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    International News - Studio Eight links with Peace Arch for immortal series

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    The UK's Studio Eight Productions has joined forces with Canada's Peace Arch Entertainment Group to co-produce a 22 x 60-minute action adventure series The Immortal, starring Lorenzo Lamas (Renegade). Hilltop Entertainment

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    International News - Distributor threat to production funding

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    British-based distributors are planning top-level talks with UK broadcasters to resolve growing conflict over the funding of TV productions.With many sales houses suffering hangovers from bad investment decisions in the 1990s,

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    International News - New slates unveiled for Mip-TV

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Hit Wildlife is teaming up with multi-millionaire adventure-writer Clive Cussler for a 19-hour factual project called Sea Hunters that will be presented at next week's Mip-TV, writes Andy Fry.

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    International News - Granada US wins orders

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Granada Entertainment USA (GEUSA) has secured an order for a second series of Beggars and Choosers from Showtime and is producing two new pilots for TNT and Warner Brothers, writes Colin Robertson.

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    International News - London market moves

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    The London Programme Market is to move from its traditional November slot in the TV calendar to run between 5-7 December this year, writes Lucy Rouse.

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    International News - Postcard from ... John Hazelton in Los Angeles

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    US network television can be a cliquey business, so it's hardly surprising that there are some familiar names in this year's network pilot line-ups.Aaron Spelling is in contention with several shows,

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    Analysis Special: BBC Restructure - One vision for One BBC

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    As director general Greg Dyke takes an axe to Birtism, Tim Dams and Tara Conlan wade through the manifesto to find out what it means for BBC programme makers and the armies of marketeers and strategists whose jobs are on the line.

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    Trade Talk - Steve Clarke

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    On why proper funding and strong leadership are vital if the BBC is to build a commercial film policy.

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    Trade Talk - Simons saved

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    After tough times at Talk and LNR, John Simons has landed a top job at GMG Radio with an old friend. Naomi Marks reports on his latest venture.

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    Political Lobbying - Lurking in the shadows

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Over the past decade lobbyists have had an immense impact on television. Steve Clarke examines how these political insiders practise their dark arts, while below, Mike Shallcross lifts the lid on the lobbyists with the best contacts.

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    News Production - Filling a news hole

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4's Indy Fund has not yet been fully allocated to independent news production companies. Jane Marlowe looks at the problems indies face in winning commissions and what the broadcaster is doing to help.

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    Interview - Singer gives it large

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    A big man himself, the self-styled godfather of multichannel television, Adam Singer, is convinced that size matters in this business - which suggests that growth is behind the merger of Flextech and Telewest.

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    Dyke Towers - The occasional diary of a BBC director general

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    SATURDAY - Can't sleep tonight. Not surprising, really. This is going to be the most important week since I arrived at the BBC. I'm talking about Manchester United's Champions' League quarter

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    Off the Record - Music to our ears?

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Readers are undoubtedly as excited as Off The Record at the prospect of the Beeb's 'instrument amnesty,' in which members of the public are being urged to hand in their old

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    Off the Record - Double take

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Heading the factual offerings in last week's BBC 2 spring/summer season launch was Peter Taylor's latest heavyweight offering on the Troubles - Brits: The War Against the IRA. The maker of

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    Off the Record - A load of garb-age

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    And so to the UK's most cutting-edge broadcaster Channel 4 (well, that's what they keep telling us, Ed). Apparently the station's style police have been on the warpath, desperate to preserve

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    Off the Record - Lost and found

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    No-one was more understanding about the story of those two MI6 chaps losing their laptops than CNN kingpin Chris Cramer. Hard to believe I know, but the Cramester lost a laptop

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    Off the Record - What a carry on

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Company Pictures was naturally delighted to sign up Barbara Windsor as an advisor on Cor, Blimey! its ITV drama about Babs' relationship with fellow Carry On star Sid James which airs

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    Off the Record - Election fever

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Ever wondered who the industry would choose, in a free vote, to be the first-ever minister for TV? Come on, come on, we know you have. Well, a groovy industry get-together

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    Broadcast International - Mip-TV - Cover story - Europe's cross-border raiders

    2000-04-07T00:00:00Z

    A flurry of recent acquisitions and mergers are beginning to consolidate European broadcasting. Chris Forrester examines the future shape of the industry across the continent and whether the marriages are likely to continue.