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Digital Monsters snaps up slots on CITV and Fox Kids
Saban sells rights to Pokemon-style animation
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NewsSky warns cable viewers they may lose its channels
The battle between BSkyB and Virgin Media has taken yet another twist with the satellite giant launching an advert telling cable customers they risk losing Sky channels if a distribution agreement is not reached.
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Katrina waves goodbye as Long joins Nightime
Janice Long is joining the Nightime team on BBC Radio 2 as the new presenter of the Monday-Friday show, writes Georgina Lipscomb.From 3 April, she replaces Katrina Leskanich from pop
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Channel 5 agrees to new run of Picturehead lottery doc
Channel 5 has commissioned Picturehead Productions to make a follow-up to last year's 7 x 30-minute Everyone's A Winner documentary series about National Lottery winners, writes Georgina Lipscomb.Commissioned by C5
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Telewest launches blueyonder as losses widen
High-speed 512Kb internet service aims to have 200,000 subscribers by end of 2001 says Illsley
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Endemol sale sparks indie quotas rethink
One of the UK's largest independents, GMG Endemol, looks set to lose its indie status in a development that is expected to have dramatic repercussions across the independent production sector.The move
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BBC TV pitches for extra cash
Top BBC Broadcast executives have begun hammering out blueprints to secure extra cash for key TV services, with BBC 1 pitching for up to£100 million and BBC 2 seeking£75 million extra a year, writes Tim Dams.
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NewsViewing jury is still out on BBC2's Verdict
BBC2's new celebrity-based jury show got a lukewarm reception from the viewers on Sunday with the first edition attracting 2 million (8%) in a 9pm slot.
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Tiger and Wark Clements join forces
Tiger Aspect and Wark Clements have banded together to form a 50:50 joint-venture indie to produce comedy, entertainment, drama and factual programmes in Glasgow, writes Ashley Davies.
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BBC2 drama to tap into dotcom fever
Award-winning This Life and The Cops producer World Productions has started work on a major 20-part drama series for BBC 2 about an internet start-up, writes Tim Dams.
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Treays quits United for Granada TV
Granada Television head of documentaries Bill Jones has poached acclaimed film-maker Jane Treays from United Productions, writes Ashley Davies.
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ITV2 acquires new series of HTV's Nuts and Bolts
ITV2 director of programmes Brian Barwick is in the final stages of acquiring a second series of Welsh teen soap Nuts and Bolts (right) from HTV Wales, three weeks into the
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SKY MOVIEMAX DROPS MOVIE BABYLON
Sky MovieMax show Movie Babylon has failed to secure a recommission for a new series. Produced in-house, the 30 x 30-minute show presented by Sue Perkins, first aired in October 1999.
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NewsTV-Loonland inks raft of deals for Little Princess
German distributor TV-Loonland has secured a string of broadcast and home entertainment deals for The Illuminated Film Company's pre-school series Little Princess.
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THE SLEEPER NOW WIDE AWAKE AND IN PRODUCTION
BBC Production drama serials department has gone into production with The Sleeper, a psychological/supernatural thriller for BBC 1. Billed as a darkly humorous tale of strange goings on at a haunted