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Viewers want more interactive television with two-thirds saying they wanted to be able to influence the plot of their favourite shows, a survey said today.

X Factor bosses said today that the controversial "auto-tune" will not be used on contestants' voices in future shows.

Tobacco companies may be using interactive websites such as YouTube to market their products to young people, according to a study.

A celebration of the achievements of the most famous siblings in British advertising could never be billed as a mere anniversary party.

Millions of people watch them each day around the world. Their audiences are young and tech-savvy and most people over 30 would be forgiven for never even having heard of them.

The venue: Côte. It was recommended by our managing editor and was convenient.

This is not a Bill for the media, I want to emphasise that," says the veteran human rights campaigner Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC, of his plans to overhaul Britain's laws of libel. "It's a Bill for those who are consumers of the media: the citizens, the people."

Azione!" director Gabriele Muccino cries. Effort-lessly elegant Italians wander across a bridge; some stop to look at market stalls. Others chat with friends or lovers. All are clad in Moschino: sharp suits, bowler hats, berets and heels. The camera follows a solemn girl with red lips, carrying a suitcase across the cobbled bridge, being chased by her lover.

TV bosses will decide today whether to show axed X factor contestant Shirlena's last performance after she was dropped because of concerns over her mental health.

Zach Leonard has been appointed to the new post of Managing Director Digital, London Evening Standard and the Independent, starting on 1 September.

An ad in BT's long-running "Adam and Jane" campaign was banned for misleading customers over the speed of the company's broadband, a watchdog announced today.

An ad in BT's long-running "Adam and Jane" campaign was banned for misleading customers over the speed of the company's broadband, a watchdog announced today.

Channel 5 has rejoined Project Canvas just a month after walking away, as the broadcaster's new owner, Richard Desmond, said the venture would shape the future of TV.

Broadcaster Andy Kershaw is to return to BBC Radio 3 after three years off-air as a result of personal problems, it was announced today.

Eccentric X Factor hopeful Shirlena Johnson has been thrown out of this year's Miss Great Britain contest after organisers discovered her real age when they watched her TV audition.

Tom McNally, a Liberal Democrat minister in the Ministry of Justice, suggested last week that the Coalition Government might introduce a new privacy law rather than allow judges to develop one according to their interpretation of Article 8 of the Human Rights Convention. Lord McNally told The Daily Telegraph: "If we are going to have a privacy law, it should be openly debated and freely decided by Parliament."

Is Rod Liddle angling for Richard Littlejohn's job on the Mail? His predictably provocative column in the Sunday Times reached new levels of offensiveness last week when he fired off a bullying rant against air hostesses.

If the British property market resembles a shrivelling party balloon, in Ireland it looks more like the aftermath of the Hindenburg disaster. The bubble that started growing in the 1990s and accelerated out of control after 2002, when Ireland joined the euro, eventually burst spectacularly in 2008, and has yet to show any signs of recovery. Since the crash, those who lost a fortune or who have been left with unsellable property have been looking for someone to blame.

Vanessa Perroncel, the model who shot to fame after being accused of having had an affair with the former England captain John Terry, has made a surprise attack on the use of injunctions by footballers, after two England players last week succeeded in keeping their sex lives out of the press.

When the film Minority Report was in cinemas in 2002, they called it science fiction. As Tom Cruise's character walks through a shopping mall, he is assailed by talking billboards that recognise him and target him with personalised advertisements. "John Anderton, you could use a Guinness right about now," one calls out.