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    ON THE BOX - Stars for a night

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Development executive BBC lifestyle and features, Birmingham Nick Thorogood welcomes new talent - good or bad - but won't be missing Morse.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - Political motive

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Lord Waheed Alli has quit Carlton, 'to concentrate on his political career' but, faced with cries of a conflict of interest when it comes to broadcasting, what role can a media peer play in the legislative future of broadcast?

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    INTERVIEW - The ITC's iron lady

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Just a few months into her role as ITC chief, Patricia Hodgson has already cut a swathe through the operation and has plans to streamline it further, to gear it up to becoming more minimalist - and perhaps the industry's single regulator.

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    RATINGS ANALYSIS - The BBC plays a waiting game

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The BBC claims it will take years for it to be able to make a proper judgment over the success of moving the News from 21.00 to 22.00, but neither the government nor ITV will allow it to rest on its laurels. Katy Elliott reports.

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    TX - Down Mexico way

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The success historian/presenter Michael Wood and Maya Vision International had with their series In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great made the programme a hard act to follow. But, after six

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    Ratings Analysis

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    This Peaktime spider chart is designed to be viewed at a glance and shows the demographic of particular programming. The blue shape relates to the demographic of viewers for the last

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    Tarrant maintains large lead over Anne Robinson

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The battle for peaktime between BBC 1 and ITV has shifted from Monday night to Tuesday night

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    OFF THE RECORD - BBC's revolving door policy

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    If Off The Record paid its licence fee it would feel all warm inside knowing how the BBC spends it. The corporation has just printed out some attractive wee nine-page pocket-sized

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    OFF THE RECORD - The lights are on but nobody's in

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Disney ubermensch Paul 'Easy Rider' Robinson was a bundle of raw testosterone last week. Having finished publicly slagging off the BBC at an RTS bash, he ran out of the room,

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    OFF THE RECORD - Stroked in the nether regions

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Reports reach us of audible head-scratching going on down Carlton Productions way, where elements of Birtspeak have filtered down and caused great bewilderment.Yes, even more than usual. Announcing the latest management

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    OFF THE RECORD - Lookalikes

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Well, look at that. Roll your eyeballs at the glittering resemblance between LWT entertainment and comedy prince and former choreographer Nigel Lythgoe - recently seconded to work on Survivor at Planet

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    CENSUS - Who's working the system

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The television and radio industries have never been quantified before. But the Audio Visual Industries Training Group has done the first ever census of TV and radio staff. The survey was taken in May and shows the industry is male-dominated, with many min

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    Coca-Cola Polar Bear Twins go interactive in US and UK

    2000-11-23T15:40:00Z

    Coca-Cola has produced an interactive version of the popular 'Polar Bear Twins' Christmas holiday advert with the help of US interactive specialist RespondTV writes David Wood.Initially the advert will

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    Hurll to make Comedy Awards for ITV

    2000-11-23T15:15:00Z

    Michael Hurll Television is to produce a programme off the back of The British Comedy Awards 2000 for Sky One.The Comedy Awards Big Bash will go behind the scenes of

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    C4 commissions Extreme Games special

    2000-11-23T14:57:00Z

    Extreme International has struck its first deal with Channel 4 to produce a one-off special covering the new World Extreme Games.The 60-minute special will be presented by BBC Robot Wars

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    Company wins new ITV slate

    2000-11-23T14:57:00Z

    ITV commissions two-part drama as returning series' look likely

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    Western reports biased, says Anan

    2000-11-23T14:53:00Z

    UN secretary general says coverage of events in Africa makes the continent look like 'one continual disaster'

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    Rushes promotes within management team

    2000-11-23T14:37:00Z

    Rushes managing director Mark Hewitt has promoted three of his management team.General manager Joce Capper has become facilities director after five years with the company. Chief engineer Tim Wharton, who joined

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    Resources staff vote for strike

    2000-11-23T14:24:00Z

    London-based BECTU members vote 74% in favour

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    MacKenzie to invest in offshore Radio 2 rival

    2000-11-23T14:01:00Z

    The Wireless Group plans to take significant stake in floating analogue station Delta 171