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VIEWERS TO CHOOSE POP GROUP COURTESY OF BBC
GMG Endemol Entertainment arm Initial is working on Pop Pickers, which will form part of the BBC's forthcoming live music event Music Live, due to air between 25 and 29 May.
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AGIA NAPA FROM KEO AND COUCH RETURNS LATER THIS YEAR
Keo Films and Couch Potato are to make a second series of Agia Napa: Fantasy Island for Channel 4 commissioning editor multicultural Yasmin Anwar. The series will return later this year.
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THREE MORE YEARS FOR TORRINGTON'S GWR SEX SLOT
Radio presenter Graham Torrington has signed a deal with GWR to present his sex and relationship show Late Night Love for another three years. GWR is also looking to develop new
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NewsMySpace hires AOL exec
Fox Interactive Media (FIM) has hired AOL executive Chris Ellis to commercially develop social network MySpace and video-games network IGN.
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FELPERIN TO INTRODUCE KNOWLEDGE ART CINEMA STRAND
BBC Knowledge is launching a new European art-house film strand in April called Kino, which will showcase films such as La Haine, The Dream Life of Angels, The Nanny and Ay
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Summer of 1970s nostalgia for BBC 2
BBC 2 controller Jane Root announced plans to devote the channel's Saturday peaktime and late-night schedules to a new 1970s nostalgia format called I (heart) The 1970s for 10 weeks in
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Coogan and Avalon join for BBC 1
Steve Coogan is working on a new mainstream comedy sketch show with Avalon Television that is set to pilot on BBC 1 in the autumn, writes Tim Dams.The show is a
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Choice commissions two original sitcoms
BBC Choice has commissioned two new sitcoms as part of its drive to air occasional high-budget original programming, writes Tim Dams.
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Granada to launch ad-funded slate in April
Granada is poised to unveil a slate of new advertiser-funded regional programme deals, including a 10 x 30-minute DIY series with home improvement giant B&Q, writes Colin Robertson.
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - Grand Prix runs down BBC 1 doc soap
The debut of BBC 1's new daytime soap, Doctors, pulled in a respectable set of figures, but failed to outgun its ITV opposition, writes Paul Donovan.
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Zone plans UK version of Reality TV
Zone Vision, which operates more than seven channels around Europe, is planning to launch a UK version of Reality TV and is gearing up for flotation on Nasdaq next year, writes Ashley Davies.
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Day handed Fusion post by md Reeve
Fusion Radio Group, the radio outfit set up by former LNR managing director Nigel Reeve, has hired FLR programme controller Roger Day as managing director/programme director, writes Colin Robertson.
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Smith antipathy to News 24 review makes BSkyB fume
BSkyB hit out this week at media secretary Chris Smith's admission that a review of BBC News 24 is likely to be put off until after the next general election, writes Tara Conlan.
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News at Ten reprieve fades
The prospects of ITV reinstating News at Ten receded further this week after an Independent Television Commission executive admitted that the network will be given a chance to rectify problems, even if ITV's new schedule fails the regulator's original cri
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NewsWright to present Talksport drivetime
Former England footballer Ian Wright will be the new co-presenter of Talksport's drivetime show from 26 March. He replaces Rodney Marsh who left the station in October last year.
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Liddiment admits ITV share too low
ITV director of programmes David Liddiment has admitted that the network's share for the first three months of the year had been 'disappointing'.Speaking as he unveiled ITV's spring/summer schedule, Liddiment said:
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Oscar-winning film American Beauty is to air on the BBC in late 2002 as part of the corporation's existing terrestrial rights output deal with Hollywood studio DreamWorks SKG, writes Tim Dams
Oscar-winning film American Beauty is to air on the BBC in late 2002 as part of the corporation's existing terrestrial rights output deal with Hollywood studio DreamWorks SKG, writes Tim Dams.
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FAULL RAIDS ON DIGITAL
Former On Digital executive director of broadcasting Ashley Faull has lured On Digital head of programme planning Deborah Ward to join him at his fledgling interactive entertainment company, sit-up.com. Faull is
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NEW SMG STRIKE LOOMS
The National Union of Journalists and Bectu have called for a second strike in their dispute with Scottish Media Group (SMG), despite receiving an enhanced offer from the ITV company. SMG
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LM ENDS MONTHLY RUN
LM magazine has said it will cease monthly publication after its April issue after losing its High Court battle with ITN over allegations about the news service's footage of Bosnian Moslems