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    ABC raids Southern Star and BBC for key staff

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has raided the BBC and the Seven Star Group to beef up its senior management. ABC has poached Southern Star sales chief executive Robyn Watts to the

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    Atlantic Celtic producer to chair Cannes Indie Forum

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Atlantic Celtic Films producer Jamie Doran will chair the US independents sponsored Kickstart broadcasting forum in Cannes on Sunday (1 October).The event, to be staged at the Gray D'Albion hotel, will

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    Pearson TV appoints joint chief executives

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Pearson Television has promoted UFA Film and TV Production president Wolf Bauer and Pearson TV chief executive, Asia and European drama Mike Murphy to become joint chief executives of Pearson TV

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    TV-Loonland buys Latin America specialist SALSA

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    German children's animation producer and distributor TV-Loonland has bought European-based Salsa Distribution, which specialises in sales of television, video and merchandising to Latin America. Salsa's catalogue includes productions by Jim Henson

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    Global ties to stop UK exports slump

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Domestic producers and broadcasters have pledged to work alongside international distributors in a bid to overturn the slide in TV programme sales - particularly in the problem genres of comedy and

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    Search is on for reality at Mip

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Reality gameshows look set to dominate dealings at Mipcom next week as network buyers hunt for the next Big Brother or Survivor, writes Andy Fry.

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    Victoria Real prepares new Oz office

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Brighton-based new media producer Victoria Real is in talks about opening an Australian office, writes Tara Conlan.

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    Postcard from ... Georgina Lipscomb in Bologna

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Bologna. With unforgettable pasta dishes, fine wines and Renaissance architecture, it's hardly surprising the city is known throughout Italy as the best place to eat and relax. It also shares the

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    Trade Talk - Dann's inferno

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Now courted by Emap, ex-BBC head of music Trevor Dann has never been shy of controversy. Simon Ellery reports on his exit from the corporation.

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    Collaboration is nigh

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has created a new structure which is meant to act as a 'talent ladder' for factual, upping the chances of getting risky documentaries on at peaktime. But will it happen?

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    Opinion - Game on in the great news race

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    What strange systems we created for ourselves. One extreme example was everywhere apparent in Brighton this week where the supposed zenith of democratic politics - the incumbent government's party conference -

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    Global Focus - Broadband visionary

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Richard Li, one of the few people to have got the better of Rupert Murdoch, is now risking his fortune on being Asia's biggest broadband content provider. Peter Keighron says he has the support of the markets, for now ...

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    News dawn again

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    The BBC's new breakfast show airs from next month. With a more structured format and a look styled on the web, will it beat GMTV in the ratings or will Roland Rat have to be brought out again to chew up the opposition?

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    Interview - ITN's headline act

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    ITN chief Stewart Purvis has helped the news supplier grow from two ITV slots into C4's and C5's main artery and an indie broadcaster. But is his 24-hour 'sweatshop' too much for both its staff and the competition?

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    Off the record - Just the one

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Update on BBC 1 czarlette Lorraine Heggessey's champagne shame saga.Following reports in the papers last week that she and her team had flouted the corporation's new Charter for Thrift by celebrating

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    Off the record - More penny-pinching

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Not that we're obsheshed with champagne or anything, but there really were five bottles of the shtuff on Heggeshy's table at Chrish Cramer'sh RTSh do lasht week. Former BBC man Cramer,

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    Off the record - Giving offence

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    OK, so we know that laughing at people's command of a second language ranks somewhere near taking the piss out of the Millennium Dome and Eldorado in terms of sophisticated humour,

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    Off the record - Herculean efforts

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Remember Itel's mini babybel Andrew Macbean, who recently declared plans to flounce out of the glamorous world of international TV sales to go on the dole topped up with pocket money

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    Off the record - Civvy Street

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    We have been asked to point out that following the commissioning editors' rejig at Channel 4, there is no truth in rumours that documentaries general Peter Dale will be making his

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    Off the record - Lookalikes: hirsute and happy with it

    2000-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Form a Mexican wave out of respect for the spectacular similarities between these two hairy faced chaps, footballing legend George Best and head of September Films David Green. While one 'knows