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OFF THE RECORD - Nagging doubts
Regular visitors to this column will remember how Chrysalis Visual Entertainment supremo Mick Pilsworth agreed to quit smoking in a wager with Chrysalis chairman Chris Wright. In return for kicking the
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OFF THE RECORD - Poor reception
OTR is sick and tired of people spreading rumours about On Digital's dodgy reception. Why, just last week TV's great and good were treated to a demonstration of the digital outfit's
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OFF THE RECORD - Net scrapes
C4 proved its cutting-edge credentials by hosting a web chat following last week's edition of Queer as Folk. Hosted by its creators, fans were treated to the behind-the-scenes secrets of the
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OFF THE RECORD - The awful truth
OTR is shocked to receive reports of ugly scenes at a C4 'master class' last week with uber-director Michael Moore. One audience member was far from happy and accused the Moorester,
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OFF THE RECORD - Birt gets shock result
OTR is proud to announce the chance of a lifetime - to hear John Birt reading the footie results on Saturday. Comic Relief is holding a phone poll to find out
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OFF THE RECORD - Charting the musings of Paul Watson's critics
Let's hope that documentary controversy-magnet Paul Watson's move from Granada to United doesn't stifle his talent for generating column inches...1993 - Sylvania Waters on BBC 1 earns him a reputation for
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BBC mulls revamp of commissioning
BBC Broadcast chief executive Will Wyatt is considering a radical overhaul of the TV commissioning system, which could introduce a layer of genre commissioning editors below the BBC 1 and 2
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Darling Buds team to drive Reed vehicle
The team behind ITV's top-rating drama, The Darling Buds of May, is to make another HE Bates adaptation for the network, this time starring Oliver Reed, writes Nicola Methven.
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C4 swaps unloved circles for new identity
Channel 4's unloved circles logo will disappear on Good Friday (2 April), to be replaced by a new identity based on moving bands of colour.The on-screen look will feature vertical bands
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Ex-Ginger chief wins ITV thriller for indie
Michael Foster, former chief executive of Chris Evans' Ginger TV, has joined independent Northwestone Films and won a drama commission from ITV, writes Nicola Methven.
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TalkBack to think big for BBC 1 pilot
TalkBack Productions is to shoot a pilot for an ambitious BBC 1 gameshow, which is being lined up for a possible early Saturday evening slot, writes Liz Shackleton.
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YEAR OF PROMISE IS ITV NEW MILLENNIUM RESOLUTION
ITV is to give a full day's schedule over to a millennium project described by chief executive Richard Eyre as 'the ultimate New Year resolution'.The network is to launch ITV's Year
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PALADIN TO MAKE DIANA ANCESTOR DOC FOR C4
Indie producer Paladin Pictures is making a biographical documentary for Channel 4 on one of Diana, Princess of Wales' eighteenth-century ancestors, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire.The one-off special, which is due to
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SKY GETS AHEAD IN FILM ON ITS MOVIE CHANNELS
Sky Movies is producing two new series to air on its film channels in April. A 10 x 30-minute run of How to Get Ahead in Film, produced by Simon Kerslake
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BBC 2 COOKS UP A CROSS-ATLANTIC STEW
BBC features and events is in production on a new 6 x 30-minutes food programme for BBC 2 primetime transmission from 4 May. Big Kevin, Little Kevin, produced by Andrew Fettis
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WADDELL TO MAKE IRISH TRAVEL SERIES FOR TV3
Brian Waddell Productions is producing a 13-part travel series, Daytrippers, for Irish commercial broadcaster TV3. The show features celebrities introducing their favourite patch of Ireland. Transmission is scheduled for late spring.
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BBC BUYS INTO BKN'S ROSWELL CONSPIRACIES
The BBC has acquired a children's animation series, Roswell Conspiracies, from New York-based children's programming network BKN. The series is scheduled to launch on BKN affiliates in the US this autumn.
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C4 TO HIGHLIGHT CORNISH SOCIAL PROBLEMS
Channel 4 deputy director of programmes Karen Brown has ordered a series of shorts about this summer's solar eclipse in Cornwall from Plymouth-based indie A38 Films. The 5 x 3-minute films,
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YORK HIRED TO THROW LIGHT ON WESTCOUNTRY ECLIPSE
Westcountry Television is to cover the biggest event of the year in its region with a 3 x 30-minute documentary, Eclipse '99, from London-based indie York Films.
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Wearing takes on 'epic' Nature Boy
Catherine Wearing, producer of Our Mutual Friend and Common as Muck, is working on a high-profile, four-part drama for BBC 2.The original script for Nature Boy has been written by Brian