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NTL backs favourite in race for media rights
Cable company bolsters Go Racing bid with exclusive association
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NTL backs favourite in race for rights
Cable company bolsters Go Racing bid with exclusive association
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Channel 5 to bid for The Bill
A feeding frenzy for ITV police drama serial The Bill will start in the winter months, with Channel 5 expected to bid for the Pearson Television show, writes Ashley Davies.Pearson's contract
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BBC 2 shifts focus to over-35 market
BBC 2 is repositioning itself to target a 35 to 55 year-old audience, with its youth-targeted programmes to air on BBC 3 to fit in with the corporation's five-channel digital future.Under
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The second series of Big Brother will be broadcast on E4, Channel 4's digital entertainment channel
The second series of Big Brother will be broadcast on E4, Channel 4's digital entertainment channel, as well as on the main terrestrial channel, writes Ashley Davies.E4's digital capacity means the
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On Digital launch 'had problems'
On Digital chiefs have admitted to an employment tribunal that they told the press the launch of the digital terrestrial service in 1998 was a success when it was beset by
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PICKARD TO BROADCAST BLUE PETER ALL YEAR ROUND
New BBC controller of children's Nigel Pickard's first CBBC winter schedule will see long-running show Blue Peter commissioned to run 52 weeks every year. From January 2001, the show will run
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RECORD OF THE YEAR ORDERED FOR LWT DECEMBER
LWT has been commissioned by the ITV network to produce The Record of the Year. Ordered by ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz, the live show gives the public the chance
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AN ARRAY OF BLOCKBUSTERS TO SCREEN ON CHANNEL 5
Channel 5 has scheduled a new raft of terrestrial film premieres and is promising at least one blockbuster a month for the next year. They include The Perfect Murder, City of
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CARTOON NETWORK BUYS JAPANESE 'STAR WARS' SERIES
Cartoon Network has bought hit Japanese action show Gundam Wing, dubbed the Star Wars of Japan. Cartoon Network has bought the full 52 x 30-minute series. Cartoon Network Europe vice-president of
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TALKS IN PROGRESS TO COACH GET A LIFE HARRY ONTO TV
Internet drama company The Interactive Motion Picture Company (IPM) is in talks with independent producers and broadcasters about transporting drama Get A Life Harry onto television. Users decide on Harry's character
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FLEXTECH COMMISSIONS DAILY ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE
Flextech interactive entertainment guide Scene One is to produce a daily five-minute nationwide events guide for the multi-platform service. Flextech head of interactive Peter Chapman has commissioned the in-house team to
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CAPITAL GOLD LINES UP GOLDEN OLDIES SHOWCASES
Capital Gold programme controller Andy Turner has ordered three new shows for the Capital Radio-owned station. Cream of the '60s will be a new 120-minute Saturday show to be presented by
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ITV to lift daytime share with repeats
ITV controller of daytime Maureen Duffy is believed to be taking a leaf out of her BBC 1 counterpart's book by taking steps to repeat popular dramas in the afternoon.Duffy and
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BBC spotlights depression
The BBC has launched a series of programmes as part of a mental health and depression campaign called On the Edge, writes Georgina Lipscomb.The On the Edge season of programmes was
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - ITV's Cold Feet burns BBC 1's Superhuman
The 120-minute special kicking off ITV's new series of drama Cold Feet warmed the cockles of viewers' hearts, writes Jon Rogers.According to unofficial overnights, the comedy drama on Sunday (12 November)
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Thorpe to leave NTL in rejig
NTL group managing director of interactive services Jeremy Thorpe is expected to leave the company after his brief, which includes the interactive content fund, was taken over by former Cable &
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Tonight gets new editor
Granada controller of current affairs and features Jeff Anderson is to hand over his editorship of the Tonight programme to DMA Media managing director and former ITV news editor David Mannion.Mannion
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Indies top priority, says C4
Channel 4 director of programmes Tim Gardam this week said his top priority was to improve the channel's relationships with independent producers and instil a sense of longer-term joint-venture with them,
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Switchover date must be delayed
The government should not commit itself to a firm analogue switch-off date nor should it intervene to accelerate the process, the industry's leading watchdogs warned this week.Joint advice from the Independent