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    PEER POLL: Big Brother

    2005-07-01T08:00:00Z

    Does Big Brotherreallly 'smash racial stereotypes', as Trevor Phillips claims?

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    Humphrys defends interviewing style

    2005-06-30T11:35:23Z

    A defiant John Humphrys told politicians yesterday he had no intention of going 'easy' on them and would walk out of the BBC if told to do so by his bosses.

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    Telewest rolls out TV on demand

    2005-06-30T11:32:05Z

    Telewest has confirmed the launch of its TV-on-demand service, which will be called Teleport.

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    Another black Wednesday for BBC1

    2005-06-30T11:22:35Z

    In the battle between Channel 4 and BBC1 over heavyweight documentaries, C4's Cutting Edgeprogramme came out on top with a hefty average of 4.5 million (22.2%), as BBC1 slumped to its worst peaktime performance since December last year.

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    Five orders doc about oldest mother

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Five has commissioned At It Productions to make an hour-long observational documentary about the world's oldest mother as part of the channel's popular science strand, Extraordinary People.

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    Commissioner's Q & A: Rebecca Johnson

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    The commissioning editor of Bravo, Trouble and Challenge, is hoping to stir up more debate with Booze Britain 2and says nothing is too risqu as she goes in search of a successor to The Word.

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    BBC2 lines up new archive programme

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    BBC2 is making a follow-up to its surprise hit documentary The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon. The Lost World in Colouris the channel's second collaboration with the British Film Institute and uses rare archive footage of one of earliest instances of ...

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    Motive films more Gaelic games for RTE

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Motive Television's Dublin production arm has been commissioned by RTE Sport to make Rise and Shine(working title), a new live Gaelic games series. The 10 x 60-minute weekly show will air from late July and will feature action, interviews, guest appearances and 'irreverent chat'. The executive ...

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    Grizzly tales to come back on CiTV

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    CiTV has commissioned two new series of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kidsfrom Honeycomb Animation and Elephant Productions. The Bafta-nominated series, narrated by Nigel Planer, is based on the successful books by Jamie Rix and will return to the screen in the new year for a 26 ...

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    Granada to make celeb show in US

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Granada America is to produce a Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes-style show for US network NBC, working titled I'm a Celebrity But I Want to be a Pop Star.

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    Bisexual Girls makes its US mark for Betty

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Betty TV has made its first mark in the US market - selling Bisexual Girlsto US broadcaster Independent Film Channel.

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    Play School to be remade in Maori

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Play Schoolis to be remade in the Maori language after BBC Worldwide sold the rights to the format to a New Zealand producer. Maui Productions will make 260 x 30-minute episodes of the classic children's series, renaming its characters for the Maori audience. Humpty Dumpty will be called Hamuti Tamuti, ...

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    Format focus: Ultimate Raid

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Celebrities pick the books, music and movies that have formed the cultural backdrop to their lives.

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    Nissan pays for travel series

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Car manufacturer Nissan has paid for a 26 x 30-minute travel and motoring series which it plans to offer free to broadcasters in exchange for branding and adverts for its 4x4 vehicles around the show. The advertiser-funded series is being produced by Pro Active Television and distributed by its sister ...

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    TWI takes cookery show down under

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    TWI has sold its daytime series Chef v Britain, which kicked off on ITV1 this week, to Australian broadcaster Nine Network. The 15 x 30-minute cookery challenge show, presented by Claire Sweeney and TV chef Gino d'Acampo, features members of the public going head to head ...

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    Granada makes sales in eastern Europe

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Granada International has sold a raft of TV movies including Dangerous Watersand Dead Will Tellto RTL Klub in Hungary as part of a series of eastern European deals. Pro TV in Romania has acquired a package of 24 TV movies, ITC and ...

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    Lion ramps up operations for US assault

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Lion TV has expanded its operations in the US, opening a new office in California and promoting one of its executive producers to run its New York base. Tracy Green has been appointed to head the new Santa Monica office, developing original programmes and selling UK formats to the US ...

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    Discovery co-production comes alive

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    Discovery Networks is co-producing Darlow Smithson's new survival docu-drama series Alive(working title) with Channel 4 and Granada International. The 10 x 60-minute series mixes interviews with people who have had near-death experiences and dramatic reconstructions of the events. Production is already underway and transmission is set ...

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    Low, common and loving it

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    With genteel classics replaced by raucous entertainment shows, the American public is learning to love the populist face of British TV.

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    BBC Broadcast sells for£166m

    2005-06-30T08:30:00Z

    BBC Broadcast will be sold to an Australian consortium led by Macquarie Capital Alliance Group (MCAG) for£166m - a price underpinned by£500m of BBC contracts - once the government greenlights the deal next month.