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BBC axes Drag Race UK despite million-strong weekly audience

The corporation's decision to drop a rare unscripted hit raises the usual question: who exactly is this good for?

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Autumn's TV arms race: broadcasters bet big on nostalgia, nature and Joe Lycett's pub

The Guardian's seasonal guide reveals less about what's good than about how nervous British broadcasters have become about holding an audience.

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S4C has appointed two new board members, and neither of them comes from television

A literature chair and a sports lawyer join the Welsh broadcaster's board for four years, at £9,650 a year. What a board is picked for says what the organisation thinks its problem is.

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The culture department is putting £400m into a theme park, and the money is not coming from the culture budget

A subsidy watchdog has just closed its file on DCMS's grant to UDX Development Company Limited. The route the money takes is the part worth reading.

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