All Disability articles – Page 37
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How the report was worked out
The Creative Report aims to establish which channels and producers are succeeding creatively and to generate debate about how the TV industry measures creativity.
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NewsC4 to air von Hagens lectures
Channel 4 has commissioned Firefly to make a fourth series with controversial anatomist Dr Gunther von Hagens. [ALL]
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FeaturesOn location: Born to be Different
Series producer Dee Lahiri charted the lives of six disabled children - and built lasting relationships
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NewsExtraordinary People to go beyond shock doc appeal
Five is moving its flagship Extraordinary Peoplestrand away from its shock doc roots with its latest round of commissions.
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NewsRead Andy Duncan's speech in full
Maximising public value in the 'now' media worldThe New Statesman media lecture, 21 June 2006
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E4 greenlights comedy shorts to lead into BB
E4 has ordered a series of 10-minute comedy shorts to run at 10pm before Big Brother's Big Mouth.
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OAPs given£100 to make digital switch
Pensioners taking part in a digital switch-over trial in Bolton have been given an allowance of£100 each to make the change to digital television.
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Leopard leaps on true drama
ITV drama controller Nick Elliott has commissioned a hard-hitting one-off drama about disability, starring Brenda Blethyn and Timothy Spall.
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NewsSecond helpings for Beyond Boundaries
8am: BBC2 controller Roly Keating has ordered a second series of disability adventure travel programme Beyond Boundaries while the first series is still on air.
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Granada Starting Over In France
Granada International has licensed the US reality format Starting Overto French commercial broadcaster TF1.
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Tessa Jowell: RTS Cambridge keynote address
Tessa Jowell, secretary of state for culture, media and sport 7pm 15 September 2005
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News5m support Man Utd
BBC1's coverage of Manchester United's Champions League qualifier against Debrecen gained a solid peak audience of 5 million (22.8%) at 9.30pm.
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Tigress set to film genetic disorder doc
Factual specialist Tigress Productions is to make a 50-minute documentary about a rare genetic disorder - Sacral Agnesis - for Discovery Health and Five.
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Credit where it's due
Producers' alliance Pact has been accused of turning a blind eye to employee exploitation by independent production...
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BBC3 greenlights disability sitcom
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy is adding to his channel's growing reputation for comedy with a new show about the unlikely relationship between a man confined to a wheelchair and his homeless friend.
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NewsBBC dominates Promax
The BBC grabbed top honours and 10 gold statuettes at the Promax UK awards at the Grosvenor House on Saturday (6 November).
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NewsBBC and C4 dominate Promax shortlist
The BBC and Channel 4 have dominated the shortlist for this year's Promax UK awards with half of the nominations split between them.
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BBC disabled target
The BBC has set a target of 4% of its 28,000 jobs to be staffed by people with disabilities by 2007. Around 2.7% of BBC staff currently identify themselves as having a disability compared to 10.1% of the population as a whole. The new target sits alongside improved targets for ...
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Far-right tries to 'hijack' C4 social documentary
Channel 4's multicultural remit seems to have backfired this week after the British National Party 'hijacked' a documentary, which includes a section in which Asian men groom young white girls for sexual abuse.
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Whatever - a Teenage Musical (C4) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'Issues such as drugs, racism, Aids, teenage pregnancy and disability were all tackled - but in a way that gave us ...