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    Zenith keen to buy up indies

    2003-03-27T15:21:25Z

    Zenith Entertainment, the indie behind ITV hits Inspector Morse and SM:TV, is in the market for production companies, according to managing director Ivan Rendall, who this week led a buyout of the 20-year-old company, writes Colin Robertson

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    Discovery's Thorogood gets wider role

    2003-03-27T15:19:47Z

    Discovery Channel director Katy Thorogood has been given an expanded role, taking control of both Discovery Travel & Adventure and Discovery Sci-Trek, writes Paul Revoir

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    RDF plans new ?Swap' format

    2003-03-27T15:18:01Z

    RDF Media has followed up the success of its Wife Swap series with two more ?swap' shows for Channel 4 and is making a foray into formatted entertainment with a gameshow for BBC2, writes Penny Hughes

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    Strong showing for XFM in Sonys

    2003-03-27T15:16:12Z

    Xfm leads the commercial radio nominations at this year's Sony Radio Academy Awards, with six contenders including Ricky Gervais and breakfast host Christian O'Connell, writes John Plunkett

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    Box's Neal returns to producing

    2003-03-27T15:14:01Z

    Gub Neal is stepping down from the day-to-day running of Box TV to take a more hands-on role as a producer for the indie, writes Penny Hughes

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    Iraq War deters Mip attendees

    2003-03-27T15:11:28Z

    The war in Iraq has dealt a blow to attendance at this week's Mip-TV market with American, Australian and Japanese visitors deciding not to make the trip amid concerns about security, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    C4 buys quirky US chat show

    2003-03-27T15:09:54Z

    Channel 4 has snapped up the UK rights to a quirky new US chat show which features a 20-year-old American interviewing celebrities in his front room, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    Spacemen walk on BBC1

    2003-03-27T15:05:50Z

    The BBC is to use state-of-the-art computer technology to go where no man has gone before when it expands its hugely successful Walking with... strand to space, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    Somethin' Else now leading BBC supplier

    2003-03-27T14:52:55Z

    Somethin' Else has scooped 600 hours of commissions on BBC Radio 1 following the closure of the broadcast division of Mark Goodier's Wise Buddah, writes John Plunkett

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    Telewest posts 2.2bn loss

    2003-03-27T14:48:40Z

    Cable company Telewest today insisted the restructuring of its£5.3 billion debt was on course despite posting a year-end loss of£2.2 billion, writes Luke Satchell

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    Millionaire 'too easy'

    2003-03-27T10:02:24Z

    A contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? almost stormed out because the question were too easy, a court heard...

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    'Enery's trouble and strife

    2003-03-27T10:00:39Z

    Cockney Ray plays the king. ...

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    Television agendas shape images of war

    2003-03-27T09:58:46Z

    US focusing on patriotism, Arabs see horrors, British have eyes on west and Iraq favours Saddam. ...

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    And now over to Fairford where there is nothing to see

    2003-03-27T09:54:55Z

    More of us are watching 24-hour TV news than ever before, says Catherine Bennett. ...

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    Ofcom centre stage for Blair adviser

    2003-03-27T09:51:43Z

    Tony Blair's senior policy adviser on media and telecommunications, Ed Richards, is leaving Downing street to take ...

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    Radio firm dives

    2003-03-27T09:48:30Z

    Capital Radio shares plunged yesterday after the commercial radiogroup gave a gloomy trading update and warned of c...

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    Capital Radio rides our war fears

    2003-03-27T09:45:31Z

    Radio advertising has escaped virtually unscathed from the war on Iraq so far, but will remain in a slump for at le...

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    TV cough cleared up after£1m was won

    2003-03-27T09:42:35Z

    A man accused of coughing repeatedly to help an Army officer cheat on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? admitted yeste...

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    You are intellectually inferior, TV Trisha tells Norfolk women

    2003-03-27T09:40:25Z

    Trisha Goddard, thr host of ITV's chat show, Trisha, has stirred up a storm in Norfolk by describing local women as...

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    Reporter hits out at BBC war coverage

    2003-03-27T09:37:55Z

    The BBC has been accused by its own defence correspondent of misleading viewers by playing down the success of the ...