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    September Films bags first BBC series order.

    2002-06-20T14:30:54Z

    September Films has expanded its trademark programming on the world of showbiz, bagging its first series for the BBC, writes Steve Aston

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    DAN BACK ON TV.

    2002-06-20T14:30:54Z

    Channel 5 has picked up the rights to the first terrestrial broadcast of the new #15m Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future series, writes Penny Hughes

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    PENK BACK AT CAPITAL.

    2002-06-20T14:30:54Z

    DJ Steve Penk is returning to 95.8 Capital FM to front a new late night show

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    Airey takes on festival role.

    2002-06-20T14:30:54Z

    Two of the broadcasting industry's most high profile bodies have appointed new chairs, with Channel 5 chief executive Dawn Airey taking the helm at the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival and Granada managing director of content Simon Sha

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    C4 rejigs factual commissioning.

    2002-06-20T14:30:54Z

    Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson is in the process of streamlining the popular factual commissioning

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    BBC 3 verdict expected before recess.

    2002-06-20T14:30:54Z

    Media secretary Tessa Jowell is expected to announce her long-awaited decision on the BBC's proposed new digital youth channel, BBC 3, next month, ending almost a year of tense politicking, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    PRESS GANG REUNITED.

    2002-06-20T14:30:53Z

    Press Gang, the Bafta-winning cult kids show that launched the careers of Julia Sawalha and Dexter Fletcher, could soon return to screens as a special one-off epilogue, writes Colin Robertson

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    Planet plots new course.

    2002-06-20T14:30:53Z

    Planet 24, the former indie that did for TV in the early 1990s what the Sex Pistols did for music in the 1970s, is set to be restructured following the loss of its crucial #11m Big Breakfast contract earlier this year, writes Colin Robertson

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    Cosgrove Hall up for grabs.

    2002-06-20T14:30:53Z

    Granada is seeking international investors for animation house Cosgrove Hall in a bid to water down

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    CRCA U-turns on changes.

    2002-06-20T14:30:53Z

    The commercial radio companies are set for a head-on collision with their regulator, the Radio Authority, when they appear before the joint committee examining the communications bill on Monday (24 June), writes Lucy Rouse

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    Row brews over DTT bids.

    2002-06-20T14:30:53Z

    A row has broken out between the BBC and ITV after the corporation threatened to withhold support for digital terrestrial television if ITV's bid to take over the former ITV Digital multiplexes succeeded, writes Paul Revoir

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    Radio Authority may relax local news rule.

    2002-06-20T14:30:53Z

    The Radio Authority is considering dropping rules that force local radio stations to produce and broadcast news from within their catchment areas in order to allow news operations to consolidate, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    Tiger Aspect chief hits out at youth 'obsession'.

    2002-06-20T14:30:53Z

    Broadcasters are wasting some of the country's best creative talent with their 'over-obsession' with the under-35s, according to the head of one of the UK's biggest indies, writes Colin Robertson

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    ITV KIDS CHIEF GOES SOLO.

    2002-06-20T14:30:49Z

    Former Granada director of children's Dan Maddicott has resurfaced with his own production company, Indie Kids, writes Steve Aston

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    BBC drama investigates Hatfield train disaster.

    2002-06-20T14:30:39Z

    The events surrounding the train crashes at Paddington and Hatfield which left 35 people dead and

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    Airey takes on festival role

    2002-06-20T11:04:46Z

    Two of the broadcasting industry's most high profile bodies have appointed new chairs, with Channel 5 chief executive Dawn Airey taking the helm at the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival and Granada managing director of content Simon Shaps taking over at the Royal Television Society (RTS), ...

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    Cosgrove Hall up for grabs

    2002-06-20T11:01:25Z

    Granada is seeking international investors for animation house Cosgrove Hall in a bid to water down its investment and allow the company to regain its independent status, writes Jane Marlow

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    CRCA U-turns on changes

    2002-06-20T10:58:09Z

    The commercial radio companies are set for a head-on collision with their regulator, the Radio Authority, when they appear before the joint committee examining the communications bill on Monday (24 June), writes Lucy Rouse

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    Planet 24 plots new course

    2002-06-20T10:56:21Z

    Planet 24, the former indie that did for TV in the early 1990s what the Sex Pistols did for music in the 1970s, is set to be restructured following the loss of its crucial£11m Big Breakfast contract earlier this year, writes Colin Robertson

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    Press gang reunited

    2002-06-20T10:48:09Z

    Press Gang, the Bafta-winning cult kids show that launched the careers of Julia Sawalha and Dexter Fletcher, could soon return to screens as a special one-off epilogue, writes Colin Robertson