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Keeling quits FilmFour to head Auction Channel
Multi-channel veteran to oversee European operations
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Sitcom vacant
ITV controller of comedy Sioned Wiliam's aim is to create a Father Ted for her channel. Colin Robertson awaits the outcome with baited breath.
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OFF THE RECORD - RTS no show
There's nothing OTR likes more than a good natter and nosh up at those splendid Royal Television Society bashes. So imagine our disappointment when we heard that the upcoming do to
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New players, new rules
As negotiations for the rights to screen the Premier League begin again, Tara Conlan argues that increased competition could mean that exclusive sports rights will become a thing of the past.
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INTERVIEW - Man of the masses
Two years after taking over religion, Steve Anderson has just had arts added to his portfolio. The ITV controller of news and current affairs makes no apology for his plans to give them popular appeal and pull in big audiences.
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RECRUITMENT - The hunter and the hunted
As UK broadcasting gets ready to play with the big boys on the global communications field, it is increasingly turning to headhunters to track down a new generation of managers with a range of cross-media skills. James Curtis reports.
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Second outing for My Hero
BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon has commissioned Big Bear Films' sitcom My Hero for a second run, writes Tim Dams.Ardal O'Hanlon and Emily Joyce will again star in the new series,
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GUARDIAN UNVEILS VARIETY RADIO FORMAT FOR THE WEB
The Guardian Media Group is to launch its new radio format, Variety, on the internet, ahead of any Radio Authority decision to grant it a licence. Guardian Media Group Radio managing
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OPINION - Stakes raised for net footie rights?
With the BBC safely tucked into a 'balanced package of measures' to see it into the digital age, the industry's attention is already turning to new battles to be fought. And
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Inquiry into Sky/Vivendi extended
The Competition Commission has taken the unusual step of extending its investigation into Vivendi's purchase of a stake in BSkyB after it received 'important late evidence' just days before its report
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PATTE REACHES A NEW PINNACLE IN EUROPE
Pinnacle Systems has appointed Antoine Patte as vice-president Europe, professional products, in charge of a team of subsidiaries developing products for nonlinear editing, DVD authoring, streaming video over the internet and
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TO THE LIGHTHOUSE WINS NEW RADIO DRAMATISATION
Vanessa Redgrave and Juliet Stevenson are to star in a new dramatisation of Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse for BBC Radio 4. Produced by BBC Radio drama, the two-part drama will
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PEARSON TELEVISION LAYS DOWN THE LAW FOR ITV
Pearson Television has been commissioned by ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott to make a 90-minute drama pilot called The Law, written by Wing and a Prayer writer Matthew Hall. Billed
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OFF THE RECORD - Knees-up gets thumbs down
Much gnashing of teeth at OTR towers this week after the decision by the organisers of the Edinburgh telly knees-up to decamp to the Edinburgh International Conference Centre for the first
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SONY PICTURES TO DISTRIBUTE SOLOMON & GAENOR
Sony Pictures Classics is to handle the North American theatrical distribution for Solomon & Gaenor, the S4C/FilmFour financed film shortlisted for an Oscar in the best foreign language category last week
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Discovery signs up LWT factual series
Discovery Communications Inc (DCI) has ordered a slate of factual programming from LWT Productions (LWTP) as part of Granada Media's ongoing international expansion drive.The deal sees the creation of a new
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OFF THE RECORD - The digital truth is out there
Word reaches Off The Record of a shocking new campaign from anti-TV outfit White Dot urging viewers to throw away their digital set-top boxes. Hard to believe, we know, that anyone
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TIGER DEVELOPS SITCOM UNDER NEW ITV FUND
Tiger Aspect is developing a new sitcom for ITV that would star Ross Kemp and Julian Clary. The project is part of the Network Centre's new£1 million comedy initiative revealed
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INITIAL NAMES GMG'S JONES AS DEPUTY TO GERRIE
GMG Endemol Entertainment production arm Initial has appointed Laurence Jones as deputy managing director. Jones, formerly head of production and programme finance at GMG, will now report to Initial managing director