All Broadcast articles in 13 October 2000
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Baby Cow to make sequel to Marion & Geoff
Keith Barret returns in series of thirty minute episodes.
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Osman tipped as Bannister's replacement
BBC controller of press and publicity is insiders' favourite
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Attila the Hen nears completion
Visionsound is in post-production with 2 x 20-minute animation specials called Attila the Hen for Channel 4 and S4C Wales. The animation features a group of chickens confronting environmental issues, such
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John Peel tipped to present Meridian interview series
Meridian's controller of regional programmes Mark Southgate has ordered a 7 x 30-minute interview series The Things We Do for Love from Zenith Entertainment's new media division Workhouse Television.BBC
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Rose Bay to produce parents gameshow
Producer and distributor Rose Bay has been given the go-ahead to produce a 2 x 30-minute gameshow Parents Know Best! for a regional broadcast by Meridian Broadcasting. Ordered by Meridian controller
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Broadband companies add to anti-BT chorus
MediaWave, Chello and Madge Web accuse BT and Oftel of dragging heels over ADSL roll-out
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Robbie Williams asks Done & Dusted for 90 minute tour special
Indie Done & Dusted has been asked by Robbie Williams to produce a 90-minute TV special from the Manchester leg of his forthcoming tour. Channel 4, through commissioning editor, music and
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Robbie asks Done & Dusted for 90 minute tour special
Indie Done & Dusted has been asked by Robbie Williams to produce a 90-minute TV special from the Manchester leg of his forthcoming tour. Channel 4, through commissioning editor, music and
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Fireside to make second series of House of Rock
Channel 4 commissioning editor of music and young people's programmes Jo Wallace has asked Fireside Favourites to make a second run of animated comedy House of Rock to air from next
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ITV finally greenlights US survivor format
ITV has finally announced it has commissioned Survivor, the real-life gameshow billed as a cross between Big Brother and Castaway. Director of programmes David Liddiment told an audience of advertisers this
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Prince Charles to visit Coronation Street set
HRH The Prince of Wales will visit the set of Coronation Street on December 8 to help celebrate the show's 40 thanniversary.Coronation Street was first broadcast on December 9 1940, and
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Sportsworld takes majority stake in X-treme Video
Acquisition creates Europe's largest extreme sports footage distribution and production company
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OFF THE RECORD - Top secret
The secrecy shrouding the BBC's sneaky shunting of the news to 22.00 was pretty damned impressive. In a bid to prevent leakage from the arty types who were designing the new
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OFF THE RECORD - Teledruggies?
The beautiful thing about Mipcom in Cannes (apart from the refuge the centre provides for agoraphobics and the privilege of paying a tenner for a gin and tonic) is the way
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VTR video streaming outfit
Post-production facilities group VTR is poised to launch a business-to-business video streaming service, writes Barbara Marshall.
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New technology role post-NTL rejig
NTL has undergone a major restructure with the appointment of managing director of networks Peter Black as the company's chief technology officer for the UK and Ireland.The new role will integrate
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MIPCOM ROUND-UP
September Films' new international division September International has clinched its first major deal, shifting 10 x 30-minute documentary series Manhattan On The Beach to the Discovery-owned US Travel Channel.JAM Pictures, the
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SPORTSWORLD MEDIA UNVEILS PROFITS JUMP
Sports producer and advertiser-branded programme specialist Sportsworld Media has posted pre-tax profits of£5.6m in the year to 30 June, up from£1.77m in the previous 14 months. Chief executive Geoff
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ITV to scrap Trafalgar Road name
ITV is being forced to change the title of its planned new teatime soap Trafalgar Road because the street where the fictional series is set actually exists, writes Colin Robertson.