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    FRESH IDEAS FOR BBC3.

    2004-04-05T09:04:24Z

    BBC3 commissioning editor Celia Taylor has at last ordered her first film for the new Fresh

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    R5 GOES INTO BUSINESS.

    2004-04-05T09:04:24Z

    BBC Radio Five Live's first ever programme dedicated to city news is to be titled Weekend

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    NEW C4 NEWS STAFF.

    2004-04-05T09:04:24Z

    Channel 4 News has continued its restructure with the appointment of Deborah Rayner as senior foreign

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    MERIDIAN TRAINING.

    2004-04-05T09:04:24Z

    Meridian, the ITV franchise, which recently announced up to 175 redundancies, has joined up with the

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    RTS judges give Dyke top honour.

    2004-04-05T09:04:24Z

    Former BBC director general Greg Dyke was this week given the prestigious judges award at the

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    Tigress restructures after securing orders.

    2004-04-05T09:04:25Z

    Tigress Productions has restructured its senior management team after securing over 40 hours of commissions, writes Glen Mutel.

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    BOB CREATOR TO MAKE SERIES FOR FIVE.

    2004-04-05T09:04:25Z

    Bob the Builder creator Keith Chapman is to have another of his kids' creations turned into

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    C4 pulls out of Attheraces.

    2004-04-05T09:04:29Z

    Horse-racing on television is facing a major shake-up after Channel 4 pulled out of the racing rights consortium Attheraces, writes Glen Mutel.

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    ITV combines sport divisions.

    2004-04-05T09:04:30Z

    Granada Sport managing director Jim Raven is leaving the company as ITV Sport's production arms are reorganised following the ITV merger, writes Paul Revoir.

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    Download team films Love Island footage

    2006-07-06T08:00:00Z

    ITV will send out a dedicated mobile and online production team to film exclusive footage for the new series of LoveIsland, in a first for the network. Clips from the celebrity match-making series, which is recorded on location in Fiji, will be available free exclusively ...

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    Woolfe poaches Jones from Living

    2006-07-06T08:00:00Z

    Sky One, Two and Three director of programmes Richard Woolfe has hired Living TV executive Steve Jones to become Sky One's commissioning editor for entertainment. As commissioning editor at Living TV, Jones was responsible for ordering and executive producing series including Extreme Makeoverand ...

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    Consortium rivals C4 bid

    2006-07-06T08:00:00Z

    Chrysalis, UTV and SMG are set to enter an agreement to make a joint consortium bid for the new DAB national commercial radio multiplex, rivalling Channel 4's bid for the platform.

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    Celebrities roadtest diets for BBC2 show

    2006-07-06T08:00:00Z

    Vic Reeves, Liza Tarbuck and Colin Jackson have signed up for a BBC2 programme which aims to test whether what you eat can really affect who you are.

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    Bennett-Jones: BBC neglects older talent

    2006-07-06T08:00:00Z

    Talent agent and Tiger Aspect chairman Peter Bennett-Jones has warned the BBC that it faces wasting established talent because of its obsession with youth.

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    Leader: Junk food fight

    2006-07-06T08:00:00Z

    Broadcast editor Conor Dignam looks at the real effect of banning junk food ads

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    Vicar of Dibley hangs up cassock

    2006-07-06T08:00:00Z

    Long-running BBC1 sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, starring Dawn French, is being brought to its conclusion after 12 years, with a two-part Christmas special.

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    Sharman unveils slate of factual commissions

    2006-07-06T08:00:00Z

    Alison Sharman has unveiled her first major raft of factual commissions since becoming director of factual and daytime at ITV.

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    Junk food ad ban 'threatens kids TV' warns Pact

    2006-07-06T08:00:00Z

    Producers' group Pact has warned that a ban on TV junk food advertising before 9pm would wipe out children's programme production for commercial channels and is calling for a£50m fund to bolster the industry.

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    Hit hires Dunsford to advise on Euro launch

    2006-07-06T08:00:00Z

    Hit Entertainment has hired Wayne Dunsford - the former BBC executive responsible for launching the corporation's Food channel globally - to work on its international children's channel launch.

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    WAGs to run clothes shop on TV

    2006-07-06T08:00:00Z

    The queens of chav-chic and shopping, England's footballers' wives and girlfriends (WAGs), look set to compete against each other off the pitch, selling designer gear in a new series from Off the Radar productions.