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International News - Kumahor leaves Capricorn for target sales role
UK-based Target Distribution has hired a new sales executive to look after Asia, central and eastern Europe, eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. Clare Kumahor joins from Capricorn Programmes where she
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International News - C4I hires Fleisher to head business affairs
Channel 4 International has hired a director of business affairs to handle its commercial and legal operations. Michael Fleisher reports to managing director Bernard Macleod. Previously, Fleisher was a consultant to
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International News - Fireworks signs deal with Holland Media Group
Fireworks International, the international distribution arm of CanWest Entertainment, has signed an output deal with Holland Media Group giving the Dutch broadcasting group the TV rights in Holland to all Fireworks'
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International News - Studio Eight links with Peace Arch for immortal series
The UK's Studio Eight Productions has joined forces with Canada's Peace Arch Entertainment Group to co-produce a 22 x 60-minute action adventure series The Immortal, starring Lorenzo Lamas (Renegade). Hilltop Entertainment
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International News - Distributor threat to production funding
British-based distributors are planning top-level talks with UK broadcasters to resolve growing conflict over the funding of TV productions.With many sales houses suffering hangovers from bad investment decisions in the 1990s,
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International News - New slates unveiled for Mip-TV
Hit Wildlife is teaming up with multi-millionaire adventure-writer Clive Cussler for a 19-hour factual project called Sea Hunters that will be presented at next week's Mip-TV, writes Andy Fry.
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International News - Granada US wins orders
Granada Entertainment USA (GEUSA) has secured an order for a second series of Beggars and Choosers from Showtime and is producing two new pilots for TNT and Warner Brothers, writes Colin Robertson.
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International News - London market moves
The London Programme Market is to move from its traditional November slot in the TV calendar to run between 5-7 December this year, writes Lucy Rouse.
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NewsQuicksilver tackles domestic violence
Oxford-based Quicksilver Media is to investigate domestic violence for Channel 4's Dispatchesstrand.
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International News - Postcard from ... John Hazelton in Los Angeles
US network television can be a cliquey business, so it's hardly surprising that there are some familiar names in this year's network pilot line-ups.Aaron Spelling is in contention with several shows,
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Analysis Special: BBC Restructure - One vision for One BBC
As director general Greg Dyke takes an axe to Birtism, Tim Dams and Tara Conlan wade through the manifesto to find out what it means for BBC programme makers and the armies of marketeers and strategists whose jobs are on the line.
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Trade Talk - Steve Clarke
On why proper funding and strong leadership are vital if the BBC is to build a commercial film policy.
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Trade Talk - Simons saved
After tough times at Talk and LNR, John Simons has landed a top job at GMG Radio with an old friend. Naomi Marks reports on his latest venture.
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Political Lobbying - Lurking in the shadows
Over the past decade lobbyists have had an immense impact on television. Steve Clarke examines how these political insiders practise their dark arts, while below, Mike Shallcross lifts the lid on the lobbyists with the best contacts.
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News Production - Filling a news hole
Channel 4's Indy Fund has not yet been fully allocated to independent news production companies. Jane Marlowe looks at the problems indies face in winning commissions and what the broadcaster is doing to help.
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Interview - Singer gives it large
A big man himself, the self-styled godfather of multichannel television, Adam Singer, is convinced that size matters in this business - which suggests that growth is behind the merger of Flextech and Telewest.
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Dyke Towers - The occasional diary of a BBC director general
SATURDAY - Can't sleep tonight. Not surprising, really. This is going to be the most important week since I arrived at the BBC. I'm talking about Manchester United's Champions' League quarter
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Off the Record - Music to our ears?
Readers are undoubtedly as excited as Off The Record at the prospect of the Beeb's 'instrument amnesty,' in which members of the public are being urged to hand in their old
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Off the Record - Double take
Heading the factual offerings in last week's BBC 2 spring/summer season launch was Peter Taylor's latest heavyweight offering on the Troubles - Brits: The War Against the IRA. The maker of
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Off the Record - A load of garb-age
And so to the UK's most cutting-edge broadcaster Channel 4 (well, that's what they keep telling us, Ed). Apparently the station's style police have been on the warpath, desperate to preserve