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OFF THE RECORD - Rubbing a sore point?
Big Brother producers didn't seem fazed by the innumerable questions about the camera in the toilet at the psycho game show's press launch last week. They were, after all, surrounded by
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OFF THE RECORD - Root vetoes naked bodies
More gossip on Peter Jay's new series Road to Riches. This time it concerns BBC 2 boss Jane Root, who is understood to have vetoed the original programme titles. The thrown-out
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OFF THE RECORD - No ITC applause for clap ad
The ITC - no teeth but it can give you a nasty suck - has been doing some stern finger-waggling after a commercial for a sexually transmitted diseases clinic found its
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OFF THE RECORD - Cook sighted in restaurant
Off The Record has received unconfirmed reports that Cook Report editor Mike Morley - suspended following allegations about ethical behaviour - is now running a restaurant in Nottingham. If true, Off
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OFF THE RECORD - It's a conundrum
If the words Richard and Whiteley don't make you a) sing the 'doo-doo doo-doo doo-be-doo doo... ping' theme tune from students' favourite Countdown or b) waste even more time doing anagrams,
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OFF THE RECORD - Highway robbery
No expense spared on the Have I Got News for You website. Competition prizes include, wait for it, tickets to go see the show. Surely not the same tickets you can
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Taps scheme ups sticks to Shepperton Studios
The Television Arts Performance Showcase (Taps) has moved to the Shepperton Studios, after being thrown out of its Teddington Studios home. The move follows Taps' warning that it faced closure unless
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Pact: spend more outside the capital
Producers' alliance wants public service broadcasters to expand budgets on shows from nations and regions
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Buck poaches ICG's Powell for development role
United Productions controller of drama Michele Buck has poached Independent Commissioning Group script executive Juliette Howell to become development producer. Howell has been at the ICG since 1998 and has worked
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Kamera launches content trading site
BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE -Swedish-based internet TV provider Kamera Interactive is launching an online UK marketplace to sell digitised video content, writes Ashley Davies.The service, KameraOne, is targeting buyers
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Terrestrial TV watched via aerial in digi homes
ITV says most of BBC1, BBC2 and C4 viewing in Sky Digital homes via analogue
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Money Channel finds extra£11million
BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE - The Money Channel claims that it has raised a further£11 million in funding this week, following news that it had lost more money than expected in its
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BBC cools on Lewis
BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE - Talks between Granada controller of drama Simon Lewis and the BBC are believed to have simmered down. The BBC has been heavily courting Lewis and his deputy Sue
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Two vie for LWT post
BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE - Former Scottish TV director of broadcasting Blair Jenkins and London News Network head of factual programmes Lindsay Charlton are expected to learn next week which one of them
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Paramount in comedy deal with Open Mike
Paramount and Open Mike to work together on new developments
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Sky industrial tribunal brought by ex-Sky News senior political reporter
BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE - British Sky Broadcasting and Sky News head of TV news Nick Pollard have been named as co-defendants in an application for an industrial tribunal bought by ex-Sky News
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Wogan junior joins Switch
BROADCAST EXCLUSIVE - Digital broadcasting network Switch 2 has appointed Mark Wogan, son of TV presenter Terry Wogan, as managing director of its new as-yet unnamed lifestyle channel. Wogan, a regular