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CNN On Freeview
Turner Broadcasting has confirmed that CNN International will
replace Nuts TV on Freeview early next year.
CNN will air every night between 21:00 and 01:00 on a channel number still
to be announced.
Turner said that Nuts TV is undergoing an "evolution into a
dedicated broadband and mobile service".
23:09
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28 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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BBC
Sports Personality Tickets Go On Sale
Tickets for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards, to
be held in Liverpool, will go on sale tomorrow.
It is the first time the event, on December 14 at the Echo Arena, has been
held in the north of England, and only the third time it has taken place
outside London in its 55-year history.
This year’s show, presented by Sue Barker and Gary Lineker, will be the
biggest ever with around 8,000 people in attendance. It will also be
broadcast live on BBC One and Radio 5 Live.
The awards will be attended by almost all of this year’s Olympic and
Paralympic heroes, former winners of the main award and many of the biggest
names from the world of sport.
Tim Banfield, general manager of the Echo Arena, said: “We have had a
fantastic Capital of Culture year and to have what is undoubtedly one of the
highest- profile events in the sporting calendar in the city is just the
icing on the cake.”
Tickets, on sale at 09:00, will be £30 each.
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Essex FM
Presenters Suspended
Two DJs have been taken off the air after making allegedly
inappropriate comments in their breakfast show.
DJs Martin Day and Su Harrison, who present the Essex FM breakfast show,
were replaced yesterday morning by other presenters from the radio station.
Listeners were given an apology for the content of Martin and Su's show on
Friday, but fans have been stunned by the pair's absence.
Some reported that the removal was because of a joke the risque twosome made
about a news story on boy scouts and condoms.
In particular, there was said to have been a rude rhyme about the issue and
a request for readers to text in their ideas.
But chiefs at Essex FM, based in Chelmsford, failed to comment on the
incident and said the pair would remain off-air while they investigated what
happened.
Chris Cotton, the station's programme controller, said: "I can't really go
into it based on the nature of the comments that were made. But it wasn't an
insult.
"Martin and Su haven't been removed permanently.
"It's appropriate to have gone off the air while we discuss the implications
of what happened last week.
"Whatever the outcome is, we will be happy to explain the situation then.
"I have every hope that the outcome will be positive and that Martin and Su
will return."
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28 2008 - waveguide.co.uk
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Kerry Katona
Fires Max Clifford
PR guru Max Clifford has tonight been fired by Kerry Katona,
the client he dubbed his 'adopted daughter', after he revealed concerns
about her drinking.
Following Katona's catastrophic interview on This Morning when she appeared
slurring her words throughout a shambolic interview, Clifford expressed
concerns over her drinking, the controlling relationship between her and
husband Mark, and her general well-being.
Tonight he announced he will no longer act as Kerry Katona's agent. He said:
"She has asked that I no longer represent her.
"Reluctantly I have agreed and I wish her all the health and happiness. I
think the world of her and wish her every success."
The news follows an interview with Heat magazine, published
today, in which he said: "All I can say is that from knowing Kerry as well
as I do, I don't personally believe she is in a good place at the moment.
"What people who are around her tell me makes me increasingly
worried. People around her are telling me that she is drinking more and
more, earlier and earlier."
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Hollyoaks Actress
Quits
Hollyoaks Roxanne McKee has announced she will leave the soap
in a gripping storyline at Christmas.
A statement said: "The rumours have been rife for months now, but today we
can confirm that Roxanne McKee will leave Hollyoaks in an explosive
storyline that will climax this Christmas."
Roxanne will play a key role in the plotline, which sees her character,
Louise Summers, choosing whether to remain loyal to her love-interest,
Warren, who murdered her estranged husband.
The 27-year-old actress, who was voted Sexiest Female at the last two
consecutive British Soap Awards, has hinted that she hopes to try her luck
in Hollywood.
"I don't see why not. I think you should aim for the stars - and hopefully
avoid ending up in the clouds," she told Look magazine in May 2008.
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No Christmas TOTP
The Top of the Pops Christmas Special will not be shown this
year, the BBC has announced.
Instead the broadcaster will screen eight special episodes of the
programme's archive spin-off, TOTP2.
Top of the Pops was decommissioned in 2006 after 42 years on the air.
A BBC spokesman said: "We said at that time the Christmas Special would
continue but would have to earn its place every year.
"This year it was felt that pop music would be better represented over
Christmas by an eight-part series of TOTP2 that will reflect some of the
year's key hits and possibly the Christmas Number One."
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Michael Palin Travels
To mark the 20th anniversary of Michael Palin's first
travelogue – Around The World In Eighty Days – he has once again left UK
shores on a journey in which he will take a new look at an old adventure.
