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Sky's second PTR to debut by March 2001
Drive to 'broaden customer choice' sees Sky plan arrival of NDS PTR within six months of its TiVo box launch
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TWI and APTN joint venture launches on net
Trans World International and APTN joint sports news service SNTV is expanding onto the internet, creating around a dozen new jobs, writes Tara Conlan.SNTVi launched on the web
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Granada unit moves north
Lifestyle relocation heralds plans to reinvigorate Manchester-based production
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Radio 4 slashes indie slots
Independent radio producers are furious over BBC Radio 4's decision to dramatically slash the number of slots they can pitch for in the latest commissioning round, writes Georgina Lipscomb.Catherine Bailey Productions
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Britt Allcroft steps back from management
Britt Allcroft's eponymous founder is stepping down from the management of the company, which is this week being renamed Gullane Entertainment, writes Ashley Davies.Although the creator of the Thomas the Tank
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Graef raises alarm over Cafe closure
Lack of investment from broadcasters is putting niche documentary indies at risk, according to veteran documentary maker Roger Graef, write David Wood and Dominic Timms.Graef's comments follow the news that Cafe
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ITV COMMISSIONS CHILDREN'S DRAMA AND COMEDY SHOW
Outgoing ITV children's controller Nigel Pickard has commissioned Carlton Productions to make Starstreet, a 13 x 20-minute children's music and comedy drama series about five children living in the same house.
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SALMON COMMISSIONS NEW DRAMA SLATE FOR BBC 1
BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon has commissioned a raft of high-profile dramas, including a five-part adaptation of 1940s saga The Cazelet Chronicles with indie Cinema Verity. Verity Lambert and actress Joanna
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ITV PLANS DAVID BECKHAM 60-MINUTE SPECIAL
ITV is expected to commission independent producer Seek to make a 60-minute documentary David Beckham - The Real Story. The film is intended to be a unique look at the life
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TIGER TO MAKE SCRATCHCARD MILLIONAIRES FOR LOTTERY
Tiger Aspect Productions, which has teamed up with Richard Branson's The People's Lottery to produce a National Lottery show if he wins the contract, is understood to be planning scratchcards and
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CARLTON READIES WEIGHT-LOSS DOC FOR ITV
Carlton Television has lined up a 60-minute documentary looking at the life of slimming champion Christie Martin who shed a miraculous 25 stone.Christie's Story has been commissioned by ITV to run
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C4 TO LOOK AT ALEX COMFORT AND ERICH VON DANIKEN
Channel 4 editor, history programmes Tim Kirby has ordered two 60-minute documentaries from Twenty Twenty Productions for The Real... strand. The Real Alex Comfort will explore the life of the Joy
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KUDOS COMMISSIONED TO MAKE COMEDY LAB FOR C4
UK indie Kudos has landed a commission to produce a 30-minute show for Channel 4's Comedy Lab series. Scripted by four young comedy writers, who have just finished an Edinburgh show
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C4 to launch new investigative show
Channel 4 is planning a new investigative series that sources believe is the broadcaster's£1.4m response to BBC 1's McIntyre Undercover.C4 has appointed RDF Manchester to plan and execute its series,
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Knowledge backs business
BBC Knowledge controller Liz Cleaver has commissioned new BBC business features chief Robert Thirkell to produce a 30-minute business issues and talkshow fronted by Investec Henderson Crosthwaite media analyst Matthew Horsman,
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Einstein Entertainment has unveiled its first commissions
Einstein Entertainment has unveiled its first commissions including an 8 x 30-minute series on Britain's toughest men for Channel 5, writes Simon Ellery.C5 controller of news, current affairs and documentaries Chris
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BBC2 to go late-night clubbing
BBC2 controller Jane Root and BBC Choice head of programming Stuart Murphy have co-commissioned a new 8 x 30-minute late-night clubbing series, writes Tara Conlan.Choice World Clubbing was commissioned from
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - BBC drops Bombshell on Sunday night
Indie Working Title had a great night on Sunday (3 September) as two of its productions battled it out in the ratings, writes Colin Robertson.According to unofficial overnights, BBC 1 single
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Gem talent arm may be exploitative
Carlton Productions director of programmes Steve Hewlett has expressed concerns about Endemol Entertainment UK managing former Big Brother inmates through its new talent arm Gem Artist Management, writes Katy Elliott.Hewlett told
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Holness out as quiz goes back on Sky
Blockbusters, the cult student gameshow of the 1980s and 1990s, is set to return to screens on Sky One, following a deal with producer Pearson Television, writes Colin Robertson.Sky One head