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BALLYKISSANGEL COMMISSIONED FOR SIXTH SERIES BY BBC
BBC Northern Ireland has been commissioned for a sixth series of hit BBC 1 drama Ballykissangel. Commissioned by BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon from BBC Northern Ireland head of drama Robert
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BADDIEL AND SKINNER RETURN WITH THREE-SERIES ITV DEAL
Indie Avalon Television has signed a three-series deal with ITV for a new live studio comedy vehicle for David Baddiel and Frank Skinner. Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned, which will begin its
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BBC HEAD OF RADIO NEWS PUTS BACK RESTRUCTURE
BBC News head of radio news Steve Mitchell has told staff he wants more time to consider the structure of his department. Last week, head of television news Roger Mosey announced
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TRADE TALK - Fighting back
Last week, BBC documentaries reversed the trend of key names quitting by signing Jacquie Hughes from MBC. Tim Dams asks what she's got.
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Broadcast Awards hail in-house producers
Walking with Dinosaurs won the best new programme award at the Broadcast 2000 Awards on Wednesday (19 January) while Wall to Wall was named top independent producer.In a reversal of last
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City awards RSL turnkey contract to Panasonic
City TV has awarded a turnkey contract for production systems across its eight restricted service licence (RSL) stations to Panasonic Broadcast Europe.City TV will base its production and transmission on the
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Postcard from ... Claire Atkinson in New York
One could almost imagine how AOL's Steve Case felt when he found out that Time magazine picked Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos for its annual man of the year award. Right in the
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CHANNEL EAST READIES LAUNCH FOR ASIAN COMMUNITY
Channel East, a new TV channel aimed at 18 to 40-year-old British Asians, launches on Sky Digital on Wednesday (26 January). The channel, which will show about two-thirds of its output
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BBC arts job on hold
BBC Production has decided to postpone its search for a new arts chief until after director general designate Greg Dyke unveils his review of BBC Broadcast, writes Tim Dams.
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MORRIS HOOKS UP WITH ARTS DISTRIBUTOR NVC ARTS
Former Mayfair Television Entertainment senior sales executive Elfyn Morris has joined arts distributor NVC Arts with the same job title. In his new role at the Warner Music Group company, his
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ELEVEN O'CLOCK SHOW RAPPED FOR ARMENIAN GAGS
Channel 4's The Eleven O'Clock Show (left) has been rapped across the knuckles by the Independent Television Commission for a series of sketches and jokes about the slaughter of the Armenian
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UK Arena switches from arts to drama
UKTV arts entertainment channel UK Arena will be relaunched at the end of March as a specialist drama channel called UK Drama, writes Tim Dams.A BBC/Flextech joint-venture channel, UK Drama will
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Elliott announces drama package
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has greenlit a raft of 90-minute dramas, featuring stars including Samantha Janus and Ray Winstone, to run at 21.00, writes Jason Deans.
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NEW ANIMATED TV VERSION OF FRED BASSET TAKEN TO NATPE
UK indie distributor 2 Match is taking a new animated TV version of Daily Mail comic strip Fred Basset (right) to the Natpe programming market in New Orleans next week. US
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TSI Design created the idents and branding for new channel Simply Money. The sequences were designed and directed by Malcolm Dalton and produced by Andy Wright, with the idea of creating
TSI Design created the idents and branding for new channel Simply Money. The sequences were designed and directed by Malcolm Dalton and produced by Andy Wright, with the idea of creating
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NEWS ANALYSIS - The price of success
Scottish Media Group has added another string to its bow with the purchase of Ginger Media Group, owner of Virgin Radio and creator of shows like The Priory (above). John Plunkett assesses the deal.
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OPINION - Free to air
Like a not very good vicar grafting on a sermon, I've been trying to tie together two big tales of the week in order to come up with a neat parable
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DCMS set to agree to extra BBC digital cash
The Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) is thought to have resolved to give the BBC most of the cash it wants to extend its digital services, but not News 24, writes John Lewis.
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XFM TO LAUNCH SUNDAY AFTERNOON DANCE SHOW
Capital Radio-owned Xfm is to launch a new Sunday afternoon dance show, London Xpress. The two-hour slot, which promises to 'capture the diversity of underground dance music', will air at 16.00
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SMG ponders bids after Ginger deal
Scottish Media Group (SMG) is looking to make further acquisitions following last week's£225 million takeover of Chris Evans' Ginger Media Group (GMG) - including a possible bid for a rival