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FLEXTECH LINES UP ADDICTS
Flextech is understood to have bought the interactive rights to BBC 1 show Telly Addicts from format owners Unique TV. According to sources close to the deal, Flextech has completed a
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OPINION - Failure to adapt is the real threat
As the dust settles on another Edinburgh Television Festival some have rather unfairly suggested that Dyke's second MacTaggart was a masterpiece of presentation over content.But the truth is that it was
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FIRST R5 APPOINTMENTS
New BBC Radio 5 Live controller Bob Shennan has announced his first two appointments since starting on 7 August. Commissioning editor, news Steve Kyte will now deputise for Shennan replacing Mike
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CHANNEL 5 SETS UP ARM TO COVER NEW MEDIA INTERESTS
Channel 5 is setting up a new division called E5 to handle the broadcaster's new media interests and digital services. The outfit will be headed by C5 director of finance Damien
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NEWS SPECIAL: EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION FESTIVAL - Airey: C5 board will boost budget
Channel 5 director of programmes Dawn Airey believes the broadcaster's share-holders RTL and United News & Media will increase the channel's programme budget, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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C4 cancels Liberia doc
Channel 4 has put a stop on the documentary Sorious Samura and his team were working on when they were taken hostage in Liberia, writes Ashley Davies.
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NEWS SPECIAL: EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION FESTIVAL - C4 and kids channels balk at BBC proposals
Channel 4 director of programmes Tim Gardam has vowed to fight the BBC's proposed third channel which will go head to head with C4's entertainment channel E4 (set to launch this
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Media outfits back£36m capital fund
The Guardian Media Group, Channel 5 and radio outfits GWR Group, Jazz FM and The Wireless Group are backing Accelerator Media, a new£36m venture capital fund, to invest in technology
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U>DIRECT TO CHARGE FOR 2002 WORLD CUP QUALIFIER
Pay TV outfit U>Direct is to charge pubs, clubs and hotels£160 to show the England World Cup 2002 qualifier against Finland on 11 October. In what is billed as the
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BBC RADIO 2 TO BROADCAST MERSEY BEAT DOCUMENTARY
USP Radio Projects is completing production on Mersey Beat for BBC Radio 2. The 2 x 60-minute documentary commissioned by R2 controller Jim Moir is about the Mersey Beat in Liverpool
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PUB GRUB TO BE SUBJECT OF NEW CFN 15-PART SERIES
Carlton Food Network has commissioned indie producer Twodotfour.com to make a new 15 x 30-minute series on pub food. Carlton Food Network channel director Anne Gray has ordered the series which
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NEWS SPECIAL: EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION FESTIVAL - NTL allots£10m to fund local content
NTL has unveiled a new£10m fund that is earmarked for developing local video-on-demand (VOD), enhanced text and local news.Announcing the move at the Edinburgh International TV Festival, NTL general manager
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CRACKER WRITER BEHIND MAJOR NEW BBC 1 DRAMA
Zenith Entertainment and AKA Pictures are completing production on a 3 x 50-minute drama co-production, Best of Both Worlds, for BBC 1. Commissioned by former Independent Commissioning Group head of drama
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BBC 1 WINS RIGHTS TO SPIELBERG WAR MINI-SERIES
BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon has unveiled an 'in association deal' for exclusive broadcast rights to new 10 x 60-minute second world war mini-series Band of Brothers with producers Band of
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - BBC 1 farmer drama threshes Norden
BBC1's new farm drama series Down to Earth spread muck all over ITV's It'll Be Alright on the Night 11 on Monday night (28 August), writes Ashley Davies.
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BBC 1 buys Enfield specials
Tiger Aspect has revealed that it is working on two Harry Enfield specials for BBC 1 less than two weeks before the comic's new series debuts on Sky One, writes Ashley Davies.
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Salmon ponders BBC 1 exit
The BBC has refused to deny that BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon is considering stepping down, despite BBC director-general Greg Dyke finally praising Salmon at this year's Edinburgh International Television Festival, writes Tara Conlan.
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New waters for VH1 boss
MTV Europe VH1 vice-president of production and programming Tim Robinson is quitting the business for a sailing career, writes Simon Ellery.
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EDINBURGH LIVE PITCH WINNER CHOSEN FOR£25,000 FILM
BBC Choice has commissioned a 30-minute film from freelance director Jon Sen as part of the TV25 live pitch session at this year's Edinburgh International Television Festival. Sen beat off competition
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ITV to resurrect Crossroads
Motel becomes hotel in new daytime slot as Trafalgar Road is replacement for Home and Away