All Broadcast articles in 13 October 2000 – Page 2
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INTERVIEW - Packing a punch
Channel 4 head of news, current affairs and business David Lloyd believes in 'big, bold and urgent' television. With the launch of an expanded, new-look Dispatches this week, he hopes to punch through the schedules.
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ITV's Spitting Image is to be reincarnated
ITV's Spitting Image is to be reincarnated next year in a new animated format to be made by one of the show's original producers.
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Hewland and McAllister to team up
Hewland International is setting up a joint-venture drama outfit with freelance producer and director Cameron McAllister, writes Simon Ellery.
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HTV production to stay with Granada Media
Granada Media will absorb the network production division of HTV as part of a commitment to preserve United Productions, the company's chairman Charles Allen has confirmed, writes Colin Robertson.
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Jackson quits for Oz Granada Media
BBC controller of entertainment Paul Jackson has ended months of speculation and announced he is to leave the BBC to join Granada Media.Jackson, 52, will become managing director of Granada Media
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OPINION - Schedulers gear up for ratings war
BBC director general Greg Dyke and his board of governors stand accused of out and out commercialism over the decision to shift the news back an hour. But they could wheel
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OFF THE RECORD - Name games
Still in Cannes there was much speculation over the future name of the company to be born out of the merger between Granada and Itel. Wags suggested Granite, with its connotations
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... WHILE PEEL MAY FRONT INTERVIEW SERIES FOR MERIDIAN
Meanwhile, Southgate has also ordered a 7 x 30-minute interview series The Things We Do for Love from Zenith Entertainment's new media division Workhouse Television for Meridian. BBC Radio 1 DJ
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Weakest Link format goes worldwide
BBC quiz show format The Weakest Link is to be produced by the corporation for a number of markets, including the US, writes Tara Conlan.
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IchooseTV plans stock market float
Personalised internet TV service IchooseTV.com is planning a stock market flotation and has signed a joint-venture content deal with Rapido TV, writes Ashley Davies.
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ITV FINALLY GREENLIGHTS US SURVIVOR FORMAT FOR UK
ITV has finally announced it has commissioned Survivor, the real-life gameshow billed as a cross between Big Brother and Castaway, as predicted by Broadcast (21.7.00). Director of programmes David Liddiment told
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Final seven ITV licensees reapply
The final seven ITV franchise holders that have not already applied for their licences to be renewed from 2001 have now done so, the Independent Television Commission (ITC) revealed this week.Border,
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Producers fight for indie online rights
European producers have stepped up a lobbying campaign in Brussels to protect independents' online and other new media rights.The European Co-ordination of Independent Producers, which represents European producers' alliances (including Pact),
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FIRESIDE FAVOURITES TO MAKE SECOND 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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Toon studio for Fireside Favourites
Production company Fireside Favourites is developing its own animation studio, writes Barbara Marshall.
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Lookalikes - Story of a Family Guy
Get pumped up over the stunning resemblance between Kiss 100 and Magic overlord Mark Story and the dad from Channel 4's Family Guy. While one means well and, despite the odd
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PEPPER'S GHOST EXPANSION YIELDS TWO NEW ROLES
Animation house Pepper's Ghost Productions (PGP) has created two new roles as it expands production. Aisling O'Brien Hall has been promoted to the new position of studio production manager, while Ben
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GERMAN FIRM IN-MOTION SNAPS UP J&M ENTERTAINMENT
German TV production and distribution outfit In-motion has bought UK indie J&M Entertainment in a $20m (£13.8m) deal that sees the firm folded into US-based film and TV distributor Myriad Pictures
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ON REQUEST HIT BY ENCRYPTION PROBLEMS
On Digital's premium film channel On Request was hit by technical problems last week which meant the service went down for three days. A spokesman said the outfit, which is jointly
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OFF THE RECORD - Taking it to the edge
Hooray. Crack open the champagne to celebrate the birth of a new programme genre. The bouncing bundle of delight comes courtesy of staff at Ideal World, who are making a series