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    Rainbow appointments

    2003-01-15T14:44:51Z

    Rainbow Post and DGP have both hired new staff this week. Louise Goldman has joined Rainbow as facility manager from Pioneer Productions and Andrew Herring moves from World TV to head the sales and marketing department. Meanwhile, DGP has added James Cannon, who will be working in quality control, plus ...

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    Redmond attacks British TV for being ?too safe'

    2003-01-15T13:35:18Z

    Mersey TV chairman Phil Redmond has hit out at the ?banal' state of peaktime TV and claimed that excessive editorial regulation is preventing UK programme makers producing hits such as HBO's The Sopranos, writes Steve Aston.

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    Ofcom director calls for greater powers

    2003-01-15T13:24:01Z

    David Edmonds, one of Ofcom's most senior directors has called for increased powers for the super-regulator to police public service broadcasting, beyond those already outlined in the communications bill, writes Jon Rogers.

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    Jowell backs indies

    2003-01-15T12:49:24Z

    Media secretary Tessa Jowell has handed indies a significant boost by accepting all but two of the recommendations made by the ITC in its programme supply review, writes Luke Satchell

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    Donna gets boot

    2003-01-15T10:10:26Z

    Wives beauty to leave after playin away. ...

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    TV Graham in Bee Gee joke storm

    2003-01-15T10:09:05Z

    Camp comic Graham Norton sparked a flood of complaints with a sick joke about tragic Bee Gee Maurice Gibb. ...

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    Was this the best Corrie ever?

    2003-01-15T10:07:04Z

    Millions of soap fans saw Ashley Peacock cradle wife Maxine's blood-splattered head in hnbis hands in Monday's sens...

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    TV Fern's suicide hell

    2003-01-15T10:04:14Z

    This Morning's presenter Fern Britton has admitted she was ready to commit suicide after the death of her first ch...

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    We love evil TV

    2003-01-15T10:01:58Z

    In the most gruesome scene in Coronation Street's 42-year history, poor Maxine Peacock was clobbered to death with ...

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    TV Chris gets axe

    2003-01-15T10:00:25Z

    Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles has been dropped from his TV chat show three months after it launched. ...

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    And the Asscar nominations are...

    2003-01-15T09:57:59Z

    They've made asses of themselves on TV and now they're doing the same at the cinema. ...

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    17 million watch as Tracey dies

    2003-01-15T09:55:49Z

    Coronation Street bosses claimed victory in the battle of the soaps last night after the show recorded its highest...

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    New inquiry into Barrymore pool death

    2003-01-15T09:38:03Z

    Detectives are to launch a new investigation into the death of a man found in a pool at the the home of television ...

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    Our correspondent

    2003-01-15T09:37:43Z

    TV channel hires Hewitt as war reporter ...

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    Police to check nurse's claim in Barrymore case

    2003-01-15T09:37:14Z

    Police are to mount a fresh investigation into the death of a partygoer who drowned in a swimming pool ...

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    Emergency services rescue gay TV show

    2003-01-15T09:36:52Z

    The London Fire Brigade and the Metropolitan Police are to sponsor Sky TV's gay TV show ...

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    Charges over radio victims of frostbite

    2003-01-15T09:36:27Z

    A radio station is to be prosecuted over claims that three people had to spend more than two months in hospital whe...

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    Police reopen Barrymore inquiry

    2003-01-15T09:35:40Z

    Detectives have opened a new investigation into the death of a man found floating face down in a swimming pool at t...

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    Radio station on thin ice after stunt

    2003-01-15T09:34:58Z

    Birmingham radio station BRMB is being taken to court for alleged breaches of safety law ...

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    Barrymore pool death: new inquiry opened

    2003-01-15T09:34:30Z

    Police have begun a new investigation into the death of a man found in Michael Barrymore's pool ...