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BILLY ELLIOT SLOT
Indie Tiger Aspect is set to make a one-off documentary for BBC 1 on how the success of the hit UK movie Billy Elliot has affected its young star, Jamie Bell.
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ITV unveils The Bill offshoot
ITV has unveiled details of its second planned spin-off from The Bill, Beech Is Back, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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BID-UP BOOSTS REACH
Auction channel bid-up.tv has this week launched on Telewest. The channel, in which Telewest holds a 36 per cent stake, already broadcasts 14 hours of live TV auctions each day on
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SCOTS DIGITAL BIDS
The Radio Authority has received two applications for the Dundee and Perth digital multiplex licence from Score Digital and Switchdigital. Score Digital, a subsidiary of Scottish Radio Holdings, is proposing a
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Snell & Wilcox in bid for firm
Snell & Wilcox has confirmed it is in talks to buy Newbury-based hardware manufacturer Post Impressions whose managing director has quit for Avid, writes Barbara Marshall.
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BUYING A DIGITAL TV - Are you being served?
The predicted date for analogue switch-off in the UK is creeping up. Broadcast goes undercover in London to gauge whether sales staff in high street stores on the front line of the digital revolution are armed with enough information to interpret jargon f
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Beat boss moves on
Beat 106 programme controller Andrew Jeffries has left the station to become programme director of Galaxy 105, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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BBC returns US chief
BBC Worldwide Americas chief executive Peter Phippen is returning to the UK to head the company's publishing division, writes Katy Elliott.
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BBC LOCAL TALENT DRIVE
The BBC has launched a new scheme based in the nations to find nine young people to help develop the next generation of entertainment programming. The initiative, which will be based
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BBC SIGNS NTL DEAL
The BBC has signed a digital carriage deal with NTL to allow subscribers to access its interactive services for the first time. The agreement will give viewers access to the BBC's
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BBC orders Hat Trick sitcom
Hat Trick Productions has been commissioned to produce a comedy 'mini-soap' for BBC 1 from the writer of Drop the Dead Donkey, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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BBC TACKLES WEATHER
The man behind Walking With Dinosaurs, BBC science creative director John Lynch is to executive produce Weather, a landmark series, writes Barbara Marshall. Scheduled for delivery next year, the series will
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IN MY VIEW - Steve Barnett
On why the public's indifference to digital television has been seriously underestimated.
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RDF chairmanship tempts Eyre back
Richard Eyre, the former Pearson TV chief turned novelist, has dipped his toe back into the industry after agreeing to become chairman of indie RDF Media, writes Colin Robertson.
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Soap Awards and reality TV wash away elections
BBC 1 might have aspired to attract between 6 and 7 million with David Dimbleby's Challenge the Leader - Question Time Special at 21.00 on Wednesday, but it managed to shed
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COTTON AWARDED CBE
Former Meridian Broadcasting chairman Bill Cotton was this week knighted. Cotton, who also worked for the BBC between 1956 and 1988, was one of a number of industry figures who received
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COMMONWEALTH ASSOCIATION CHOOSES HEAD
The Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) has appointed Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation general manager George Valarino as its new acting president. Valarino takes over with immediate effect from former president Robert Emmett O'Reilly
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Tiger firms form Washington arm
Tiger Aspect Productions and sister company Tigress Productions have put around£500,000 into a new US factual operation and have poached National Geographic documentary producer Christine Weber to run it, writes Penny Hughes.
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BBC APPOINTS EXECUTIVE
Maxine Watson, editor of BBC 2's multicultural strand Black Britain, has been appointed commissioning executive with responsibility for expanding and strengthening the corporations's factual multicultural output. Watson will continue in her
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Encoda appoints global tech boss
Encoda Systems, formed from the merger between CJDS, Enterprise and Drake Automation/DAL, has appointed Michael Dunn as global chief technology officer, writes Barbara Marshall.