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    Brighter to make feel-good footage for US networks

    2003-03-13T15:15:34Z

    Brighter Pictures has signed a deal to produce 30 hours of content for a new US show set to be syndicated on major US networks including ABC, writes Penny Hughes

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    BBC1 is UK's favourite

    2003-03-13T15:08:30Z

    BBC1 is the UK's favourite TV station, according to research undertaken by the Independent Television Commission and the Broadcasting Standards Commission, published this week.

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    ITV joint-venture wins daytime BBC1 order

    2003-03-13T15:05:10Z

    London News Network (LNN), the news and features joint-venture owned by Carlton and Granada, has scored its first commission for the BBC, with a daytime series, writes Colin Robertson

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    BBC3 plans its angle on war

    2003-03-13T15:02:15Z

    BBC3 is to give its viewers its own particular take on the expected war with Iraq by launching a weekly war review programme that will replace its regular current affairs strand in the event of hostilities breaking out, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    Ideas Factory goes north

    2003-03-13T14:44:03Z

    Channel 4 is rolling out its Ideas Factory initiative in Scotland, backed by£2m funding, writes Penny Hughes

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    Turner u-turn over Freeview

    2003-03-13T14:37:10Z

    Turner Broadcasting, which runs channels such as Cartoon Network and CNN, is still interested in taking up a slot on the Freeview platform, despite its most senior UK television executive last week appearing to rule it out, writes Paul Revoir

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    New licence for Five confirmed

    2003-03-13T12:48:48Z

    The ITC and Five have today confirmed the new terms drawn up for the broadcaster's analogue TV licence, which will save it£12 million a year, writes Luke Satchell

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    Scarlet back on TV

    2003-03-13T10:03:40Z

    Captain Scarlet is making a TV return after 36 years - with no strings attached. ...

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    BBC steps up commercial fight with blow to BSkyB

    2003-03-13T10:02:06Z

    The BBC stepped up its policy of aggressively competing with commercial broadcasters yesterday when it abruptly ann...

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    Crossroads: My part in its downfall

    2003-03-13T09:57:51Z

    They said it was too bad to last. And it seems they were right. Despite a radical overhaul which saw new sets, a ne...

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    The end of the affair

    2003-03-13T09:57:38Z

    Smug middle-class must-see or the most compelling drama of our time? Either way, Thomas Sutcliffe knows why Cold Fe...

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    Digital chiefs start auction TV channel

    2003-03-13T09:55:10Z

    Sit-Up, the television group run by two founders of ITV Digital, is launching a second live television channel late...

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    Tarrant was unaware of 'strategic coughing' in quiz

    2003-03-13T09:52:41Z

    Chris Tarrant, the presenter of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, did not hear the coughing that allegedly helped a c...

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    BBC declares war on BSkyB in row over payments

    2003-03-13T09:50:04Z

    The BBC yesterday directly took on BSkyB by refusing to pay the satellite group to broadcast its channels and decla...

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    BBC to end BSkyB deal

    2003-03-13T09:46:21Z

    The BBC yesterday said its digital television channels would no longer be broadcast through BSkyB's conditional acc...

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    'Millionaire' host takes his turn in the hotseat

    2003-03-13T09:38:06Z

    It being a trial about a quiz show, Judge Geoffrey Rivlin, QC, could not resist seizing his brief moment as a conte...

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    BBC set to a save£85m by avoiding BSky B access fee

    2003-03-13T09:14:23Z

    The BBC hailed a big breakthrough in digital broadcasting yesterday as it vowed to make all its channels available ...

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    ITV studios investigated

    2003-03-13T09:06:05Z

    ITV's dominance of broadcast studios in the north of England will be investigated as part of the Competition Commission's inquiry into the proposed merger of Carlton and Granada, it was revealed this week, writes Will Strauss

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    BBC plots reality whodunnit show

    2003-03-13T09:05:47Z

    The fiercest critics of reality TV warn the quest for ratings will end in a televised death. Those fears in a manne...

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    Captain Scarlet's back

    2003-03-13T09:02:59Z

    TV hero Captain Scarlet is to be revived after more than three decades-with no strings attaced, it was announced ye...