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    NOMAD RUSH HOME FROM HOME WINS TARA COMMISSION

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    New indie Nomad Rush Productions has been commissioned to produce 12-part series Home from Home for Irish cable and digital entertainment channel Tara TV. The show, which will include interviews with

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    OVERNIGHT RATINGS - Cold Feet helps ITV to Sunday triumph

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Television viewers were spoilt for choice last weekend as both BBC 1 and ITV earmarked 24-25 September for the return of some of their most popular dramas, writes Tina Mistry.

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    Cold Feet opens to cool US reaction

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    NBC looks set to come out on top in the ratings battle in the first week of the 1999-2000 season in the US, though the broadcaster's version of UK comedy drama

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    JEREMY ISAACS PRESENTS HISTORY OF THE FUTURE TO CNN

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Jeremy Isaacs Productions has been commissioned by CNN Productions for a 4 x 60-minute documentary about life in the 21st century. A History of the Future was ordered by Ted Turner,

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    CITV IN THE WORKHOUSE

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    ITV has handed Workhouse the task of creating and maintaining CITV's new website. Due to launch on 25 October, each programme will have its own page and the site will carry

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    SYMPHONY STRIKES CHORD WITH FRONTIERPOST

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    London edit facility FrontierPost has signed a deal with MetroTyrell to buy the latest version of Avid Technology uncompressed online system Symphony. The order also includes a 180Gb fibre-channel disk array

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    Reeve quits as LNR chief for solo role

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    London News Radio (LNR) managing director Nigel Reeve has quit the company to set up his own outfit to apply for new local radio licences, writes John Plunkett.

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    Hard cheese for indies?

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The collapse of Transmedia Productions has cast doubt over independents' ability to make money from low-cost programming such as Crazy about Cheese. Wale Azeez investigates.

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    CARLTON INTERNATIONAL UNVEILS MIPCOM LINE-UP

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Carlton International's Mipcom line-up will include new ITV Sean Bean action vehicle Extremely Dangerous (4 x 60-minutes), along with new John Thaw dramas Monsignor Renard (4 x 90-minutes) and The Waiting

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    OFF THE RECORD - Car spotting

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Last word must go to London News Network editorial manager John Glover, who was waxing lyrical this week about the joys of its fantastic new traffic bulletin, Travel Talk. In a

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    ITC TO CANVASS VIEWERS VIA CITIZEN'S FORUM

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The Independent Television Commission is to poll viewers' opinions via a Citizen's Forum this week (1-2 October) as part of its consultation into the future regulation of television. The study involves

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    GERI HEADS MINOTAUR SLATE FOR CANNES

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Minotaur International's new programming slate to be unveiled at Mipcom next week will include Molly Dineen's Channel 4 documentary about former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, Geri (90-minutes). In association with La

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    ITN FOOTAGE BUSINESS SETS UP NEW PRICING SYSTEM

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    ITN's web-based footage business, itnarchive.com, is introducing a new pricing system. Instead of charging by the minute, it will now offer tailored bulk tariffs whereby producers are given unlimited usage licences

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    Tandberg buys NDS digital business

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    News corporation subsidiary NDS is to sell its digital TV products business to Tandberg Television ASA for£170 million.The sale, which is worth£94 million in cash and£76 million in

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    LOUGH HOUSE TO BUILD FILM STUDIOS ON ISLE OF MAN

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Isle of Man media company Lough House Group is planning to construct a film studio complex on the island. Expected to be finished next spring, the complex is being built on

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    Merger prospects rise as Holme fronts BSC

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The prospect of a merger between television's two main watchdogs came closer this week with the appointment of Lord Holme of Cheltenham as the new chairman of the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC), writes Tim Dams.

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    MTE TO PREMIERE BRUCE CHATWIN DOCUMENTARY

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Documentary In The Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2 x 60-minutes) is among the new titles UK distributor Mayfair Television Entertainment (MTE) will be taking to Cannes. Other new MTE programming for

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    Metro brings Travel Talk to London

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Traffic and travel specialist Metro Networks has made its first foray into television by signing a deal with London News Network (LNN), the Carlton and LWT-owned regional news service for London, writes John Plunkett.

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    GWR LINES UP MARCHER BID

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The GWR Group is understood to be considering a bid for the Wrexham-based Marcher Radio group of stations. The five-station group would be GWR's third major UK deal this year following

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    WOODWARD TO LEAVE BFI?

    1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

    British Film Institute director John Woodward is understood to be on the verge of following former BFI chairman Alan Parker to the new Film Council. Woodward joined the BFI in February