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Wellbeing director goes to indie.
Simon Schofield, former director of content at ill-fated Granada digital channel Wellbeing, has been appointed as director of programmes at Leeds-based indie Real Life Media Productions, writes Penny Hughes.
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OFF THE RECORD - If in doubt, plug.
Off the Record spies (looking remarkably excited) were last week posted in the audience for Johnny Vaughan's new BBC Choice/ BBC 1 talkshow to see if it was going to get
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TX - The drive of your life.
Having injected some fire into The Ashes in 1999, C4 has selected Neil Duncanson to be the driving force behind its revamped coverage of the World Rally Championships in 2002. And
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Ealing Studios redevelopment gets underway.
Demolition work has begun at Ealing Studios as the famous site enters its centenary year, writes Barbara Marshall.
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ECOSSE WINS FOURTH MONARCH OF THE GLEN.
BBC Scotland has commissioned indie Ecosse Films to produce a fourth series of Monarch of the Glen. Shooting on the new series will begin in March in Scotland. It was commissioned
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - EGG SPEAKERS LAUNCHED.
Japanese in-car communications specialist Fujitsu Ten has set up a UK operation, Eclipse TD, to market its unique egg-shaped speaker monitors aimed at the recording and broadcast market. Eclipse TD UK
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MTV EUROPE PROMOTES.
MTV European feed head of production and programming Hans Hagman has been promoted to MTV Networks Europe music programming vice-president. Reporting to MTV Networks Europe senior vice-president, music, Harriet Brand, Hagman
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JACK THE RIPPER FACES INTERACTIVE TRIAL.
Former Channel 4 chief executive Michael Grade is to present an interactive two-part special examining theories about the identity of Jack the Ripper for the Discovery Channel, writes Simon Ellery.
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ITV AND SKY FALL OUT.
ITV Digital and BSkyB are blaming each other for a failure to agree a carriage deal for the ITV Sport Channel. Sky has attacked ITV for cancelling a meeting this week
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At The Races fills key job.
Horse-racing TV group At The Races has hired former Westcountry controller of news and current affairs Brad Higgins as head of programming, writes Simon Ellery.
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INDIE FINANCE - What's Victoria Real's secret?
Over 10 years ago Victoria Real started out as a small low-cost production outfit specialising in niche sports coverage. Now it has grown into one of the UK's best-known interactive producers. Meg Carter reports.
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TITCHMARSH TO LOOK AT SCIENCE OF GARDENING.
BBC 2 controller Jane Root has commissioned BBC Bristol to make 6 x 30-minute series How to be a Gardener, in which Alan Titchmarsh explains the science behind gardening. The series,
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Twofourtv to give kids taste of life as a star.
Plymouth-based indie Twofourtv is moving away from its reliance on factual and leisure commissions after scoring an 8 x 30-minute order from children's channel Nickelodeon, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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Virgin gives 'no repeat' pledge.
Virgin Radio has become the latest radio operator to introduce a 'no repeat workday' policy in a bid to attract more listeners in the workplace, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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GRANADA PROMOTION.
Granada has appointed its former broadband director of operations Max Graesser to head up its new combined Granada sport and interactive department as chief operating officer. The unit, part of Granada
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PRINCESS HIRES MCCUNE.
Princess Productions has hired former This Morning series producer Johnny McCune as series producer for Channel 5's morning show The Wright Stuff. McCune will report to Princess Productions joint managing director
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ITC RAP FOR SKINNER SEX.
The Independent Television Commission has blasted ITV's The Frank Skinner Show shown on 18 November for featuring Boy George in a graphic discussion about sex. ITV was also criticised for Carlton's
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TEAMTALK LAUNCH.
New national radio station Teamtalk 252 will launch on 25 February. The station will be 100 per cent dedicated to sport. It replaces music station Atlantic 252 which was sold by
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YOUNG NO LONGER.
Veteran BBC Radio 2 broadcaster Sir Jimmy Young is to step down from his daily show at the end of this year, after 28 years. From the beginning of 2003 he
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MENTORN MERGER.
Mentorn International and the distribution arm of Sunset & Vine are to be merged under the name of their parent company, TV Corp. The new division will be headed up by