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Dying Rooms producers to make jail kids doc
Woods and Blewett tackle juvenile prisons for BBC 1 film
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NewsPEER POLL: 'Wank Week'
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Should Channel 4 have dropped 'Wank Week'?
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1,000 jobs face axe in Dyke restructure
Senior management 'bloodbath' expected as BBC directorates to be replaced by 16 leaner departments
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NewsC4 orders more Secret Millionaire
Six more millionaires have agreed to part with thousands of pounds for a second series of The Secret Millionaire on Channel 4.
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The Making Of? Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Behind the scenes of BBC 1's new flagship drama series
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Yorkshire assembles Fat Friends and Innocent teams
Yorkshire TV has lined up the teams behind two of its new dramas, Kay Mellor's Fat Friends and The Innocent, starring Caroline Quentin.Kay Mellor's new six-part series, produced in association
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NTL puts£25m into interactive fund
NTL chiefs have announced a new£25 million fund to kick-start interactive production in the UK.The cable outfit aims to turn the TV industry's best interactive ideas into actual programming. Broadcasters
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Dyke restructure to cost 1,000 jobs
The BBC is to shed up to 1,000 jobs as part of director general Greg Dyke's forthcoming restructure, which will lead to a 'bloodbath' at senior levels and a flatter management
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Sky One prepares to go mainstream
Sky One's new general manager, David Bergg, is preparing to go head to head with ITV and BBC 1 by repositioning the channel as 'a broader' entertainment service targeting 4 to 49 year-olds, writes Steve Clarke.
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ITV2 lands Letterman
ITV2 has struck a deal with CBS and household goods manufacturer Procter & Gamble (P&G) to buy exclusive UK rights to US comedy talk show The Late Show With David Letterman, writes Colin Robertson.
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BBC 2 TO BRING ARTISTS TOGETHER IN CONVERSATION
BBC 2 is to launch a new conversational arts strand in which a major artist will be interviewed by other names from the arts world. Called The Conversation, the occasional 40-minute
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CHRYSALIS TO TWEAK THIRD TOP TEN SERIES FOR C4
Channel 4 has asked Chrysalis to redevelop its Saturday night Top Ten ... music series from a genre-based concept - as in Top Ten Boy Bands - to a year-based one,
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MURPHY CALLS FOR RISKIER PITCHES
BBC Choice head of programming Stuart Murphy has called on programme makers to submit 'riskier' proposals to his channel. Murphy said he wanted more shows along the lines of the channel's
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WATCHMAKER SECURES ITV RECOMMISSIONS
ITV has recommissioned two series from Watchmaker Productions. The first is a new series of celebrity profile show The Unforgettable, which in the past has featured Hattie Jacques and Richard Beckinsale.
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SKY PREMIER TO AIR TAYLOR TRIBUTE CONCERT
Sky Premier is to screen fundraising concert Elizabeth Taylor - A Musical Celebration, a star-studded tribute to the Hollywood actress, which takes place at the Royal Albert Hall in May. Sky
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ROOT RECOMMISSIONS TRIBE FOR BBC 2
BBC 2 controller Jane Root has commissioned a second series of Tribe from BBC entertainment features in Manchester. The 10 x 30-minute series goes into production this week and is expected
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Hat Trick prepares ITV prison comedy
Hat Trick Productions is to make its first ever comedy for ITV in the form of a broadcast pilot set in a high-security prison.The new comedy is part of a slate