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BBC 4 shows to air on BBC 2.
The BBC is looking to screen the best programmes from new digital cultural channel BBC 4 on BBC 2 in response to criticisms that few viewers have access to the new service, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Flextech orders 20 new shows.
Flextech television has unveiled its biggest slate of new orders yet with a number of series greenlit across its own channels.The commissions, which represent a 30 per cent rise in original
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Dyke slams C4 over criticism of BBC 3.
BBC director general Greg Dyke has slammed Channel 4's criticism of proposed new digital channel BBC 3, saying C4 was 'awash with money' and should not suggest the new youth service
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4 VENTURES ADDS CHIEF.
Channel 4 commercial arm 4 Ventures has poached Deloitte & Touche UK director of strategy Sue Ford as its first finance chief. Ford, who joins this month reporting to 4 Ventures
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More football extras for C4.
Channel 4 has increased the next run of its Football Stories strand from six to 10 outings and has also commissioned a two-part series on football hooliganism, writes Penny Hughes.
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C5 to make drama with Southern Star.
Channel 5 has signed a #3m co-production deal with Australian producer Southern Star for a new children's drama series, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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NTL bondholders act to kickstart business.
Debt-ridden cable giant NTL has been thrown a lifeline after an unofficial committee of bondholders this week called on the firm to withhold interest payments totalling $96m (#67m), writes Simon Ellery.
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Trade talk - Action woman.
Action Time has trebled its international revenues since sales specialist Caroline Beaton joined. What's next for its new joint managing director?
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RUSHES ADDS TO FX TEAM.
Rushes has added to its visual effects team with the appointment of Inferno artist Emir Hasham who joins from VTR. Recent credits include daytime idents for Channel 4 and Planet Funk
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Advertisers fear for ITV's future.
ITV is likely to emerge from the advertising recession in worse shape than Channel 5, BSkyB and the radio industry, according to advertisers.Despite recent forecasts from radio group GWR and investment
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FULL STEAM AHEAD FOR ITV'S ZHIVAGO.
Production is underway in Slovakia and the Czech Republic on Granada's multimillion pound ITV drama Zhivago, writes Steve Aston.
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Free to air - ITV must learn from failure.
As the administrators struggle to keep ITV Digital afloat, and the inevitable mudslinging reaches levels rarely heard in the UK outside the Palace of Westminster, the British communications industry can only
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UK skills base must improve, says Alli.
Massive skills gaps' are holding back the UK production industry's success in the US, former Planet 24 boss Waheed Alli has warned.On the eve of international programme market Mip-TV, Skillset patron
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HIT CHIEF GOES IT ALONE.
Former Hit Entertainment head of co-productions and acquisitions Peter Curtis has resurfaced with his own kids indie, Spellbound Entertainment. Curtis, who left Hit more than a year ago, aims to develop
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News analysis - Deal of the decade.
Will the extension of the BBC's co-production deal with Discovery for another 10 years put the squeeze on UK indies and cause compromises in programming as co-production potential becomes increasingly important?
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CRCA anger at Radio Authority.
The Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA) has hit out at the Radio Authority's 'interference' in the radio business, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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ANIMATION SEMINAR.
CITV controller of children's and youth Janie Grace, Channel 5 controller of children's Nick Wilson, Tiger Aspect joint managing director Andrew Zein and BBC deputy head of children's acquisitions Estelle Hughes
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ASIA NEWS CONFERENCE.
Newsworld Asia is set to take place for the second year running in Singapore between 31 July and 2 August. Former CNN broadcaster Riz Khan will again chair the event, which
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Leader - Mail gets knives out for auntie.
The Royals are in the news again, and once again the BBC is under fire. The Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph, in particular, judged the BBC's coverage of the Queen Mother's
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BBC HEADS BAFTA LIST.
BBC 1's The Way We Live Now has led the field in this year's nominations for the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (Bafta) Craft awards to be held in