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Ant and Dec take 10% cut – and sign £20m deal

The Geordie double act have been working on a family challenge game show with the working title Push The Button, which will air on ITV1 next year.ITV declined to comment on reports that the new contract is worth about £10m each to the pair. ThADVERTISEMENTe deal takes Ant and Dec's long-term relationship with ITV – they joined the channel in 1998 – through to December 2011.Ant told the Edinburgh International...

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Ant and Dec take 10% cut – and sign £20m deal

The Geordie double act have been working on a family challenge game show with the working title Push The Button, which will air on ITV1 next year.ITV declined to comment on reports that the new contract is worth about £10m each to the pair. ThADVERTISEMENTe deal takes Ant and Dec's long-term relationship with ITV – they joined the channel in 1998 – through to December 2011.Ant told the Edinburgh International...

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TV news: Ant and Dec scoop £20m deal with ITV

... production company Gallowgate is behind the format for Push The Button. But at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in August, Ant revealed the pair were preparedto take a paycut as recession hit the industry.He said: "You have to be realistic. If the whole of the industry is suffering it would be naive to assume that we would not suffer too."Ant also explained the...

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£20m game show deal for Ant and Dec

... challenges on the programme will entail pushing a button to stop a clock.Ant told the Edinburgh International Television Festival in August that the pair were prepared to take a pay cut in the recession-hit industry.He said: "You have to be realistic. If the whole of the industry is suffering it would be naive to assume that we would not suffer, too."Peter Fincham, ITV director...

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£20m game show deal for Ant and Dec

... challenges on the programme will entail pushing a button to stop a clock.Ant told the Edinburgh International Television Festival in August that the pair were prepared to take a pay cut in the recession-hit industry.He said: "You have to be realistic. If the whole of the industry is suffering it would be naive to assume that we would not suffer, too."Peter Fincham, ITV director...

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£20m game show deal for Ant and Dec

... challenges on the programme will entail pushing a button to stop a clock.Ant told the Edinburgh International Television Festival in August that the pair were prepared to take a pay cut in the recession-hit industry.He said: "You have to be realistic. If the whole of the industry is suffering it would be naive to assume that we would not suffer, too."Peter Fincham, ITV director...

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£20m game show deal for Ant and Dec

... Live and CD:UK and they have been exclusively signed to ITV since 2000.Ant told the Edinburgh International Television Festival in August that the pair were prepared to take a pay cut in the recession-hit industry.He said: "You have to be realistic. If the whole of the industry is suffering it would be naive to assume that we would not suffer, too."

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My FT lead feature: Can creative industries survive digital onslaught?

... state-sponsored news on the market”? James Murdoch (2009) The Absence of Trust , Edinburgh International Television Festival MacTaggart Lecture, 28 August The Guardian’s Emily Bell worries that “the ecology of some parts of the UK media is now so uncertain and fragile that it can be depleted by a single blow from the end of the BBC's tail as it rolls over...