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CHANNEL 5 GIVES NOD TO GAMESHOW DESERT FORGE
Channel 5 controller of entertainment Alan Nixon has agreed to a 10 x 60-minute series of new adventure gameshow Desert Forge. The show is a co-production from Pearson Television and Adventure
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YOUNG'S NON-NEWS DEBUT LINED UP WITH GRANADA TV
Kirsty Young's first ITV non-news show will be an as-yet-untitled Granada Television broadcast pilot for a viewer-participation crime-solving programme. The 60-minute show, which is due to go out in February, will
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CURIOUS SECURES EARLY MORNING KIDS' SHOW FOR C4
Channel 4 has lined up a new early morning children's series from Curious Productions, The Investigators (left). Aimed at six to 10-year-olds, the 13 x 20-minute series will feature stories such
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TIGER ASPECT PREMIERES FILM PRODUCTION ARM
Tiger Aspect Productions has set up a feature film production subsidiary, Tiger Aspect Pictures, and signed a development deal with Working Title Films. Peter Bennett Jones, chairman of Tiger Aspect and
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Coastal and United join for ITV drama
United Productions and Robson Green's indie, Coastal Productions, have teamed up for their third ITV drama commission.Close and Innocent will star Green as John Close, a successful commercial lawyer who returns
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Agran Barton to produce BBC comedy drama film
Tim Firth has been signed up by BBC head of film and single drama David Thompson to make a comedy drama feature film through indie Agran Barton Television, writes Tara Conlan.
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C4 seeks programming for themed film nights
Channel 4 head of film programming Nick Jones is seeking programme proposals to run in a raft of themed film nights next year, writes Ashley Davies.
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RDF poaches Gooch from ICG
RDF Television has recruited Nicola Gooch from the BBC independent commissioning group (ICG) to develop and produce daytime, lifestyle and leisure shows, writes Jason Deans.
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - Wives and Daughters overtakes Twist
Wives and Daughters left Oliver Twist wanting this week, stealing top spot for the first time in the clash of the Sunday night classics, writes Tara Conlan.
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GLR becomes London Live in BBC rebrand
Troubled BBC London radio station GLR will be renamed as BBC London Live next year as part of a major rebranding of the BBC's TV, radio and on-line services for the capital, writes John Plunkett.
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Ball to bring forward Sky switch-off
BSkyB chief executive Tony Ball wants to switch off Sky's analogue signal by the end of next year, writes John Plunkett.
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Fox snaps up Usher format
UK producer Peter Usher has sold an interactive gameshow format to US cable network Fox Family Channel, writes Jason Deans.
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C4I closes in on US talent agency deal
Channel 4 International (C4I) is understood to be in the advanced stages of negotiating a deal to be represented in the US by Los Angeles-based talent agency Endeavor.The move is said
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BBC execs on call on Millennium Eve
A team of top-level BBC executives will be on standby at TV Centre on Millennium Eve in case of internal, domestic and global Y2K crises.The Millennium Operating Regime will be headed
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Xfm fined£50,000 after bestiality charge
The Radio Authority has fined Capital Radio-owned Xfm£50,000 and threatened to withdraw its licence after two editions of the station's breakfast show broadcast 'descriptions of bestiality ... and ill-judged references to pornography', writes John Plunke
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ITN FACES STRIKE THREAT
ITN could be hit by strikes next month after Bectu and NUJ members voted to hold a ballot for industrial action as eleventh-hour talks at Acas broke down this week. Unions
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GRANADA HIRES RICHMOND
Granada Television controller of entertainment Duncan Gray has hired Siubhan Richmond to be the new executive producer of This Morning. Richmond, who series produced Talent TV's The Villa for Sky One,
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MERGER DEADLINE NEARS
The deadline for submissions to the Office of Fair Trading from third parties wishing to comment on competition or public interest issues raised by the proposed Carlton/ United merger falls on
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PRISM POACHES JOHNSON
Former Fox Kids UK managing director Rod Henwood's new internet and interactive TV outfit, Prism Entertainment, has poached Action Time head of children's programmes Amelia Johnson. She joins next month.
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HAYNES JOINS SKY PICS
Sky Pictures has poached Valencia Haynes from London-based sales outfit Capitol Films to join its production team next month. Haynes will work alongside Sky Pictures head William Turner in a production,