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OFF THE RECORD - = - DUTY LOG
This week's entries come from STV and Broadcast's own duty log.Readers can now call our own duty office with their comments on ...Caller on Trisha: 'I was watching the show where
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OFF THE RECORD - AND FINALLY
Gary Rogers, editor of Channel 5 news, reveals rather more than five facts about himself.
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Rent boy doc faked admits Channel 4
Channel 4 has admitted that key scenes in a documentary claiming to show male prostitutes plying their trade were faked.The admission, concerning the film Chickens, screened in September 1997, comes in
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Pitt to edit Everyman as she returns to Real Life
Granada Television head of documentaries Ruth Pitt is leaving in April to take on a dual role as editor of BBC 1's Everyman series and director of programmes at Real Life Productions, writes Liz Shackleton.
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Mentorn shops for indies with£4m warchest
The Mentorn Group is set to go on the acquisition trail after making£4 million on the sale of shares in radio group Orchard Media, writes Tim Dams.
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Prince to dig up ancestors for C4 show
Prince Edward is developing a documentary for Channel 4 that involves exhuming the bones of two of his royal ancestors, writes Tim Dams.
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UNIQUE SIGNS TWO-YEAR DEAL WITH CRCA FOR MORE PEPSI
Radio indie Unique Broadcasting will produce The Pepsi Chart until the end of 2000 after it signed a further two-year contract with the Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA) last week. The
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ITN FACTUAL ANNOUNCES LATEST COMMISSIONS
ITN Factual has announced a raft of commissions including another two episodes of ITV's Britain's Richest ... documentary strand and seven new programmes in the Biography series for US network A&E.
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FILMING STARTS ON ITV PRISON DRAMA JAILBIRDS
Filming has started in east London on Brian Park's new drama for ITV, Jailbirds. The 10-part series from Shed Productions, due to air in ITV's spring schedule, is set in a
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VTVC TO MAKE ROCK DOC THREE-PARTER FOR C4
C4 has commissioned a 3 x 60-minute series from the Virtual Television Company (VTVC) about rock and pop managers called The Management. Each programme features a different manager from a different
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NEW RADIO AND TV SERIES FOR AS TIME GOES BY
The Bob Larbey-scripted sitcom As Time Goes By (left) has been recommissioned for new series on both BBC 1 and BBC Radio 2. The 6 x 30-minute TV series, the eighth,
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BBC SCORES PREMIER LEAGUE GALA AWARDS
The FA Premier League has given broadcast rights to its first gala awards evening exclusively to the BBC. The awards will take place on Saturday 22 May, the day of the
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LADBROKE RADIO TACKLES CENTURY OF CINEMA FOR RADIO 2
Independent Ladbroke Radio has been commissioned for two new series on BBC Radio 2 including a 6 x 60-minute history of the cinema. Provisionally titled A Century of Cinema, it will
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RADIO 3 MIXES IT WITH KUBRICK FILM COMPOSER
BBC Radio 3's Mixing It strand is to feature musican and composer Jocelyn Pook, who wrote the music for the forthcoming Stanley Kubrick film, Eyes Wide Shut. Pook will be in
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SAMSON QUITS BBC FOR CHATSWORTH
Chatsworth Television has recruited Jen Samson, who has joined from BBC TV drama Wales where she was a development executive. Samson's credits as a producer include work on drama Crocodile Shoes,
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BBC Klaus Kinski documentary heads Cafe Productions slate
Cafe Productions has won a slate of new commissions, including a feature-length documentary on late actor Klaus Kinski for the BBC.Kinski is a co-production between Cafe and Werner Herzog Productions and
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Sex and strikes on show at C4 drama
Channel 4 head of drama Gub Neal has commissioned a batch of new dramas, including a Jimmy McGovern film about the Liverpool dock strike and a TV adaptation of Dava Sobel's
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Granada TV joins Army for Sky 1 13-parter
Sky 1 has commissioned Granada Productions to make a 13-part fly-on-the-wall series about the Army's toughest training course for transmission this autumn, writes Alice Macandrew.
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS
Channel 5 soap Family Affairs topped the one million mark for the first time on Monday (1 February), writes Liz Shackleton.
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Unions in strike threat at Granada
The Granada Media Group franchises are facing disruption to production schedules after members of three broadcasting unions voted to support strike action over pay and job security, writes Liz Shackleton.