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Thinkbox has announced that TalkTalk, the TV, broadband, mobile and home phone provider, is joining the organisation as an Associate Member.

After being abandoned for the last few weeks, the Commonwealth Games: Opening Ceremony gave people the excuse to escape the long sunny evenings and once again return to gawp at their telly box while coming over all patriotic.

US media players are increasingly developing a taste for the flesh of British TV companies in what is turning into a very expensive game of musical chairs. What is going on and where will it all end? Raymond Snoddy investigates.

Yesterday saw ITV soap Emmerdale (7pm) treat viewers to a whole hour of ill-fated rural romances and sheep dip-scented backstabbing as the home of doomed relationships played host to yet another pantomime of a wedding.

Targeting a younger, female audience, ITVBe will become the exclusive home of ITV’s The Only Way is Essex, as well as featuring acquired content, including US Real Housewives.

There were mixed results for commercial television channels in June, with only ITV – on the back of World Cup fever – reporting any significant gains.

Love Productions is a UK-based independent production company and produces shows including the Great British Bake Off and Benefits Street.

While never quite reaching the ‘outrage’ heights of Channel 4’s Benefits Street, Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole had managed to gain a stagnant fan base over the past six weeks

The former Today programme host has been appointed lead presenter of Newsnight and will anchor the show three nights a week from the autumn.

Following Liberty Global’s acquisition of 6.4% of British broadcaster ITV, BoAML has speculated the potential upside for the international broadcaster if a full take-over were to happen at some point in the future.