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C4 to air ?feisty ethnic' season
Channel 4 has commissioned a series of controversial multicultural documentaries following the axing of the standalone multicultural department by chief executive Mark Thompson last year, writes Jon Rogers.
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Tonight streets ahead, says RTS
Tonight with Trevor McDonald this week picked up the programme of the year award at the Royal Television Society's Television Journalism Awards, writes Paul Revoir.
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Ascent redundancies
Thirty five Ascent Media staff have been axed as a result of the merger of post houses Soho 601 and SVC into One Post. Those affected are being encouraged to apply for other jobs within the group. One Post will have 58 employees comprising 23 people from SVC, five from ...
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BBC buys news software for war
The BBC has ordered 13 LNG (laptop news gathering) software systems from web and newsgathering partners TVZ and 4BN, for journalists to use in covering the impending war in Iraq.
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Endemol's bizarre clip show for Five
Five has ordered a catastrophe clip show series from Big Brotherproducer Endemol UK, as well as three movie documentaries from Endemol subsidiary Initial, writes Penny Hughes.
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MTV forum to grill Blair over war in Iraq
Prime Minster Tony Blair is to appear on MTV in a special 60-minute discussion programme in which he will set out his case for war with Iraq. MTV Forum with Tony Blair: Is War the Answer?, to be made by MTV Europe in London, will include questions from 40 young ...
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Five knocks out deal for Frost-Ali head-to-head
Five has secured broadcast rights to the first major interview with legendary boxer Muhammad Ali in more than two decades. He will talk to Sir David Frost about his ideals, life and career in The Then and Now of Muhammad Ali, which will air in ...
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Opie tops Flextech list to fill Lighting's shoes
Flextech Television has drawn up a list of potential candidates for the replacement of chief executive of content Jane Lighting who takes over the reins at Five in April, writes Paul Revoir.
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Gong for Morris film
Chris Morris' short film My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117, which was posted at The Mill, has won a Bafta for best short film at this year's awards. The project was co-produced by Mark Herbert ( Phoenix Nights), and was adapted ...
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Good Life sex symbol returns as ITV sleuth
Actress Felicity Kendal is to return to TV for the first time in nine years to star in a new detective series for ITV1 produced by indie Carnival Films, writes John Plunkett.
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Machine Room hiring
Soho facility The Machine Room has added former 4MC/Ascent Media colourist Brian Metherell to its telecine team to help with an increase in TK projects. Metherell, who has 25 years' experience, has previously worked at VTR and TVP among other facilities. His credits include The ...
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Watchpoint in London
Interactive specialist WatchPoint Media has opened a London office. The company offers solutions for creating, broadcasting and collecting responses for interactive TV applications and its biggest product is Storyteller, an authoring system and graphical tool built on a proprietary visual programming language.
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Simple treatment for Sky show
The Sky News graphics team has created images for a new live evening talk show called 3Dto air on Mondays and Wednesdays from 3 March.
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Redmond accuses ITC of 'dumb regulation'
Brookside creator Phil Redmond this week attacked the Independent Television Commission (ITC) for 'dumb regulation' after it ruled that an armed siege in the Channel 4 soap was unsuitable for broadcast before the watershed, writes Hayley Treacy.
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News£12m-a-year saving for Five
Five will save around£12 million a year under new terms for its analogue TV licence drawn up with the Independent Television Commission, writes John Plunkett
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NewsAl Jazeera secures raft of BBC programmes
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal with Arabic news and documentary channel Al Jazeera for 1,000 hours of factual programming, writes Hayley Treacy
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NewsBBC accounts to be probed by Parliament
BBC chiefs are set to be forced to open their books to Parliament to account for the way they spend the£2.5bn a-year-licence fee, writes David Rose
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Coastal to make another Wire in the Blood
Actor Robson Green's indie Coastal Productions has been commissioned by ITV1 controller of drama Nick Elliott to make a second series of police drama Wire in the Blood. The series, which stars Green and Cold Feet actress Hermione Norris, will air later in the year in a new 4 x ...
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NewsViewers desert BBC3
New BBC digital service BBC3 is failing to catch the imagination of the nation's prized youth demographic, with latest viewing figures showing it is less popular than BBC Choice, the channel it replaced, writes Luke Satchell
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Wacko 'waived rights'
Michael Jackson's multi-million pound court battle with Granada will hinge on a one-paragraph agreement. ...