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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 - 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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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 - 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 - In My View - Here's to you ITV plc.
ITV might be the darling of the Competition Commission, but has Charles Allen come to the end of his nine lives, asks Dawn Airey.
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Interview - Red's storyteller.
Putting the writer at the centre of the creative process is key for successful drama, says Nicola Shindler, whose indie, Red Production, is behind some of the most original television dramas of recent years.
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In Production - The Nile put through The Mill.
Mill TV has completed work on The Nile, a three-part documentary for BBC Bristol. The show
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FORMATS & DEALS - AMERICAN IDOL 3 SET FOR GLOBAL AIRING.
American Idol 3, the US version of hit ITV show Pop Idol, is to be screened
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COMMISSIONS - C4 ORDERS TWO NEW WIFE SWAP SERIES.
Channel 4 commissioning editor, documentaries Hilary Bell has ordered two series of the reality show Wife
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FORMATS & DEALS - C4I DOES BRISK BUSINESS WITH AUSTRALIA.
Tiger Aspect's high-school drama Teachers has been sold to ABC in Australia as part of a
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FORMATS & DEALS - ACTION TIME DOES FORMAT DEALS IN EUROPE.
Distributor Action Time has secured a raft of format deals with broadcasters across Europe. Music gameshow
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FORMAT FOCUS: ALTERNATIVE LOVE.
The BBC is taking a risk with a version of this on-location dating show with a 'love triangle twist', writes Michael Rosser.
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Analysis - Profile - The view from 'Reality Row'.
After three years building up one of the biggest US outposts of a UK indie, RDF executive producer Cathy Rogers is heading home in search of fresh formats.
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Analysis - Are they the living dead?
Veteran TV journalist and former MP Martin Bell may soon be joining the board of governors at the BBC. But will the arrival of the white-suited crusader be enough to save the current governors? Steve Clarke reports.
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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
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Fraud case teaches BBC costly lesson.
BBC Worldwide wanted to do direct deals with Chinese manufacturers to make Tweenies toys. Conor Dignam reports on how the plan led to a£500,000 fraud case.
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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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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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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 - 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.