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    Wark Clements seals£2m merger

    2001-05-24T09:50:00Z

    Deal with London-based drama independent creates Scotland's largest indie

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    Basil makes comeback

    2001-05-24T09:50:00Z

    Children's classic to return to the small screen in the first time for over a decade

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    Gibson to quit BBC

    2001-05-24T09:50:00Z

    Controller of documentaries and Edinburgh festival chair poised to exit corporation ahead of his division's merger with leisure and factual entertainment

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    Forte quits Carlton

    2001-05-24T09:50:00Z

    Bafta award winning controller of children's tenders resignation after reports of clashes with director of programmes Steve Hewlett

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    Outrage at 'variety' plans for Top of the Pops

    2001-05-24T09:50:00Z

    Lux considers proposals to turn flagship music programme into 'star vehicle' with light entertainment and gameshow elements

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    Rory Bremner special to follow election

    2001-05-24T08:28:00Z

    Vera has been commissioned by Channel 4 to produce a Rory Bremner election special.The 60-minute programme will take a satirical look at the election. Broadcast on 10 June,

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    ITV's Elliott orders YTV dramas

    2001-05-24T08:28:00Z

    ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has commissioned two one-off feature-length dramas from Yorkshire Television, including the first TV drama from Gimme Gimme Gimme writer Jonathan Harvey, Beating Jesus.Starring Sarah Lancashire,

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    3D television back on the agenda

    2001-05-24T08:24:00Z

    IMAX specialist Principal Media Group in talks with two broadcasters in bid to revive genre

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    Merchant banker to head 4Ventures

    2001-05-24T08:24:00Z

    Channel 4 ends three-month search for head of commercial ventures arm with appointment of UBS Warburg corporate finance chief Rob Woodward

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    BBC in Davidson sitcom talks

    2001-05-24T08:24:00Z

    Carla Lane written comedy expected to air in December

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    Murphy warns staff as Carlton cuts costs

    2001-05-23T17:14:00Z

    Carlton chief executive urges employees to be more efficient as company identifies 'areas of potential improvement' in bid to cut back on£141m digital loss

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    Murphy warns staff as Carlton seeks to cut costs

    2001-05-23T17:12:00Z

    Carlton chief executive urges employees to be more efficient as company identifies 'areas of potential improvement' in bid to cut back on£141m digital loss

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    Sky bats on with new TV cricket deal

    2001-05-23T16:03:00Z

    New agreement ensures international one-day matches and across-the-board coverage of the county game will remain on Sky until 2005

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    Sky bats on with new domestic cricket deal

    2001-05-23T15:56:00Z

    New agreement ensures international one-day matches and across-the-board coverage of the county game will remain on Sky until 2005

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    BBC faces election broadcast legal challenge

    2001-05-23T14:53:00Z

    ProLife Alliance fights legal battle after BBC says political broadcast fails taste and decency guidelines

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    Bafta-winning sitcom recommissioned for two further series

    2001-05-23T11:53:00Z

    Outgoing Channel 4 head of entertainment Kevin Lygo has commissioned Assembly Film and Television to produce two further series of its Bafta-winning sitcom Black Books, writes Jon Rogers.A second

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    C4 snatches Arc from BBC

    2001-05-23T11:00:00Z

    Horseferry Road regains UK terrestrial rights to French Flat season - including Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe - after seven years

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    Carlton confirms ad slow down

    2001-05-23T09:46:00Z

    Media company's interim profits fall as weaker demand persists and company admits it can't 'predict with any certainty the timing' of any upturn in the market

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    Kingston reins-in interactive ambitions

    2001-05-22T16:29:00Z

    Hull-based telecom's group postpones national roll-out of ADSL-based digital TV services as Interactive division posts£9.4 million loss

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    Survivor fails to shine

    2001-05-22T15:11:00Z

    ITV fails to convert avalanche of pre-show publicity as reality series' opening episode starts with just 6.6 million viewers - half the figure expected