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    Tiger Aspect to make Haddon drama

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    Tiger Aspect has been commissioned to make a 90-minute drama for BBC1 by the novelist who wrote The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

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    UKTV Style reorders The Clothes Show

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    UKTV Style has commissioned fashion magazine format The Clothes Showfor a second run.

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    Five' Hidden Lives is 'most shocking' yet

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    Five has commissioned its shock-doc Hidden Lives strand for a third series, with 6 x 60-minute programmes featuring stories from around the world.

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    Apprentice star in Sky One doc

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    Former The Apprenticecontestant Syed Ahmed will spend£20,000 of his own money trying to launch a new business in a 60-minute Sky One documentary.

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    ITV gets access to Queen's guards

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    Lion TV has secured exclusive access to the troops who guard the Queen for a major new primetime series for ITV1.

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    Playboy on IPTV

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    Tiscali TV has signed a deal with Playboy TV UK to broadcast a selection of its adult channels, the first time they have been delivered via IPTV in the UK.

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    Living links with Fireworks for Blood Ties

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    Living has struck a deal with distributor Fireworks International to acquire 22 x 60-minute Canadian supernatural crime thriller Blood Ties.

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    Xfm upload site to back new talent

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    GCap's alternative music network Xfm is to boost the number of unsigned acts it uses in its stations' schedule following the launch of a My Space- style initiative.

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    Dropping kids pays off for ITV

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    ITV1's controversial decision to drop its weekday CITV strand has led to a surge in viewers, with the commercial network's share for the 3.30pm to 5pm slot more than doubling.

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    Warner and Buena Vista rivals team up to launch indie

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    Two former rival executives from Warner Brothers International Television and Buena Vista International Television have teamed up to create a London-based indie.

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    Our support for the small guys

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    Pact chairman Alex Graham outlines why the alliance does a great job for its smaller members.

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    Rosen defends stance on power of super-indies

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    Pact vice-chairman Nick Rosen has defended his comment piece in last week's Broadcastwhich prompted Pact chairman Alex Graham to email members claiming the article was a 'challenge to the authority' of the Pact council.

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    Fenton stands up for the middle men

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    Zig Zag managing director Danny Fenton has fuelled the debate about the different interests of Pact's large and small members by claiming the producers' alliance does not fully represent mid-sized indies.

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    Off the record: March 1 2007

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    Stories that were 'Off the Record' from March 1 2007 issue of Broadcast.

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    And finally -

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    David Smyth, head of acquisitions, Sky One, Two and Three, on coming back as David Beckham, but without Posh in tow

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    Xfm Scotland move

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    GCap Media-owned Xfm Scotland has appointed Alan Gibson as the station's new managing director.

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    Sky+ goes online

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    BSkyB has made its remote recorder service available online, allowing viewers to set recordings from their computers wherever they are. Viewers can set their Sky+ or Sky HD boxes to record from the website www.sky.com/remoterecord. Using the free service, visitors can view Sky's seven-day TV ...

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    Current on Virgin

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    The UK version of Al Gore's Current TV will launch on Virgin Media on 12 March, the same day it goes live on the BSkyB platform. Current TV will form part of Virgin Media's L and XL packages.

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    ITV to develop music formats with Globe

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    ITV Productions' entertainment department is developing a raft of music-based programmes after joining forces with Globe, the production arm of Universal Music.

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    Mixed results for BBC1 and ITV1 comedies

    2007-03-01T08:00:00Z

    Comedy is a notoriously difficult genre to get right, as evidenced by the mixed fortunes of BBC 1's sitcom After You've Gone.