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VOD provider sets sights on Europe
Video-on-demand (VOD) operator Video Networks is in talks with a number of international media players about forming a strategic alliance for the international roll-out of VOD services, writes David Wood.
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FILM FOUR SALES HEAD MOVES TO INTERNATIONAL
Film Four head of sales Janine Gold has been promoted to head of Film Four International. At the same time, sales co-ordinator Libby Hughes becomes film sales executive of the department
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KEY HIRE FOR GRANADA
Granada has poached Kieron Collins from the BBC to become controller of programmes in its Manchester region. Collins, who was only promoted to the position of editor, BBC Manchester entertainment and
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TRADE TALK - Northern grit
From atrocities in Kosovo to Weird Weekends with Paul Daniels, new commissioning editor of C4's Dispatches Kevin Sutcliffe has seen it all.
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LEADER - A vision that's hard to realise
One of the gaping holes in last December's communications white paper is about to be tentatively filled in. Media secretary Tessa Jowell and trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt will next
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Liberty invests in Todd-AO post
Todd-AO is the latest Liberty Livewire facility to benefit from the group's capital expenditure plans with a£600,000 revamp of its editing facilities, writes Barbara Marshall.
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Paladin and Invision merge
Factual Indies Paladin Pictures and Invision Productions have merged to form a new company and have delivered their first programme to Channel 4, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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'Outdated' Miss World returns on ITV
ITV has bought the rights to Miss World 2001, 13 years after it stopped screening the contest amid complaints that it was too sexist, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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TX - Kosovo two years on
Nick Danziger's powerfully emotional study of Kosovo two years on from the Serbian atrocities nearly went unaired.The general nervousness about audience figures and the fact that stories set abroad are deemed
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A PRIMETIME SLOT AT LAST
Channel 4 has confirmed the second series of US drama The West Wing will move out of its graveyard slot when it hits the main channel next year, writes Penny Hughes.
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Survivor makes it to second series
ITV HAS decided to run a second series of its ratings flop Survivor, writes Steve Aston.
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OFF THE RECORD - Mettle for sex
As much as OTR likes to expose and reveal television's naughtier side (see above), it's just possible that E4 has gone a little too far with its new interactive Sex Bots
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Rapture pay-off 'miserly'
Staff at dance music channel Rapture are being offered redundancy packages of£240 per year of service as owner United Business Media gears up to close the channel next month, writes Simon Ellery.
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OCTOPUS TV SOLD
Octopus TV parent company Octopus Publishing Group has been bought by Hachette-Livre, part of the French Lagardere Media Group. Operations director Laura Banford said TV operations would remain unaffected and Nick
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PLAYJAM TO OPEN IN US
Interactive broadcaster Static 2358 has launched its interactive gaming service PlayJam in the US through New York cable service Cablevision. PlayJam is currently on BSkyB, NTL and Telewest in the UK
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PECK WINNER
Freelance cameraman Talal Abu Rahmeh was awarded the new Sony International Impact Award at last week's Rory Peck Awards 2001 (Thursday 18 October).His film Death of Mohammel El Durah was singled
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Straight TV set to revive Planet Pop
Straight TV is to revive its former Channel 4 music format Planet Pop after securing an eight-part commission from Flextech-owned channel Trouble, writes Penny Hughes.
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Nunn Shakespeare adaptation set for BBC 2
BBC 2 is to screen an adaptation of the Royal National Theatre production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Henry Goodman and David Bamber.A
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Celador show to chart adult brainpower
Celador Productions is reformatting its ITV 1 Britain's Brainiest Kidshow into a new adult series, which will attempt to test the brainpower of people from various walks of life.A
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Wax to host new BBC gameshow
The BBC is set to add another big-money gameshow to its peaktime line-up after commissioning Hat Trick Productions to produce a new quiz show fronted by Ruby Wax with a jackpot