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Genre Focus: Drama - Dramatic licence.
Laura Mackie relishes the opportunities her position as BBC head of drama serials affords for her to bring dynamic projects to screen. She talks to Leigh Holmwood about the future of the genre in an age of reality TV.
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Opinion - 'I'm a DG ... get me in here!'.
There are more difficult jobs in the world than the role of director general at the BBC, but it's hard to think of any.
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Genre Focus: Drama - Creating fiction from fact.
Drama-documentary is taking advantage of TV drama's increasing sensationalism and is attracting viewers with topical storylines and provocative subject matter.
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Production - Losses lead WPP to close Tyrell.
Advertising giant WPP has closed its loss-making equipment reseller Tyrell with the loss of 28 jobs.Staff
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Genre Focus: Drama - Breaking the Silence.
Hear the Silence writer Timothy Prager on the challenges of turning real events and people into a drama about autism.
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Production - Buyers line up for BBC Tech.
The BBC has revealed the shortlist of bidders for its technology arm, BBC Technology (Broadcast, 6.2.04).
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Genre Focus: Drama - The American way.
US subscription channel HBO has built both a business and a creative reputation based on quality drama which taps into the Zeitgeist; can UK producers ever hope to emulate such success? Meg Carter reports.
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Opinion - Comment - Confessing all over dinner.
Television increasingly relies on serving up private revelations for entertainment. It's all part of a rather worrying outbreak of confessionalitis in our culture, says Tessa Mayes.
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Interview: Stuart Murphy - A happy first birthday for BBC3?
Critics have ruthlessly dissected the ratings for the BBC's 12-old-month baby and questioned whether its£97m budget is money well spent. So does Stuart Murphy, BBC3's controller, have cause to celebrate?
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Production - Pepper pours£1m into HD kit.
London post-production facility Pepper has purchased a Spirit Datacine together with a Da Vinci 2k Plus grading system in an investment representing£1m, writes Farah Jifri.
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FORMATS & DEALS - FRENCH TO REMAKE WILDLIFE RESCUE SHOW.
BBC children's challenge series Serious Jungle is to be remade by French production company Cellcast Television.
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FORMATS & DEALS - ELECTRIC SKY SELLS RIGHTS TO OCEAN SHOW.
Factual distributor Electric Sky has made a clutch of sales of underwater series Jewels of the
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COMMISSIONS - MOSAIC TO FOLLOW OLYMPIC FORTUNES.
Mosaic Films is to track the preparations for this year's Olympics in a one-hour documentary for
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COMMISSIONS - LION TO PRODUCE MORE HAMMER SHOWS.
Lion Television has been commissioned to make another 25 x 60-minute episodes of property auction show
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COMMISSIONS - FREE@LAST TO MAKE SHORTS FOR UK GOLD.
Indie Free@Last is to produce a series of shorts for two themed weekends of comedy on
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Commissioning - Commissioner's Q&A - Rebecca Johnson.
Bravo commissioning editor Rebecca Johnson is proud of her channel's new football show, Fashanu's Football Challenge, and talks of being a fan of US import 24 as well as Ant and Dec.
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Commissioning - Clerkenwell picks Cold Feet star for Ugly role.
Cold Feet star James Nesbitt has been lined up to feature in a black comedy thriller for ITV1, writes Jon Rogers.
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Commissioning - Mentorn wins ITV class order.
ITV has commissioned Mentorn Scotland to make an ambitious 90-minute documentary, The Estate, in which members of an upper class family swap places with those on inner city estate, writes Paul Revoir.
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On The Box - Dangerous public liaisons.
Colin Luke takes his hat off to a striking reality show and revealing documentaries, but is more bemused than impressed at jolly coppers carousing in the city streets.
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COMMISSIONS - KNOW COMMENT WINS BBC CONTRACT.
Ten Alps subsidiary Know Comment has won the BBC contract to provide live TV coverage of