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C4 TO AIR RACING TIPS SERIES ON SAT MORNINGS.
Channel 4 is to launch a new half-hour Saturday morning sports show featuring betting fronted by Gary Imlach. Kicking off on Saturday (2 February), Sporting Talk will feature sporting experts, including
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CHANNEL 4 NEWS GETS BIGGEST 16 TO 24 SHARE.
Channel 4 News this week claimed it had the youngest profile of all broadcasters' news programmes. According to Barb figures based on 2001 weekly averages, 24 per cent of the audience
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UKTV TO AIR TIMESHIFTED UK STYLE ON SKY.
UKTV is to launch a time-shifted version of lifestyle service UK Style from February on Sky. Style+ will show delayed broadcast of Style - featuring programming such as Ground Force, House
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EUROSPORT WINS TENNIS MASTERS CUP RIGHTS.
Eurosport has bolstered its tennis coverage after securing live and exclusive rights to the ATP Tennis Masters Cup until 2004. The agreement, which includes rights to an additional eight ATP tournaments,
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CARTOON NETWORK PROMOTES BRANDING CHIEF.
Cartoon Network has promoted off-channel commerce director Simon George to vice-president, off-channel commerce in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Since joining in 1999, George has helped drive merchandising, licensing, video
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Home & Leisure focuses on men.
Discovery Home & Leisure has ordered 130 hours of programming to help shore up its position in the men's lifestyle market.Commissioned by Discovery Home & Leisure director of programmes Katy Thorogood,
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BBC NI lines up Catholic drama.
BBC Northern Ireland head of drama Robert Cooper has ordered a controversial film for BBC 1 examining the attitude of the Catholic Church towards unwanted pregnancies during the 1960s, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Sky to offer interactive F1.
Sky Sports is to challenge ITV's dominance of Formula One by offering live interactive pay-per-view Grand Prix weekends, writes Simon Ellery.
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Richard Harris to explore Arthur myth.
The team behind the BBC's award-winning Son of God series are to turn their attention to King Arthur and his legendary court of Camelot, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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SNOOPY RIGHTS DEAL.
Cartoon Network has secured rights to air The Charlie Brown Show and Peanuts for its classics service Boomerang, writes Simon Ellery. The channel has bought the 18 x 30-minute series of
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UK HORIZONS TO MAKE ILLEGAL BOXING DOC.
UK Horizons has commissioned Flame TV to make 15 x 30-minute boxing series Born to Fight. Described as a 'gritty, real-life documentary', the series is fronted by model and boxing enthusiast
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C5 TO AIR WISE AND WONDERFUL ANIMAL STORIES.
Pilgrim Productions Canterbury, co-producer of ITV series Ultimate Questions, has bagged a 13 x 10-minute children's animation series for Channel 5. Ordered by commissioner for daytime, arts and religion Kim Peat,
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PESKY WINS ONLINE CHILDREN'S COMMISSION.
Indie Pesky has been commissioned by CBBC controller Nigel Pickard to produce a 10 x 2.5-minute children's animation for the forthcoming digital channel CBBC and online. The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers, which
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ENDEMOL'S INITIAL TO FILM TENOR WATSON.
Endemol UK production arm Initial is to film the open-air concert performed by British tenor Russell Watson on 6 February in New Zealand for PBS in the US and TVNZ in
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C5 GIVES SPORTS ORDER TO SUNSET & VINE.
Sunset & Vine has signed a three-year deal with Channel 5 to produce the broadcaster's late-night sport. Following the deal, which runs until the end of 2004, the company will produce
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WHAT NOT TO WEAR RETURNS TO BBC 2.
BBC 2 controller Jane Root has ordered a second 10 x 30-minute series of fashion show What not to Wear. The new series, which will again feature writers Susannah Constantine and
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C5 FOLLOWS SOAP STARS UP KILIMANJARO.
Channel 5 controller of factual Dan Chambers has unveiled his first commission for the broadcaster with a 60-minute documentary, following a group of soap stars as they attempt to climb Mount
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SKY NEWS TO MAKE QUEEN'S JUBILEE SPECIAL.
Sky News is to screen a special 30-minute documentary featuring rare access to the Queen as part of its Golden Jubilee coverage which starts on 5 February. Commissioned by head of
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - BBC Broadcast division aims for #100m.
Pam Masters, managing director of the BBC's latest commercial division BBC Broadcast, has unveiled plans for the venture's new broadcast centre which could deliver around #100m to the BBC, writes Barbara Marshall.
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - MPC to expand films.
The Moving Picture Company is to double the size of its feature film department with the creation of 50 new jobs, writes Barbara Marshall.