All News articles – Page 4903

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    Singer speaks out as Telewest shares plunge to record low

    2001-09-06T14:57:00Z

    Chief executive says third quarter earnings in line with expectations after company's share price drops 23 per cent

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    Singer speaks out as Telewest plunges to record low

    2001-09-06T14:50:00Z

    Chief executive says third quarter earnings in line with expectations after company's share price drops 23 per cent

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    Under Offer returns to UK Style

    2001-09-06T14:23:00Z

    UK Style channel editor Nick Thorogood has commissioned Sparkling Productions to produce a second run of home-buying show Under Offer.The London-based indie is to make another 13 x 30-minute series

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    Watchdog opts for longer investigations

    2001-09-06T14:23:00Z

    BBC 1 consumer affairs show Watchdog has been revamped and will now focus on longer investigations.The next 29 x 30-minute series, commissioned by BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and controller

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    Pilot sells food and travel to the US

    2001-09-06T14:23:00Z

    Pilot Productions is to export two programmes from its slate to the US.Planet Food, the indie's 7 x 50-minute factual cookery series, has been picked up by US cable channel

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    Walt Disney International goes European

    2001-09-06T14:23:00Z

    Walt Disney Television International (WDTI) has bought two animated series from Spanish animation company Cromosoma and French firm Exmachina for its international channels. London-based WDTI acquisitions and programming director Mary Bredin

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    Living TV cooks up an odd mixture

    2001-09-06T14:23:00Z

    Flextech women's channel Living TV has commissioned three new series including a 20-part cookery show described as 'The Odd Couple meets Can't Cook, Won't Cook'.Ordered by Living commissioning editor Jane

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    Vegas lands new Choice game show

    2001-09-06T14:23:00Z

    Comedian Johnny Vegas, the face of ITV Digital's ongoing ad campaign, has been signed up by the BBC to front a new gameshow as part of a raft of new shows

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    Major religious series back on ITV

    2001-09-06T14:23:00Z

    ITV controller of news, current affairs, religion and arts Steve Anderson has recommissioned two major religious series from Granada.My Favourite Hymns will go into its sixth series with a 37

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    Channel 5 reconfirms its taste for Pepsi

    2001-09-06T14:23:00Z

    Channel 5 has recommissioned two new series of the Pepsi Chart on 5 from Initial.Ordered by C5 controller of special events Adam Perry, the new shows will run until June

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    C4 commissions for third Hidden Love series

    2001-09-06T14:23:00Z

    Channel 4 commissioning editor, independent film and video, Adam Barker has ordered 3 x 60-minute films as part of the channel's third Hidden Love series, writes Penny HughesBrothers in Arms, from

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    4 X 4 times two as new series is confirmed

    2001-09-06T14:23:00Z

    Current affairs series 4 x 4 has been recommissioned for a second series by BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and head of current affairs Peter Horrocks.From the autumn, the 6

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    Science greats to appear in Channel 4

    2001-09-06T14:23:00Z

    Channel 4 schools commissioning editor John Richmond has ordered a new series for the Science in Focus strand from indie Eagle & Eagle.Big Questions examines how great scientists such as

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    BBC 2 orders Michael Watson legal fight doc

    2001-09-06T14:23:00Z

    BBC 2 commissioning executive Maxine Watson has commissioned a 50-minute special on former super middleweight boxer Michael Watson, writes Jon RogersFighting Back: the Michael Watson Story charts Watson's battle for compensation

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    MBC bags BBC 1 and Channel 4 commissions

    2001-09-06T14:23:00Z

    Mentorn Barraclough Carey (MBC) has secured a raft of new orders from the BBC and Channel 4, including a documentary about controversial former MI5 head Dame Stella Rimmington, writes Leigh HolmwoodThe

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    City offers muted reaction to Wireless Group results

    2001-09-06T13:13:00Z

    Shares in Kelvin MacKenzie's radio group fail to rally after better than expected results

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    Fulcrum and Wadell join forces for new NI indie

    2001-09-06T12:44:00Z

    Fulcrum Waddell Media to produce leisure and lifestyle porgramming

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    Granada and BBC shelve Bristol resources joint venture

    2001-09-06T10:31:00Z

    Plans to replicate Manchester-based 3sixtymedia in West Country abandoned

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    Garvie upped as BBC begins entertainment revamp

    2001-09-06T10:18:00Z

    Head of entertainment and features takes on new role and many of the responsibilities of former head of light entertainment David Young

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    Lygo warns suppliers

    2001-09-06T10:08:00Z

    C5 director of programmes kick starts schedule overhaul and demands indies 'shake-up' their output