In May last year the government said no new films or TV programmes could portray smoking.
The most popular TV programmes requested include David Attenborough series Africa, Top Gear and Miranda.
The US authorities say the 24-year-old's TVShack website hosted links to pirated films and TV programmes.
There's also reality TV programmes to turn down - Celebrity Poker Club and The Match notwithstanding.
So - how to sum up the job of presenting one of the most fast-moving live TV programmes?
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Measuring which TV programmes attract the most comments is a more complicated affair.
Launched in December 2007, the BBC iPlayer allows viewers to watch selected TV programmes for up to seven days after broadcast.
Writers want higher repeat fees - residuals - for video and DVD sales and better royalties for sales of TV programmes.
Media regulator Ofcom is conducting an inquiry into premium-rate phone lines on TV programmes following allegations that some shows have misled callers.
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It has become one of the most popular and critically-acclaimed children's TV programmes and a model for similar shows around the world.
Her hugely successful cookbooks and accompanying TV programmes grew out of this.
Some of the most famous movies and TV programmes shot in Vancouver include offbeat comedies like Juno, Best in Show and Saved!
Mr Grylls has featured in a number of TV programmes using extreme survival techniques which include killing alligators and sleeping in a camel.
In the United States, advertisers such as Coca-Cola and Apple pay millions of dollars to place their products in films and TV programmes.
It has dominated the columns of Italian newspapers and magazines and been the subject of TV programmes, the BBC's David Willey in Rome reports.
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In July alone, there were 30m requests for BBC iPlayer TV programmes via a mobile or tablet, an increase of 142% year on year.
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This will be combined with additional initiatives including the development of awareness sessions through educational TV programmes and the establishment of Community Learning Centres.
As well as his radio work he's presented TV programmes, written books and screenplays and he also had his own top 10 hit called "Groovy Baby"!
She is probably the candidate who is best known to the public after appearing in TV programmes such as Celebrity Fit Club and Have I Got News For You.
In Britain, you would not get 6.4million people tuning in to TV programmes called Top Domestic Appliances or Top Condensing Boilers in the way they do for Top Gear.
Ms Gardner says they are also looking at cashing in on the Wikipedia brand and are open to suggestions some of which have included TV programmes and a board game.
The technology for the world's first teletext service was developed by BBC engineers who were trying to find ways of providing subtitles on TV programmes for the deaf, rather than produce a news service.
Launching on December 2007 as a simple catch-up website, BBC iPlayer has helped pioneer TV on demand by offering audiences the opportunity to watch selected TV programmes for up to 7 days after broadcast.
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The company also plugs the ability of the PlayStation 3 to do far more than just play video games: it can show high-definition DVDs, connect to the internet and, with the right accessories, record TV programmes.
Since 2007, when the Convention came into effect, new approaches in the different expressions of culture are being sought out - books, TV programmes, music, live shows and many more- while ways for their development and promotion are being explored.
"We now live in a society in which millions of our citizens prefer to vote characters off reality TV programmes - using their mobile phones at 25 pence a shot - rather than turn up at polling booths for elections, " he said.
Overall 2012 saw 2.32 billion requests for TV and radio programmes, a rise on the 1.94 billion recorded in 2011.
While Android and Apple also use their own app technologies, the TV and radio programmes themselves can be created once and used across both, so much of the investment is reusable.
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