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OFF THE RECORD - Yanks put Britain in quarantine
RDF is having fun and games filming its Channel 4 series Scrapheap Challenge in Los Angeles where the weather's more or less guaranteed to be sunny enough for the outdoor shoot
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CREATIVE BRIEFS
Bernard Heyes Design created the opening titles for the new World of Wonder series The Secret Rulers of the World for Channel 4. Produced and directed by Jon Ronson, the series
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MIP-TV IN BRIEF - CARLTON INTERNATIONAL SEALS TV MOVIES DEAL
Carlton International has secured deals for a number of its TV movies through Carlton America. Japan's World Television has secured DVD, video and TV rights for The Triangle, while Japanese distributor
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MIP-TV IN BRIEF - GRANADA EXTENDS DISCOVERY DEAL
Granada International has extended its relationship with Discovery Networks International (DNI) after signing a multi-year deal for 100 hours of new programming to air on Discovery channels outside the US. Under
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BOOT CAMP DISPUTE
Granada could be caught in a legal row over its Boot Camp reality TV format, after it emerged this week that US firm LMNO Productions, which is producing the show in
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Smith: power boost needed
Media Secretary Chris Smith has moved to meet the 2006-2010 switch-off period for analogue TV by calling on broadcasters to boost the power of their transmitters in order to widen and
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OFF THE RECORD - Belt tightening
Blame the economic slow-down, but Granada is tightening its belts. OTR hears that bowls of fruit have been banned from all executive's offices and company credit cards have apparently been taken
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ON THE BOX - The bear necessities
BBC editor, mainstream LE Jonathan Glazier finds Grizzly Face to Face a little uninformative but As If an all-round delight.
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HUGHES TO BBC FACTUAL
Former BBC documentaries managing editor Jacquie Hughes has been appointed to the new role of BBC factual and learning managing editor of fully funded commissions and innovation. Hughes will develop and
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Guinness man to head BBC HR
The BBC has raided drinks giant Guinness to replace outgoing BBC director of human resources and internal communications Gareth Jones, writes Georgina Lipscomb.Guinness global human resources director Stephen Dando will take
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - BBC MediaArc picks Barker
BBC Mediaarc, the corporation's newly created design agency, is expanding with the appointment of Carol Barker to the new role of head of animation and the addition of three 3D artists,
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Pearson International duo poised to bail out
Pearson Television International (PTI) is in 11th-hour talks to retain its two most senior executives, chief executive Brian Harris and president Joe Abrams who both plan to quit the company.The two
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Holby City comes back to prop up Tuesday night
Back to earth with a post-Comic Relief bump for BBC 1 - Coronation Street returns to the top of the stack in the top 50 and all except one primetime night
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Kirch stalls football auction
German MEDIA outfit Kirch has postponed plans to auction off rights to the 2002 World Cup until after the general election to avoid becoming embroiled in electioneering by ministers, writes Simon
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LWT to replace arts partner
LWT is poised to announce a new co-production partner for its arts department following the closure of its former partner, NVC Arts, writes Colin Robertson.The company said this week it was
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Edward stays at Ardent
Ardent Productions chairman Malcolm Cockren has rejected calls for Prince Edward, the company's managing director, to resign in the wake of the recent 'working royals' debacle, writes Georgina Lipscomb.Cockren's remarks came
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RUSHES APPOINTMENTS
Commercial facility Rushes has signed Allen Sillery and Phil Man to its Inferno team. Sillery joins the Old Compton Street facility from rival VTR, where he worked across Flame and Henry.
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ANIMATION FOR OCTOPUS
Indie Octopus TV is moving into animation and is in talks to develop joint-ventures with a number of channels in the UK and US, writes Georgina Lipscomb. Octopus TV, the TV
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Treading a fine line
The threat of legal action against the producers of Pop Idol for format plagiarism shows how difficult it is for programme-makers to tell the difference between copying another show and being inspired by it.
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FREE TO AIR - Say no to Tweenie tat
When it comes to the 'power of television' over the young mind I have always been pretty ambivalent. I spent many hours of my early years sitting in front of any