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The Voice UK tour cancelled after dismal ticket sales
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A live tour version of BBC One’s The Voice UK has been cancelled after ticket sales flopped. The tour was meant to kick off a UK-wide tour in Bournemouth on 12 September but has now been cancelled “due to lack of ticket sales.” The TV version launched to audiences of 10m in April but viewing…
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Microsoft announces new Windows Tablets
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Office and Windows developers Microsoft has announced a new line of Tablet computers designed to take on Apple’s iPad which it will make and sell in-house. Although Microsoft does sell a range of keyboards and mice as well as it’s XBox games console, the company traditionally relies on companies such as HP and Dell to…
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Investors looking to unite Virgin Media and Everything Everywhere?
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Virgin Media and the UK operations of Orange and T-Mobile are the target of an investment consortium looking to create a new entertainment giant, the Times reports. According to yesterday’s Times, the bidders are headed by Tom Alexander, former boss at Everything Everywhere which operates Orange and T-Mobile in the UK. The deal, which has…
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BBC One’s Merlin gains online game
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BBC One’s Merlin is to follow the channel’s sci-fi hit Doctor Who in spawning an online game off-shoot. Developed by Bossa Studios, creators of BAFTA-winning game Monstermind, offers real-time, co-operative play to ensure that when it comes to combat, no threats are ever faced alone. Fans of the Shine TV produced series will be able…
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Sky announces UK air date for Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom
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Sky Atlantic says it will broadcast Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom from Tuesday 10th July. Jeff Daniels stars as a cable show news anchor, who, together with his staff sets out to put on a news show “in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles and their own personal entanglements.” The ten part series was created…
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Christopher Eccleston on Blackout
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Christopher Eccleston returns to BBC one in Blackout (previously announced as The Fuse) which follows Daniel Demoys (Eccleston), a stranger in his own life. Over the years he has gone from being an idealistic young man with a burning desire to make the world a better place, to a disillusioned and corrupt council official. His…