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BBC 2 lifts lid on autumn line-up
BBC 2 controller Jane Root this week unveiled a£96m autumn schedule aimed squarely at her channel's new older audience target.Highlights include Blood of the Vikings, which explores Britain's Viking history,
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TV HOTSHOTS - The ones to watch 2001
DANNY COHEN, 27 CHANNEL 4 COMMISSIONING EDITOR, DOCUMENTARIES If you're a late-night, niche-TV owl you might have caught Generation E, one of Cohen's more prominent commissions for E4. While the series
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LNN wields axe on 28 news jobs
London News Network (LNN) is to axe 28 jobs as a result of the ongoing recession in TV advertising.The posts will be lost from editorial and other departments such as engineering.
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Einstein signs Take 3 deal
Digital Science channel Einstein.tv has snared a£5m co-production deal with media investor Take 3 to fund future programme output, writes David Wood.The deal will see the investment of up to
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Right to reply reduced on C4
Channel 4 has scaled back its consumer feedback programming from 10 hours to just over three hours a year, while putting viewers' 'right to reply' on the web, writes Penny Hughes.Four
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S4CI puts£6m in cartoon venture
S4C International (S4CI) is pumping£6m into animation following the launch of a children's strategy group chaired by former BBC head of children's television Anna Home, writes Penny Hughes.The Welsh broadcaster
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C4 promotes Big Bro deputy
Channel 4 has promoted former Big Brother 2 deputy commissioning editor Zizi Durrance to become deputy commissioning editor, features, reporting to commissioning editor, features Ben Frow, writes Penny Hughes.Durrance, who was
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NOBLES GATE WINS C4 FUNDS FOR ALIEN SHOW
Fledgling Edinburgh-based independent producer Nobles Gate has secured Channel 4 development funding to make a programme for Film Four. Alien Evolution is a 75-minute documentary on Sigourney Weaver's Alien films.Commissioned by
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C4 FASHION PRESENTER SETS UP GOGGLE EYES
The presenter of Channel 4's fashion series Slave, Chris Cleverly, has launched an independent production company in London, Goggle Eyes Productions. The company has co-produced a documentary on the Monaco World
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C4 orders makeover show
Channel 4 deputy commissioning editor, daytime Jo McGrath has ordered a 55 x 30-minute makeover series from Southampton-based indie Topical Television, writes Georgina Lipscomb.Tell It To Me Straight, which will air
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Buddah gains C4 Jesus deal
Wise Buddah TV has secured its first commission from Channel 4 with a 12 x 5-minute series based on Jesus' 12 disciples, writes Georgina Lipscomb.Commissioned by C4 commissioning editor, religion Elizabeth
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Lygo plans more C5 repeats
Channel 5 director of programmes Kevin Lygo is looking to repeat more C5 programming, despite having an extra£26m in his budget, writes Georgina Lipscomb.According to sources, Lygo wants to 'showcase'
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Action Time scales down UK operation
Action Time is to undergo a major restructure to focus on international formats following the departure of joint managing directors Stephen Leahy and Trish Kinane.As part of the restructure Action Time's
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TV FESTIVAL - Edinburgh acts
This weekend the television industry decamps to Edinburgh for its annual fest of backslapping, navel-gazing and, of course, serious debate. Broadcast selects a handful of the best of this year's many provocative sessions.
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HARTSWOOD BUYS BUD AD CREATOR'S BOOK
Independent Hartswood Films has bought the feature film rights to the first novel from Paul Burke, co-creator of the cult Budweiser ads. Rather Frank tells the story of a Roman Catholic
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BIRT TO ADVISE BLAIR
Former BBC director general Lord Birt has been appointed as a key advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair's new forward strategy unit based at 10 Downing Street. The part-time position is
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FIVE LIVE TO AIR MAN U
BBC Radio 5 Live has won exclusive rights to cover all Manchester United's home matches with European teams for the next two seasons. The news will come as a blow to
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FREE TO AIR - Mass appeal for creativity
The creation of a single regulator for communications, Ofcom, is a mammoth task involving 1,000-plus people and the expectations of hundreds of commercial and public service operators. But if it's done
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OFF THE RECORD - Nipple removal all in a day's work
It's a fair bet that most people in the industry won't have to complete the obscure tasks that graphics artists have to. OTR did a spot poll this week and it
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LEADER - Ofcom's future is already shaky
Here's a statement to upset the broadcasting apple cart as it trundles towards the Edinburgh and Cambridge talking shops: the creation of Ofcom isn't a dead cert. Those close to the