All Broadcast articles in 10 September 1999 – Page 5

  • News

    PACT PUTS FAITH IN VERTUE

    1999-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Hartswood Films chairman Beryl Vertue has been re-elected unopposed as chairman of Pact for 2000, her second year at the helm of the producers' alliance. Wall to Wall managing director Alex

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    Ideal lands movie for FilmFour

    1999-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Ideal World Productions has secured a commission and funding from FilmFour to produce the independent's first feature film, writes Wale Azeez.Produced through its Ideal World Films offshoot, Late Night Shopping will

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    ITV FINDS RELIGIOUS PARADISE WITH MOORE TV

    1999-09-10T00:00:00Z

    ITV has commissionedindependent Moore TV to make two new religious series. Paradise Found is a 10 x 30-minute Moore TV/Action Time co-production inviting top celebrities to spend a week at a

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    Rushes junks Henry for second Fire suite

    1999-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Rushes has announced plans to close its Quantel Henry Infynity suite and replace it with a second Discreet Fire in a move that managing director Mark Hewitt said would be a

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    OFF THE RECORD - In the flesh

    1999-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Take a close look at the trunks of our back page 'virtual hunk' and you'll notice this week's pic comes not from Channel 5 (as you might have suspected) but the

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    OPEN KEEPS QUIET OVER FLOTATION TALKS

    1999-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Digital interactive TV consortium Open has refused to comment on speculation that it may float on the stock market with a valuation of between£1.4 billion and£2.4 billion if it

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    RTL PUTS FOCUS ON IN-HOUSE PRODUCTIONS

    1999-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Leading German commercial broadcaster RTL is to place more emphasis on in-house production in 1999-2000, according to managing director Gerhard Zeiler. While daytime schedules between 09.00 and 17.00 will consist exclusively

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    NEWSNIGHT GRANTED INSIDE VIEW OF PRISON LIFE

    1999-09-10T00:00:00Z

    BBC 2's Newsnight has been given exclusive access to Wormwood Scrubs to follow the prison's attempts to improve its reputation. The current affairs show will film governor Stephen Moore, prison officers

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    OFF THE RECORD - Jerry groupie

    1999-09-10T00:00:00Z

    No-one was more enthusiastic at one of the recent Jerry Springer shows, being filmed for ITV by Anglia, than United company lawyer Stephen Rudoff's wife, Lizzie.Rudoff's other half sat in the

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    GWR TO PAY MORE TO RA

    1999-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Classic FM parent GWR has accepted the terms for the renewal of its licence offered by the Radio Authority, which will see the amount it pays increase by around£2.4 million

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    TRADE TALK - Martin Jackson

    1999-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Warns Carlton chief Michael Green he may yet regret his decision to rebrand Central and Westcountry.

  • News

    OFF THE RECORD - Macho management

    1999-09-10T00:00:00Z

    It is the early bird, of course, who gets the worm, and no-one knows that better than Sophie Turner Laing, controller of programme acquisitions at the BBC. OTR only mentions this

  • News

    OFF THE RECORD - Weighty matters

    1999-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Edited by John Plunkett.

  • News

    OFF THE RECORD - Suck it and see

    1999-09-10T00:00:00Z

    BBC backwater, sorry, nations and regions grand fromage Mark Thompson was back in the news last week outlining his vision for the Beeb's regional news in London and the south-east. Of