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    AND FINALLY...

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    LWT's Sean Kneale, producer of The Way They Were 4 - Coronation St Special, on eating glue...

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    Paul Watson filming

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    NHS leading film-maker Paul Watson is making a major documentary on the way National Health Service hospitals handle the anticipated patient crisis this winter, writes Colin Robertson.

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    Ratings - ITV's William has the most fans

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Prince William was ITV's crowning glory this week, as the network beat BBC 1 in the battle over last-minute specials on the prince's exploits in Patagonia, writes Jon Rogers.

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    Saatchi to sell off Megalomedia facilities to FrameStore founders

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Megalomedia, the media investment company set up by Maurice Saatchi, has agreed to sell its facilities subsidiaries, FrameStore and the Computer Film Company (CFC), to a new company set up by FrameStore founders Sharon Reed and William Sargent, writes Dom

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    Horton joins The Facilities Group

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    SVC creative director Tom Horton has quit the Soho facility to become director of television at Saatchi & Saatchi subsidiary The Facilities Group (TFG), writes Barbara Marshall.

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    INTERVIEW - Real entertainment

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    BBC entertainment controller Danielle Lux is determined to make over the once old-fashioned genre so it feeds the public thirst for reality TV with shows based on people and emotions, filled with 'drama, tension and jeopardy'.

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    ENGLISH & POCKET WIN

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    English & Pockett is the only non-Asian company to win at this year's Promax Asia. The company scooped two golds - one for best launch campaign with Discovery Animal Planet Asia

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    End of an era

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    BBC Birmingham is quitting its premises at Pebble Mill after 29 years to relocate to the modern city centre premises of The Mailbox, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    SUNSET + VINE MAKES THE DOG LISTENER

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 senior programme controller Michael Attwell has commissioned Sunset + Vine North to make a 1 x 30-minute documentary about a woman who claims to be able to alter the

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    Wall to Wall/Bazal Discovery win

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Discovery Home & Leisure has signed its biggest output deal and its first with Wall to Wall Television and Endemol Entertainment UK production arm Bazal for both to provide 45 hours of original programming, writes Penny Hughes.

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    FOX KIDS DIRECTOR SISSONS LEAVES OUTFIT

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Fox Kids UK director of programming Phil Sissons has left the outfit and will not be replaced. Fox Kids Europe (FKE) would not comment on claims that he was made redundant

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    DIGITAL OCTOPUS SIGNS NTL WINE GUIDE DEAL

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Cross-platform content provider Digital Octopus, a division of Octopus Publishing, has signed a deal with NTL to provide an interactive TV (iTV) service of Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Guide. The service,

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    IN MY VIEW - David Docherty

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    On how the British lack the courage to build media empires and embrace new technology.

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    White Paper Special - Governors retain current remit

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    The BBC claimed it had been left unscathed by the white paper, with the current role and remit of the BBC governors to remain unchanged despite speculation that their powers would be limited, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    White Paper Special - Communications White Paper - main points

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    REGULATION- Ofcom established, combining the ITC, BSC, Radio Authority, Radiocommunications Agency, Oftel and possibly the British Board of Film Classification; to be governed by a small board of execs and non-execs

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    White Paper Special - Editor's comment

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    The white paper's biggest single measure - the creation of Ofcom in place of the broadcast industry's existing four regulators - has been a Labour plan since before the party was

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    London CNN fears cuts

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Fears are growing that CNN's 150-strong London editorial and programming department could be cut as part of the 24-hour news channel's global review, writes Simon Ellery.

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    TRADE TALK - Indie champion

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Former punk rocker turned training and investment guru John McVay is leaving Scotland behind and heading south to be the new chief of Pact.

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    TX - A humbug of a drama - A Christmas Carol

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Broadcaster: ITVProducer: LWTStart: 21.00, 20 DecemberLength: 1 x 90-minutesCommissioning editors: Nick Elliott/ Jenny ReeksIt was actor Ross Kemp's idea to do a contemporary adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol starring

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    CAPITAL PICKS GIBBONS AS NEW GROUP HEAD

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Chrysalis Radio has appointed Capital Radio programme controller digital Pete Simmons as its new group head of programmes. Gibbons, who has worked for Capital for the past 18 years, will take