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    Waking The Dead gets two more series

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    BBC1 crime drama Waking the Deadhas been commissioned for a further two series by controller of drama commissioning Jane Tranter. The fourth and fifth series, which will comprise six two-parters, will again feature a crack team of police forensic experts looking into 'cold cases'. Filming ...

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    BBC and HBO team up for epic Rome drama

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    The BBC and US network HBO are to undertake their first series co-production with an epic drama series chronicling the rise of the Roman empire through the eyes of two foot soldiers. The 12-episode Rome, which is due to air on BBC2 and HBO in ...

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    ITV1 wales tunes up pop award special

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    ITV1 Wales is to screen a 60-minute special based on The Coca Cola Pop Factory Music Awards 2003, which took place last week. Commissioned by HTV director of programmes Elis Owen, the Pop Factory production will feature acts such as Irish band The Revs and appearances from The Darkness and ...

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    ITV2 to screen comedy awards party

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    Socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson and Mark Durden Smith have been lined up to present ITV2's post-awards show from The British Comedy Awards. The Fun Goes Onwill go behind the scenes to talk to the winners at the after-show party once the awards, hosted by Jonathan Ross, ...

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    Heart sneaks up on Capital in London

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    Capital Radio is to make further changes to its programming after losing the title of London's most listened to station for the first time in 30 years.

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    Commercial digital stations beat BBC

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    The BBC's four new digital radio stations have been dwarfed by the commercial sector after their first listener results showed they attracted just over a million listeners in the three months to 14 September.

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    R2's popularity on wane

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    BBC Radio 2's meteoric rise has finally come a halt after its audience fell by over half a million listeners in the past three months.

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    MacKenzie: 'I hate Rajar'

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    Kelvin MacKenzie has repeated his call to scrap the techniques used by the Rajar audience survey after his TalkSport station ranked bottom among national commercial broadcasters.

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    SRH buys into Eire

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) is set to strengthen its foothold in the Irish Republic with an£18m deal to buy Dublin station FM104 from Capital Radio Productions. SRH, which owns national Irish station Today FM as well as Radio Clyde, is awaiting clearance from the Irish competition authorities after the Broadcasting ...

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    Emap seeks metal MD

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    Emap, publisher of Broadcast, is hunting for a managing director to spearhead its Kerrang! radio brand as it prepares to launch the station in the West Midlands. The position has been created to grow the Kerrang! radio business which will bring together its existing digital ...

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    BBC in trade mission

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    The BBC is preparing to travel to Japan with the Digital Radio Development Bureau and the Digital One multiplex to encourage electronics manufacturers to back digital radio. During the 10-day trade mission, the joint industry initiative will present information to manufacturers such as Panasonic to entice them into producing digital ...

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    Beck back in Russia

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    BBC World Service has appointed Sara Beck as head of its Russian division. Beck began her BBC career in 1991 as a producer with the Russian service and became Moscow bureau editor in 1998, covering both Chechen wars and the resignation of Russian president Boris Yeltsin. She relocated to Jerusalem ...

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    Clear Channel says Capital is vulnerable

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    Roger Parry, chief executive of US media giant Clear Channel's international division, has described Capital, the UK's largest radio group, as vulnerable to takeover, writes Michael Rosser.

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    British series in global distributions

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    Distributor Minotaur International has made a raft of sales to broadcasters across the globe, including selling the last six episodes of long-running crime drama Taggart (pictured) to ABC in Australia, French channel FR3 and Denmark's Danmark Radio. Challenge format Travel Sick has been picked up by German music channel Viva ...

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    Tiny planets to be seen in Scandinavia

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    Animation house Pepper's Ghost Productions is poised to sign deals with stations in Scandinavia to air its CGI pre-school series Tiny Planets, which screened on CITV in the UK, following sales to Fox Kids in Scandinavia, NRK in Norway and Disney and Canal+ in France. ...

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    TWI takes race to the altar to Europe

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    TWI Entertainment has sealed a brace of deals that will see dating format Race to the Altarscreened across Europe. Endemol Holland has licensed rights to produce the format in the Netherlands, where it is pitching to local networks, while Banana Productions has picked up local ...

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    RDFI acquires ideal world programmes

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    RDF International has acquired the distribution rights to a trio of documentaries from Glasgow-based indie Ideal World. RDFI will distribute human-interest titles Siamese Survivorsand Surrogate Mother: The Baby Makeras well as current affairs documentary Hunting the Washington Sniper, which all ...

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    Discovery wants Thunder races for US

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    Leopard Films has been commissioned by Discovery Channel US to produce a 60-minute special based on its Thunder Racesformat. The show, which sees teams turning broken-down cars into racing machines, will be shot this autumn in the Las Vegas desert. Executive producer for Discovery is ...

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    3G phones could have a radio role

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    A production team from BBC Bristol, which produced a programme package featuring footage captured using a video mobile phone instead of a camera, has admitted that while the pictures aren't yet good enough for broadcast programmes, the technology could be a breakthrough for radio reports.

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    DGP invests in DVD with three appointments

    2003-10-30T08:30:00Z

    Soho facility house DGP has expanded its DVD department with the recruitment of three new staff, writes Will Strauss.