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    CNN ADDS TO CLIENTS.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    CNN has signed up 36 new affiliates in the past three months, according to Europe, Middle East and Africa vice-president Tony Maddox. Clients include TF1 in France, ARD in Germany and

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    SKILLSET PATRONS MEET.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Patrons of Skillset met on Friday (15 February) to discuss issues that face the training body after it was awarded its new status as a Sector Skills Council last month. The

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    Thumbs-up for Manx LW launch.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    A new national #12m longwave station based at one of the former sites of Radio Caroline has been given the final go-ahead by the Isle of Man Communications Commission.The Manx government

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    Report shows viewing slump.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    The average daily hours of viewing for all television have fallen by the biggest year-on-year margin for six years, according to the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising's (IPA) latest Trends in Television Report, writes Luke Satchell.

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    London home for Warner UK.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Warner Bros has pooled all its UK media operations into a new London-based office and put former European managing director Josh Berger in charge, writes Simon Ellery.

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    BBC in nationwide Doctors drive.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    The BBC is to launch its first nationwide marketing campaign for daytime programming after confirming that popular afternoon soap Doctors will air all year round from March, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    Creative briefs - News in brief.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Framestore CFC is behind the visual effects for Bartle Bogle Hegarty's latest commercial for Levi's engineered jeans. Called Odyssey, the ad was directed by Jonathan Glazer and features two denim-clad Romeo

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    BASIL BRUSH TO FRONT NEW CBBC SITCOM.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    CBBC controller Nigel Pickard has commissioned a 26 x 30-minute sitcom featuring the cult character Basil Brush. Each show, produced by Entertainment Rights and The Foundation at Maidstone Studios, will feature

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    LNN FACTUALS STUDIES SEX AND DRUGS FOR LWT.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    LNN Factuals has scored a raft of commissions for the London regions and the US. The 6 x 30-minute history series Sin City, will look at how vices such as sex

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    PARKIE TO HOST TOP TV MOMENTS OF 2001.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Chat show host Michael Parkinson is to host a special Saturday night primetime show on BBC 1 marking the best television moments from last year. The live 90-minute show, 2001 TV

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    POINT OF VIEW ON WEATHER AND ISLAND LIFE.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    New indie Point of View (POV) has received its first commissions, securing an order from Carlton Westcountry for series on weather forecasting and life on the Isles of Scilly. POV's husband

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    ENDEMOL TO MAKE SECOND CHAINED FOR E4.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Endemol UK Productions has been commissioned to produce a second series of Chained for E4. The 16 x 30-minute series, presented by former Big Brother contestant Melanie Hill, follows a group

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    BBC 4 COMMISSIONS GREEN BAY MUSIC DOC.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Cardiff-based indie Green Bay has been commissioned to make two programmes for BBC 4, including a 90-minute special on music in the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Playing Elizabeth's Tune will

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    Channel 4 sends World to prison.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    The maker of Channel 4's controversial drama Men Only, World Productions, has secured an eight-part commission from the channel about life in a northern men's prison.The 8 x 50-minute series, Buried,

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    BBC 4 raises curtain.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    THE BBC'S NEW digital culture channel BBC 4 will launch on 2 March, simulcasting on BBC 2, with a programme about artist Michael Landy, who destroyed his possessions in the name of art, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    WHEN LILY MET BETTE.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    ITV has ordered a one-off programme from indie RDF, which takes its inspiration from the recent advertisements from mobile phone operator One 2 One, writes Penny Hughes. Live Forever, ordered by

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    Just TV theme evenings for UK Horizons.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    UK Horizons channel editor Liam Keelan has ordered a brace of hour-long programmes from Just TV to anchor two upcoming theme nights, writes Simon Ellery.

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    Major Cotswolds facility opens.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Kevin Godley of 10cc fame is behind Cotswolds-based TV facility Blue Egg Studios which launches next week, writes Barbara Marshall.

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    Pinewood launches broadband service.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Pinewood Shepperton Studios is launching a new service next month called Studiolink to provide broadband connectivity to film and television studios in Europe and the US.The new service, which will be

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    Animated Gorillaz perform live at Brits.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Cult virtual band Gorillaz played live at the Brit Awards this week thanks to Passion Pictures, whose team was behind the band's pop videos, writes Barbara Marshall.