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OPINION - Government has a digital agenda
Warning: the Government may be trying to hijack digital TV. Two developments over the past week spell out more explicitly than ever the Government's agenda for digital.Last Friday, left-wing think-tank the
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INTERVIEW - Through the Mill
What went wrong at BBC Birmingham's Pebble Mill operation is no secret: its loss of three key series within 18 months was followed by the departure of more than 100 staff. Kate Marsh is charged with putting it all right.
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - You only laugh twice
Reruns of BBC sitcoms that long since ceased production now regularly outperform the broadcaster's new lines. But is the Beeb in danger of riding the old warhorses to death?
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OFF THE RECORD - The great Bergg race
Universal surprise greeted news of David 'prince of darkness' Bergg's defection from ITV to Sky One. But perhaps we shouldn't have been so shocked at the latest move by the uberscheduler,
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OFF THE RECORD - Yorkshire Folk tales
Unlikely news reaches OTR from the good people of the West Yorkshire Playhouse, who are apparently adapting Channel 4's controversy-courting (surely 'hard-hitting'? ed) drama, Queer as Folk, for the stage. It
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OFF THE RECORD - Cliff top
OTR can exclusively reveal the real reason Cliff Richard managed to top the hit parade with his yuletide dirge, the Millennium Prayer. It was all down to BBC Wales, according to
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OFF THE RECORD - Cliff top two
Still with Sir Cliff, word has it he has become the most famous customer so far of that mountain of news clips and soundbites, the ITN Archive. Cliff, as readers will
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OFF THE RECORD - Soho hoedown
Undoubtedly the hottest party invite of the week was Granada big kahuna Simon Shaps' Christmas knees-up at Soho House, a shindig put on specially for the broadcaster's massive stable of talent.
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OFF THE RECORD - Name game
Fun and games at the snappily titled Nations & Regions conference in Leeds last week, where OTR's favourite gameshow host, Richard Whiteley, held a competition for the best name for a
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OFF THE RECORD - Radio turn-off
Much excitement preceded Channel 5 head honcho David Elstein's speech at a Radio Academy lunch last week, where industry bods gathered together to hear what the great man had to say
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Grimsdale to head ICG
BBC independent commissioning group (ICG) head of factual Peter Grimsdale has been named as the new head of the ICG, writes Tim Dams.
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C4 bags Sky rights to Friends and ER
Channel 4 has snatched BSkyB's rights to Friends and ER as part of a three-year deal with Warner Bros that also renews C4's terrestrial rights to the hit US series.Programming from
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Howell leaves Flextech to set up internet and TV firm
Flextech channels senior vice-president Lis Howell has quit just two weeks after Jane Lighting was installed as chief operating officer of TV and content, write John Plunkett and Steve Clarke.
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MPs to reject BBC digital licence fee
MPs are expected to deliver a severe blow to the BBC on Monday (20 December) by recommending that the corporation should be denied a licence fee increase for digital expansion, writes John Lewis.
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Sandhu gets new role at Production
BBC Production has created the job of head of new media and new channels, with a brief to boost the directorate's output for the BBC's digital, UKTV, online and interactive services, writes Tim Dams.
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BBC 1 TO PILOT TIGER ASPECT SATURDAY NIGHT GAMESHOW
Tiger Aspect is producing a broadcast pilot for a BBC 1 primetime Saturday night gameshow about relationships, decision-making and strategy. Called House of Games, it will be hosted by Carol Smillie
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SKY ONE BOOKS IN HOT LOVE AND DIVORCE COURT FOR 2000
Sky One has commissioned Anglia TV to produce a 40 x 60-minute discussion show about sex and relationships, Hot Love, for its revamped new year daytime schedule. Hosted by best-selling Australian
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CHANNEL 4 CALLS FOR MORE SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND
Channel 4 head of entertainment Andrew Newman has ordered a second 7 x 30-minute run of Something for the Weekend from Tiger Aspect Productions. The Denise Van Outen-presented sex, dating and
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HAYES RETURNS TO LBC TO HOST SUNDAY MORNING SHOW
BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Brian Hayes is returning to LBC 1152AM to host a two-hour Sunday morning phone-in show, Sunday Supplement. Hayes, whose R5 Live Sunday morning slot was axed