All Broadcast articles in 03 September 1999 – Page 2
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SEVENTEENTH COOKSON ADAPTATION FOR ITV ON ITS WAY
Festival Film & TV has just gone into production on its seventeenth Catherine Cookson adaptation for Yorkshire and ITV. The 3 x 60-minute drama, The Secret, was commissioned from Festival by
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Talent agent
Lisa Clark has a reputation for getting the best out of stars she works with, but can she rev up LWT's comedy department, asks David Wood.
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AIREY GETS EDINBURGH NOD
Channel 5 director of programmes Dawn Airey has been named as advisory chair for next year's Edinburgh International Television Festival. Airey replaces the incumbent chair, senior vice-president, Flextech Channels Lis Howell.
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BRAGG PLEAS FOR AMBITION
LWT controller of arts and features Melvyn Bragg has called on the UK TV industry to have more 'intellectual ambition'. Bragg, speaking at the launch of the 23rd run of The
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Nothing to grab on to
Richard Eyre's MacTaggart Lecture set the tone for last weekend's Edinburgh TV Festival - well-structured, carefully thought out, but with little new to say. Alice Macandrew reports.
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Happy talking
Following the recent overhaul of Rajar's ratings system, William Phillips places his faith in the new figures and answers some of the key questions thrown up by their use.
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Unique buys stake in comedy indie and bolsters archives
Leading radio independent Unique Broadcasting is understood to be acquiring a majority shareholding in comedy and documentary radio producer Gilmore Broadcasting, writes John Plunkett.The deal gives Unique an estimated 200 hours
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COMPONENT HAILS OPENING OF NEW AUDIO SUITE
Component has opened a new audio suite. Based around the new SADiE Artemis digital audio workstation, the suite will be driven by former Cyber Audio sound engineer Simon Wright. Paul Gidley,
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Trouble gets a new autumn on-air look courtesy of its in-house graphics department and The Moving Picture Company. Designed and directed by graphics producer/director Steph Neely, the new look feature
Trouble gets a new autumn on-air look courtesy of its in-house graphics department and The Moving Picture Company. Designed and directed by graphics producer/director Steph Neely, the new look features Trouble's
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Carlton axes Central and Westcountry
Carlton Television is jettisoning its regional brands, Westcountry and Central, in favour of a new on-air Carlton identity, writes Dominic Timms.From Monday (6 September) the regional broadcasters' individual on-air identities will
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Bailey scoops BBC radio dramas
Independent Catherine Bailey Productions has been commissioned for new dramas for BBC Radio 3 and 4, including a Noel Coward play starring Jack Davenport, writes John Plunkett.Davenport will appear alongside Lia
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BALL TO GIVE IBC KEYNOTE SPEECH
BSkyB chief executive and managing director Tony Ball will present the keynote speech at IBC on 11 September. Ball, who joined BSkyB in June, is expected to use the occasion to
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BBC children's to screen pig heart transplant drama
A drama about a boy facing the prospect of a pig heart transplant forms part of the BBC children's autumn schedule, to be unveiled on Thursday (2 September), writes Tim Dams.Made
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BBC Resources' London-based graphics designer, Victor Martinez, and graphics producer Stephen Venning have created the new titles for BBC Sport's Grandstand. The sequence features live-action footage
BBC Resources' London-based graphics designer, Victor Martinez, and graphics producer Stephen Venning have created the new titles for BBC Sport's Grandstand. The sequence features live-action footage from around 11 UK locations.
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OPINION - BBC makes poor fist at Edinburgh
Richard Eyre's MacTaggart lecture failed to live up to the hype.But when The Times runs a story suggesting that poor programme quality is undermining the case for the licence fee, the
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OFF THE RECORD - Behind the mainstream
Pop quiz: which channel's lacklustre Bank Holiday Monday primetime schedule featured a 60-minute promo for the Spice Girls, a movie repeat, a wildlife documentary, a five-minute news bulletin and an hour
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Bernard Clark
Argues that now Channel 4 has got its act together, it needs to gain the confidence to take more risks.
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Howell urges better training for researchers
Lis Howell, senior vice-president, Flextech Channels, has called for greater training and protection for researchers to avoid any repetition of the Vanessa faked guest furore, writes Steve Clarke.Howell, speaking at the
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INDIE BUSINESS: BRANDING - The right brand of success
According to classic marketing theory, it is impossible not to have a brand identity just as it's impossible for an individual not to have a character. But are independents making the most of theirs, asks Peter Keighron.
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BREWER AND MACKENZIE TO PRESENT SCOTS NEWSNIGHT
Gordon Brewer and Anne Mackenzie have been lined up as presenters of Newsnight Scotland, the new opt-out from Newsnight that launches in October. Brewer, who currently presents and reports for Newsnight,
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