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Wood leaves the street for Mersey TV
Coronation Street producer Tony Wood has confirmed he is joining Mersey Television as creative director. The former ITV head of continuing series, who spent two years running the broadcaster's flagship soap, is set to take up the newly created post in the new year. Based at the group's Liverpool production ...
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Ex Sky boss launches DTT service
Former BSkyB commercial director Martin Goswami is launching a DTT service offering Freeview channels and on-demand specialist content. Aggregator TV will be based on a Freeview box with broadband connection and PVR capabilities. Goswami has teamed up with former ITV director of channels Chris Griffin and Chris Goodhall, previously of ...
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Right on target
With Alison Rayson at its helm, distributor Target has expanded into production and after doing Peter and Jordan's wedding for ITV2, the aim is a primetime terrestrial commission.
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What producers can't do
If I'm such a great producer, how come I can't manage my own life, wonders Steven D Wright.
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It's not a dirty business
Amid suggestions that BBC shows are being sinisterly penetrated by product placement, Steve Read claims that paid placements are an honourable business - and good for TV.
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Why big isn't bad
Lorraine Heggessey on why those who say the rise of super-indies will lead to bland programmes are wrong:
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Can he make stuff happen?
After restructuring his department, the BBC's new head of comedy, Jon Plowman, is taking on one of the most difficult slots in TV: a new peaktime BBC1 comedy.
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NewsIt's not just cricket!
Channel 4 may have bolstered its ratings share with cracking coverage of the Ashes cricket, but this year's third quarterly figures show that terrestrial TV is continuing to lose ground to multichannel.
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So you want to go tapeless?
Tapeless production is changing the way that people go about making content. Senior BBC trainer Tim Wallbank discusses how the BBC is gearing up towards its move to tapeless.
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Making your market
The scramble to find next season's potential hit TV show is underway once again this month at Mipcom. Jane Marlow looks at the ingredients for a successful sale and tracks the global route to market of three top shows.
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The BBC's digital pay-off
Never mind the outrage, the government must give the BBC a generous licence fee settlement if it is to lead digital switchover.
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NewsJowell probes BBC licence fee claims
The government has hired a major firm of accountants to probe the financial thinking behind the BBC's bid for an inflation-busting licence fee rise.
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NewsBBC's licence fee backlash
BBC director general Mark Thompson and chairman Michael Grade are undoubtedly master politicians but even they may have been surprised by the reaction to their proposal for a beefed-up licence fee increasing by 2.3% above inflation.
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NewsRow at Diverse over Minhas suspension
A disciplinary dispute has erupted between indie Diverse Production and its director of programmes, Narinder Minhas, after he was suspended following 'very serious allegations' about his conduct - and subsequently lodged a counter-claim arguing racial discrimination.
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NewsBroadcast Freelancer job site launches
Broadcast will launch a new job-finding website for tele-vision freelancers on Monday (17 October).
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NewsITV gives Fantasy Football the boot
ITV has axed Frank Skinner and David Baddiel's cult sports comedy show Fantasy Football for the forthcoming 2006 World Cup.
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NewsTeachers and Cutting It stars set up indie
One shot to fame as a hard-nosed taskmaster on Teachers, the other made her name playing an entrepreneurial hairdresser on Cutting It. Now actresses Nina Sosanya and Sarah Parish are moving into the world of production.
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BBC1 to fill regional slots
BBC1 controller Peter Fincham is looking to create a regional slot on the channel between 7pm and 7.30pm, and is asking indies to come up with a Nationwide-style magazine programme to fill it.
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NewsCowell woos Rosencrantz
Simon Cowell is understood to be trying to poach ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz to join his indie Syco.
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ITV1 plans DNA daytime show
SMG TV Productions has landed another ITV1 daytime order, with a 10-part factual series about DNA testing.