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Genre Focus: Drama - Dramatic licence.
Laura Mackie relishes the opportunities her position as BBC head of drama serials affords for her to bring dynamic projects to screen. She talks to Leigh Holmwood about the future of the genre in an age of reality TV.
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Production - Losses lead WPP to close Tyrell.
Advertising giant WPP has closed its loss-making equipment reseller Tyrell with the loss of 28 jobs.Staff
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Production - Buyers line up for BBC Tech.
The BBC has revealed the shortlist of bidders for its technology arm, BBC Technology (Broadcast, 6.2.04).
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Production - Pepper pours£1m into HD kit.
London post-production facility Pepper has purchased a Spirit Datacine together with a Da Vinci 2k Plus grading system in an investment representing£1m, writes Farah Jifri.
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In Production - The Nile put through The Mill.
Mill TV has completed work on The Nile, a three-part documentary for BBC Bristol. The show
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Commissioning - Mentorn wins ITV class order.
ITV has commissioned Mentorn Scotland to make an ambitious 90-minute documentary, The Estate, in which members of an upper class family swap places with those on inner city estate, writes Paul Revoir.
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Commissioning - Clerkenwell picks Cold Feet star for Ugly role.
Cold Feet star James Nesbitt has been lined up to feature in a black comedy thriller for ITV1, writes Jon Rogers.
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Commissioning - Commissioner's Q&A - Rebecca Johnson.
Bravo commissioning editor Rebecca Johnson is proud of her channel's new football show, Fashanu's Football Challenge, and talks of being a fan of US import 24 as well as Ant and Dec.
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COMMISSIONS - C4 ORDERS TWO NEW WIFE SWAP SERIES.
Channel 4 commissioning editor, documentaries Hilary Bell has ordered two series of the reality show Wife
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COMMISSIONS - MOSAIC TO FOLLOW OLYMPIC FORTUNES.
Mosaic Films is to track the preparations for this year's Olympics in a one-hour documentary for
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COMMISSIONS - LION TO PRODUCE MORE HAMMER SHOWS.
Lion Television has been commissioned to make another 25 x 60-minute episodes of property auction show
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COMMISSIONS - KNOW COMMENT WINS BBC CONTRACT.
Ten Alps subsidiary Know Comment has won the BBC contract to provide live TV coverage of
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COMMISSIONS - FREE@LAST TO MAKE SHORTS FOR UK GOLD.
Indie Free@Last is to produce a series of shorts for two themed weekends of comedy on
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Fraud case teaches BBC costly lesson.
BBC Worldwide wanted to do direct deals with Chinese manufacturers to make Tweenies toys. Conor Dignam reports on how the plan led to a£500,000 fraud case.
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FORMAT FOCUS: ALTERNATIVE LOVE.
The BBC is taking a risk with a version of this on-location dating show with a 'love triangle twist', writes Michael Rosser.
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FORMATS & DEALS - C4I DOES BRISK BUSINESS WITH AUSTRALIA.
Tiger Aspect's high-school drama Teachers has been sold to ABC in Australia as part of a
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FORMATS & DEALS - AMERICAN IDOL 3 SET FOR GLOBAL AIRING.
American Idol 3, the US version of hit ITV show Pop Idol, is to be screened
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FORMATS & DEALS - ACTION TIME DOES FORMAT DEALS IN EUROPE.
Distributor Action Time has secured a raft of format deals with broadcasters across Europe. Music gameshow
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FORMATS & DEALS - FRENCH TO REMAKE WILDLIFE RESCUE SHOW.
BBC children's challenge series Serious Jungle is to be remade by French production company Cellcast Television.
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FORMATS & DEALS - ELECTRIC SKY SELLS RIGHTS TO OCEAN SHOW.
Factual distributor Electric Sky has made a clutch of sales of underwater series Jewels of the