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Multi-channel retailers cash in on online trend
Online shopping has gone from being an occasional exercise among a select group of shoppers to the routine method for growing ranks of increasingly picky consumers, according to a survey published this morning.
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Mumsnet TV series to 'help and advise' mums
Saturday, 16 April 2011
The influential parenting forum Mumsnet is to expand from the internet to a television series in which members give advice to mothers.
'Top Gear' goes to China – but who's their Clarkson?
Monday, 11 April 2011
It is a road-tested mix of zany car stunts presented by three overgrown schoolboys. But the politically incorrect humour has been toned down.
Evans late for radio show
Monday, 11 April 2011
Chris Evans, the DJ, was almost half an hour late for his BBC Radio 5 Live show on Saturday night.
Channel 5 to bring back Big Brother
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Hit reality show Big Brother is returning to television this year.
An Ambridge too far? an everyday tale of rebranding
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Paul Vallely: 'Archers' fans are agog for the show's new youth-oriented spin-off of the show, which starts today.
YouTube takes on television with star cast
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Google is to sprinkle some Hollywood stardust over its YouTube video website, as it goes head-to-head with traditional television in the battle for a new generation of viewers.
Reduced BBC Hindi service will affect millions, critics say
Monday, 28 March 2011
BBC Hindi, the shortwave radio service that since 1940 has brought global news and current affairs to some of India's poorest and most remote regions, scaled back its transmission yesterday in a move that the author Vikram Seth said was contributing to "a great loss of goodwill and increase of mistrust in India".
Rival pop stars line up to destroy Simon Cowell's American dream
Saturday, 26 March 2011
Adam Sherwin: It doesn't matter whether you have the X factor. The real question is "do you possess the Voice?"
Midsomer Murders producer 'will step down'
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Brian True-May sparked a race row after comments that part of the show's appeal was an absence of ethnic minorities.
Fellowes to give Agatha Christie the 'Downton' treatment
Monday, 21 March 2011
After breathing new life into ITV's Sunday night schedule with the hit period drama Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes is planning to reinvigorate the image of Agatha Christie with a film adaptation of the whodunnit Crooked House.
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