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    FREE TO AIR - Daytime is out of joint

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Nature, as William Shakespeare noted, has turned against itself.Horses are biting each other; there is a wild and gnarly wind; night has become day and vice versa.Richard and Judy at 5pm,

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    SOUTHERN STAR AND ALBA TO EXPLAIN THE WAR

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Southern Star and history specialist Alba Communications have unveiled their first project following an output deal signed at last month's Mipcom.The two are to make 12 x 60-minute factual series Visions

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - The ratings iceberg

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Although BBC has won industry attention for successful assaults on ITV's peaktime supremacy, it is its lead in daytime and graveyard slots which might help it pull ahead and become the overall share winner in 2001.

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    RATINGS ANALYSIS - Soaps bubble up higher than ever

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    After a poor showing in 2000 when viewing figures dropped, ratings for soaps are up this year, lifted by an extra EastEnders episode, the launches of Crossroads and Night and Day and the return of Home and Away.

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    ANCHOR QUITS TODAY

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Sue MacGregor, presenter of the Radio 4 Today programme, is to leave at the end of February next year. She had been with the morning news programme for almost 18 years.

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    RATINGS - Richard & Judy failed to weaken Anne's hold

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4's much-anticipated Richard & Judy debut lost out to BBC 2's Weakest Link on Monday (26 November), writes Jon Rogers.

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    BBC appoints first head of sponsorship

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The BBC has appointed its first head of sponsorship in a bid to boost the amount of money it raises from its large-scale events, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    Attik pair set up on their own

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Two former Attik creative directors are to form their own design practice, Dixonbaxi, writes Barbara Marshall.Simon Dixon and Aporva Baxi will be based in London from January and plan to move

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    AVID PULLS OUT OF IBC

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Avid Technology will not exhibit at the 2002 International Broacasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam. Instead, it will launch a series of customer events in major European cities throughout the year. Avid

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    Greenlight award goes to homelessness film

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    A documentary maker who was the first to be given access to a major centre for the homeless in London has been awarded a BBC Talent Greenlight award, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    CNN videophone wins award

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The portable videophone system used by CNN to send live images of the aftermath of the events of 11 September took gold on Tuesday (27 November) at The Wall Street Journal

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    CHOICE TO SHOW IRISH ROCK AND POP AWARDS

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    BBC Choice controller Stuart Murphy has commissioned a highlights programme from the Irish Rock and Pop Awards, to be held in Belfast in April. The event - the Irish equivalent of

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    TX - Watching your back

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Last year Channel 4 opened a shop. They called it Khan's Convenience Store. If they were being up-front they might have called it Undercover Docs-R-Us. But of course they weren't because

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    BBC plans scheme to boost nations

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The BBC is launching a major new initiative to try and stem the brain drain of creative talent from the nations to production centres in London, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    BBC COMMERCE PROBE

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    BBC director general Greg Dyke has appointed accountancy firm Arthur Andersen to investigate the corporation's commercial activities through BBC Worldwide in the light of the recent arrest of Worldwide board member

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    RDF to make IVF drama for BBC

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The BBC has commissioned a trio of new dramas for the spring, including a two-part programme from indie RDF.RDF has been commissioned by BBC head of independent drama Gareth Neame to

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    BBC revisits its Tourette's doc

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The BBC is to revisit the subject of its 1989 QED documentary on Tourette's syndrome to discover how the condition is now perceived, as part of a slate of factual commissions, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    BBC NI REORDERS SKY HIGH AND FAIR PLAY

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    BBC Northern Ireland head of broadcasting Tim Cooke has recommissioned two popular regional series. Sky High, which features presenter Christine Bleakley flying across the province in a helicopter looking for interesting

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    ON THE BOX - Faking the best of it

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Deep Indigo chief executive Nigel Stafford-Clark thinks Faking It has genuine appeal but gives up on Shafted.

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    Black magic not right for TV, say viewers

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Scores of television viewers believe that programmes showing practices such as voodoo and black magic should not be shown on TV at any time, writes Steve Aston.