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On location: Richard Hammond Meets Evel Knievel
Producer Ben Devlin reveals how he struggled to keep the late motorcycle stuntman sweet
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Celebrity takes on all comers
Did I really hear Zai Bennett, ITV2 director of programmes, say that he intends to move away from extension programmes such as I’m a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here Now at the Broadcast Commissioning Conference in Manchester last week?
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FeaturesClever versus fun will be the new ratings battle
In a week when the England football team provided us with a lesson in how not to compete, we should spare a thought for channels that do not have schedules loaded with primetime jungle or song and dance contests. How should Channel 4 and Five react to this kind ...
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FeaturesAffording archive
With production budgets under pressure, finding the best archive footage is tougher than ever. To understand the complexities involved Broadcast invented a documentary and Meg Carter enlisted three archive researchers to help her find the right footage for it.
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FeaturesQueen’s ‘huff’ proves a BBC ratings winner
It caused a trust crisis and the downfall of a controller, but BBC1’s troubled documentary series Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work was a ratings winner.
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FeaturesFormat Focus: Celebrity
A new show from Spain is promising to find the next generation of talented artistes.
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FeaturesCONTENT FOCUS: HOT DESK
ITV has fixed the MySpace generation firmly in its sights with its innovative made-for-mobile music magazine
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Eureka! Hitler’s Favourite Royal
Fi Cotter Craig explains how the story of Hitler’s Favourite Royal practically sold itself to C4.
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FeaturesA life of crime
Lynda La Plante goes to forensic lengths to ensure her crime dramas are accurate. Now she’s making moves into the US and classic adaptations.
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FeaturesCommissioning Focus
Bravo has healthy budgets on offer for new commissions - so long as indies can deliver the range of anti-social behaviour its action-hungry audience loves.
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FeaturesCreative Review - 30 November 2007
Check out recently completed creative work including new opening titles for Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.
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FeaturesTime to topple the old order?
BBC drama is well known for making costume classics - but is it doing so at the expense of more modern fare?
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FeaturesRiding out the extremes
Director and cameraman Adam Giles survived a tough trip through the Americas on a motorbike
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TX: Christmas at the Riviera
A tale of a family who move into a hotel over Christmas had ITV written all over it.
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FeaturesFormat Focus: To Understand and Forgive
A show from Russia is being touted as a new TV genre: the psychotherapy docu-drama.
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FeaturesCreative Review - 23 November 2007
Check out recently completed creative work including the titles for a primetime BBC1 series called The Enforcers.
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FeaturesCommissioning Focus: IPTV
As the BT Vision IPTV service turns one, it is gaining a competitor in Orange TV, and both are keen to talk to indies about niche programming.
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FeaturesStellar cast helps Cranford win its BBC1 9pm slot
Blimey, 8 million/29% share for Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford on BBC1 Sunday at 9pm, a costume drama with a stellar cast.
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FeaturesITV1’s bug-munching celebs still prove tasty
Celebrities eating cockroaches in the Australian jungle and the whiff of unlikely romance - it can only mean I’m a Celebrity - Get Me out of Here! is back for its seventh series.
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FeaturesStation Profile: LBC 97.3FM
Station fact file on LBC 97.3FM. Includes an interview with senior producer Kevin McAleese.