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  • Small investors get to play Dragon in new Jason Manford series

    Small investors get to play Dragon in new Jason Manford series

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    Jason Manford is to host a new “fast-paced and funny” businesses show in which ordinary people risk their own money to invest in the bright ideas and small businesses of hopeful entrepreneurs.

  • BBC names new bad guys for The Musketeers

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    Rupert Everett is joining BBC One’s The Musketeers as the show’s latest villain – Philippe Achille, Marquis de Feron, the corrupt Governor of Paris, Head of the Red Guard and illegitimate brother to Louis XIII.

  • BBC signs rights to all The Office US scripts

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    As well as completed programmes such as Doctor Who and Call the Midwife, BBC Worldwide also generates money by selling formats to overseas broadcasters. The Office is one of Worldwide’s most popular exports and the deal with NBC Universal allows it to boost the number of scripts available from the original 14 UK episodes to…

  • Video: Daniel Rigby in Undercover

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    The series stars Daniel Rigby as an undercover police officer who finds himself hopelessly out of his depth when he infiltrates an Armenian crime family called the Sarkissians. His day to day tasks mainly revolve around not getting killed and blending in with excessively violent gangsters. Couldn’t be simpler. 

  • The Tardis materialises in India after new BBC deal

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    All eight series of the revived series will air on Star India’s FX from 15th May 2015, starting with its acclaimed debut series which starred Christopher Eccleston as the Time Lord.

  • Plusnet launches new YouView-based TV service

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    The ISP launched trials of the service in December 2013, fuelling expectations that a launch would follow in 2014. Confirmation that the BT-owned ISP intended to finally launch the service came via YouView last month.