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    Production Solutions goes on-line

    2000-10-20T11:01:00Z

    Part of Production Solutions content is now available on a new portal, jointly owned by Emap Media, Channel Five and Netdecisions - produxion.com.

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    Emap builds team to sell Broadcast's Produxion website

    2000-10-20T10:58:00Z

    Emap Media, publisher of Broadcast, is creating a sales team to work on its online venture, Produxion.com

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    Produxion.com to offer Barb ratings data free of charge

    2000-10-20T10:55:00Z

    Produxion.com, the website for the TV production industry, has added Barb ratings access to its content.

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    CanalWeb and H2P unite for UK webcast venture

    2000-10-20T09:54:00Z

    European webcaster CanalWeb has is to set up a joint venture web broadcasting operation for the UK with newly-formed digital production outfit H2P, writes David Wood.CanalWeb UK, which is set for

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    TRADE TALK - Simon Shaps

    2000-10-20T00:00:00Z

    On whether e-entertainment has got what it takes to revolutionise the way we view television programmes.

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    TRADE TALK - Satire revival

    2000-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Have I Got News for You producer Giles Pilbrow's satire pilot is perfectly timed to capture public disaffection with New Labour.

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    Red Post Production plans video streaming service

    2000-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Red Post Production is the latest Soho facility to unveil plans to offer a video streaming service to clients.The new e-media arm, codenamed Red-i, will launch in the new year offering

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    NTL loses Premiership pay-per-view rights

    2000-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Cable giant NTL has lost its strategic pay-per-view (PPV) rights to screen live Premiership football after talks to thrash out details of the£328m deal broke down this week, writes Simon Ellery.

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    Lion TV plans sale of minority stake

    2000-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Lion Television chiefs are planning to sell a stake in the indie in a bid to fund more of its own productions, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    OFF THE RECORD - Who'll have the last laugh?

    2000-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Much wringing of hands on the Off The Record desk as we agonise over how and if to cover last week's tabloid fodder. We're offering a bottle of something lovely to

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    OFF THE RECORD - It's a jungle out there

    2000-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Who'd be a wildlife documentary judge? Introducing the Panda awards last week, chairman of the judges Peter Goodchild broke down some of the astonishing sights which viewing 54 films had delivered.

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    INTERVIEW - So - two Grahams

    2000-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Grahams Norton, the comedian, and Stuart, former United Productions controller of entertainment, hope to bring a new generation of comedy talent to the small screen with their new independent So Television.

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    Goodchild raps producers

    2000-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Wildscreen awards chairman Peter Goodchild has criticised natural history producers for being 'predictable' and 'repetitive', writes David Wood.

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    METRO WINS EXTENSIONS FROM VIRGIN AND KISS

    2000-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Metro Networks has extended its deals with Virgin Radio and Kiss FM to provide its Metro News service to the two radio stations. The deal with Virgin Radio has been extended

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    Manifesto a 'threat to ethnic indies'

    2000-10-20T00:00:00Z

    The new Cultural Diversity Network (CDN) manifesto could pose a major threat to the survival of independents run by ethnic minorities, according to Fuzzy Monster Productions managing director Harold Wilson, writes Colin Robertson.

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    TOTP to quit Elstree studios

    2000-10-20T00:00:00Z

    The BBC's Top of the Pops is to move from its Elstree studios base to BBC Television Centre, with the BBC drama department expected to take over the studio, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    OFF THE RECORD - A lardable effort

    2000-10-20T00:00:00Z

    ITN radio reporter Kevin Murphy was spotted nearly naked and smearing himself with lard on the south coast recently. Observers would be forgiven for assuming he had gone native and was

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    PANORAMA HAS NEW EDITOR

    2000-10-20T00:00:00Z

    BBC documentaries producer Mike Robinson has been made the editor of BBC 1 current affairs series Panorama, replacing Peter Horrocks who is now head of current affairs. Robinson, who will take

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    INTERNATIONAL NEWS - Postcard from ... Julien Dubois in Paris

    2000-10-20T00:00:00Z

    The deal's been done. 'The old conglomerate Vivendi is dead!' exclaimed Jean Marie Messier, the chairman of Vivendi, during a press conference to announce the good news.He has finally obtained permission

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    INTERNATIONAL NEWS - DISTRIBUTOR NBDTV SELLS RAFT OF MUSIC SHOWS AT MIPCOM

    2000-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Distributor NBDTV has unveiled a raft of sales resulting from Mipcom, including 2 x 60-minute music programme Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey to Bravo US. The two-parter has also been bought by