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Flextech orders motor-heavy raft for Bravo and UK Horizons
Flextech has announced details of six new series for its wholly owned men's channel Bravo and its BBC joint-venture UK Horizons.Bravo channel editor Matthew Paice has ordered three series including 15
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Carlton to show escape from London series
Freeform Productions has been commissioned by Carlton head of regional programmes Emma Barker to produce new factual series A House in the Country.The 10 x 30-minute series will air in
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The History Channel to commemorate WWII
Indie Flashback TV has been commissioned by The History Channel US to produce another 6 x 60-minutes of Battle Stations, a series looking at the men and machines that made a
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Chrysalis to make history of TV doc
Channel 4 has commissioned a three-part series from Chrysalis Entertainment that will attempt to deliver the 'definitive history of television show business in Britain', writes Simon ElleryOrdered by commissioning editor factual
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Morrissey signed up for CyberDodo series
Former Men Behaving Badly star and voice of Bob the Builder Neil Morrissey has been signed up to do the voiceover of a new kids series being supported by the World
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Mentorn sells Robot Wars to Germany
Mentorn International has sold Robot Warsto RTL in Germany for a 30-episode run beginning on RTL2 on 14 October.The series will air in a Sunday primetime slot and is
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Star musician and quiz show series for NI
Belfast-based production company Green Inc Productions has been commissioned to produce two new series for BBC Northern Ireland.In the joint commission, BBC Northern Ireland head of broadcast Tim Cooke and
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NTL acts to calm investor nerves
Cable company forced into action for second time in three months after shares crash to new low in New York
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RTS Cambridge 2001
Television's big hitters gathered in Cambridge last weekend despite events in the United States and the withdrawal of the convention's 'dream ticket' BSkyB chairman Rupert Murdoch and Liberty chief John Malone. Despite this delegates debated many of the c
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ITV1 deadline set for digital satellite launch
Carlton channels chief Clive Jones says channel will begin broadcasting on digital satellite by the end of November 'come hell or high water'
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New BBC digital radio stations get mixed reception
Commercial radio outfits welcome boost to digital but express competition concerns as consortium of commercial TV companies abandons plans to seek judicial review
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Jowell to publish 'digital action plan'
Media secretary promises plan to drive digital take-up as she admits industry faces 'challenging timetable' for analogue switch-off
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Endemol drops out of Big Breakfast race
Big Brother producer says it has 'really hot idea' but show is too expensive
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Elstein leads calls for 40% in-house limit
Former Channel 5 chief says broadcasters should limit their current 70 in-house production quotas to boost UK independent productions
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Over-regulation blamed for UK's global failure
Delegates at RTS convention in Cambridge told 'archaic' cross-media ownership rules and political fears of large media companies have held back UK global ambitions
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Viewers bombarded by technology and information overload
Henley Centre chairman says 'time-poor' viewers are beign hit my too many channels, too much information and too much technology
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Programme brands stronger than channels
Wall To Wall managing director Alex Graham welcomes era when 'programme brands? have a stronger identity than the channels which are broadcasting them'
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Cambridge Comment by Katy Elliott
As the story of the terror in America and its potential consequences unfolded, fuelling the biggest TV news story of all time, there was a strange irony in the fact that
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Tapscott urges greater kids input
New Paradigm Learning president Don Tapscott says broadcasters and producers should listen more to children now 'for the first time in history they are an authority on something interesting'
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Overseas ownership threat to regional production
Granada chief Steve Morrison says he 'could not see production from the regions sustained if we are bought by an overseas company'