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Production - TV Corp faces call for post closures.
The results of a City investigation into independent television production in the UK released this month
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Opinion - Radiowaves - Can Radio 1 play to win?
Steve Orchard considers Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt's need to inject some distinctiveness into the former 'nation's favourite' to fight off competition from digital commercial players.
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Opinion - Ball takes an odd bounce.
At Edinburgh we marvelled at Tony Ball's ineptitude and saw Greg Dyke pull off an excellent bit of PR. But Mark Thompson, where were you?
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Commissioning - RDF to make Oz reality hit for ITV.
ITV1 has commissioned three primetime shows from leading indie producers for next year, including a round-the-clock
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Commissioning - BBC Schools looks at dangers of reality TV.
The Cult director behind films such as Repo Man and Sid and Nancy has been asked to make a drama on the dangers of reality television for BBC Schools, writes Paul Revoir.
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Commissioning - Tern wins£1.5m of factual orders.
Scottish indie Tern Television Productions has picked up a raft of orders worth£1.5m, writes Michael Rosser.
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Commissioner's Q&A - Ralph Lee.
History deputy commissioning editor Ralph Lee discusses Channel 4's programming plans for the next few months, the best ways to pitch to him and the challenge Saturday nights pose for the industry in the near future.
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COMMISSIONS - UK STYLE TO MAKE HOUSE OUT OF STRAW UK.
Style has commissioned indie ACP TV to produce a 15 x 30-minute property series, Home Wasn't
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COMMISSIONS - LIVING TV ORDERS CHILD ABDUCTION DOC.
Living TV channel controller Richard Woolfe has commissioned 10 x 30-minute Child Snatchers, a joint production
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COMMISSIONS - RADIO 4 TO EXPLORE WHY HISTORY IS FUNNY.
Radio indie Testbed Productions has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to create a 2 x
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COMMISSIONS - ALL OUT WINS THREE ORDERS FROM RADIO 4.
Olympic athlete Diane Modahl will present a 5 x 15-minute series for BBC Radio 4 discussing
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COMMISSIONS - CHALLENGE BOSS COMMISSIONS CASINO SHOW.
The controller of Flextech games channel Challenge, Jonathan Webb, has commissioned a dramatised game show, Casino
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Analysis - Profile - One mind or double trouble?
Granada's Charles Allen and Carlton's Michael Green have relentlessly pursued the goal of creating a single ITV company - but will it prove to be their downfall?
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Analysis - On the box - Move over Titchmarsh.
Dedicated Gardeners' World viewer Adam Wood applauds the supplanting of self-satisfied Yorshireman Alan Titchmarsh by curly-haired colossus Monty Don.
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Analysis - Ball's blue-sky thinking.
The response to Tony Ball's MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV festival this year calling for the BBC to be reined in has been decidedly cool, but might there be some merit in his ideas after all, asks Conor Dignam.
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BSC survey reveals big rise in sex on TV.
Sex scenes on television have more than tripled over the past five years, according to new
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Bragg to tell the story of ITV.
Melvyn Bragg is to make a landmark series about the history of ITV, to be broadcast as a prelude to the channel's 50th birthday celebrations, writes Paul Revoir.
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C4 to offer film makers cash at Sheffield.
Channel 4 is once again offering film-makers the opportunity to pitch for a commission at this year's Sheffield International Documentary Festival, writes Gavin Stamp.
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Radio Authority puts off West Midlands decision.
Executives at all the major radio groups waiting for the results of the hotly contested West Midlands licence will have to hold their breath a little longer after the Radio Authority postponed the announcement of the successful bid, writes Michael Rosser.