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OFF THE RECORD - Big Bro boss too much for staff
Imagine our surprise when during our weekend quest for nudity on E4's live Big Brother the contestants started discussing the show's head honchos Conrad Green and Ruth Wrigley. Apparently, being in
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SKILLSET BOARD MOVES
Carlton channels chief executive Clive Jones, Channel 5 finance director Grant Murray and Emap 21 - the training division of Emap Radio - managing director Lynne Wood have all joined the
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DERRY JOINS ENTERTAINMENT RIGHTS BOARD
Entertainment Rights has named Link Licensing managing director Claire Derry as executive director to the main board. Derry, whose role at Link was scrapped after Entertainment Rights bought the company earlier
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'Bob' creator in Universal deal
Bob the Builder creator Keith Chapman has struck a two-year TV and film first-look deal with the British division of Universal Pictures, Vision Video Limited (VVL).On the back of the agreement,
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ON THE BOX - Sitting on silver lining
Action Time's head of international and new business Caroline Beaton enjoys serious reality but balks at the nature of Greed.
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Hewitt set to join Cabinet
Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to announce within the next 24 hours that e-commerce minister Patricia Hewitt will be the new media secretary if a Labour government is returned to
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MINISTRY OF SOUND RADIO REMOVES ITS CHIEF
Ministry of Sound Radio head David Dunn has left the company after being made redundant. His former brief is now being overseen by head of radio production Mark Ovenden, who becomes
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OFF THE RECORD - News chief sunk
They're seafaring folk down in the west country. So Carlton Westcountry controller of news Brad Higgins leapt at the chance to fork out around£100 to get his name painted on
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Comedy Unit orders
Scottish indie The Comedy Unit is hoping to buoy up the UK's flagging sitcom scene with a brace of commissions for ITV and the BBC, writes Penny Hughes.
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Molinare Sci-Fi contract loss fuels talk of sale
Molinare has lost the Sci-Fi Channel transmission contract to Pearson TV, fuelling speculation that the post-production arm of the TV Corporation will be sold, writes Barbara Marshall.
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CROWN TAKES ON KEATING AS DISTRIBUTION VP
Hallmark Channel owner Crown Media Holdings has named Diane Keating as worldwide distribution senior vice-president. Keating, who will be based in New York, joins from New Line Cinema where she was
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ITV CUTS SURVIVOR
ITV has confirmed plans to screen its beleaguered reality show Survivor in a new one episode a week pattern from Monday.The new schedule will see it go out 21.00. ITV director
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JOB CUTS TO FOLLOW ENDEMOL DUTCH DEAL
Up to 82 jobs are set to go at European production giant Endemol, after the company received the go-ahead from the firm's work council to merge Joop van den Ende TV
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IN MY VIEW - Damian Tambini
On how UK broadcasters must support rules to protect impartiality in political coverage.
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Unions seek deal at Sky
THE NUJ and Bectu are lobbying BSkyB to try to improve redundancy terms for 36 Sky News employees, writes Simon Ellery.
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ETSI DEAL ON MHP
DVB has signed an agreement with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to make ETSI the distributor of the Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) test suite. Under the arrangements, ETSI will supply
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TMMY, THE DIGITAL STAR
The company behind virtual newscaster Ananova is launching yet another digital star, popstar-come-presenter Tmmy, writes Penny Hughes.
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ITV Digital runs into problems
Carlton and Granada's plans to relaunch digital terrestrial service On Digital as ITV Digital are being stymied by the network's smaller licence holders, writes Steve Aston.
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SCHOOLS PROGRAMMING - Lessons in digital
Will educational output be ousted from terrestrial television - its home for 40 years - by digital technology's offering?
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WESTBROOK DOC AT GRANADA
Granada has lined up a one-off documentary on former EastEnders star Daniella Westbrook for Channel 4, which is set to be made by the company's entertainment department, writes Steve Aston. The