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Glassworks nabs Jacomb.
Glassworks has appointed former Soho 601 managing director Tom Jacomb to the new role of chief operating officer, writes Dominic Timms.
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Strike may hit ITV's top shows.
Union members at Carlton Central will vote next week on whether to strike over new pay conditions - a move that could put production of a number of key ITV programmes
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OFF THE RECORD - King of misery.
He may be king of all he surveys at the BBC, but Greg Dyke was in no mood for celebration at the RTS television journalism awards do last Wednesday, when he
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Music libraries link up for web venture.
KPM MUSIC has joined forces with nine other music libraries to provide a one-stop online shop for film and television clients, writes Barbara Marshall.
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NORTON IS TVYP PATRON.
The Guardian Edinburgh Inter-national Television Festival has lined up comedian Graham Norton as the first patron for its education initiative TVYP, which calls for participants this week.
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ORDER FOR SCARLET.
The BBC has appointed independent producer Scarlet to produce the Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards (Emmas), replacing Initial which pulled out of the project last week. Scarlet has produced the European Media
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Who's policing tech quality?
While this magazine generally supports a move away from box ticking in favour of lighter-touch broadcasting regulation, the philosophy has its problems. The greatest of these is the huge and increasing
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SPORTSWORLD PROFITS.
Sportsworld Media Group has returned profits of£5.8m for the six months to 31 December 2000, a 12-fold increase year on year. The increase, up from£469,000 for the same period
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OFF THE RECORD - Web spoilsports.
Regular readers will remember our public service announcement about the inadvisability of investigating regional ITV programme Meridian Tonight on the web. Well, it seems our public service wasn't in vain for
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Turner made rank outsider for Celebrity Big Brother
Bookies bank on Brookside's Sweeney as hot favourite with Jack Dee at three's as former GMTV presenter Turner looks set for an early bath
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Turner rank outsider for celebrity Big Brother
Bookies bank on Brookside's Sweeney as hot favourite with Jack Dee at three's as former GMTV presenter Turner looks set for an early bath
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Second commission for The Hot Seat
Flashback TV has been commissioned by Artsworld channel director Richard Melman to produce a second series of interview show The Hot Seat.Presented by Sir Christopher Frayling, the 6 x 30-minute
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Extreme in deal with Spain's AXN channel
London-based channel owner and distributor Extreme International has signed a deal to supply an additional 50 hours of programming to Sony-owned Spanish channel AXN over the next three years.AXN is
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Discovery alternative medicine show
Discovery Health is re-versioning a Canadian complementary medicine series and has lined up Toyah Willcox to present it.The 39 x 30-minute series called Beyond Medicinelooks at health issues with
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BBC Choice orders sexual disease series
BBC Choice controller Stuart Murphy has commissioned a 6 x 15-minute series from BBC Scotland entitled Sex, Warts and All.Originally entitled The Clap Clinic, the show is based around a
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C5's Shaw on factual drive
Channel 5 senior controller of arts, features and documentaries, Chris Shaw, has commissioned a raft of new factual programmes, as part of a drive to promote quality documentaries in primetime, writes
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Wise Buddah wins Hitman documentary
Indie Wise Buddah has secured its first TV commission, six months after setting up a dedicated TV arm
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Radio 2 scoops Bee-Gees one-off concert
BBC Radio 2 has secured an exclusive concert by the Bee Gees - their only planned performance for this year.The group will record the 60-minute special before an audience of 300
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Two Four to make Ideal Home programme
Channel 4 has commissioned Plymouth-based independent Two Four Productions to make an Ideal Home Show special fronted by Kate Thornton.Channel 4 daytime editor Jo McGrath has ordered the 4 x