Joanne Oatts

ITV is to take over from Channel 4 in sponsoring the Theatre Director Scheme, the longest running training scheme of its type in the UK.

Classic FM signs a 25 concert deal with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

BBC Four commissions Lion Television to investigate Silbury Hill, the largest man-made mound in
Europe.

Reports suggest the British Comedy Awards will not find a new on-screen home this year.

Chair of the BBC Trust Sir Michael Lyons tells BBC staff not to protest publicly about cuts.

ITV is bringing together the cast of classic ITV drama Upstairs Downstairs for a special Bafta 60th anniversary programme.

Pride of Britain awards show pull in 6.7 million viewers and a 30.1% audience share for ITV1.

Six Nations Rugby will be broadcast on the BBC at least until 2013.

David Suchet is to reprise his role as the Agatha Christie sleuth in a series of four new Poirot films for ITV1.

Channel 4 International's Richard Life is appointed Granada International's head of factual.

After a agency review, BBH has been appointed ITV's main creative advertising agency.

Endemol-owned Brighter Pictures managing director Elaine Hackett is to leave the company after 11 years.

BBC Three commissions a new series of Shine's Sex...with Mum and Dad.

Granada International is lining up to internationally distribute a new series of the piglet duo Pinky & Perky.

Jeremy Kyle's new show for The One Network will compete with Jonathan Ross on BBC Radio 2 for listeners.

Perrier Award winner Laura Solon is to star in a new sketch show for ITV2.

Dom Joly will front a new series called The Complainers for Five which champions underdogs fighting against the giants of industry.

ITV commissions a comedy drama adaptation of John O'Farrell's best-selling novel May Contain Nuts.

EuroNews has created a new online channel on YouTube, formed from its No Comment strand.

Mobisodes of the cult sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf launch this week from mobile entertainment company Pitch.

Sky One will show the first ever G-A-Y Awards on December 1, being filmed by Double Jab Productions.

Rumours are circulating about who will take up the job of BBC One controller following Peter Fincham's resignation last week.

BBC World Service is to receive £70 million of extra government funding over the next three years.

Turner Broadcasting System Europe completes content deals with YouTube, Joost and DailyMotion.

The West Wing's Bradley Whitford will star in a new BBC Two drama showing the real life impact of climate change.

Sky is hit by a technical fault in the voting for Sky One's Cirque de Celebrite.

Channel 4 has pulled its live web debates after only a week, due to compliance problems.

Animal Planet is partnering with Aardman Animations on Animals Save the Planet, a series of short films for the channel.

Reports suggest the completed investigation by Deloitte into ITV phone-ins could have repercussions at the broadcaster.

Reports suggest the BBC is about to axe 12% of its staff, with factual programming to be hit the worst.

Irish broadcaster RTE has secured a 'long term deal' with Fremantle for soaps Neighbours, Shortland Street and The Bill.

Radio audience data bureau RAJAR appoints Ingenious Media executive director David Mansfield as chairman.

Ofcom criticises BRMB for running a competition which wrongly gave the impression winners would win a trip to Athens, Greece.

The Royle Family's Ricky Tomlinson appears in an online video campaign for Virgin Media to raise awareness of digital switchover.

The autumn weekend ratings battle has begun with X Factor taking 7.5 milion viewers on Saturday and 7.4 million on Sunday.

BBC creative director Alan Yentob has said the controversy surrounding nodding shots used is his Imagine series was handled badly.

Over 40 countries pick up Disney's hit film High School Musical 2.

The Brit Awards are to be broadcast live again in 2008, with FremantleMedia Enterprises distributing the show internationally.

Virgin Media is to offer Channel 4 programmes in high definition via its on demand service.

Sky reportedly had a private equity investor ready to assist with acquiring a stake in ITV.

DS speaks to Sparrowhawk Media UK's Rosie Hill-Davies about Diva TV.

This week in our regular Job Spec feature: Ben Gordon, Spun Gold TV's head of development.

Sky One and Channel 4 are taking part in the Sheffield Doc/Fest, offering upcoming commissions to TV documentary makers.

A new three-part BBC Two series for winter will explore popular and fast growing alternative therapies.

Following BBC One controller Peter Fincham, RDF chief creative officer Stephen Lambert also resigns over A Year with the Queen.

The BBC publishes its investigation into the controversy surrounding RDF documentary A Year with the Queen.

Fremantle creative director says UK stars are loved in the US as they are "more direct and say it how it is."

BBC Three has started filming on its new teenage drama West 10 LDN, from the creators of Kidulthood.

Diverse, part of Zodiak Television, adds outgoing TLC director of development Ed Crick and Channel 4 current affairs editor Mark Roberts to its team.

Former BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston is to tell the story of his kidnap ordeal in two special BBC programmes later this month.

The bi-annual British Animation Awards adds a prize for Best Character Voice Performance.

Channel 4's Dispatches strand is to launch a new live web debate next week.

BBC Two commissions Lion Television to produce Victorian Farm, a new historical observational documentary series.

Sky News appoints Sky Sports News’ David Ford as managing director of Sky News Radio.

Two new channels - Off the Fence Go Wild and Off the Fence Explore - will launch on the online TV service Joost.

Chop Shop: London Garage gets its online premiere today, four days ahead of its on screen debut.

A new animated version of Dennis the Menace is to be produced for the BBC.

Insiders say Virgin Media will lobby for Sky to reduce its stake in ITV from 17.9% to 5%.

Manchester United game pulls in 6 million for ITV1, while a Stephen Fry HIV documentary does well for BBC Two.

Last night saw the winners being announced for this year's BT Digital Music Awards.