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Interview?There's more to Inferno than just sparkle
Ever watched an Atomic Kitten promotion and wondered how the girls manage to leave seemingly spontaneous vapour trails in their wake? Or, perhaps more worryingly, why Tina Turner hasn't altered that
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Location Story...Capturing the decrepit grandeur of St Petersburg
Where many productions have wimped out, the BBC took the plunge and chose to spend three weeks shooting Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment in St Petersburg. 'Everybody said no, don't go
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ITN will need extra funds to cover war
ITN will ask broadcasters for more funds as part of its news contracts with ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 if war breaks out in Afghanistan, it was revealed this week.The
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BBC AND HBO TIE UP FOR CHURCHILL'S LONELY WAR
The BBC is again co-operating with US cable network HBO over an epic war drama, following the£7m Band of Brothers, writes Katy Elliott. A Lonely War dramatises Winston Churchill’s isolation in
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C4 begins to feel the slump
Channel 4 director of programmes Tim Gardam has taken the next step towards refining his commissioning process, while admitting the advertising downturn has put pressure on the budget, writes Penny Hughes.In
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At It opens LA office to expand US output
London Indie At It Productions has opened an office in Los Angeles and is to name its first US head of productions within weeks, writes Simon Ellery.Called At It America, the
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Lib Dems back ITV merger
Liberal Democrats swung their support behind ITV this week and demanded the lifting of ownership rules to allow Carlton and Granada to merge, writes David Rose.'They should be allowed to come
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DEL BOY ON QUEST TO DIRECT HOLIDAY DRAMA
Shooting has started on David Jason's directorial debut, comedy drama The Quest, writes Steve Aston. The Yorkshire Television production is being shot on location in the Lake District and elsewhere in
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THIS MORNING CRISIS TALKS
Granada is in crisis talks over the continuing poor performance of its revamped This Morning show while other companies are believed to be creating alternate formats for the slot in case
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Carlton in factual rejig
Carlton has created a separate division for its factual entertainment output, headed by controller of factual entertainment Nick Bullen who now reports directly to Carlton director of programmes Steve Hewlett, writes
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Seven vie for Big Breakfast
Channel 4 heard verbal pitches for its Big Breakfast slot last Thursday (20 September) with just seven bids now in the running, write Simon Ellery and Penny Hughes.New indie Monkey pitched
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Star Storiesand The Choirare among a raft of sales Channel 4 International has secured to broadcasters in the Netherlands and Scandinavia.
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Green mulls new BBC unit proposal
Former Big Brother executive producer Conrad Green and the BBC have confirmed they are in talks about creating a small factual entertainment unit within BBC entertainment, writes Georgina Lipscomb.Green, 31, is
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Sky starts rebrand
BSkyB has unveiled the first stage of a major rebrand of its UK service which will see the Sky logo as well as a number of channel identities change, writes Barbara
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Buyers jittery about Mipcom
Buyers from the Australian commercial networks have unanimously agreed not to attend Mipcom because of safety fears following the attacks in the US.Senior managers at the notoriously competitive Nine Network, Seven
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BBC sets up kids units
Children's BBC controller Nigel Pickard has picked key members of his team to launch and develop the corporation's two new children's channels, greenlit by the media secretary Tessa Jowell a fortnight
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has moved to the newly built 12,000 sq ft Studio 5 at the Maidstone Studios for its second series. ...
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SKY BOARD CHANGES
Crown Media Holdings president and chief executive David Evans has become a non-executive director of BSkyB, while Vivendi Universal has agreed a four-year deal to dispose of its 21 per cent
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BT RAPPED OVER ADSL
The government has criticised BT in its most strongly worded statement to date for failing to stimulate demand for broadband services. E-commerce minister Douglas Alexander accused BT of failing to follow
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ITC GAINS PR LOBBY
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is in talks with Lexington Communications, the PR firm that led the commercial alliance's lobbying campaign against the BBC's digital services, to step up lobbying ahead