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    Dyke Towers

    2000-01-05T00:00:00Z

    The occasional diary of a BBC Director General.

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    And finally ..

    2000-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Ex-breakfast TV star Roland Rat reveals all about his life as the nation's favourite rodent ...If you weren't in TV what would you be doing?Spreading the bubonic plagueWhat is your proudest

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    Off the record

    2000-01-05T00:00:00Z

    The Ball guide to modern manners Just when you think Sky's own cuddly czar Tony Ball couldn't be any more charming, he goes and does something which gives you a teasing

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    Off the record - Photo journalism is snow OTT

    2000-01-05T00:00:00Z

    Oh Gawd. While we are fully aware that it's not clever to draw attention to something that is neither newsworthy nor in the public interest, sometimes the urge to do that

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    Grimsdale to head ICG

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    BBC independent commissioning group (ICG) head of factual Peter Grimsdale has been named as the new head of the ICG, writes Tim Dams.

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    C4 bags Sky rights to Friends and ER

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has snatched BSkyB's rights to Friends and ER as part of a three-year deal with Warner Bros that also renews C4's terrestrial rights to the hit US series.Programming from

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    Howell leaves Flextech to set up internet and TV firm

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Flextech channels senior vice-president Lis Howell has quit just two weeks after Jane Lighting was installed as chief operating officer of TV and content, write John Plunkett and Steve Clarke.

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    MPs to reject BBC digital licence fee

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    MPs are expected to deliver a severe blow to the BBC on Monday (20 December) by recommending that the corporation should be denied a licence fee increase for digital expansion, writes John Lewis.

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    Sandhu gets new role at Production

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    BBC Production has created the job of head of new media and new channels, with a brief to boost the directorate's output for the BBC's digital, UKTV, online and interactive services, writes Tim Dams.

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    BBC 1 TO PILOT TIGER ASPECT SATURDAY NIGHT GAMESHOW

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Tiger Aspect is producing a broadcast pilot for a BBC 1 primetime Saturday night gameshow about relationships, decision-making and strategy. Called House of Games, it will be hosted by Carol Smillie

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    SKY ONE BOOKS IN HOT LOVE AND DIVORCE COURT FOR 2000

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Sky One has commissioned Anglia TV to produce a 40 x 60-minute discussion show about sex and relationships, Hot Love, for its revamped new year daytime schedule. Hosted by best-selling Australian

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    CHANNEL 4 CALLS FOR MORE SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 head of entertainment Andrew Newman has ordered a second 7 x 30-minute run of Something for the Weekend from Tiger Aspect Productions. The Denise Van Outen-presented sex, dating and

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    HAYES RETURNS TO LBC TO HOST SUNDAY MORNING SHOW

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Brian Hayes is returning to LBC 1152AM to host a two-hour Sunday morning phone-in show, Sunday Supplement. Hayes, whose R5 Live Sunday morning slot was axed

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    CHANNEL 5 GIVES NOD TO GAMESHOW DESERT FORGE

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 controller of entertainment Alan Nixon has agreed to a 10 x 60-minute series of new adventure gameshow Desert Forge. The show is a co-production from Pearson Television and Adventure

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    YOUNG'S NON-NEWS DEBUT LINED UP WITH GRANADA TV

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Kirsty Young's first ITV non-news show will be an as-yet-untitled Granada Television broadcast pilot for a viewer-participation crime-solving programme. The 60-minute show, which is due to go out in February, will

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    CURIOUS SECURES EARLY MORNING KIDS' SHOW FOR C4

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has lined up a new early morning children's series from Curious Productions, The Investigators (left). Aimed at six to 10-year-olds, the 13 x 20-minute series will feature stories such

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    TIGER ASPECT PREMIERES FILM PRODUCTION ARM

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Tiger Aspect Productions has set up a feature film production subsidiary, Tiger Aspect Pictures, and signed a development deal with Working Title Films. Peter Bennett Jones, chairman of Tiger Aspect and

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    Coastal and United join for ITV drama

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    United Productions and Robson Green's indie, Coastal Productions, have teamed up for their third ITV drama commission.Close and Innocent will star Green as John Close, a successful commercial lawyer who returns

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    Agran Barton to produce BBC comedy drama film

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Tim Firth has been signed up by BBC head of film and single drama David Thompson to make a comedy drama feature film through indie Agran Barton Television, writes Tara Conlan.

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    C4 seeks programming for themed film nights

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 head of film programming Nick Jones is seeking programme proposals to run in a raft of themed film nights next year, writes Ashley Davies.