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    Fame Academy exec given BBC formats job.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    The BBC has rewarded the executive producer behind its recent Fame Academy reality show with a permanent job as creative head for format entertainment, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    What Not to Wear gets BBC1 outing.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    BBC2 makeover strand What Not to Wear, which features acerbic presenters Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine dishing out fashion advice to shell-shocked members of the public, is to transfer to BBC1 for a celebrity special, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    JOBS CUT AT BBC NEWS.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    The BBC's news division is to axe 102 staff posts and make 61 redundancies as part

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    SKY'S MARSH TO ITALY.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    BSkyB deputy director of broadcasting Kate Marsh is joining News Corporation's Italian pay-TV outfit Stream to

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    POSTMAN PAT MOVES.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    Cosgrove Hall Films, the company behind Andy Pandy and Engie Benjy, is to make the new

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    TV ROLE FOR BB3'S ALEX.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    Nickelodeon has signed Big Brother 3's Alex Sibley to host a new mass phone-in gameshow called

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    BBC1 JOB FOR LIDDLE.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    Former Today editor Rod Liddle has been signed up as a team captain on the new

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    BBC fills top jobs at NHU and children's.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    The BBC has filled its two vacant senior programming posts by promoting CBBC head of programming

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    Endemol hires for new posts.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    Big Brother executive Philip Edgar-Jones and Dominic English, the producer behind the now defunct 11 O' Clock Show are to take up newly created senior positions at Endemol UK, writes Penny Hughes.

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    'Stop bleating,' Howells tells TV execs.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    Broadcasting minister Kim Howells has called on broadcasters to stop 'bleating' about unfair competition and concentrate on producing better programmes, writes David Rose.

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    BBC4 comeback for legendary After Dark.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    Controversial late-night live discussion show After Dark, in which actor Oliver Reed famously tried to give American feminist Kate Millett a drunken kiss, is to be resurrected by BBC4, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    Ratings - BBC1's afternoon play gets off to sweet start.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    BBC1's gamble of putting big names in one-off daytime dramas appeared to have paid off this week, with the launch of The Afternoon Play on Monday, writes Luke Satchell.

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    BASHING CELEBS BANNED.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    The BBC has scrapped its BBC2 celebrity boxing show after the British Boxing Board of Control

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    CELADOR'S RUSSIAN DEAL.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    Celador's Russian deal Celador International's Brainiest quiz show format, which aims to find a nation's intellectuals,

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    Flextech's Lighting to head Five.

    2003-02-03T12:58:24Z

    Flextech chief executive of content Jane Lighting will be confirmed as the new chief executive of Five by a board meeting of the channel's shareholders today (Friday), writes Penny Hughes.

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    BBC cleans up at Broadcast Awards 2003.

    2003-02-03T12:58:24Z

    The BBC dominated this week's Broadcast Awards, winning a total of eight out of 16 awards

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    ITV puts colour back into kids.

    2003-02-03T12:58:24Z

    ITV is set to revitalise its kids brand, CITV, after a period of budget cuts and stiff competition from the BBC, writes Steve Aston.

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    C4 to 'reinvent' Saturday night.

    2003-02-03T12:58:24Z

    Channel 4 and Five have committed to risk and experimentation in their 2003 statements of programme promise, writes Penny Hughes.

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    TV prepares for war.

    2003-02-03T12:58:24Z

    The expected war with Iraq will be one of the most difficult conflicts ever covered by

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    ITN in talks over cost of war coverage.

    2003-02-03T12:58:24Z

    Broadcasters are already weighing up the cost of war coverage with ITN holding talks with ITV, Channel 4 and Five about additional funding, write Steve Aston and Paul Revoir.