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    Aldo Zilli hosts dinner dates for LWT

    2003-01-29T14:15:29Z

    Celebrated restaurateur Aldo Zilli is to take over as the host of LWT's Dinner Dates. Zilli will front the 6 x 30-minute regional restaurant review show, which begins on 16 February at 17.45. The show is being created for the region by Granada production unit ...

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    BBC plans ?Iraq Day'

    2003-01-29T08:59:54Z

    The BBC's landmark day of programming devoted to transport issues - the third in its current affairs series following those on the NHS and crime - is to be postponed in order to make way for special programming on Iraq, it has been confirmed, writes ...

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    BBC 4 resurrects After Dark

    2003-01-28T12:43:44Z

    Seminal late night live discussion show After Dark, which famously saw actor Oliver Reed try to give American feminist Kate Millett a drunken kiss, is to be resurrected by digital culture channel BBC 4, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    TX - Next generation game.

    2003-01-27T12:51:34Z

    The pedigree that Jane Fallon has built up through her work on the seminal series This

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    TONIGHT WITH WACKO.

    2003-01-27T12:51:23Z

    ITV1's Tonight programme is to screen a warts 'n' all documentary about Michael Jackson next month

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    Shine sails off with exclusive.

    2003-01-27T12:51:23Z

    Elisabeth Murdoch's indie, Shine, is to make a documentary series for Five about the aircraft carrier

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    PBS SPECIAL WILL FOLLOW CHINESE EXPLORERS.

    2003-01-27T12:51:23Z

    Pearson Broadband and Paladin Invision, a co-venture between British documentary-makers William Cran and Clive Syddall, are

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    Wall to Wall makes bold with knights of old.

    2003-01-27T12:51:23Z

    Wall to Wall is to investigate the truth about the knights of the Middle Ages and

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    FIVE TAKES SKY'S SUNRISE FOR ANOTHER YEAR.

    2003-01-27T12:51:23Z

    Five has renewed its contract with Sky News to continue broadcasting the satellite broadcaster's morning show

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    ANNE ROBINSON TO HOST CELEBRITY DINNERS.

    2003-01-27T12:51:23Z

    Acid-tongued presenter Anne Robinson is to make a full series of her alternative BBC2 chat show

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    DEAD RINGERS TEAM IN NEW R4 COMIC VENTURE.

    2003-01-27T12:51:23Z

    BBC Radio 4 controller Helen Boaden has greenlit a new six-part comedy series from the team

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    C4 to spotlight 'bad' Georgians.

    2003-01-27T12:51:23Z

    Channel 4 has lined up a season of programmes that take a look at the dark

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    JONATHAN ROSS TO PRESENT 2002 TV ROUND-UP.

    2003-01-27T12:51:23Z

    Jonathan Ross is to take over presenting duties from Michael Parkinson on BBC1's annual retrospective of

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    R4 TO DISH DIRT ON 1982 REBEL CRICKETERS.

    2003-01-27T12:51:23Z

    A 60-minute documentary recounting the 1982 rebel England cricket tour of apartheid South Africa has been

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    COCKERELL DOC DELAY.

    2003-01-27T12:51:21Z

    Journalist Michael Cockerell's new documentary Trust Me, I'm a Politician, which was due to air on

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    BBC soap boss knocks new-look Crossroads.

    2003-01-27T12:51:21Z

    The BBC's 'soap chief', controller of drama series Mal Young, has hit out at ITV's relaunched Crossroads claiming it has missed its chance at success

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    Cold drives BBC back from the Antarctic.

    2003-01-27T12:51:21Z

    The BBC has been forced to postpone a landmark Natural History Unit (NHU) programme in which

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    Ground Force crosses the pond

    2003-01-27T09:14:10Z

    BBC America has signed its first independent production venture after ordering an 8 x 60-minute US-based version of Endemol UK's garden makeover show, Ground Force, writes Colin Robertson

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    Pilger probes ?war on terror'

    2003-01-23T10:19:49Z

    John Pilger is set to follow up his controversial documentary on Palestine with a new ITV project examining the war on terror, writes Steve Aston

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    Wark Clements signs Abbott for ITV comedy

    2003-01-22T17:43:07Z

    Paul Abbott, creator of the BBC's Bafta-winning drama Clocking Off, has been signed up by Monogram Wark Clements to write a black comedy for ITV1 about a couple caught up in a web of deception after disposing of a body which one of them has ...