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Gori eyes up Stream deal
Telecom Italia, the owner of Italian digital platform Stream, has played down press reports that media mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori is to take a stake in the pay-TV platform.Cecchi Gori told
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Bravo and BBC to make Soundtrack
The BBC Sales Company, the BBC Worldwide/Discovery Communications US distribution joint-venture, has brokered a co-production deal between BBC features and US cable arts channel Bravo for a major new music series, writes Jason Deans.
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Minotaur unveils Mip-TV line-up
All Saints, a hospital drama from the Seven Network in Australia, will be among the Minotaur International shows making their Mip-TV debut, writes Jason Deans.
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Itel on the attack at Mip with Dinosaur
UK distributor Itel will be taking more than 150 hours of new factual programming to Mip-Doc and Mip-TV next month.Itel's Mip line-up will include United Productions' Dinosaur Attack, a 60-minute special
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BBC WORLDWIDE MAKES£2.5 MILLION IN BRIGHTON SALES
BBC Worldwide concluded£2.5 million in new sales business at its annual BBC Showcase event in Brighton last month, with further deals expected to follow. Australian state broadcaster ABC bought a
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NBD LANDS RIGHTS TO PARTY IN THE PARK '99
UK indie distributor NBD Television has picked up the international TV rights to The Prince's Trust's Party in the Park '99. NBD, which also distributed the 1998 event, has already pre-sold
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REGENCY, TF1 AND FILMFOUR STRIKE FILM FINANCE DEAL
FilmFour, TF1 and Regency Enterprises have struck a joint-venture deal to finance a minimum of three feature films a year. Based at FilmFour's London offices, the partnership will focus on low
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SUMMIT TV TAKES NEWS FROM FT AND ASSOCIATED PRESS
London-based Associated Press Television News (APTN) and the Financial Times are supplying international input for South Africa's first business news television channel, Summit TV. The service is to be supplied by
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FOXTEL IMPROVES OZ ACCESS WITH SATELLITE PLATFORM
Australian pay-TV cable channel provider Foxtel has launched a satellite platform that will give it potential access to an extra two million Australian TV homes. The move follows a deal with
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TALENT AIMS TO SCORE WITH SCRABBLE GAMESHOW
UK indie Talent Television will be taking a new TV gameshow format based on the Spears boardgame Scrabble to Mip-TV next month. A pilot for the 30-minute show, presented by Mary
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BBC TRIUMPHS AT MONTE CARLO TV FESTIVAL
The BBC picked up five awards at the 39th Monte Carlo Television Festival last month. Tony Doyle won a Silver Nymph for best actor in a mini-series, for BBC Northern Ireland's
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TRADE TALK - Doing the biz
By concentrating on feuds and crises Robert Thirkell has made business programmes sexy - and he's won awards too, reports David Wood.
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TRADE TALK - Steven Barnett
On how the Stephen Lawrence inquiry revealed glaring inadequacies in TV investigative journalism.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - End of the line for Live?
Three years and£25 million later, Mirror Group has said it is open to offers for Live TV. But what does the channel that invented topless darts have to tempt potential buyers, asks Alice Macandrew.
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OPINION - Hussey takes his revenge on Birt
It is an open secret that during the final years of his 10-year reign chairing the BBC board of governors, Duke Hussey became increasingly disenchanted with the man he had appointed
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BEHIND-THE-SCENES - Comic Relief comes of age
Comic Relief has raised more than£139 million for charity since it began a decade ago. Viewers have also switched on in their millions. David Collins talks to the people putting together this year's event.
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INTERVIEW - Talk of the devil
Four months after joining Talk Radio, Kelvin MacKenzie has reworked its schedule and sacked star presenters. Will his radical tactics turn around the fortunes of the station in the face of stiff resistance from Radio 5 Live?
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Ups and downs
Average viewing times were up last autumn compared with 1997, despite doom-mongering about the growing impact of the internet. But not all channels benefited from this increase.
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OFF THE RECORD - Giving a toss
Colleagues of Channel 4 News newcomer Mark Easton may know the up-and-coming reporter rather better than they think. Especially if they watched an edition of Channel 5's Perfect Babies, when the
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OFF THE RECORD - No armistice at Beeb
As abusive farewells go, it's hard to beat Chris Morris' infamous parting shot at the then Channel 4 chief executive Michael Grade. But Armando Iannucci, Morris' one-time sidekick on BBC 2's