Television news from 2 September 2008
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TV ratings - September 1: Good catch for Channel Five fishing show (Media Guardian)
Robson Green's new Channel Five show about extreme fishing hooked more viewers than Channel 4 in the competitive 9pm slot.
Robson Green's new Channel Five show about extreme fishing hooked more viewers than Channel 4 in the competitive 9pm slot.
Sky1 cues up more school musicals (Media Guardian)
Sky1 is looking to create an annual school musical event following its student version of Hairspray.
Sky1 is looking to create an annual school musical event following its student version of Hairspray.
Watch this: Who Do You Think You Are? | God On Trial | Lost in Austen | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery (Media Guardian)
Who Do You Think You Are? | God On Trial | Lost in Austen | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery...
Who Do You Think You Are? | God On Trial | Lost in Austen | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery...
MPs slam BBC Lonely Planet link (Daily Telegraph)
Repeated plugs for the Lonely Planet brand on the BBC's website and television channels have prompted fresh accusations that the licence fee is being ...
Repeated plugs for the Lonely Planet brand on the BBC's website and television channels have prompted fresh accusations that the licence fee is being ...
Fleeshman, Lancashire for BBC choir drama (Digital Spy)
Richard Fleeshman and Sarah Lancashire star in new BBC One drama The Choir Project.
Richard Fleeshman and Sarah Lancashire star in new BBC One drama The Choir Project.
Ofcom changes rules for TV adverts (Financial Times)
The UK communications regulator has relaxed restrictions on television advertising to make commercial breaks less disruptive for viewers and more lucr...
The UK communications regulator has relaxed restrictions on television advertising to make commercial breaks less disruptive for viewers and more lucr...
Sky1 hints Hairspray: The School Musical will return for another series (Media Guardian)
Sky1 is looking to create an annual school musical event following its student version of Hairspray.
Sky1 is looking to create an annual school musical event following its student version of Hairspray.
Ex-Spice Girl Mel B to star in animated ad for Virgin Media (Media Guardian)
Virgin Media has signed up former Spice Girl Melanie Brown to star in an animated cinema advert to promote its movies on demand service.
Virgin Media has signed up former Spice Girl Melanie Brown to star in an animated cinema advert to promote its movies on demand service.
Watch an animated Mel B in the Virgin Media ad (Media Guardian)
An animated Mel B stars alongside an innuendo-obsessed German doctor in an ad for Virgin Media's movies on demand service...
An animated Mel B stars alongside an innuendo-obsessed German doctor in an ad for Virgin Media's movies on demand service...
BBC Research centre 60th birthday present: world?s first reception of HD pictures over DTT using DVB-T2 (Media Network Weblog)
On the 60th birthday of BBC Kingswood Warren, engineers from BBC Research & Innovation succeeded in demonstrating a working real-time demodulator ...
On the 60th birthday of BBC Kingswood Warren, engineers from BBC Research & Innovation succeeded in demonstrating a working real-time demodulator ...