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ITC builds new content arm
The Independent Television Commission is merging its programme and advertising & sponsorship groups in a bid to pre-empt the future structure of Ofcom, writes Steve Aston.The combined group will be headed
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Mill boosted by television arm
High-end post facility The Mill is expanding with the creation of a TV arm and additional premises.Mill TV has been set up to concentrate on long-form television work and will be
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AWARD WON BY LION
Lion TV's interactive department has won an award for best social innovation for its web-based database of patients' experiences of illness, DIPEx, in the 2001 Social Innovation awards. Lion TV has
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PARAMOUNT SHORT-LISTS FIRST FILMS AWARD
Four scripts and five directors have been short-listed for the Paramount Comedy Channel and First Film Foundation Comedy Shorts initiative. Winning entries will have their films produced by the foundation by
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TIGER TO FILM MEL B ON TRIP
Tiger Aspect Productions is to make a one-hour documentary for Channel 4 featuring 'Scary Spice' Mel B, writes Penny Hughes. Voodoo Princess (working title) sees the pop star exploring the voodoo
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Lib Dems back ITV merger
Liberal Democrats swung their support behind ITV this week and demanded the lifting of ownership rules to allow Carlton and Granada to merge, writes David Rose.'They should be allowed to come
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Broadcasters back training programme
Four terrestrial broadcasters - the BBC, Channel 4, Carlton and Granada - are backing Youth Culture Television (YCTV) training schemes, writes Penny Hughes.The BBC has placed former BBC news business manager
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October backs new talent indie Raw TV
October Films, producer of Staying Lost (Channel 4) and This Is London (BBC), is launching an indie with producer/directors Dimitri Doganis and David O'Neill, writes Penny Hughes.Raw TV will be minority
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BBC AND HBO TIE UP FOR CHURCHILL'S LONELY WAR
The BBC is again co-operating with US cable network HBO over an epic war drama, following the£7m Band of Brothers, writes Katy Elliott. A Lonely War dramatises Winston Churchill’s isolation in
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Green mulls new BBC unit proposal
Former Big Brother executive producer Conrad Green and the BBC have confirmed they are in talks about creating a small factual entertainment unit within BBC entertainment, writes Georgina Lipscomb.Green, 31, is
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BBC sets up kids units
Children's BBC controller Nigel Pickard has picked key members of his team to launch and develop the corporation's two new children's channels, greenlit by the media secretary Tessa Jowell a fortnight
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BBC re-opens Hippodrome
The BBC's Hippodrome Theatre in Golders Green, north London re-opened its doors this week after a£2.5m refurbishment, writes Barbara Marshall.The BBC bought the theatre on a 100-year lease in 1963
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Seven vie for Big Breakfast
Channel 4 heard verbal pitches for its Big Breakfast slot last Thursday (20 September) with just seven bids now in the running, write Simon Ellery and Penny Hughes.New indie Monkey pitched
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ITV stars get biography specials
Chrysalis Entertainment has been commissioned to produce two episodes of ITV's new biography strand, writes Simon Ellery.ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz has ordered Chrysalis Entertainment to produce 2 x 60-minute
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OFF THE RECORD - A Royle blunder
Just because you're funny on the telly doesn't necessarily mean you'll be funny in real life, or at awards dos. Just ask Craig Cash aka David from The Royle Family who
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SKY BOARD CHANGES
Crown Media Holdings president and chief executive David Evans has become a non-executive director of BSkyB, while Vivendi Universal has agreed a four-year deal to dispose of its 21 per cent
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WEB BOOST FOR RAGDOLL KIDS COMEDY
Youth interactive content developer Prism-e is to launch a website to bolster the new BBC children's live action comedy Brum created by Ragdoll Productions. The website, which uses Flash animation to
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ON THE BOX - Children go hands-on
Channel 4 interactive comedy editor Steve Berry finds Temptation Island a far less attractive proposition than DIY TV on CBBC.
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DEL BOY ON QUEST TO DIRECT HOLIDAY DRAMA
Shooting has started on David Jason's directorial debut, comedy drama The Quest, writes Steve Aston. The Yorkshire Television production is being shot on location in the Lake District and elsewhere in
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Hawk-Eye poised for snooker break
Sports Producer Sunset & Vine is close to sealing a deal with a snooker producer to extend the use of the Hawk-Eye technology that has helped Channel 4 wins accolades for