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    Elstein in£500m bid for Hallmark

    2004-07-08T07:51:05Z

    David Elstein has launched a bid to buy the Hallmark Channel's international business with an offer believed to be worth£500m.

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    ITV turns to soap spin-offs to boost teatime

    2004-07-08T07:50:25Z

    ITV is turning to spin-offs of soaps such as The Bill and Coronation Street to rescue its troubled teatime slot.

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    Five show will offer brides plastic surgery

    2004-07-08T07:50:20Z

    Five has commissioned an outrageous new reality show which will transform the lives of engaged couples with extreme makeovers, involving liposuction and plastic surgery, immediately before their wedding days.

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    North One poaches Discovery chief

    2004-07-08T07:50:15Z

    North One Television has poached Discovery Channel director Katy Thorogood to oversee a push into factual and formatted programming.

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    C4 courts controversy with film on foetus life

    2004-07-08T07:50:10Z

    Channel 4 is set to reignite the abortion debate with a film showing never-before-seen video footage of what foetuses can do in the very first weeks of life.

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    Still Game gets UK airing

    2004-07-08T07:50:05Z

    BBC Scotland's hit comedy series Still Game has received a network commission from BBC2.

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    Scot producers want 9% target

    2004-07-08T07:50:00Z

    A Scottish pressure group backed by producers' alliance Pact is calling on terrestrial broadcasters to use Scottish producers for 9% of their commissions over the next five years.

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    ITV planning chief quits

    2004-07-08T07:49:55Z

    ITV's director of planning and strategy, Julia Lamaison, has quit the network with no job to go to.

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    Alain de Botton launches indie

    2004-07-08T07:49:50Z

    Author Alain de Botton has joined forces with director Neil Crombie to launch a factual indie - Seneca Productions.

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    RTL chief to address Edinburgh

    2004-07-07T09:47:32Z

    Gerhard Zeiler, chief executive of Five majority shareholder RTL, is to deliver this year's Worldview Address at the Edinburgh International Television Festival.

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    Ten O'Clock News goes interactive

    2004-07-07T09:43:08Z

    The BBC is to launch a new digital interactive service for the Ten O' Clock News bulletin.

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    US advertisers call for electronic radio measurement

    2004-07-07T09:21:18Z

    US advertisers have slammed the 'archaic' way radio audiences are being measured, echoing calls by their UK peers to introduce electronic measurement.

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    Hewlett joins BBC digital review

    2004-07-07T09:18:56Z

    Former Carlton director of programmes Steve Hewlett is to scrutinise BBC3 and BBC 4 as part of Patrick Barwise's investigation into the BBC's digital TV services.

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    BBC explores selling off commercial arm

    2004-07-06T12:14:25Z

    The sale of BBC Worldwide is one option being explored as part of a review of the BBC's commercial operation ordered by new chairman Michael Grade and director general Mark Thompson.

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    BBC axes websites

    2004-07-06T10:38:28Z

    The BBC has axed a handful of websites following a critical government report into the scope and scale of the corporation's on-line services.

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    Ofcom bans Top Up TV ads

    2004-07-06T10:35:41Z

    Top-Up TV, the pay-TV service for Freeview customers, has been forced to change its advertising campaign after Ofcom said it was misleading.

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    Zig Zag boss received death threats

    2004-07-06T10:05:43Z

    Senior executives at indie Zig Zag Productions, including managing director Danny Fenton, were issued death threats by Britain's most notorious prankster, a court heard yesterday.

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    Shameless indie storms Golden Nymphs

    2004-07-05T12:35:16Z

    Company Pictures, the indie behind Shameless , has walked away with a hattrick of Gold Nymph awards at the Monte Carlo Television Festival.

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    Graf calls for BBC new media indie quota

    2004-07-05T11:46:25Z

    A government sponsored review is urging that the BBC appoint two new governors to oversee the way it runs its on-line services and farm-out at least 25% of its web content to independent suppliers.

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    Scot producers lobby for more commissions

    2004-07-05T11:43:26Z

    A Pact-backed think tank representing the Scottish media industry is calling on public service broadcasters to commission almost 10% of their output from producers in Scotland over the next five years.