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TRADE TALK - Northern grit
From atrocities in Kosovo to Weird Weekends with Paul Daniels, new commissioning editor of C4's Dispatches Kevin Sutcliffe has seen it all.
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IN MY VIEW - Simon Shaps, managing director, Granada Content
On why we shouldn't underestimate how vital ITV's regional programming is to the network.
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ON THE BOX - Clash of the bouffants
Fremantle Media Production Ignition team leader Sean Kirkegaard found The SBS stodgy but Poker kept him up after his bedtime.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Creative dilemmas
While ITV strives to innovate, a number of its new programmes have flopped. Now ITV schedulers face the challenge of appeasing advertisers with sure-fire hits while maintaining the channel as a creative force.
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TV REVENUE - The new economics of TV
With commercial TV's£3bn ad revenues ebbing away, it is time the TV industry embraced fresh forms of funding if it's to stand any chance of growing.
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NewsRoll-out of BBC Jam frozen due to Govt enquiry
The launch of new material for the BBC Jam online service has been frozen, following the government's decision to call for a review of the corporation's educational content.
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INTERVIEW - Broadband's Mr Big
Video Networks' VOD entertainment service may not be raking in the cash, but chief executive Simon Hochhauser says broadband will help to give his company the edge.
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INDIE FINANCE - How Blast blew on to the market
Called 'the bespoke tailor of independent production' by founder and owner Edmund Coulthard, slow-growing Blast is looking to expand its horizons with projects for BBC 1 and ITV and even feature films.
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TX - Kosovo two years on
Nick Danziger's powerfully emotional study of Kosovo two years on from the Serbian atrocities nearly went unaired.The general nervousness about audience figures and the fact that stories set abroad are deemed
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BBC 2's Band of Brothers just misses the top 50
The prize for outstanding achievement this week goes to the Friday opening of Band of Brothers which single-handedly gave BBC 2 a 16 per cent primetime share for the night. With
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OFF THE RECORD - The wheelbarrow man hits Cannes
Whatever next? Apparently a marketing person from a London post facility was seen strolling along the Croisette (the bit that runs up and down the beach) in Cannes last week in
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OFF THE RECORD - Mettle for sex
As much as OTR likes to expose and reveal television's naughtier side (see above), it's just possible that E4 has gone a little too far with its new interactive Sex Bots
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NewsWorldwide strikes doc deals
BBC Worldwide has sold two packages of documentary titles to Ecuavisa in Ecuador and Globo in Brazil.
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ITV Digital adds subscribers but churn remains high
ITV Digital subscriber figures come in at a higher than expected 82,000 but high churn rate for the service means outlook is still grim
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BBC Radio 2 more popular than ever
Station's success story continues as an extra two million listeners are added bringing audience total to over 12m
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Del Boy to appear on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
David Jason character to sit in the hot-seat as BBC and ITV collaborate over Christmas Only Fools and Horses
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NewsNBC orders comedy format from Fremantle
US network NBC has ordered 6 x 60-minute episodes of FremantleMedia North America's new improvisational comedy series Thank God You're Here.
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Del Boy to appear on Millionaire?
David Jason character could get to sit in the quiz hot-seat as BBC plans collaboration over Christmas Only Fools and Horses