reviving classic gameshow Name That Tune.
Five mulls switch to pay-TV
Five is considering taking its main terrestrial channel into the pay-TV market as it investigates radical survival strategies.
OTHER MULTICHANNEL NEWS
Living snares Cougar Town
Living has acquired US comedy Cougar Town, featuring Courtney Cox as a newly single woman on the prowl for younger men.
Sky nets NCIS spin-off
Sky1 has picked up the rights to CBS US police procedural drama NCIS: Los Angeles, the first spin-off from the popular NCIS.
Quest debuts on Freeview with 82,000 peak
Discovery’s new Freeview channel Quest made a slow but steady start on its launch yesterday, with a peak of 82,000 tuning in to a documentary on the search for Noah’s Arc.
Aussie Masterchef to air in UK
Australian MasterChef will make its UK debut on Watch after UKTV acquired the rights from Shine International.
Living hit Four Weddings has US makeover for TLC
Living’s Four Weddings is eloping to the US to be remade for cable network TLC.
