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Suicide show finds US cable slot
A US cable TV broadcaster is planning to screen a do-it-yourself guide to committing suicide. The programme, based on the best-seller Final Exit by Derek Humphry, is due to air on
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UK in vanguard as European digital take-up to rise to 33% by 2003
Half of UK homes to go digital within three years
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Silent Witness pilot to air on NBC
BBC Worldwide/Granada US programming venture bears fruit with pilot based on top BBC drama
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Animation festival
The third annual International Animation Festival will be held in Bristol from 25 to 28 April. Highlights include The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, who will choose his favourite animations in Desert
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TFG relaunches ad arm
The Facilities Group (TFG) has relaunched commercials production company Winkle Films as Vermilion and repositioned it as a full-service production company.Vermilion will provide agency production, TV administration, commercials and corporate
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BBC 1's NHS night falls flat
Viewers desert channel for lighter fare elsewhere as corporation tries to engage the public with a live and interactive profile of the National Health Service
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UKTV head of new media quits
Neil Morris leaves BBC/Flextech joint venture to set up broadband and interactive TV consultancy
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Ex-director of the BSC calls for reform to BBC governors
Governors should have less involvement in programmes to enable objectivity, says Colin Shaw
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Pact to attack BBC over trade 'abuses'.
Producers' alliance Pact is poised to fight a 'bloody' battle with the BBC after charging the corporation with a catalogue of abuses over its terms of trade.The action follows a flood
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Whitehall still buying analogue TV sets.
Whitehall departments are still buying analogue television sets despite the government's intention of switching off the analogue signal from as early as 2006, writes David Rose.
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Daily Mail plans Metro FM radio.
Metro, the free weekday newspaper given away in cities such as London and Birmingham, could be handed a companion radio service under plans being explored by its owner the Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT), writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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Juniper sets up science and history subsidiary.
Juniper Communications is setting up a new science and history division in Cambridge, in a bid to tap into the city's academic resources, writes Penny Hughes.
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UKTV new media head leaves for start-up.
UKTV head of new media Neil Morris has quit the BBC Flextech joint-venture to set up his own broadband and interactive TV consultancy MomoMedia, writes David Wood.
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C5 TO AIR PRIVATE RYAN.
Channel 5 controller of acquisitions Jeff Ford has bought the rights to the second world war epic Saving Private Ryan, which is expected to get its first terrestrial airing later this
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Britons to make Giuliani biopic.
THE LIFE OF former New York mayor Rudolf Giuliani will be documented for US viewers by UK companies following a $4m (#2.8m) deal between London-based Jam Pictures, Carlton America and USA Network, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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TV politics 'must infotain'.
Broadcasters should not shy away from dumbing down political programmes and experimenting with 'tabloid formats' to bring in new audiences to the genre, according to a major report published this week.The
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BBC angles for prime EPG location for BBC 4.
THE BBC IS still in negotiations with BSkyB over the position of new digital culture channel BBC 4 on the electronic programme guide (EPG), just days before its launch, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC moves to quell 'Delia effect' panic.
Manufacturers of gardening equipment have held talks with the BBC over concerns that the so-called 'Delia effect' - where retailers were swamped with requests for specific products after the celebrity chef used them on her show - could happen to them, wri
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Ginger to revive Lads.
Ginger Productions has scored its first commission for ITV 1 with a remake of classic sitcom The Likely Lads, which is set to star kids presenters Ant and Dec, writes Steve Aston.