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    Mediahouse living deal

    2003-03-06T08:30:00Z

    TWI's Mediahouse studio has won the contract for Living TV's new daily live talk show Loose Lips, produced by Scream Films. The show will kick off on 31 March and run for 20 weeks. Living TV channel controller Richard Woolfe told ...

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    Dawson's Creek switches to Five

    2003-03-06T08:30:00Z

    Fans of Channel 4's US teen drama Dawson's Creekwho want to know whether Dawson and Joey get it together are going to have to switch terrestrial channels after Five pulled off a deal to screen the sixth and final series, ...

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    Renamed Bill spin-off gets underway

    2003-03-06T08:30:00Z

    Thames TV has renamed its new The Billspin-off M.I.T Murder Investigation Teaminstead of its original title Think Murder. The 8 x 60-minute series starring Lindsey Coulson ( EastEnders) and Samantha ...

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    BBC radio lines up comic relief capers

    2003-03-06T08:30:00Z

    BBC Radio 1 presenters are to take part in Dance Relief, featuring a battle of the DJs, while BBC Radio 2 is to broadcast a concert featuring Mick Hucknall as part of BBC radio's plans for Comic Relief coverage. BBC Radio 4 is to give listeners the chance to hear ...

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    BBC post facility wins Weakest Link tender

    2003-03-06T08:30:00Z

    The new producer of BBC's Weakest LinkJo Street has completely overhauled the way the shows are made for the forthcoming fifth series, writes Sam Espensen.

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    Tiger wins bag of commissions

    2003-03-06T08:30:00Z

    Tiger Aspect Productions has won a raft of commissions from the BBC and Channel 4, including a second run of its hit documentary series A Place in France, in which two friends set out to buy and renovate a house across the ...

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    Imago's Discovery special on aquatic lions

    2003-03-06T08:30:00Z

    Norwich-based indie Imago has completed a 60-minute special for the Discovery Channel about an unusual group of lions that have taken to the water in Botswana. Swimming Lions, which will air in May and on Animal Planet US in June, is the first wildlife documentary ...

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    Welsh Assembly backs animation venture

    2003-03-06T08:30:00Z

    A new animation studio, partially funded by a grant from the Welsh National Assembly, will open in Cardiff Bay this week, writes Sam Espensen.

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    Discovery looks at altered statesmen

    2003-03-06T08:30:00Z

    Discovery Networks Europe has commissioned a series on the impact of addiction, depression and alcoholism on John F Kennedy, Boris Yeltsin, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Ronald Reagan from Outline Productions. The 5 x 60-minute Altered Statesmenis due to air in April. Ordered by Discovery ...

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    Airey hunts Sky scheduling head

    2003-03-06T08:30:00Z

    Sky Networks managing director Dawn Airey is set to shake-up the broadcaster's programming department further by creating a new post for a head of scheduling and promotions across Sky channels, writes Paul Revoir.

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    Runners get advice

    2003-03-06T08:30:00Z

    Skillset is to hold a careers advice day next month for runners wanting to get ahead in TV. Offering access to producers, directors and broadcasters, the event features workshops and talks from such luminaries as 1Xtra programmes editor Wilber Wilberforce. Skillsformedia advisors, who are experienced working freelancers, will also be ...

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    422 South brings the human chimp to life

    2003-03-06T08:30:00Z

    422 South has provided graphics and content for Granada's show The Human Chimp, part of the Unsolved Mysteries strand on Five. The programme uses archive footage to speculate about a human/chimp hybrid species and whether such a species is already in existence. 422 designer Will ...

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    History Channel and S4C sign two-series deal

    2003-03-06T08:30:00Z

    A documentary on Irish political party Sinn Fein is part of an output deal signed between The History Channel UK and S4C International (S4CI) for 10 hours of co-produced programming, writes Penny Hughes.

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    Facility M2 has Big Finish in view

    2003-03-06T08:30:00Z

    Soho facility M2 is in negotiations to buy a majority share holding in post-production group Big Finish, write Sam Espensen and Will Srauss.

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    19TV takes indie of the year award

    2003-03-06T08:30:00Z

    Pop Idolproducer 19TV won indie of the year at the 2003 Indie Awards this week as reality shows swept the board.

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    Ofcom ready to go on Dec 15

    2003-03-05T15:37:52Z

    New super-regulator Ofcom will be up and running and ready to begin work by mid-December, it was announced today, writes Luke Satchell

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    BBC opens super-newsroom in Moscow

    2003-03-05T14:23:44Z

    The BBC has opened a huge newsgathering bureau in Moscow - its largest news operation centre in the world outside the UK, writes Luke Satchell

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    Eyre appointed IAB chairman

    2003-03-05T11:09:00Z

    Former ITV chief executive Richard Eyre has added yet another string to his bow after being appointed chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the UK trade body for interactive and online advertising, writes Luke Satchell

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    Soccer 'lover' named

    2003-03-05T09:52:00Z

    BBC website blunder. ...

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    Six Cold feet Under

    2003-03-05T09:50:54Z

    Major character is set to die...but which one will it be? ...