Hooray. The Labour Party's problems have been solved. Ex-ITV boss Charles Allen is to conduct a management and commercial review into the party's structures... more
Endemol's UK subsidiary has missed a June 30 deadline to file its annual accounts to Companies House, raising fresh questions about the heavily indebted Dutch TV production behemoth that makes Big Brother... more
Ocado made a pre-tax profit of £179,000 in the 24 weeks to May 15. Compared with a loss of £6.7 million for the same period last year, that was a creditable performance... more
Feature: Witanhurst is already London's largest private house but a subterranean extension will double its size to almost that of Buckingham Palace - yet nobody knows who owns it... ... more
The top director at Big Brother producer Endemol enjoyed a 35% pay rise to £2.8 million last year, as profits jump at the UK arm of the global TV production company... more
Five, the TV channel that has struggled for years to attract an audience, is up for sale. But who really cares? Not many viewers and even fewer advertisers, says Roy Greenslade... more
Three of London’s best-known and most upmarket hotels — the Berkeley, Claridge’s and the Connaught — could soon end up being controlled by the Irish taxpayer... more
Could a bidder be circling for BG Group? The spotlight once again fell on the perennial takeover target today but this time it was BHP Billiton — the world’s biggest listed miner... more
Big Brother is to be axed after a final series next summer. The popularity of the reality show has plummeted, with viewing figures for the current series barely reaching two million... more
Peter Bazalgette, the man who brought Big Brother to the UK, is backing a new company which joined the junior AIM stock market with a value of £3million but ambitions to be worth £1 billion... more
London still exports hit formats all over the world and is a hothouse for the use of new technologies in tandem with traditional creative talents.
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Charles Allen, former chief executive of ITV, has joined the board of Virgin Media, the cable company which unsuccessfully attempted to take over the broadcaster two years ago... more
There is little point in dwelling on the febrile nature of financial speculation. It's like complaining about the unpredictability of the British climate... more
Shareholders were licking their lips over a raft of possible takeover action as actual and rumoured deals totalling almost £12 billion hit dealers' screens... more
Barclays Capital has refused to join other banks selling off at a bargain-basement price the loans it made to fund the buyout of Big Brother producer Endemol... more
The makers of BBC1 show The One and Only have been accused of potentially acting illegally by failing to pay the tribute acts who took part. In the hit show, Kylie Minogue, Sir Elton John, Madonna, and Robbie Williams' impersonators battled it out to win a performing contract in Las Vegas
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You'd think she'd want to stay clear of anything to do with reality TV from now on but Jade Goody has agreed to join a debate on the very subject at the Southbank centre.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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