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I'm the Â鶹Éç's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.

Two British actresses, Archie Panjabi and Julia Ormond were winners at the Emmy awards in Hollywood. Mad Men again won the award for best drama, report the Â鶹Éç and .

Former England cricket captain why it took a newspaper, the News of the World, to expose the Pakistani betting scam.

The Mark Thompson has said the Â鶹Éç could waive the 2% licence fee increase agreed for next April, but the arguments are "finely balanced".

The Â鶹Éç reports Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he would ask the Â鶹Éç to provide better value for money. He said he could not rule out a reduction in the licence fee: the Â鶹Éç "has to live on the same planet as everyone else".

Next year's licence fee negotiations will be a "moment of realism" for the Â鶹Éç, said director general Mark Thompson in his MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. But he said any loss of funding would damage the UK's capacity to produce high-quality TV programmes, which were popular in Britain and round the world. He criticised Sky for failing to invest in British talent and content and suggested it should pay to re-transmit PSB channels. The Â鶹Éç reports.

The controller of Â鶹Éç One, Jay Hunt, is seen as the favourite to take over as Channel 4's chief creative officer, .

the Edinburgh International Television Festival.

The Â鶹Éç's newspaper review highlights the papers' focus on Lord Mandelson's intervention in the Labour leadership election.

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