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Media briefing                                                                                         Tuesday 20 Jan 2015 g
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Page 3: The Sun calls time on topless models after 44 years Landmark decision met with delight by growing army of critics although paper expected to continue featuring partially clad women  BBC3 to be subject of £100m bid by Avalon and Hat Trick executives Jon Thoday and Jimmy Mulville are expected to submit a formal proposal to the BBC to prevent network going online-only  GCHQ captured emails of journalists from top international media Snowden files reveal saved emails of NY Times, BBC, Guardian and more by agency which sees investigative journalists as ‘threat’ akin to terrorists  BBC strikes deal with PBS to create factual programmes Partnership with US public service broadcaster will see development of up to 10 shows including Sir David Attenborough’s Waking Giants  Culture select committee report expected to back axing of BBC Trust MPs understood to be mostly receptive to corporation being governed by single board of directors overseen by one chair  MTV to broadcast in black and white to promote conversation about race The music channel’s Martin Luther King Jr Day output will be in monochrome to launch a campaign encouraging its viewers to discuss race and bias  Amazon moves into film production Major expansion of Amazon Studios division follows success of award-winning show Transparent with films to be available for quick online release  Victoria Derbyshire's new show to be 'centrepiece' of BBC daytime TV news Show aimed at digital audience will air in tandem on BBC2 and BBC News Channel and include some reports distributed via social media before TV programme airs  Fox News apologises for terror pundit’s ‘Birmingham totally Muslim’ comments Steven Emerson was labelled ‘a complete idiot’ by Cameron and mocked on Twitter after saying city was no-go area for non-Muslims  A week inside Charlie Hebdo: how the 'survival issue' was made In the wake of the shocking attack on Charlie Hebdo, Ed Vulliamy spent time with the magazine’s surviving cartoonists as they put together their survivors’ issue
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BBC presenter discovers the pitfalls of Wolf Hall season It is not all glitz and glamour being a BBC presenter, oh no. Historian Suzannah Lipscomb truly suffered for her art filming her BBC4 programme Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home for the Wolf Hall season. In previous Hidden Killers, she has had to run up and downstairs in a corset until she thought she was going to faint, knelt in the footwell of a car with her head stuck out of the window as a two-foot Marie Antoinette wig she was wearing on her head wouldn’t fit in the car and learned how to joust in chain-mail. In the new Tudor Hidden Killers episode on Tuesday night, viewers will see her plunge into a freezing cold pond in woollen Tudor attire and pretend to drown to demonstrate how easy it was to drown in the highly-absorbent clothing. As Suzannah told Monkey: “TV gives me a fascinating opportunity to learn about the past by experiencing the physical reality of the age, but I admit I never quite envisaged – back when I was slogging for my doctorate in Oxford – some of the more bizarre activities I would engage in for the sake of history.” Monkey dreads to think what the Hidden Killers’ production insurance premiums are.