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    PETER WILLIAMS TO MAKE BRITISH ROBESON TRIBUTE

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    PBS has commissioned Maidstone indie Peter Williams Television to make the British contribution to a Tribute to Paul Robeson concert, which is being filmed in New Jersey. Robeson, a black base

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    IWANCZYSZYN LEAVES SKY FOR CROWN ENTERTAINMENT

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Crown Entertainment has poached BSkyB international distribution executive Audrey Iwanczyszyn to the new position of executive director of distribution and network development. The move comes as Crown Entertainment steps up the

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    TRADE TALK - Gunn's culture

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Want to convince the television industry to travel to Pinewood's new facility in darkest Bucks? Steve Gunn is your man.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - Setting an example

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    As lethargy continues to dog digital take-up, Meg Carter asks whether the government should now step in and clarify the benefits, push sets and promote switchover to a confused, suspicious public.

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    Time to focus on the creative core

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Greg Dyke has been at his desk at Broadcasting House for more than a year - although this time last year Sir John Birt was still sitting opposite him - and,

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    FUTURE OF ITV - Vision of a unified state

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    As the federalist ITV moves inexorably towards becoming one harmonised body, Colin Robertson asks what kind of future the respective chiefs of Carlton and Granada, Michael Green and Charles Allen, plan for the Network Centre.

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    HORSE-RACING - Down to the wire

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    The look and feel of TV racing coverage is set to be revolutionised and given broader appeal, despite the debacle over bids to secure global media rights to the UK's 59 race courses.

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    INTERVIEW - A moveable feast

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Dick Emery, head of UKTV - the BBC/Flextech joint-venture - wants it to be all things to all viewers, and with new sport, music, comedy and drama output planned, he may be about to get the recognition he is chasing.

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    OFF THE RECORD - Double vision

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Off The Record is tearing other people's hair out in desperation to know what's going on in the editing room at So Graham Norton (below). Two weeks ago one of our

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    OFF THE RECORD - Emotional rescue

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Emotions are the new Harvard MBAs, it seems. The new touchy-feely BBC is eschewing the old hard-arsed training techniques which rely too heavily on those overrated qualities: logic, rational thought and

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    OFF THE RECORD - A dinosaur rears its head

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Talking of which, please tell us Channel 4 overlord Michael Jackson was joking when, at a Media Society do this week, he asked King of Leisure Baz whether he thought television

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    OFF THE RECORD - Big Brother godfather

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    In the same conversation - shortly after describing the phrase 'public service broadcasting' as 'a whore', Baz respectfully tipped his cap to Lord of the docu-soap Paul Watson's feelings about Big

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    OFF THE RECORD - The curse of Granada

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Crikey. Let's pray for Granada's sake that it doesn't inherit something similar to the Curse of Hello, in which loving couples are pictured declaring their eternal love in that august journal

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    OFF THE RECORD - It's all Greek to me

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Is it just us or do these logos (above) - for Greek channel Alpha - remind you of anything currently visible on our own goodly homegrown fools lantern?

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    OFF THE RECORD - Where's Botney?

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Monday night's RTS love-in saw baby-faced BBC czar Mark Thompson paying tribute to Alan Botney Yentob for being an all-round brilliant bloke without whom the sun would not rise and the

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    OFF THE RECORD - Lookalikes - a Gauling comparison

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Purse your lips at the devastating similarity between these two, Eurotrash front man Antoine de Caunes and his British BBC chum Peter Salmon. While one likes having nubile young lovelies sitting

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    Corrie moves to ITV2

    2000-11-17T10:13:00Z

    Uefa Champions League clash means digital channel gets long-running soap ahead of ITV

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    Broadcast news giants unveil code of practice for journalists working in war zones

    2000-11-17T10:43:00Z

    Code demands experience and post-trauma counselling

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    BBC World usurps BBC World Service as foreign info source on Britain

    2000-11-17T10:59:00Z

    Britons seen as 'workshy' and akin to Mr Bean

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    Spirit Dance hires Johann Insanally

    2000-11-17T11:01:00Z

    New producer in charge of development expected to find and nurture new talent