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NewsTelevision revision with BBCi
Children studying for their GCSE's will now be able to do so through their television sets after the BBC decided to extend its successful online Bitesize service to interactive TV, via any BBC channel on SkyDigital.
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NewsChase to kill off The Sopranos
The next series of HBO's mafia drama The Sopranos will definitely be the last, the show's creator David Chase has confirmed, writes Colin Robertson in Banff
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NewsMaconie in for Walker
Music journalist Stuart Maconie is to stand in for BBC Radio 2 DJ Johnnie Walker throughout his fight against cancer, writes Michael Rosser
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NewsFrench broadcasters snap up C4 docs
Channel 4 documentaries Virgin Soldiers - made by award-winning film-maker Dodge Billingsley - and Dying for Drugs, an investigation into the global pharmaceutical industry, have been sold to broadcasters in France, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsAd agency BBH creates TV role
Advertising agency BBH has appointed a director of content to develop the company's relationships with broadcasters and independent production companies, in what it claims is a first for the industry, writes Sam Matthews
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NewsSMG urges caution
SMG bosses have issued a warning to shareholders that a reversal in the beleaguered advertising market is unlikely to kick in before 2004, writes Michael Rosser
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Muslims fail to halt episode of Spooks
The BBC is to press ahead with the screening tonight of an episode of the spy drama Spooks which has attracetd crit...
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Invest in sport to tackle couch potatoes, minister urges business
Businesses should help fight obesity by investing money and ideas in sport, Tessa Jowelll will say today. ...
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US mogul and Apax work on bid for ITV firms
David Elstein, former head of Channel 5, and Haim Saban, the US billionaire behind the Power Rangers cartoons, are ...
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Household names
Telly babe Melinda Messenger, ex-Boyzone pin-up Keith Duffy and Coronation Street's Bruce Jones (Les Battersby) wil...
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JM Roberts - Historian whose venture into television was a popular success
JM Roberts, the former Warden of Merton College, Oxford, who has died aged 75, was best known as the presenter of t...
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The BBC's secret weapon
Alan Yentob is a collector's item: a genuinely famous television executive. Famously bearded, famously well connect...
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NewsWood to take the helm at ITN
ITN chairman Mark Wood is to take over as chief executive of the news provider when Stewart Purvis steps down later this year, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsHillary Clinton gets biopic treatment
The British production team behind the recent biopic of Rudy Guiliani starring James Woods, is making a new film about another controversial US politician - Hillary Clinton, writes Colin Robertson
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NewsAirey: 'We don't need Five'
Sky Networks chief Dawn Airey yesterday played down the chances of Sky buying Five saying: 'We don't need Channel 5. Channel 5 might need us but we don't need them', writes Conor Dignam
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Media group seen as the one to watch
Expansive president and chief operating officer resents comparisons with other media conglomerates. ...
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Viacom cool on Vivendi auction
Viacom, the world's largest medi agroup by capitalisation, has played down its interest in the auction of Vivendi U...
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£2m Holy Cross film on BBC
The BBC is making a£2 million film about HOly Cross school in Belfast - through the eyes of the children caught up...
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Prebble fears TV's future is in Sky
One year on from ITV Digital's demise, its chief executive still feels the pain. ...