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WAR ZONE: SCHEDULING - WHO'S WINNING THE BATTLE OF THE SCHEDULES?
With 30 per cent of viewers now tuning into multi-channel TV, the terrestrials are fighting for their audience share with aggressive last-minute schedule changes. But is there more to the changes than just ratings?
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INTERVIEW - Independent spirit
Unique Broadcasting's Tim Blackmore says being given an MBE was like reading his own obituary. But there's life in the old dog yet - for the man who was in on the launch of Radio 1 is set to become chairman of production.
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - All washed out
It has only taken a few brief years for docu-soaps to become established as standard primetime fare, but once eager viewers are already starting to find the formula a turn-off.
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OFF THE RECORD - Family affair
Suggestions that Greg Dyke's appointment as BBC director general designate amounts to a break with corporation tradition are wide of the mark, Off The Record can exclusively reveal. Exhaustive research has
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OFF THE RECORD - Taking advantage
On a similar note, the frantic round of drinks parties being hosted by the new DG and his predecessor, Sir John Birt, has already claimed its first victims. One of Dyke's
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OFF THE RECORD - Ducking the issue
Those good people at Classic FM pulled out all the stops when they opened their new Oxford Circus HQ. As well as a Japanese water sanctuary and a grand piano, which
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OFF THE RECORD - Going Nationwide
Remember Nationwide - BBC 1's eccentric current affairs strand littered with items on skate-boarding ducks? Well, had it not been axed in 1983 it would be 30 this autumn and to
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NewsBBC supports democracy initiative
The BBC will play a key role in a new worldwide multimedia initiative designed to initiate discussion about democracy in modern society. [ALL]
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OFF THE RECORD - Leaking Dyke
OTR is glad to report that Broadcast hack Jason Deans was among the first to quiz Sir Christopher 'not very' Bland when news of Dyke's appointment broke last Thursday. Bland, taking
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OFF THE RECORD - Done Ronin
Prize for most pretentious (surely enlightening? - ed) press release of the millennium so far goes to the good people of Ronin Entertainment, the newly formed indie, which will produce the
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Simons quits ITN's new-look LNR
London News Radio (LNR) programme director John Simons has quit a week after ITN took editorial control of its two stations, LBC 1152 AM and News Direct 97.3 FM.Simons was to
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C4 launches raid on US with drama
Channel 4's drama department is spearheading an assault on the US market and is on the verge of signing deals to co-produce American versions of two of its UK dramas.C4 wants
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Sullivan out of BBC 1's Copperfield
BBC 1 has overhauled its£4 million adaptation of David Copperfield, dropping Only Fools and Horses writer John Sullivan and shifting the production from BBC entertainment into BBC drama, writes Tim Dams.
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Lygo heads search for animation
Channel 4 has created a new animation team under the auspices of Kevin Lygo's entertainment department as part of a drive to find a peaktime, British-made animated sitcom, writes Tim Dams.
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SKY ONE DRAWS UP SUMMER ANIMATION STRAND
Sky One is introducing a two-hour summer weekday animation strand, Animaktion, to go out for six weeks from Monday 26 July between 08.00 and 10.00. The line-up, which replaces Sky One's
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NewsPocoyo makes terrestrial move to Five
Five has acquired the terrestrial rights to hit CITV pre-school show Pocoyo. [ALL]
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ALL-STAR CAST FOR LUCY SULLIVAN IS GETTING MARRIED
Letitia Dean, Sarah Stockbridge, Frances Tomelty and Niall Buggy have been cast in the 16 x 30-minute drama series Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, which independent Carnival TV is producing for
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UNITED SIGNED FOR ITV2 FOOTBALL FIRST CONTRACT
ITV2 has commissioned United Productions to make a second series of football news programme Football First to go out at the start of the new season in August. The series will
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INITIAL TO PRODUCE ECLIPSE CONCERT SPECIAL FOR C4
GMG Endemol Entertainment subsidiary Initial is to produce a 60-minute concert special, Lynx Voodoo Eclipse, for Channel 4. The concert is being staged on 11 August to mark the solar eclipse
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R2 TO AIR CELEBRATION OF SINGING COWBOYS
BBC Radio 2 is to air a 4 x 30-minute series commemorating the great cowboy songs and singers of the silver screen. The Singing Cowboys, which is produced by BBC music