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BBC Four - London
Transport
BBC Four is to present Cab Night, featuring a specially
commissioned documentary from BBC documentary strand Arena which
explores the life of the London Cabbie.
Presented by Robert Elms, the evening features key programming from the
BBC's comedy, drama and news archive.
Cab Night will be a culmination of Arena's London Transport Trilogy on BBC
Four in July which celebrates transport in London.
The season includes another chance to see the popular Arena films
Underground and Little Platform, Big Stage about the iconic Routemaster bus.
The trilogy is shown on July 12, 19 and 26.
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BBC One's Choir
Contest
 Nick Knowles and Myleene Klass are to co-host BBC One's new
weekend show, Last Choir Standing, it was announced today.
They will be joined by a panel of music experts – Russell Watson, Sharon D.
Clarke and Suzi Digby – as they search the UK for the nation's favourite
choir.
Klass said: "I'm really excited to be involved in Last Choir Standing and
the search to find the nation's favourite choir. We're going to be seeing
such a wide range of choirs with different styles and personalities – there
will definitely be something to suit everyone's taste."
Nick Knowles added: "The public will be treated to some fantastic
performances from all the choirs, and it will ultimately be up to them to
decide who will be the Last Choir Standing. This will be entertainment
television at its best – getting the whole country involved."
Last Choir Standing starts on BBC One in June. From 60 choirs at the
auditions, the panel of judges will decide which 15 will go through to the
studio heats.
Six choirs will then make it through to the live shows where the judges and
the public will vote each week for who they want to save until there is only
one – the Last Choir Standing.
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Kangaroo Set
For Autumn Launch
Kangaroo, the internet TV joint venture between BBC
Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, is set to launch this autumn.
The ITV chief operating officer and finance director, John Cresswell, said
today the partners were "currently hoping" it would launch in September or
October.
Cresswell said that the BBC's outgoing director of future media and
technology, Ashley Highfield, who will join Kangaroo as chief executive on
July 1, would review the service when he joins and that there would be a be
a beta launch before a full rollout.
"It is going really well. Ashley's appointment is fantastic. With all new
technical launches, you always have a soft launch before you unveil the
whole thing," he added.
"It is about making sure that when the consumer gets to it, it won't fall
over. No one wants a Terminal 5 online. We are pretty confident."
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Trisha Continues On
Five
Daytime chat show presenter Trisha Goddard will continue
fronting her iuues-lead Five show until the end of 2009.
A new deal signed this week will see Five extend the run of
The Trisha Goddard Show by 180 editions.
The extension was given the go-ahead by Five deputy
commissioning editor for factual entertainment Ian Dunkley. The hour-long
show is stripped daily in a 10:30 slot.
It will continue to be made by Town House Productions, the indie Goddard
owns with Malcolm Allsop.
Goddard transferred to Five in January 2005 after six years with ITV, where
she presented a daytime show with a similar format for Anglia Television.
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