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INTERVIEW - A moveable feast
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
Code demands experience and post-trauma counselling
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BBC World usurps BBC World Service as foreign info source on Britain
Britons seen as 'workshy' and akin to Mr Bean
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Spirit Dance hires Johann Insanally
New producer in charge of development expected to find and nurture new talent
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Will Puffer be merely a buffer for Kirch Pay TV?
BSkyB's german investment may struggle to meet projections, says Dieter Brockmeyer
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Cartoon Network sells daily toons to swedish Kanal 5
Swedish broadcaster Kanal 5 is to take a 60-minute daily block from Cartoon Network. The branded slot will be called Cartoon Cartoons and will run weekdays and Saturday mornings, featuring new
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Horrocks plans new BBC investigative series
Head of current affairs wants more 'personality led' shows
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£20,000 reward after This is Your Life veteran killed
Police offer incentive after long-serving crew member murdered while arranging studio shoot in Manchester
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Public against 10pm news clash
New Consumer Council survey shows less than 17 per cent happy with forthcoming 22.00 news showdown
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Garden designer digs in to become first Millionaire
ITV's ratings behemoth gives top prize as US ratings slide by 26 per cent
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Jobs go as ITC re-structures
TV regulator says staff and spend will be cut as body cuts costs on eve of forthcoming white paper