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NewsITV lines up big-budget version of Dracula
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has strengthened his penchant for big-budget adaptations of classic texts, giving Granada the go-ahead for a multimillion pound adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, writes David Wood
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NHU chief set for new role
The head of the BBC's Natural History Unit (NHU), Keith Scholey, is poised to leave his job to become full-time controller of the BBC's specialist factual department, sparking fears that the traditionally independent Bristol unit could be brought under tighter control from London, writes Leigh ...
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BBC's general factual review delayed again
The long-awaited review of the BBC's general factual commissioning system has been delayed again, leaving staff increasingly frustrated and fearing that it may never be published, writes Leigh Holmwood
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UKTV plans to refresh Gold with drama and LE
UKTV is planning to refocus its 10-year-old channel UK Gold and is exploring the introduction of key BBC quiz shows, writes Paul Revoir
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24-hour newscasts 'lack quality foreign news'
Broadcasters risk diluting the quality of their international news coverage by attempting to satisfy the demands for fresh content on 24-hour news channels, according to some of the UK's most senior reporters, writes Steve Aston
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Capital fears metropolitan focus is costing listeners
Capital 95.8 FM has begun a major study of its audience following concerns that its dramatic loss of listeners was prompted by the station becoming too metropolitan, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Figures herald broadband gain
Interactive producers received a much-needed shot in the arm this week after it emerged that the rate of high-speed internet take-up could soon outstrip demand for digital television, writes David Wood
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NewsBBC restructures entertainment
The BBC's in-house entertainment production department is to be reorganised into four new groups overseen by separate creative heads to give it more focus and cut down competition between its two bases in Manchester and London, writes Leigh Holmwood
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News'Boys toys' obsession marred war coverage, says Damazer
News organisations produced too many reports on 'boys toys' issues such as the type of weapons being used in the coverage of the Afghanistan conflict according to BBC News deputy director Mark Damazer, writes Steve Aston
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NewsPolice strive to stop C4 autopsy
Officers at the Metropolitan Police events office in Bethnal Green, London are desperately trying to find a way of stopping Britain's first public autopsy for nearly 200 years tonight which will be screened on C4 at 23.45 tonight, writes Penny Hughes
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Oxford goes to India for drama
Factual indie Oxford Film & Television is moving into TV drama after securing a two-part series for Channel 4, writes Penny Hughes
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The BBC does a Delia on interiors
Changing Rooms star Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is to front a new series which the BBC hopes will do for interior design what Delia Smith's How to Cookdid for food, writes Leigh Holmwood
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CITV blasts kids into outer space
ITV controller of children's and youth Janie Grace has commissioned an ambitious multimedia series that will offer kids the chance to fly a 'spacecraft', writes Steve Aston
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Capital Xmas for Five
Five has signed a deal with Endemol production arm Initial for Capital Radio's Capital Christmas Live, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Ruby Wax to play at being pope for BBC 3
Comedian Ruby Wax and actress Jerry Hall are to provide the leading voices for a controversial new BBC 3 animation about the pope and the Catholic church. The 10 x 30-minute Popetown, to be made by indie CHX Productions in association with French outfit Moi ...
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Living TV builds links with the paranormal
Flextech channel Living TV has commissioned indie IPM to produce two one-hour paranormal specials for the Christmas period. Ordered by Living TV channel controller Richard Woolfe and commissioning editor Jane Millichip, The Three Mediumsbrings together Living TV's three psychics - Colin Fry, Derek Acorah and ...
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Superhero roach to entertain Fox Kids
Fox Kids has bought two new animated programmes from Germany and France to join its winter line-up. Roboroach, a 52 x 11-minute series from Germany's RTV Family Entertainment, follows the adventures of a superhero cockroach and will air from 6 January. ...
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Wall to Wall wins couples commission
Wall to Wall has been commissioned to make a 6 x 30-minute series for BBC 2 about the little things that drive couples mad. Five Things I Hate About You, based on a 50-minute non-broadcast pilot made by the outfit last year, was commissioned by ...
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CBeebies gives storymakers second run
Outgoing CBBC controller Nigel Pickard has commissioned a second 65 x 15-minute run of pre-school strand The Storymakersfor the CBeebies channel. The series, which features a variety of storytelling puppets who live in a library, will be produced by Claire Bradley and executive produced by ...
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NewsGovernment unveils communications bill
In a surprise clause in the final draft of its communications bill, the government has today made provisions for BSkyB to be forced to carry all public service channels, writes Luke Satchell