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Freedom and accountability
The white paper published on Tuesday finally provides operators across the industry with a blueprint for their development next year - and the year after that until this white paper turns
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FREE TO AIR - Regulation, my arse
At time of writing, the communications white paper was still at the printers in bundles and by the time I'm able to grace these pages again it will have been as
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TRADE TALK - Indie champion
Former punk rocker turned training and investment guru John McVay is leaving Scotland behind and heading south to be the new chief of Pact.
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IN MY VIEW - David Docherty
On how the British lack the courage to build media empires and embrace new technology.
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ON THE BOX - Staying streets ahead
BBC News 24 presenter Christopher Morris loves Corrie's festive 40th but says we should Take a Girl Like You at face value.
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YULETIDE ANALYSIS - All I want for Christmas is ..
What will Santa bring this year? Winning drama for 21.00, hit new entertainment channels, an ITV chief executive, horse racing rights ... TV types will be shaking their presents anxiously.
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Millionaire or weakest link?
So you want to be a TV executive? Do you know what the main events of the year were in broadcasting? The demands of broadband or the 22.00 news move debacle?
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TX - A humbug of a drama - A Christmas Carol
Broadcaster: ITVProducer: LWTStart: 21.00, 20 DecemberLength: 1 x 90-minutesCommissioning editors: Nick Elliott/ Jenny ReeksIt was actor Ross Kemp's idea to do a contemporary adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol starring
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INTERVIEW - Real entertainment
BBC entertainment controller Danielle Lux is determined to make over the once old-fashioned genre so it feeds the public thirst for reality TV with shows based on people and emotions, filled with 'drama, tension and jeopardy'.
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RATINGS: WEEK ENDING 26 NOVEMBER - Peak Practice overtakes Casualty after slow start
Like some sort of celestial eclipse, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?'s first million-pound winner overshadowed the demise of Victor Meldrew.The result - 33 million people watching TV on a Monday
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AND FINALLY...
LWT's Sean Kneale, producer of The Way They Were 4 - Coronation St Special, on eating glue...
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Lookalikes
Get satisfaction from the rockin' similarities between these two hardcore party animals, Granada Creative chair Andrea Wonfor and Rolling Stones bass player Ronnie Wood. While one has more groupies than most
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Einstein Channel to blast off in January on Sky
Digital science broadcaster Einstein Channel has set 25 January for its UK launch date on Sky Digital, writes David Wood.The channel, which is spending£1.5 million on its UK roll
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Brighter to make boy-racer tribute
Flextech's Bravo commissions factual entertainment magazine series
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Zig Zag in Granada/Boots channel coup
Zig Zag has been commissioned by the soon-to-launch Granada/ Boots health channel to produce more than 1,000 minutes of content across a wide range of genres.Channel Baby is a 300-minute
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S4C plans welsh answer to X-Files
Welsh broadcaster S4C has unveiled details of its new year's schedule.The backbone of the schedule is a 6 x 60-minute spine-chiller drama series called Arachnid, which is being made by
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Walsh Bros produces reality show
Indie Walsh Bros has been commissioned by Wilson to produce a 13 x 30-minute series Trex.The reality-based TV show will follow the adventures of three British boys and three
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Wilson orders 'Sillionaire' for C5
Channel 5 commissioning editor, children's and religious programming Nick Wilson has ordered a 1 x 20-minute broadcast pilot comedy show co-produced by indies Cheeky TV and Brilliant TV.Who Wants 2
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Davies appointed as new BBC vice-chairman
Goldman Sachs' chief economist takes over from outgoing Baroness Young who moves to new role at Environment Agency