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PSYCHO GAMESHOWS - Games without frontiers
Will the no-holds-barred brand of voyeurism and public humiliation that has made Channel 4's Big Brother such a success provide the template for a new era of copycat shows or will it turn out to be a mere flash in the pan? James Curtis reports.
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INTERVIEW - Game for a laugh
Head of BBC comedy Geoffrey Perkins is under pressure to deliver the laughs - and not just by re-running old successes. He has a string of new shows and funds to cross-fertilise BBC 1 and 2 ideas, but will he pull it off?
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Children's power
Even among four to sevens adult shows such as Coronation Street are topping the ratings, while eight to 11 year-old girls are giving kids' shows the cold shoulder.
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OFF THE RECORD - No news like old news
Off the Record was delighted to hear that all is well over at Radio 4. The nation's most respected radio news network has its finger on the pulsing button of topicality
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OFF THE RECORD - It takes deadication
Tofu-eating Big Brother loser Sada could learn a thing or thing or two from one of the game birds taking part in BBC 1 doc Surviving the Iron Age which has
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OFF THE RECORD - What a load of crop
As if those crazy cats at the GWR radio empire haven't got enough to do. Not content, it seems, with integrating the radio assets of the Daily Mail and General Trust,
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OFF THE RECORD - Change the record
OTR's favourite thrusting TV exec James Baker has made headlines again. It seems the latest reshuffle over at Isleworth sees the erstwhile Sky One sultan lose his entire TV production empire.
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OFF THE RECORD - T-birds storm the web
Interest in the return of The Thunderbirds to our screens is growing apace. Set to relaunch (that's Thunderbirds are go) on BBC 2 in September, publicists are this week keen to
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OFF THE RECORD - Lookalikes - you're so vane
Reel at the similarities between these two hot telly smoothies, retired weather uberlord Ian McCaskill and Campaign for Quality TV czar Ray Fitzwalter.While one keeps his finger on the pulse of
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BBC denies reports of 'overstaffing' at Olympics
350 'sufficient staff' paid by coporation face arduous trek to Sydney games
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Channel 5 poaches Sandhu for new interactive role
Sham Sandhu quits as BBC head of new media to take up newly created Channel 5 post
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Split Panorama in the offing
BBC1 may broadcast Panorama specials while BBC2 airs 30-week regular run
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Granada mulls dedicated sports arm
Acquisition of United Sport could prove springboard for launch of stand-alone unit
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BBC rethinks property proposals
Corporation dumps plans to lease new buildings and freezes staff moves until post-2006 charter renewal
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ITV teen soap pitch winner imminent
Network Centre preparing to announce victor in 5-horse race for teen soap
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BBC to overhaul digital radio strategy
Management restructure and hold on funds for corporation's digital radio unit
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Only Fools and Horses set for come-back
BBC head of comedy Geoff Perkins in negotiations with Only Fools and Horses creator and writer John Sullivan
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The Mill buys three Discreet Combustion systems
Commercial and film house backs up advanced systems fire power with NAB launched system
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Seachange moots TV stations from£27,000
Pittas claims capital costs to set-up TV channel now 'less than cost of Digital Betacam vtr'