All CBeebies articles – Page 42

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    Future of ITV - Making plans for Nigel.

    2003-02-07T16:07:28Z

    ITV has already made a strong start to 2003, scoring some major ratings successes. With Nigel Pickard taking up the reins as programme director, John Plunkett asks senior industry figures if he can make the network sparkle again.

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    Trade talk - Kidding around.

    2003-02-07T16:07:28Z

    New CBBC controller Dorothy Prior was behind the BBC's digital kids channels, but does she have the vision to take over from Nigel Pickard?

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    Children's TV: Multichannel - Cut-throat kids.

    2003-02-03T12:58:38Z

    Kids offerings have proliferated on multichannel, but is there a big enough audience to go around?

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    Children's TV: CITV - Winning custody of the children.

    2003-02-03T12:58:38Z

    The production powerhouse that is CBBC has given CITV a drubbing in recent years. But with BBC children's boss Nigel Pickard taking over at Network Centre, can CITV win back young viewers once again?

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    POSTMAN PAT MOVES.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    Cosgrove Hall Films, the company behind Andy Pandy and Engie Benjy, is to make the new

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    BBC fills top jobs at NHU and children's.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    The BBC has filled its two vacant senior programming posts by promoting CBBC head of programming

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    BBC replaces Pickard and Scholey

    2003-01-27T15:20:04Z

    The BBC has moved to fill its two vacant senior programming posts by promoting CBBC head of programming Dorothy Prior as CBBC controller and Natural History Unit (NHU) editor Neil Nightingale as NHU head, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    Free to Air - Dicing with digital death.

    2003-01-21T14:21:59Z

    Unlike the men grappling to reinvent ITV, Greg Dyke has never suffered any real illusions regarding the intrinsic strengths of digital television.

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    Review of the Year - That was the year that was.

    2002-12-16T10:26:31Z

    To some it will be the year TV fouled up football, to others it was the start of a turning point for the indie sector, but, whatever way you look at it, 2002 has certainly been eventful, from Dawn Airey's move to BSkyB or Tony Blackburn's resurrection on

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES -VE PROJECTS EXPANDS.

    2002-12-09T09:50:22Z

    Video Europe's VE Projects venture is supplying two children's primetime entertainment shows with multi-camera de-rig systems

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    VE projects expands

    2002-12-04T13:39:15Z

    Video Europe's VE Projects venture is supplying two children's primetime entertainment shows with multi-camera de-rig systems. The series are a third run of the BBC's Storymakers, an educational programme for Cbeebies, and a series about computer gaming, Lan Jam, produced ...

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    CBEEBIES GIVES STORYMAKERS SECOND RUN.

    2002-11-26T12:37:21Z

    Outgoing CBBC controller Nigel Pickard has commissioned a second 65 x 15-minute run of pre-school strand

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    BBC dominates kids' Baftas

    2002-11-26T09:11:25Z

    The BBC came away the main victor at the Bafta children's awards, picking up eight of the 14 categories, in what will be the perfect leaving present for outgoing CBBC controller Nigel Pickard, writes Leigh Homwood

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    CBeebies gives storymakers second run

    2002-11-20T13:54:36Z

    Outgoing CBBC controller Nigel Pickard has commissioned a second 65 x 15-minute run of pre-school strand The Storymakersfor the CBeebies channel. The series, which features a variety of storytelling puppets who live in a library, will be produced by Claire Bradley and executive produced by ...

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    Freeview boosts Five and Emap.

    2002-11-18T12:50:49Z

    Freeview, the BBC/Crown Castle DTT service which launched last month, has given a welcome boost to

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    Freeview boosts Five and Emap

    2002-11-14T09:08:23Z

    Freeview, the BBC/Crown Castle DTT service which launched last month, has given a welcome boost to Five and Emap, with both operators seeing off their arch rivals, according to the first set of ratings for the service, writes Georgina Lipscomb

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    Pickard steps into Liddiment's shoes.

    2002-10-18T13:07:31Z

    ITV has put an end to its three-month trawl for a new director of programmes with

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    Nigel Pickard is new ITV director of programmes

    2002-10-16T09:24:03Z

    EXCLUSIVEITV has put an end to its three-month trawl for a new director of programmes this morning appointing BBC controller of children's Nigel Pickard to the role, writes Steve Aston

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    Disney chief urges kids review.

    2002-09-24T15:18:00Z

    The Disney Channel is calling on the government to launch a review into the BBC's two children's channels, CBBC and Cbeebies, claiming they should be made subject to the same levels of regulation as BBC 3, writes Paul Revoir

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    Disney chief urges kids review

    2002-09-19T10:57:53Z

    The Disney Channel is calling on the government to launch a review into the BBC's two children's channels, CBBC and Cbeebies, claiming they should be made subject to the same levels of regulation as BBC 3, writes Paul Revoir