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WILLIAMS WINS PRIZES
VTR colourist Tareq Kubaisi picked up the award for best telecine in a video at Music Week's Creative and Design Awards last Thursday, writes Barbara Marshall. Kubaisi won the award for
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LEADER - Indies are key to Bafta success
Last Sunday's Bafta TV awards provided a moment to consider the creative health of British television. An analysis of the 62 nominations and 17 award winners reveals that independent producers made
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FREE TO AIR - BBC dog nibbles ankles
Does Kelvin MacKenzie have a point? A dangerous premise to start from, as normally Kelvin's crusade for justice for Talk Sport belies a man who has spent half his life thinking
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TRADE TALK - Bright brother
Having packed success with Popstars and Big Brother into just one year, Conrad Green faces the challenge of making Big Brother 2 even bigger.
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IN MY VIEW - Barry Cox
On the industry galvanising itself to create a common programme identification code.
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ON THE BOX - And the winner isn't ..
Films of Record md Roger Graef finds Amir Amirani's Arena about awards wins handsdown against Tonight with Trevor McDonald.
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Digital dilemmas
If BSkyB, fuelled by the fillip of making savings of£40m a year, cannot meet its own deadline to persuade its analogue viewers to switch to digital, what hope does the government have for the whole of the UK?
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INTERVIEW - Breathing new life into C5
After six months as both Channel 5's chief executive and director of programmes, Dawn Airey now has a number two, Kevin Lygo, and an extra£26m to raid the other terrestrials' peaktime and late-night audiences.
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LA SCREENINGS - Bold moves in the US
As international buyers gather in Los Angeles for the annual screen-fest, John Hazelton looks at the hot contenders to secure a commission from one of the US networks.
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INTERVIEW - Emap's giant-killer?
To some, the strategy of spinning a string of successful magazine formats into competing music channels may seem like cannibalism, but Emap Performance's Shirley Renwick is determined to be the top performer by Christmas in a David and Goliath-style tussl
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INDIE FINANCE - Building RDF into a TV money-spinner
Created less than 10 years ago with£35,000 start-up capital, RDF is now worth£15m. Having sold a 20 per cent stake to Sagitta Private Equity, it is building on its strong factual base to hit the US market.
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TX - Making greed a virtue
Jerry Springer makes his gameshow debut as the host of Channel 5's new general knowledge quiz, Greed. The format - which has a potential top prize of£1m every show -
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OFF THE RECORD - A star is porn
Northern Ireland-based Indie Extreme Production was shocked to receive a recent job application from a budding actor desperate to enlarge his 'portfolio'. 'I am writing to ask if you make pornographic
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OFF THE RECORD - Food for thought
News of the BBC's unchecked profligacy continues to pour in to the Broadcast offices. The Ballad of Big Alan Yentob shocked even his high and mighty colleagues, including TV sultan Mark
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Starmaker set to bolster ITV2's output
YTV Popstars-style event show set to become digital channel's largest commission to date
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BBC Arts to produce Taste
BBC Arts has been asked to produce a four-part series for BBC 2 on the origins of British taste and design, writes Georgina Lipscomb.The 4 x 60-minute series, Taste, will be
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Bafata winning sit com recommissioned for two further series
Outgoing Channel 4 head of entertainment Kevin Lygo has commissioned Assembly Film and Television to produce two further series of its Bafta-winning sitcom Black Books, writes Jon Rogers.A second
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C4 buys Garland mini series
Canadian broadcaster Alliance Atlantis has sold a 4 x 60-minute mini series on the life of Judy Garland to Channel 4, writes Simon Ellery.Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
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Bergg returns to ITV
Former ITV scheduling supremo moves back to become director of programmes for ITV2 five months after unexpected departure from Sky One
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BBC raids Dinosaur's for new specials
BBC specialist factual plunders original Walking with Dinosaurs in bid to re-work Jurassic creatures for two new one-off specials