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INDIE FINANCE - From Bad Girls to Footballers' Wives
A simple structure and efficient cost control have meant Shed Productions, maker of Bad Girls, was able to turn a profit in its first year. It has also found success in overseas sales and merchandising. Ed Shelton reports.
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ITV SHELVES SLAP BANG
ITV has decided not to commission any further episodes of Ant and Dec vehicle Slap Bang from indie Blaze. The show was originally intended to return with 16 shows in the
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BBC bolsters news teams for expansion
BBC News is to create 50 new posts as it expands its services across the BBC networks and creates specialist teams to produce news summaries, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC REPORT LIMITED
The findings of the delayed BBC Worldwide review - to be announced in a fortnight's time - will not be published in full. The review's recommendations will be publicised, although insiders
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BBC NEW MEDIA FIRST
BBC new media has appointed its first controller of business development as part of its departmental restructure. Director of broadband services at games portal gameplay.com Angel Gambino has been hired and
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TWG HITS OUT AT BBC
The Wireless Group has submitted a document to the Office of Fair Trading in which it complains that the BBC abuses its dominant position by buying radio rights to sporting events
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BBC Wales boosts factual team
BBC Wales has recruited three producers from the commercial sector to work on new projects in its standalone factual department, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC DESIGNER IN MOVE
BBC Resources graphic designer Andrew Norris Sherborn has joined digital agency Entranet as senior technology project manager responsible for the technical output of its inter-active TV team. Sherborn joins from the
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OFF THE RECORD - The occasional diary of a BBC Director General Dyke Towers
TUESDAYChannel 4 doesn't half make me laugh - what with finally announcing the chop for the crappest-rating breakfast show of all time (and I should know) to that bloody Go Racing
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TRENCH WARFARE IS BBC'S NEXT REALITY TV IDEA
The BBC is to recreate the trenches of World War I as part of an ambitious new reality show. The Trench, due to screen this autumn on BBC 2, will feature
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Granada misses a beat or two
Concern over whether the communications bill with new or tweaked media ownership rules will be delayed is, indeed, hysterical. The industry hasn't even stopped to thank the electorate for returning a
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TX - Stars rally for Beckett
The ridiculously stellar list of names involved in Channel 4 and RTE's filming of all 19 of Samuel Beckett's plays - and the fact that the project happened at all -
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Bectu wins fight over holiday pay
Rules Barring broadcast staff on short-term contracts from paid holiday are to be scrapped following a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling, write Simon Ellery and Leigh Holmwood.
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ITV issues tender doc to bidders
The battle for ITV's£200m news contract kicked off last week as bidders ITN and Channel 3 News took receipt of the much anticipated tender document, writes Simon Ellery.
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Govt fast-tracks Ofcom bill
Media secretary Tessa Jowell and trade secretary Patricia Hewitt are set to surprise MPs by publishing the short bill to establish Ofcom next month, writes David Rose.
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WESTCOUNTRY TO BLEND SPORT AND COOKING
Carlton Westcountry has commissioned Devon-based indie Smith & Watson Productions to create a new series that blends cookery and extreme beach sports. The 6 x 30-minute series, Adrenalin Kitchen, is based
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CREATIVE - News in brief
Tsunami Films is behind a series of nine idents for Sci-Fi, the cable and satellite digital channel. The idents can be played together to form a narrative or as standalone pieces.
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DA VINCI'S MACHINES TO BE BROUGHT TO LIFE
Carlton has announced the first eight factual programmes to come out of its $20m (£14.3m) programming deal with US broadcaster PBS. The raft includes The Big Dig, which focuses on archaeological
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WISE BUDDAH WINS RADIO PRIZES IN NEW YORK
Radio indie Wise Buddah has been awarded two awards at the New York Radio Festival Programming and Promotion awards. The indie won a culture and arts gold world medal award for
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MELLOR FACES CAMERA
Writer Kay Mellor is to step in front of the camera for one-off ITV comedy drama A Good Thief, writes Steve Aston.