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ANXIETIES MOUNT OVER FRENCH PAY-TV FILM RIGHTS
Concern over control of French pay-TV film rights rose to fever pitch this week as French broadcasters battled for control of television and cinema group Pathe. Pay-TV group Canal+ bought up
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THE ALPHABET GAME SPELLS SUCCESS FOR ACTION TIME
Action Time has won a new commission for its gameshow format The Alphabet Game from Italian commercial broadcaster Canale 5. The channel has commissioned an initial 66 episodes, which will be
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3DD SELLS CHIPPENDALES ONE-OFF INTO EUROPE
Distributor 3DD Entertainment has pre-sold a one-off special, The Chippendales - For One Night Only, to a number of European pay-TV broadcasters.The show airs exclusively in the UK on Sky Box
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REGIONS MOVES IN WITH EURONEWS AT LYONS
ITN-owned news channel Euronews is to share its Lyons headquarters with the French documentary channel Regions. The French cable and digital satellite channel, which began broadcasting in May last year and
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BAZALGETTE AND SILVERMAN JOIN MONTE CARLO PANEL
GMG Endemol Entertainment creative director Peter Bazalgette and William Morris head of international packaging Ben Silverman will be on the panel of a new format conference at the Monte Carlo market
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BBC WORLD HITS 135 MILLION HOMES MARK
The BBC's 24-hour international news channel BBC World is now available in 135 million homes around the world, according to latest figures from the broadcaster. The number of homes receiving BBC
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HELKON GAINS ACCESS TO ENDEMOL'S PROGRAMMING
From this month, Endemol International Distribution programming will be exclusively licensed in German-speaking territories by German company Helkon Media. Endemol bought a 51 per cent stake in Helkon last year, and
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THE COMMENT PAGE - The opening of Gates to cable
A 5 per cent stake in the UK's third largest cable operator does not exactly add up to world domination. Yet NTL's rivals in the British cable market must be feeling
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Street-fighter wanted to punch for Auntie - Comment
Perhaps the BBC missed a trick. Two accomplished spin doctors, slightly tarnished but with plenty of mileage left in them, have recently come on the market. The newer, shinier one was
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Unkindest cut
What is the way forward for the World Service in a post-Cold War era of multiple information sources and diminishing Foreign Office funding?
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Charge of the lifestyle brigade
The dark-haired host, who looked strangely familiar, pulled a card from the desk and read a single word to a brooding figure slumped to his right. Just an innocuous couple of
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GENRE AUDIT - Watching the soaps slide
David Wood charts the steady decline in the popularity of soap operas and asks what can be done to return the genre to its position as the broadcasters' guaranteed ratings puller.
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Street cred
After years of snobbery, all of sudden it's cool to have a soap credit on your CV - for writers, producers and directors as well as for stars, writes BBC head of drama series Mal Young.
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Soaps - The Business Page - Cleaning up?
Selling soaps abroad means crossing cultural and language barriers and persuading foreign broadcasters to offer an untried product a long run in a primetime slot. However, as Esther Eley discovers, the potential rewards are huge.
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PROFILE - A game of patience
Janet Anderson, the Government's newly installed minister for broadcasting, has received a broad welcome from the industry. But where does she stand on the major issues of the day?
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OFF THE RECORD - Doyle is Shaw's Bodie man
Actor Martin Shaw has struggled hard to reinvent himself after his years playing CI5 agent Ray Doyle in The Professionals. Small wonder, then, that he took such a dim view of
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OFF THE RECORD - Shaw's swap shop
What's this? Martin Shaw distancing himself even further from The Professionals by working in BBC local radio? No, silly - it's not actor Martin Shaw, but the eponymous GLR news editor,
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OFF THE RECORD - Sorry ... but not that sorry
ITV dynamic duo Richard Eyre and David Liddiment were back smooth talking ITV's long-suffering advertisers again this week - just over a year after unveiling their master plan last January. The
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OFF THE RECORD - Ghost of Xmas past
What a joy it was to see ITC chief executive Sir Robin Biggam at the Royal Television Society last week, acquainting the TV industry with his thoughts on the future of
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OFF THE RECORD - New Orleans Toy Story
And so to Natpe in New Orleans where trade minister Brian Wilson was star billing at a glittering champagne reception at the British Pavilion earlier this week. The aim, of course,