Currently called Eighty Days Revisited and due to be broadcast as a one-hour
special on BBC One later this year, the programme follows Palin as he
returns to the scene of one of the best-remembered sequences of all his
travel adventures: the dhow journey from Dubai to Bombay.
In the original adventure, as Palin sailed agonisingly slowly down the
Persian Gulf on board one of world's oldest surviving traditional sailing
ships, he and his team formed a unique relationship with their Indian crew.
Mutual incomprehension gradually gave way to friendship and affection as
they accepted the fact that their lives, and the success of the journey, was
in the hands of this band of ragged, underpaid sailors from Gujarat!
After a week together at sea, Palin found their farewell at Bombay to be one
of the most emotional moments on all his travels.
Twenty years after they waved each other goodbye – and with the same
cameraman who shot the original dhow journey – Palin is hoping to
prove that nothing is impossible as he sets out to search for the crew of
the Al-Shama.
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New BBC Drama
Hugh Bonneville and Janet McTeer star as detective team
Barclay and Foster in a new two-part drama, Hunter, to be shown on BBC One
in early 2009.
Writer Mick Ford has taken the engaging and charismatic duo of DSI Iain
Barclay and DI Amy Foster – created by Gwyneth Hughes in the critically
acclaimed series Five Days – and put them at the heart of a team of
compelling and unpredictable detectives who are faced with a shocking and
highly sensitive crime.
Kate Harwood, BBC Controller, Series and Serials, said: "In Hunter, Mick
Ford has created a rare thing - a suspenseful thriller which is driven by
human characters and the day-to-day detail of the real world.
"The combination of his exceptional script and the wonderful chemistry of
the cast makes this truly unmissable event drama."
Filming began on Hunter at the beginning of September and will continue for
one month in London.
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Pressure For Statement From BBC Chief
BBC Director General Mark Thompson is under pressure to make
a personal public apology over obscene phone calls made by Russell Brand and
Jonathan Ross.
None of the corporation's senior management including Thompson, head of
radio output Tim Davie or Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas has spoken out
despite the BBC receiving a record amount of complaints.
The corporation said that 10,000 complaints have been received about the
broadcast where Brand and Ross leave crude messages on the answerphone of
78-year-old actor Andrew Sachs claiming Brand slept with his granddaughter,
model and sometime musician Georgina Baillie, 23.
It added that many focused on the pair's taxpayer-funded salaries. Ross is
paid £6million a year for radio and television work, while Brand receives
more than £200,000.
However, Tory MP John Whittingdale, chairman of the Commons Media Select
Committee, said: "This is a serious breach compounded by a failure to issue
a proper apology. A senior figure such as Mark Thompson needs to speak out."
Whittingdale said Thompson will be asked to account for the failures in the
chain of command, which allowed the recording to be aired. He added: "What is more troubling is that this part of
the radio programme went through editorial checks and balances that are
meant to stop this from happening."
Thompson will have to determine who was at fault in authorising the
late-night programme. It is believed a senior producer between Lewis Carnie
and Brand's producer Nic Philps signed off on the programme. However, given
the level of public outcry it appears inevitable the BBC Trust as the public
broadcaster's independent governing body will have to become involved.
Sir Michael Lyons, as chairman, will be able to call for punitive action
against the two stars or the senior management responsible for their
conduct.
The presenters are both believed to have written personal letters of apology
to Mr Sachs, who has spoken of his anger. He said: "People ask me if I'm
angry. Well, yes, but not half as angry as Georgina. That's where the
apology should be directed."
The BBC Trust has now asked the BBC's management team to
report back on its ongoing investigation next week, and will use that
briefing to decide what the Trust's enquiry will cover.
A Trust spokesman said this morning: "The Trust has noted BBC management's
decision to issue an apology and to carry out a review.
"The Trust's editorial standards committee has requested a report from the
management on its review at its meeting next week. In light of that update,
the committee will decide what matters should be covered by management in a
formal report to the full Trust at its meeting on November 20.
"The Trust will await this report before commenting further and without
prejudice to any complaints on appeal it might receive in due course."
Ofcom decided this morning to launch an investigation and has
requested a copy of the show from the BBC.
A spokesman said it made a quick decision to take the matter further
"because this is an ongoing issue which has received lots of media
coverage".
PM Gordon Brown said the BBC and watchdog Ofcom must take
"appropriate action" over four prank calls.
"This is clearly inappropriate and unacceptable behaviour, as is now widely
recognised," Mr Brown said.
"Ofcom have said they will investigate the matter and it is for the BBC, the
BBC Trust and Ofcom to take any appropriate action."
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