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    MORE SKILLSET AWARDS.

    2003-03-03T16:06:22Z

    Skillset, the sector skills council for the audio-visual industries, is launching its fourth round of Millennium

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    Ex-C4 current affairs editor joins Fulcrum.

    2003-03-03T16:06:17Z

    Former Channel 4 editor, current affairs Fran O'Brien has joined Fulcrum Productions as a development executive, writes Penny Hughes.

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    West Wing fails to hold peaktime slot.

    2003-03-03T16:06:17Z

    Channel 4 is moving The West Wing out of its Saturday 20.00 slot after the president

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    BBC names Bedell as indie champion.

    2003-03-03T16:06:17Z

    The independent sector has given a mixed response to the BBC's appointment this week of former

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    Redmond accuses ITC of 'dumb regulation'.

    2003-03-03T16:06:17Z

    Brookside creator Phil Redmond this week attacked the Independent Television Commission (ITC) for 'dumb regulation' after it ruled that an armed siege in the Channel 4 soap was unsuitable for broadcast before the watershed, writes Hayley Treacy.

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    Five to show docs in peak.

    2003-03-03T16:06:17Z

    Five is moving even further away from its association with Dawn Airey's 'three Fs' with a week of documentaries replacing movies in the peak 21.00 slot at the end of March, writes Penny Hughes.

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    R3 TO REJIG SCHEDULE.

    2003-03-03T16:06:17Z

    BBC Radio 3 is to overhaul its schedule in the autumn to 'clearly signpost' its jazz

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    FIVE BUYS JACKSON DOC.

    2003-03-03T16:06:17Z

    Five has bought the exclusive UK terrestrial rights to pop icon Michael Jackson's counterblast to ITV1's

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    Now Airey brings in Bravo man.

    2003-03-03T16:06:16Z

    Sky has poached Flextech Television's rising star Matthew Paice, controller of Bravo and Trouble, to take up the new position of head of factual programmes and multiplexes at Sky One, writes Paul Revoir.

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    Pop Idol's Mr Nasty to front dating show.

    2003-03-03T16:06:16Z

    Simon Cowell, Pop Idol's Mr Nasty, is to make an unlikely Cupid in a dating show being developed for ITV1, writes Penny Hughes.

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    Tonight streets ahead, says RTS.

    2003-03-03T16:06:16Z

    Tonight with Trevor McDonald this week picked up the programme of the year award at the

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    Opie tops Flextech list to fill Lighting's shoes.

    2003-03-03T16:06:16Z

    Flextech Television has drawn up a list of potential candidates for the replacement of chief executive of content Jane Lighting who takes over the reins at Five in April, writes Paul Revoir.

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    US Discovery team stays away from UK.

    2003-03-03T16:06:16Z

    Discovery Channel's decision not to send a party of around 30 US executives to the BBC Showcase programme market in Brighton this week due to security fears, has raised questions about attendance at next month's Mip-TV event, writes Paul Revoir.

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    FIVE KNOCKS OUT DEAL FOR FROST-ALI HEAD-TO-HEAD.

    2003-03-03T16:06:16Z

    Five has secured broadcast rights to the first major interview with legendary boxer Muhammad Ali in

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    Parliament to force open BBC's books.

    2003-03-03T16:06:16Z

    BBC chiefs are set to be compelled to open their books to Parliament to account for the way they spend the #2.5bn a year they raise from the licence fee, writes David Rose.

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    Granada Kids chief moves to top CITV role.

    2003-03-03T16:06:11Z

    Granada Kids director of programmes Steven Andrew is to succeed Janie Grace as controller of children's and youth programming at ITV, writes John Plunkett.

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    BBC launches major shake-up of factual.

    2003-03-03T16:06:02Z

    The BBC is to implement a major restructure of its factual and learning commissioning structure that

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    Keating unveils new BBC4 raft

    2003-03-03T15:47:39Z

    BBC4 controller Roly Keating has unveiled a raft of new commissions, including a documentary series on the National Trust, which will follow the behind the scenes activities of the organisation, writes Jon Rogers

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    BBC reveals celebrity Academy hopefuls

    2003-03-03T12:00:27Z

    Presenter Ulrika Jonsson and Cold Feet actor Jon Thomson head up the list of celebrity students set to enter the Fame Academy for Comic Relief this Friday (7 March), writes Luke Satchell

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    BBC snubs Euro Fame Academy final

    2003-03-03T09:55:46Z

    The BBC says it has no plans to broadcast Endemol Entertainment ?s grand European finale of world-wide hit format Fame Academy, writes Hayley Treacy