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INTERVIEW - In-house heretic
Can it really be true that the BBC is a challenging place to work or that British sitcoms are actually quality product? The corporation's Jon Plowman thinks so - but then he does like to challenge conventional wisdom
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OFF THE RECORD - Catastrophe
Tearful reunions are the sort of thing more usually associated with Cilla Black than Peter Bazalgette (below right). But it was Baz's daytime show, Pet Rescue, which reunited a Surrey dinnerlady
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OFF THE RECORD - Resourceful Resources
Never let it be said that those good people at BBC Resources aren't game for a laugh. Take their latest brochure featuring some 30 members of its costume and wigs department
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OFF THE RECORD - Bum bongs
Tits and bums channel Television X - The Fantasy Channel has succumbed to the inevitable and announced plans to launch its very own news show, Nudes at Ten (geddit?). Station chief
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OFF THE RECORD - Don't panic!
Readers will be familiar with Liberty Radio, the London station relaunched more often than owner Mohammed Al-Fayed has applied for a UK passport.In a bid to boost the profile of the
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OFF THE RECORD - Digital double-take
Pop quiz. Can you name the smartly dressed chap (above right) who gave the following evidence to the National Heritage Select Committee in 1996?'(A digital TV licence) is a matter which
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OPINION - Backlash begins over News at Ten
The knives are out for ITV's revamped weekday peaktime schedule.Less than three months after the Network Centre's Big Bang on 8 March, those with a dinosaur tendency in British TV are
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Hague under fire for attack on Dyke
A last-minute attempt to revive Greg Dyke's bid to become BBC director general was under way this week following William Hague's claim that Dyke's politics should rule him out of the
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C4 appoints first drama serials chief
Channel 4 has poached BBC Casualty and Holby City producer Jonathan Young with a brief to get Brookside back on track and to find a new returnable drama series for the station, writes Tim Dams.
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Broadcasters make play for kids
The UK looks set for an explosion in dedicated kids' TV stations in the next 12 months with a number of major broadcasters looking at new launches, including Nickelodeon and ITV.Nickelodeon
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BBC names editorial executives
The BBC has named Adam Kemp and David Mortimer as its new editorial executives - the two newly created posts designed to ease the workload of BBC 1 and 2 controllers
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STOP PRESS
Channel 5 is to slash original production quotas after the ITC agreed to alter the terms of its licence for the fifth time, writes John Plunkett.
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OSMONDS HEAD SLATE OF DOCS COMMISSIONED BY C5
Channel 5 controller of features and arts Michael Attwell has ordered a raft of commissions and recommissions. Indie Antelope is making a 30-minute documentary on the Osmonds to coincide with their
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FESTIVE FOLLOW-UP DUE FOR AUTUMN DELIVERY
French animation company Millimages and Columbia TriStar Television are co-producing one-off children's animation Do You Believe In Santa Claus?, featuring Rik Mayall as the voice of Father Christmas. Written by Geoffrey
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REDMAN TO STAR IN WAINWRIGHT YTV DRAMA
Yorkshire Television has signed up Amanda Redman (Close Relations, Blonde Bombshell) to star in Sally Wainwright's new 6 x 60-minute drama At Home With The Braithwaites. Peter Davison (Doctor Who, All
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INDIE TAKES ON BBC WALES CURRENT AFFAIRS SLOT
BBC Wales has commissioned an indie to produce current affairs output for the first time. The Welsh-language documentary, Dathliad Gwag? (Empty Celebration?), will look at the work of human rights organisation
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BRIGHTER LINKS FOR FILMFOUR BRITISH FILM FESTIVAL
FilmFour has commissioned independent Brighter Pictures to produce a series of 25 interstitial links promoting its month-long season of British films in July. Three actors, including Gina McKee (My Friends In
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OWEN AND IRVING MOVE ON TO TRAVEL PHONE-IN
Cable and satellite channel Travel has signed Nick Owen and Jayne Irving as the new presenters of its thrice-weekly Travel Live phone-in programme.Owen and Irving will present the programme on alternate
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NINTH SERIES OF EAST TO EXAMINE IMPACT OF TOURISM
BBC Birmingham's Asian current affairs strand East is to launch its ninth series with an in-depth look at the devasting effect of tourism on the south Indian state of Goa. Series
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CELTIC C0-PRO TO AIR IN THREE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Scottish Television Enterprises (STE) has started work on a co-production with RTE in Ireland and the Gallic Broadcasting Corporation. The 3 x 60-minute series, with the working title Celtic States, is