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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
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NATPE SPECIAL - A very special relationship?
Despite a difficult economic climate and plummeting ad revenues in the US, a slew of British production companies are making moves across the water. Will they sink or swim? John Hazelton reports.
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Talkback wins raft of orders.
Talkback Productions has bagged its widest ever range of commissions, including a number of factual series for the BBC and a quiz show for Channel 4.Headlining the BBC slate is 6
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RACISM IS PUT TO TEST.
The BBC is to screen an innovative documentary series in which four people have the colour of their skins changed in order to find out if the way they are treated depends on their race, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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SSC ROLE FOR SKILLSET.
Skillset, the National Training Organisation for Broadcast, Film, Video & Interactive Media, this month becomes one of the UK's five 'trailblazer' sector skills councils (SSCs). With enhanced remits and increased funding
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Morrissey joins Royle star in BBC 1 modern drama push
Ralph Little and Men Behaving Badly stalwart team up for drama from Where the Heart Is writer
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BBC man gets C4 education role
Trouble At The Top producer Simon Dickson replaces outgoing education commissioning editor Richard McKerrow
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Bland back-tracks
BT chairman Sir Christopher Bland has moved to play down earlier comments of a move into broadcasting and programme production but not ruled it out.At a conference in Arizona last