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    Search to make cinema docs

    2004-09-07T10:13:38Z

    Jess Search, Channel 4's outgoing editor of independent film and video (IFV), has revealed she is leaving TV to develop cinema documentaries.

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    Noddy motors to America

    2004-09-07T10:05:49Z

    Noddy is heading to the US after Chorion, the company that owns the rights to the Enid Blyton books, signed a major new deal with the PBS network.

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    R&J snare Cherie Blair interview

    2004-09-07T10:00:38Z

    Channel 4 daytime duo Richard and Judy have landed an audience with Cherie Blair, which will be the PM's wife's first TV interview.

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    Ivana Trump turns to reality TV

    2004-09-06T12:07:27Z

    Not to be outdone by her ex-husband, Ivana Trump is turning to reality TV host to help a 'mature' woman find love with a younger man.

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    BBC film led to Libyan man's beating

    2004-09-06T12:03:52Z

    The BBC has been slammed by Ofcom after one of its Holidays in the Axis of Evil documentaries led to a Libyan tour guide being detained and beaten by the Libyan government.

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    LWT chief joins talent agency

    2004-09-06T10:50:52Z

    Former LWT executive Geraldine Woods has resurfaced with a new role at a talent agency.

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    Sky's Wakeling to stay until 2008

    2004-09-06T10:30:04Z

    Vic Wakeling, managing director of Sky Sports, has signed a new contract that will see him remain at the pay-TV broadcaster until 2008.

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    DCMS strategist takes BBC governors role

    2004-09-06T10:23:21Z

    BBC chairman Michael Grade has appointed the corporation's first director of governance in a bid to enhance the independence of the board of governors.

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    ITV director resigns

    2004-09-06T10:19:34Z

    ITV plc has announced that non-executive director Etienne De Villiers has resigned with immediate effect.

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    ITV to air Prince Harry doc

    2004-09-06T10:08:11Z

    ITV has lined up a documentary devised and partly filmed by Prince Harry about the plight of AIDS-stricken African country Lesotho.

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    BBC exposes UK airport's 'shocking security'

    2004-09-06T10:03:07Z

    The BBC is set to expose more malpractice in major institutions this week with an undercover investigation into security at Manchester airport.

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    Hollick to quit UBM

    2004-09-03T10:36:27Z

    Clive Hollick, chief executive of Five shareholder United Business Media, is to quit the company fuelling speculation of a merger or break-up of the business.

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    Community Channel gets breakfast slot

    2004-09-03T10:32:30Z

    The Community Channel is to begin broadcasting in a prime breakfast slot on Freeview for the first time after being bumped up from its previous night-time graveyard shift.

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    Jordan in line for new reality show

    2004-09-03T10:25:36Z

    ITV is considering another reality show from Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell starring glamour model and I'm Celebrity?Get Me Out Of Here! contestant Jordan.

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    PEER POLL: Channels of the year

    2004-09-03T08:00:00Z

    The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Did BBC2 and BBC4 deserve to win channels of the year at Edinburgh?

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    RTL chief still wants 4/5 merger

    2004-09-02T12:26:48Z

    Gerhard Zeiler, the chief executive of Five owner RTL, is still considering a merger with Channel 4 as part of plans to expand the broadcaster.

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    Just a Grumpy Old Man

    2004-09-02T11:39:30Z

    For his MacTaggart lecture John Humphrys chose to vent his considerable spleen on the 'coarsening' effects of reality TV, but do his arguments amount to anything more than Mary Whitehouse-lite?

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    ABC1 unveils key shows for Freeview launch

    2004-09-02T08:30:00Z

    Disney's new Freeview channel ABC1 will launch this month with two flagship dramas from US parent network ABC. Long-running soap General Hospital will be making its UK debut alongside relationship drama Once and Again (pictured). Produced by The Bedford Falls Company with Touchstone Television, Once and Again stars Sela Ward ...

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    Hotbed sells 100 Worst to South Africa

    2004-09-02T08:30:00Z

    Birmingham-based production company Hotbed Media has licensed its 100 Worst Britons format to South African broadcaster MNET.

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    Parkinson given 3sixty vision

    2004-09-02T08:30:00Z

    3sixtymedia has created the title sequence for ITV1's first Michael Parkinson series. The programme opens with close-up and wide shots displaying the presenter's mannerisms. The titles, directed and designed by Nadine Weston, were shot on 35mm film, offlined in Avid then graded and composited by Flame artist Simon Blackledge. Layers ...