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Interview - A bumper harvest
After a solid year delivering hits right across the factual genre, Diverse programme chiefs Narinder Minhas and Roy Ackerman have to decide if they can join the indie superleague and still keep their edge.
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Diversity in television - Why television has to change.
The Crouches may have ended its run last week but the programme brought a torrent of attack against the BBC and TV's cultural stereotypes in its wake, which makes the appointment of Greg Dyke as CDN chairman all the more important, writes Jacqueline Asafu
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Opinion - Green at the crossroads.
As another TV era ends, with Michael Green bowing out, how about lining up a tribute night, with the man himself the star of all the shows?
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Opinion - Comment - There's no future in filth.
Even the terrestrials have sunk to new depths in their use of sex, horror and violence to get eyeballs and instant tabloid coverage, but it doesn't have to be this way, argues Jeff Henry.
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Analysis - Will Sky's clouds lift?
As greater competition from terrestrial channels backs Sky One into a corner and its audience share dips, all eyes are on new controller James Baker to see whether he can revamp a stale schedule.
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Opinion - In my view - When opportunity knocks.
No longer in its infancy, the format business has become a multinational trade, open to all and more competitive than ever, writes Mark Rowland.
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Analysis - Fox hunts for older men.
Fox's Jason Thorp has the tricky job of making a success of new channel FX without cannibalising fellow News Corp channel Sky One. So how will he do it?
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Analysis - On the Box - The Roman way of death.
Jeremy Dear gave the thumbs-up to the action in BBC1's re-creation of Rome's Colosseum if not to the acting, but felt Pompeii buried it as a history programme.
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FORMATS & DEALS - NODDY GOES TO POLAND, ASIA AND SLOVENIA.
Brand management company Chorion has made several international sales of its£10m CGI children's series Make
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FORMATS & DEALS - PARTHENON TO DISTRIBUTE FOR SCANDINATURE.
Factual indie Parthenon Entertainment has signed a five-year distribution deal with Scandinavian wildlife production outfit Scandinature
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ITN to give universities free access to archive.
ITN is to give colleges and universities across the UK free access to its huge news archive - one of the world's largest film and image libraries, writes Michael Rosser.
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Format focus: The family - Adam Buckman, New York Post.
The latest experiment in role swapping puts a working-class family into an upper-class country house, where the servants boot one of them out every week, writes Michael Rosser.
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FORMATS & DEALS - NAT GEO BUYS MAYDAY AND DOGS WITH JOBS.
Cineflix's London-based international distribution arm has sold a brace of programmes to National Geographic Channels International
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FORMATS & DEALS - RDF MAKES FIRST SALES FOR US COURT TV.
RDF International has made its first distribution deals for Court TV, after taking on nearly 80
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FORMATS & DEALS - LUDUS SELLS THREE FORMATS TO US.
Format house Ludus is set to make its first foray into the US after selling the
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BBC2 to get own consumer show.
BBC2 controller Jane Root is set to commission her channel's first major consumer strand as part of a raft of new orders for the BBC's in-house consumer affairs unit, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Commissioner's Q&A - Aaquil Ahmed.
The commissioning editor for religion and science for Channel 4 discusses the importance of taking a fresh and contemporary approach to religious issues to revolutionise the way they are addressed.
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Lion wins factual orders from BBC.
The BBC has ordered a raft of factual series from Lion Television including an inside look
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Beckham to train kids on CBBC.
The BBC has picked up the rights to former England captain David Beckham's training project for kids, Really Bend It Like Beck-ham, after it was launched at the Mipcom programme market a fortnight ago, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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COMMISSIONS - MMA WINS CELEBRITY REALITY BITES ORDER.
Manchester-based indie Multi Media Arts (MMA) has won a raft of commissions including a hidden camera