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The occasional diary of a BBC director general
WEDNESDAYBunch of interfering old biddies. So the governors reckon Beeb One has to do better, do they? They said that last year. Trouble is, two things have changed. I couldn't have
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Off the Record - Executive straining
Clearly you need to be able to do two jobs to survive the knife at the BBC these days. Take BBC TV head of comedy Geoffrey Perkins, for instance.As well as
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Off the Record - The Docho to flay
Another advocate of the multi-career approach is the BBC's outgoing deputy director of television and new services David Docherty. As keen Off The Record readers will know, last year he managed
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Off the Record - PJ blips
And while on the subject of great literature, one thing we forgot to mention last week in our hilarious story about BBC economics editor Peter Jay's new series The Road to
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Off the Record - Poopy trap
ITV's rival to MacIntyre Undercover Hoaxbusters kicks off this week with an investigation into the tricks of the conman's trade. The United show also reveals just how easily duped the British
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Off the Record - Cost of commerce
OTR's Order of the Brown Nose goes to the radio reviewer of The Times for his efforts last week in currying favour in the Murdoch empire. Last Wednesday's Times review of
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NewsEmap banks could offer help to bidders
The financial banks used by Emap may offer to provide funds to potential bidders trying to raise money to buy the publishing group. [ALL]
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Off the Record - Wild wild Westcountry
There have been comings and goings and 'appenings of late down at Westcountry Television - or Carlton West as it is more popularly known these days.The Plymouth broadcaster recently settled out
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Dyke looks to popular drama to revive BBC 1
Greg Dyke, the new BBC director general, will put popular TV drama under the spotlight as part of a strategy aimed at strengthening the appeal of BBC 1.More money is likely
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Alli ponders future of Carlton Select
The future of Carlton pay-TV channel Carlton Select is being reviewed by newly installed Carlton Communications managing director of production Lord Waheed Alli, according to sources, writes Alice Macandrew.
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ITN wins editorial control of LNR
ITN has taken editorial control of London News Radio (LNR) in a radical overhaul of the company announced on Wednesday (30 June), writes John Plunkett.
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Diana author fronts series for Granada
Granada Television has signed an exclusive deal with Andrew Morton, the biographer of Diana, Princess of Wales and Monica Lewinsky, to write and present a TV series profiling famous twentieth-century women, writes Jason Deans.
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SIMON NYE SCRIPTS TV MOVIE OF THE RAILWAY CHILDREN
Men Behaving Badly creator Simon Nye is scripting a TV movie version of E Nesbitt's classic family story, The Railway Children, for Carlton and ITV. The 120-minute drama will be screened
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BEAN SIGNS UP FOR ITV'S EXTREMELY DANGEROUS LEAD
Sean Bean has been cast to play the lead in ITV thriller Extremely Dangerous, which is being made by former ICM co-chairman Michael Foster's independent, Northwestone Films (Broadcast, 19.3.99). The 4
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COUNTRY TRACKS RETURNS WITH CELEBRITY MUSCLE
BBC Birmingham network production is producing a second series of Country Tracks, the BBC 2 outdoors show. Presented by Pete McCarthy, the series will feature location reports from all over Britain,
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CARLTON TO START SHOOTING ONE-OFF LONDON DRAMA
Carlton has gone into production with Blue Murder, a TV movie for ITV. The 120-minute single drama, which stars Gary Mavers as a policeman who falls for a rich woman played
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AWARD-WINNING STUDENT ADVICE PROGRAMME RETURNS
Wobbly Picture Productions has just started shooting annual BBC 2 university entry advice special Student Choice '99. The 60-minute show, which will again be presented by Jayne Middlemiss, is due to
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Former CNN boss Chris Cramer is taking a lead role in the launch of a new multimedia pan-African news channel. [ALL]
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ALL-STAR LINE-UP SET FOR PRINCE'S TRUST PARTY ON ITV2
Fuji International Productions will be supplying ITV2 with six hours of coverage of The Prince's Trust Party in the Park on Sunday (4 July). The concert footage, which was commissioned by
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ITV TARGETS GAMESHOWS FOR NEW COMEDY DRAMA SERIES
Keith Allen and Denis Lawson will be taking supporting roles alongside Michael Barrymore in Bob Martin, Granada TV's comedy drama for ITV. Allen and Lawson will play, respectively, warm-up man and