All Broadcast articles in 26 October 2001

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  • News

    Peak Practice swamps Victoria Wood

    2001-10-26T12:59:00Z

    ITV's spiced-up drama pulls-in the viewers on its return

  • News

    Del Boy to appear on Millionaire?

    2001-10-26T12:06:00Z

    David Jason character could get to sit in the quiz hot-seat as BBC plans collaboration over Christmas Only Fools and Horses

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    Del Boy to appear on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

    2001-10-26T12:02:00Z

    David Jason character to sit in the hot-seat as BBC and ITV collaborate over Christmas Only Fools and Horses

  • News

    ITC appoints deputy chair

    2001-10-26T11:10:00Z

    Baroness Janet Whitaker to take up role in November

  • News

    BBC Radio 2 more popular than ever

    2001-10-26T10:41:00Z

    Station's success story continues as an extra two million listeners are added bringing audience total to over 12m

  • News

    ITV Digital adds subscribers but churn remains high

    2001-10-26T10:28:00Z

    ITV Digital subscriber figures come in at a higher than expected 82,000 but high churn rate for the service means outlook is still grim

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    Straight TV set to revive Planet Pop

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Straight TV is to revive its former Channel 4 music format Planet Pop after securing an eight-part commission from Flextech-owned channel Trouble, writes Penny Hughes.

  • News

    PECK WINNER

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Freelance cameraman Talal Abu Rahmeh was awarded the new Sony International Impact Award at last week's Rory Peck Awards 2001 (Thursday 18 October).His film Death of Mohammel El Durah was singled

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    PLAYJAM TO OPEN IN US

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Interactive broadcaster Static 2358 has launched its interactive gaming service PlayJam in the US through New York cable service Cablevision. PlayJam is currently on BSkyB, NTL and Telewest in the UK

  • News

    OCTOPUS TV SOLD

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Octopus TV parent company Octopus Publishing Group has been bought by Hachette-Livre, part of the French Lagardere Media Group. Operations director Laura Banford said TV operations would remain unaffected and Nick

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    Rapture pay-off 'miserly'

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Staff at dance music channel Rapture are being offered redundancy packages of£240 per year of service as owner United Business Media gears up to close the channel next month, writes Simon Ellery.

  • News

    OFF THE RECORD - Mettle for sex

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    As much as OTR likes to expose and reveal television's naughtier side (see above), it's just possible that E4 has gone a little too far with its new interactive Sex Bots

  • News

    Survivor makes it to second series

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    ITV HAS decided to run a second series of its ratings flop Survivor, writes Steve Aston.

  • News

    A PRIMETIME SLOT AT LAST

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has confirmed the second series of US drama The West Wing will move out of its graveyard slot when it hits the main channel next year, writes Penny Hughes.

  • News

    TX - Kosovo two years on

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Nick Danziger's powerfully emotional study of Kosovo two years on from the Serbian atrocities nearly went unaired.The general nervousness about audience figures and the fact that stories set abroad are deemed

  • News

    'Outdated' Miss World returns on ITV

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    ITV has bought the rights to Miss World 2001, 13 years after it stopped screening the contest amid complaints that it was too sexist, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    Paladin and Invision merge

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Factual Indies Paladin Pictures and Invision Productions have merged to form a new company and have delivered their first programme to Channel 4, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    Liberty invests in Todd-AO post

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Todd-AO is the latest Liberty Livewire facility to benefit from the group's capital expenditure plans with a£600,000 revamp of its editing facilities, writes Barbara Marshall.

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    LEADER - A vision that's hard to realise

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    One of the gaping holes in last December's communications white paper is about to be tentatively filled in. Media secretary Tessa Jowell and trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt will next

  • News

    TRADE TALK - Northern grit

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    From atrocities in Kosovo to Weird Weekends with Paul Daniels, new commissioning editor of C4's Dispatches Kevin Sutcliffe has seen it all.