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Blow to ITV kids as Granada streamline children's
Director of media and former United head of children's Dan Maddicott among casualties of downsize at Granada's children's operation
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Blow to ITV kids as Granada streamlines children's
Director of media and former United head of children's Dan Maddicott among casualties of downsize at Granada's children's operation
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ITV Sport looks for lifeline
Internal review concludes that pay-TV channel could face closure if it cannot renegotiate£315 million contract with the Football League
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NATS takes on Eskenazi
NATS post-production has made an array of new appointments, writes Jon Rogers.Marc Eskenazi joins as a senior editor from Tele-Cine, bringing the in-house team to a total of six editors. His
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IBC changes production focus
The International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) has scrapped its production festival, known as the Nombre D'Or, and instead will focus on developing the producer briefing and conference sessions in order to attract
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ITV1 gives BBC1 a peak-time lesson
Strong ITV1 line-up and corporation's decision to replace The Blue Planet with a six-year-old Christmas repeat of One Foot in the Grave results in disastrous evening for BBC1
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Heartbeat spin-off near to green light
ITV is close to commissioning a spin-off from its high-rating series Heartbeat.Whitby Royal will be set in the same location as the drama and will focus on a hospital. Popular
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September 11 programme commissions grow
The rash of programmes being commissioned in the wake of the 11 September attacks grew this week after Wall to Wall unveiled a 60-minute piece on Muslims in the US for
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Tern TV wins Praise and Skye commissions
Glasgow indie Tern TV has secured a raft of new commissions for both multichannel and terrestrial broadcasters.UKTV managing director Andy Whitman has ordered the 13 x 30-minute series Changing Lives
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Brighter to turn spotlight on pitfalls of celebrity
Endemol Entertainment UK-owned Brighter Pictures has bagged a range of commissions, including a show for the BBC which highlights the pitfalls of celebrity.An as yet untitled 6 x 40-minute documentary series,
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Flextech to air Company's bachelors final
Flextech women's service Living TV is to broadcast the Company Magazine Bachelors 2002 final in London as part of a sponsorship deal.The TV programme, which will air at the end
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Brook Lapping and Kessler shoot Nazi doc
Brook Lapping and Kessler Productions are shooting a 90-minute one-off documentary on former head of the Gestapo Adolf Eichmann for the BBC, Discovery Networks Europe and German broadcaster NDR, writes Simon Ellery
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The Stanford experiment to air on BBC2
BBC2 controller Jane Root and controller of factual commissioning Nicola Moody have commissioned a controversial 4 x 60-minute series based on the Stanford prison psychology experiment that took place in 1971.
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NewsThompson and unions set date for licence fee showdown
BBC director general Mark Thompson has agreed to meet with unions next month to discuss what cuts the corporation plans make as a result of the lower than expected licence fee settlement.
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C4 to show extreme surfing action
Channel 4 is to screen a 60-minute surfing programme, The Newquay Boardmasters 2001 from Boomerang Productions.The 30-minute show, originally shown on the Extreme Sports Channel, will air on 31 December.
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BBC1 orders hairdressing comedy drama
The BBC is beefing up its comedy drama output with a new series on 'the Manchester hairdressing wars' from the creator of The Riff-Raff Element, writes Leigh HolmwoodDebbie Horsfield has written
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SMG TV wins C4 fatcual commissions
SMG TV Productions has strengthened its relationship with Channel 4 after scoring two factual commissions, writes Steve AstonThe company has been commissioned by C4 editor of religion Elizabeth Clough to produce
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BBC loses new Star Trek series to BSkyB
The BBC will not show the new series of Star Trek after failing to win the terrestrial rights for the first time since it began screening the programme in the 1960s.
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NewsRDF boss hits back at Shipwrecked critics
RDF Media Group chief executive David Frank has hit back at public criticism of C4's Shipwrecked, arguing that the current backlash could be bad for free speech.
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BBC asks for Brooklyn bridge film reshoot
BBC 2 controller Jane Root has asked director Lucy Blakstad, who was commissioned to make a series about bridges, to reshoot her film about New York's Brooklyn Bridge in order to