All Broadcast articles in 26 November 1999 – Page 2
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ITV winter line-up focuses on drama
ITV is to reunite former Ballykissangel stars Dervla Kirwan and Stephen Tompkinson in a new 6 x 60-minute drama, Shades, to air in autumn 2000.The show, about strangers who meet after
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Disney prepares first foray into UK radio
Disney is understood to be bidding to launch its first UK radio station on newly launched national commercial digital multiplex, Digital One, writes John Plunkett.The group is said to be in
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OFF THE RECORD - Derailed
OTR was grateful to receive a bumper Beeb press pack about the week of programmes on the rail industry, with the puntastic title of Track Record (below). The series will seek
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GWR/RIL SEAL MINSTER DEAL
GWR and Radio Investments Limited (RIL) are to buy the remaining 50 per cent stake in Minster Sound. The deal, which values the York-based four-station group at£9.6 million, will give
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FLEXTECH/TELEWEST DEAL
Flextech has signed a deal to put all its wholly owned and UK TV channels on Telewest's newly launched digital cable platform.The agreement includes 'substantial' joint marketing initiatives and interactive options.
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Parsons sues de Mol over Survive!
Former Planet 24 boss Charlie Parsons is suing Endemol and its subsidiary.John de Mol Productions, seeking multi-million dollar damages for format theft.The legal wrangle centres on two shows - Survive! devised
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SKY ONE STAGES SPICE GIRLS LONDON CONCERT
Sky One is to broadcast a series of live concerts beginning with the Spice Girls on 14 December. Spice Girls: The Live One, will air live from Earls Court at 20.00
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RICHMOND PRODUCES CONLEY COMEDY DRAMA PILOT FOR ITV
Independent Richmond Films & Television is producing a one-hour comedy drama pilot starring Brian Conley for ITV. Provisionally entitled Privates, the pilot features Conley (left) as a former policeman who runs
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Moore named UK Play channel editor
UKTV has named Myfanwy Moore as the new channel editor of its music and comedy channel, UK Play, writes Tim Dams.Currently BBC entertainment editor of new comedy and entertainment, Moore joins
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Zig Zag cooks up three-course CFN meal
Zig Zag Productions, which last week announced a joint-venture with Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television Productions (YTTP), has secured three commissions from Carlton Food Network (CFN), writes Liz Shackleton.The first to go
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NFTS LAUNCHES NEW HIGH-END TRAINING CENTRE
The National Film & Television School's (NFTS) digital media arm, Createc, is planning to launch a new high-end digital compositing and visual effects training centre. Located in central London, The Finishing
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McKERROW SETS UP COMPANY FOR C-DAY
Former SVC managing director Tom McKerrow is launching a new company aimed at providing support services for advertisers, agencies and production and post-production companies in the run up to C-Day. Scheduled
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OFF THE RECORD - Caught in the web
There's not much that Illuminations boss John Wyver doesn't know about the new frontier of high-tech telly. He claims to be the first programme-maker to use the term 'internet' on British
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CARLTON/SWMDA LAUNCH LOCAL FILM-MAKER SCHEME
Carlton Broadcasting, West Country Region is linking up with the South West Media Development Agency (SWMDA) to launch an initiative for local film-makers to make 10-minute documentaries for regional broadcast. The
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OFF THE RECORD - Cable stitch-up
Eyebrows were raised last week when it emerged that BSkyB big kahuna Tony Ball had enjoyed lunch with competition minister Kim Howells just days after Vivendi's proposed purchase of a quarter
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OFF THE RECORD - A bug's rife
The millennium bug has struck early at ITV. It would appear that gremlins have been at work in the network centre's newly installed 'labels database' (sounds fascinating), resulting in a cock-up
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TV GREATS - Television that broke the mould
In the week Broadcast celebrates its 40th birthday, we asked 12 key industry figures to each select three ground-breaking shows from the past four decades. The favourites that emerged point to a legacy that's hard to emulate.
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BRIGHTER PICTURES UNCOVERS 'ROLEX ROBBERS'
Brighter Pictures has been commissioned by Carlton TV to make Time Bandits, an undercover investigation into the band of 'Rolex robbers' who have struck 39 times in London in the last
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INTERVIEW - Brave new world?
Since quitting the BBC to head Juniper Communications in 1998, Samir Shah has overseen a raft of landmark 'contemporary history' shows. So how is he finding life in the indie sector after 10 years at the corporation?
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SKD boosts overseas sales profile
Animation property company SKD Media is expanding its international sales and distri-bution activities following its merger with private animation library Carrington Productions, writes Liz Shackleton.The merged entity, which has changed its