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    Beam wins Cannes deal

    2003-02-13T08:30:00Z

    UK digital courier and archive service Beam TV has won an exclusive contract with the organisers of the Cannes Lions advertising awards to handle entries and manage data during the festival. MD Matt Cooper told Broadcast that agencies will be able to dispense with Beta ...

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    Picardy battles to save post services

    2003-02-13T08:30:00Z

    Glasgow-based Picardy Media Group is confident that its production, post-production and corporate arms will remain going concerns despite the company going into receivership at the end of January, writes Sam Espensen.

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    Kids go loco in Banzai-style CITV gameshow

    2003-02-13T08:30:00Z

    Foundation is making a 10 x 30-minute gameshow for CITV featuring Banzai-style challenges such as three elderly women competing to spit their false teeth the furthest. Globo Loco, to be presented by Stephen Mulhern, will feature rival teams aged from 11 to 13 competing in ...

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    Five hopes pig will bring home the bacon

    2003-02-13T08:30:00Z

    Production has begun on new Five and Nick Jr pre-school animation Peppa Pig, following a finance and co-production deal between Contender Entertainment Group (CEG) and Astley Baker Davies, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    Backpack camera captures punters' views

    2003-02-13T08:30:00Z

    Following hot on the heels of such technological wizardry as 'boulder-cam', 'ant-cam' and 'barnacle-cam', BBC Sport's first 'crowd-cam' debuts this weekend at the RBS Six Nations rugby tournament.

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    Aussie wildlife next for NHU

    2003-02-13T08:30:00Z

    The BBC is to turn its wildlife focus to Australasia in a major series from the Natural History Unit (NHU), writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    Brian Waddell chasing time once again

    2003-02-13T08:30:00Z

    National Geographic Channel has commissioned a second series of fast-moving travel-adventure show Chasing Timefrom Northern Ireland indie Brian Waddell Productions Limited. The 13 x 30-minute series follows contestants as they try to navigate various cities. Trey Farley will once again present the show. Two production ...

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    BBC brings back 70s Superstars

    2003-02-13T08:30:00Z

    Superstars , the show that made a household name of judo master Brian Jacks and saw Kevin Keegan knocked off his bicycle, is returning to BBC1 for a full series, writes Colin Robertson.

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    5 Live gears up to air rolling news from war

    2003-02-13T08:30:00Z

    BBC Radio 5 Live controller Bob Shennan has turned to Julian Worricker and Peter Allen to front the station's coverage of the expected war against Iraq, writes John Plunkett.

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    C4 capitalises on The Salon hit

    2003-02-13T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 has extended the run of its weekday reality series The Salonby six weeks after strong ratings, writes Penny Hughes.

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    Coogan to play Samuel Pepys in BBC2 film

    2003-02-13T08:30:00Z

    The BBC's drama, arts and entertainment departments are set to come together for the first time in order to dramatise the life of diarist Samuel Pepys for a major new BBC film. Steve Coogan will star as Pepys in the landmark BBC2 film, working titled ...

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    C4 confirms York for drama role

    2003-02-12T15:47:49Z

    Channel 4 has confirmed BBC head of drama series John Yorke as its new drama head, writes Penny Hughes

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    Film Four Lab's Gutch quits

    2003-02-12T15:08:54Z

    Head of Film Four Lab Robin Gutch is to leave the experimental film-making division after four years to move into independent film and drama production, writes Penny Hughes

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    ITV joins interactive revolution

    2003-02-12T13:01:29Z

    ITV has signed a major agreement with BSkyB to develop a range of interactive services for its three channels in a move that will finally see it catch up with its competitors, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    Full BBC services on Freeview from Friday

    2003-02-12T11:46:45Z

    The BBC is to put the remainder of its national radio stations onto Freeview this Friday (14 February), taking the total of BBC radio channels available on the new DTT platform up to 11, writes Luke Satchell

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    Granada to make Jackass UK

    2003-02-12T11:25:34Z

    Shock-TV standard-bearer Jackass, the MTV show which made a household name of Johnny Knoxville for performing bizarre and sick stunts, is to be the inspiration behind a new half-hour Granada format, writes Luke Satchell

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    Beeb lead fans off the rails

    2003-02-12T10:22:52Z

    Thanks to the manipulations of BBC Television, the rugby match between Wales and England at Cardiff's Millenium Sta...

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    Blue Peter team back for a film they made earlier

    2003-02-12T10:20:12Z

    This Blue Peter team was one of the most famous line-ups in broadcasting history. Now the trio of John Noakes, Pete...

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    Joan Collins TV proves a turn-off

    2003-02-12T10:10:54Z

    Channel Health, a digital television channel backed by actor Joan Collins, is on the verge of going into liquidatio...

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    Southerners rebel over hillbilly reality TV show

    2003-02-12T10:10:36Z

    The CBS show that relocated a family from the American rural south has come under fire from a Kentucky campaign gro...