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This was your life!
This Is Your Life is facing the axe after a 48-year run - because young stars think it is naff. ...
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Naked ambition of TV wannabes
Desperate Big Brother 4 hopefuls have been proving they will do just about anything to get on the programme. ...
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Revolutionary deal as TV adaption of Dr Zhivago is sold...to Russia
In the televisual equivalent of selling coals to Newcastle, Granada has persuaded a Russian TV channel to buy its l...
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The Explainer - Radio advertising
The rajar results for the first three months of the year were not good news for the commercial radio industry. ...
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TV executive dies from DVT after skiing accident
A Young TV executive collapsed and died from deep vein thrombosis after flying home from a skiing accident in Canad...
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NewsLive TV to make its comeback on Sky
Live TV, the infamous cable television channel that gave the world News Bunny and Topless Darts, is set to return, writes Rosemary Gallagher
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NewsC4 sets up 4 Broadband channel
Channel 4 is launching a factual and entertainment broadband channel, 4 Broadband, to showcase programmes and clips from the broadcaster's back-catalogue, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsNTL to be bought out of ITV News
Carlton and Granada are to take full control of the ITV News Channel by buying out NTL Europe's 35% stake, writes Paul Revoir
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NewsBig Brother house stays open till 2008
Big Brother is set to stay on British screens until at least 2008, even if ratings fall for the main Channel 4 show, according to the C4 executive in charge of it, write Leigh Holmwood and Paul Revoir
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NewsITV pushes on with back-room merger
The back-room merger of Carlton and Granada continued this week as the pair announced that all planning and scheduling operations will be moved to centres in London and the north from next month, writes Paul Revoir
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West End's DGP goes east for Channel 4
Soho post house DGP has cut and graded A Bit of Oriental, a new show for Channel 4 produced by Spiritworld. The 1 x 30-minute programme is a light-hearted documentary that looks at the lives of Oriental women and how they are perceived in British ...
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BBC4 to look at the greatest historians
BBC4 has ordered a major 3 x 50-minute series that aims to bring the world's greatest historians to life. Great Historians, to be executive produced in-house by Jonathan Gili, will use actors to explore the work of Edward Gibbon, author of ...
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Mile high flies again for Sky One
Sky One commissioning editor for drama Sara Johnson has asked indie Hewland International to make a second 26 x 60-minute series of drama series Mile High. Filming will kick off in London and mainland Europe in September to air on Sunday nights from January next ...
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Five to look at celebs who've bared all
TV and radio indie Somethin' Else is making a 60-minute show for Five, examining how celebrities use their naked bodies to get ahead, writes Penny Hughes.
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Clarke goes it alone
422 London creative director Simon Clarke has quit the company to set up his own design facility. Clarke, who has a background in creating visual effects work for science-based programmes, spent four years at 422 but felt he wanted to offer producers a different way of working. Clarke Associates will ...
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UK Style sends out design ambulance
UK Style head of lifestyle Nick Thorogood has commissioned indie MadMac Productions to make a second series of interior makeover programme Design+ER. Each of the 15 x 23-minute episodes will see a team of experts arrive at a viewer's home in a design 'ambulance' to ...
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Anneka fronts family food series
Former Treasure Hunt presenter Anneka Rice is to make her TV comeback with a new advertiser-funded daytime cookery series on Five, writes Penny Hughes.
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Nat Geo showcases Asian directing talent
The National Geographic Channel's executive vice-president of programming and production, Bryan Smith, has commissioned four young Asian directors to each shoot a documentary for a new series, Reel Talent, covering a range of topics across Asia. The 30-minute films, funded by Nat Geo, include: ...
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Edinburgh to host MTV Europe music awards
This year's MTV Europe Music Awards will be broadcast live from Edinburgh on 6 November, the first time the ceremony has been held in Scotland in its 10-year history. The event, held in Barcelona last year, will take place at a specially built 6,000-capacity venue in Leith and will be ...
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Capital and BBC to enhance networks with broadband
Two of the country's biggest radio broadcasters are installing 'broadband' style networks between their stations to allow programme material to be networked across the country, writes Kevin Hilton.