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Off the Record ... A saving too far
Desperate for a drink while on the phone to a journalist last week, Teddington Studios boss Roger Morris raided the fridge in former chairman Ewart Needham's office. He grabbed a bottle
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Big Brother messaging service goes live
40,000 online requests for service received as BT Cellnet puts out feelers for payed-for mobile content
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Radio indies lash out at R4
Independent producers say fall in number of commissions is a threat to their existence
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BBC 1 adopts theme night in Saturday evening re-jig
Themed nostalgia nights to run from August as Heggessey seeks to shake up weekend schedule in face of stiff competition from ITV
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Network Heroes falls to BDP
Merv Wood's outfit to merge with Bryan De'Ath's 10 year old creative company
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Shenfield relinquishes day-to-day control of Mill
Director of production and co-founder Pat Joseph takes on managing director role at leading Soho commercials outfit
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Sky News and History Channel join forces
Sky News and the History Channel have joined forces for the first time to make a one-off factual special to coincide with Anne Frank memorial day later this month, writes Simon Ellery
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Tiger secures raft from BBC and C4
Tiger Aspect Productions has secured a raft of factual commissions from the BBC and Channel 4 including a follow-up to its recent Bafta success, Howard Goodall's Big Bangs, writes Penny HughesHoward
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Artsworld takes original programming to 100 hours
Artsworld channel director Richard Melman has made a raft of orders, taking the total hours of original programming to over 100, writes Simon ElleryITN Factual is producing a 60-minute special on
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Darlow Smithson in record animation commission
London-based indie Darlow Smithson has scooped its largest ever animation commission after securing $2.5m (£1.76m) for two 120-minute films from Discovery Communications and The Learning Channel (TLC), writes Penny HughesThe first
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Talent and Challenge in Scrabble talks
Talent TV is in talks with Flextech-owned Challenge TV about producing a TV version of the boardgame Scrabble.The gameshow series is expected to be hosted by Toby Anstis and executive
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Rick Stein to get 10-part series on BBC 2
Plymouth-based indie Denham Productions has been commissioned to make a new 10 x 30-minute series featuring celebrity chef Rick Stein for BBC 2.The Best of Britain , produced and directed by
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Granada Wild bags£1.3m series
National Geographic Channel orders 13x60 minutes on nature's big killers
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TiVo has just 5,000 UK subscribers
Personal video recorder bought by little more than 0.02% of UK TV households eight months after much-hyped launch
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Lux departure set to throw BBC entertainment into turmoil
Controller of entertainment commissioning set to finalise contract within days ahead of move to Channel 4
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ITV to re-draw programme rights ahead of Sky deal
Network centre plans first new commissioning documents for eight years as digital and online activity steps up
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Nickelodeon has new evidence on proposed BBC kids
Commercial channel says ratings have dived since BBC Choice switched to pre-school daytime schedule ahead of planned launched of permanent children's channel
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ITN's rolling news channel rejects downsizing claims
News Channel denies that it is seeking to lay-off journalists and production staff in bid to cut costs
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Go Racing bid stumbles at yet another hurdle
Internal schism within racing industry means broadcast consortium still awaiting pre-race data as June 30 launch date looms
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Cheff rise from I2A ashes
New engineers body aims to become mouthpiece of UK facilities industry on technical and operational matters