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SHOOTING STARTS ON BBC 2'S IN A LAND OF PLENTY
TalkBack/Sterling Pictures have gone into production with 10 x 50-minute BBC 2 drama In a Land of Plenty. The adaptation of the novel by Tim Pears stars Robert Pugh, Helen McCrory
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BBC 2's Mutual Friend tops Bafta nominations
BBC 2 Dickens adaptation Our Mutual Friend leads the field of hopefuls for this year's British Academy Television Awards, with nine nominations including best drama serial and best actor for Timothy
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Media 100 moves upmarket with new third-party alliances
Media 100 has announced a number of third-party alliances in a move designed to take the company upmarket.Under the new agreements Media 100 will collaborate with Californian software company Nothing Real
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OFF THE RECORD - Submit! Submit!
Off The Record is as excited as the next man about top economist Gavyn Davies' review of the licence fee (and that next man is Gavyn Davies).So it was with heavy
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OFF THE RECORD - Wonderful schedule
Say what you like about the new ITV schedule, but you can't claim David Liddiment isn't prepared to innovate. Why, only this week the Network Centre decided to run the last
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OFF THE RECORD - And the winner is ... me!
Interesting times are guaranteed at the prestigious Television Sports Awards at the end of this month. OTR is particularly looking forward to the regional sports presenter/commentator award. Among the nominees are
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NEW MEDIA - The real life show
As webcams have proliferated, internet broadcasting has moved on from its early days of amateur porn; now almost anyone can be a broadcaster. But how relevant is this to conventional broadcasters, asks Ed Shelton.
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OFF THE RECORD - Logo larks
The decorators have been out in force at the Channel 4 building in Horseferry Road. As regular viewers of the channel will know, it recently dumped its 'four circles' logo in
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WHILE KREIZ TAKES ON NEW SABAN ROLE
Fox Kids Europe president Ynon Kreiz adds the role of president, Saban Merchandising to his responsibilities as part of a management restructuring in the group, effective from 1 July. The rejig
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Lumley to star in ITV soap sitcom
ITV has commissioned Pearson Television subsidiary Alomo to produce a sitcom starring Joanna Lumley as a fictional soap star, writes John Plunkett.Dr Willoughby is Lumley's first sitcom since Absolutely Fabulous for
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ITV scores RTS nominations
ITV has been nominated for a Royal Television Society (RTS) 1998 Sports Award for its coverage of the FA Cup final last year - the first year ITV took over broadcasting
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QUIRK JAZZ MUSIC HEAD
Jazz FM presenter Steve Quirk has been appointed the station's new head of music. He took up the position on Monday (12 April), replacing Ashley Banks. Quirk, who has been with
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Quantel gears up with Swat launch
Quantel has announced the formation a new software applications team in the strongest hint yet as to the company's long-term strategic direction.The new unit, called Swat, will drive the integration of
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OPINION - Indies must gain in Smith review
Film has had its share of the political limelight and, again in the shadow of the silver screen, it's now television's turn. A government review of the production sector - which
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OFF THE RECORD - X-rated fm
Some people will do anything to get on the radio. When a 19-year-old student offered to turn up starkers at London's Xfm in order to win a pair of tickets to
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ROMANIA FIRST STOP ON FOX KIDS' EAST EUROPE ROLL-OUT
Fox Kids is launching a new service in central and eastern Europe, starting with a daily 12-hour service in Romania, which kicked off on 1 April. The Romanian service will be
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EADES GOES TO ULSTER
David Eades has been appointed Northern Ireland correspondent for BBC News. He replaces Mark Devenport, now the BBC's United Nations correspondent. Eades was formerly European affairs correspondent for BBC World and
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OFF THE RECORD - =. - DUTY LOG
This week's round-up of incoming calls is from LWT. Readers can now call our own duty office with their comments on ...Caller on the Jerry Springer Show: 'You should not have
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LAWRENCE SUSPECTS INTERVIEWS FAIL TO DRAW PUNTERS
The first edition of ITV's long-awaited Tonight with Trevor McDonald drew a relatively disappointing average audience of 4.8 million (26 per cent share) from 22.00 last Thursday (8 April), for Martin
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ROUTLEDGE IN FOR DRAPER
Talk Radio has named Mirror political columnist Paul Routledge as the temporary replacement for Derek Draper, who was sacked after calling the station on-air from what he said was a brothel