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    Sharman bounces back home to Sky

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 controller of sport Mark Sharman is to return to BSkyB as its new director of broadcasting just one year after he quit the satellite broadcaster to join C4, writes

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    Worldwide in talks on£450m ventures

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    The BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, is negotiating private-sector partnerships worth£450 million, covering programmes, publications, the internet and other services.Senior executives are understood to have been negotiating the deals for

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    C4 unveils interactive love triangle

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4's independent film and video department is to launch what it claims will be an antidote to the docu-soap next month, with an interactive TV documentary about a marriage break-up,

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    C4 ORDERS SECOND SERIES OF COMEDY SPACED

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 comedy has been re-commissioned for a second 7 x 30-minute series Spaced (left). Ordered by deputy commissioning editor, entertainment Cheryl Taylor, it will again be written by Simon Pegg

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    CLERKENWELL FILMS PRODUCES BRACE OF ITV DRAMAS

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Production started in Edinburgh this week (15 November) on two ITV dramas adapted from Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels - Black and Blue and The Hanging Garden. The films are being

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    SPARKLING PRODUCTIONS TO MAKE UK STYLE TRAVEL SERIES

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    UK Style channel editor Andrew Lowrey has commissioned Crewless, a 5 x 50-minute documentary series based on five travellers, from independent Sparkling Productions. Five unknowns were given digital video cameras to

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    CAPITAL RADIO GOES LIVE AT HOME FOR FORTNIGHTLY SHOW

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Capital Radio is to launch a fortnightly two-hour live music show from the newly opened superclub, Home, in Leicester Square. The show, Capital@Home, will air every other week on Sundays from

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    CHANNEL X LINES UP TRICKY CHRISTMAS FOR C4

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has commissioned independent Channel X to make another 60-minute special featuring comedian Paul Zenon. The show, Paul Zenon's Tricky Christmas, will feature Zenon in a series of 'hit and

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    SUNSET + VINE TRACKS ROCKETMAN'S RECORD BID ON BBC 1

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Television Corporation subsidiary Sunset + Vine North has been commissioned to make a 60-minute documentary for BBC 1 about Richard 'Rocketman' Brown's attempt to break the world motorcycle land speed record.

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    GRANADA, SKA IN PRODUCTION ON LOCK STOCK TV DRAMA

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Ginger Productions and Ska films have gone into production on Channel 4 seven-part TV drama Lock Stock - Four Stolen Hooves, which is based on the film Lock Stock and Two

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    EVANS STRIKES DEAL FOR BBC 1 SITCOM

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Lee Evans has signed a deal with BBC 1 to develop a sitcom series with the working title Lee Evans: So What Now? A BBC production in association with indie Little

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    C4I in drama deal with Mediatrade

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 International (C4I) has signed a $100,000 (£62,000) deal to develop and co-produce two drama series with Italian producer Mediatrade, marking C4I's first alliance with a major European broadcaster.Working with

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    BBC docs sets up investigative unit

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon is financing a 10-strong investigative team in BBC Production's documentary department, with a view to producing a new series of MacIntyre Undercover, writes Tim Dams.Details are

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    Channel 5 to revamp news and launch daily show

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 is planning to relaunch its news programmes with a radically new set and a rise in the number of outside reports to coincide with the arrival of Kirsty Young's

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    New run for Millionaire

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Celador Productions is planning to start filming a new series of hit ITV series Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in January, writes Dominic Timms.Celador is also putting the finishing touches

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    OVERNIGHT RATINGS - BBC Red Alert ignored as ITV hits jackpot

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    New Saturday night show Red Alert with the National Lottery failed to provide BBC 1 with the winning numbers last weekend as ITV's You've been Framed and Coronation Street double hit

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    C4 to give E4 an interactive slant

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 is understood to be rethinking the brief for its new entertainment channel with greater emphasis on interactive and internet-related shows, writes John Plunkett.Sources told Broadcast C4 has asked producers

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    Peel named ITC public affairs head

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Richard Peel has been named as Paul Smee's replacement as the Independent Television Commission's director of public affairs and regions, writes Liz Shackleton.Peel, 47, worked in press and PR at BBC

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    Eyre digs heels in over News at Ten

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    ITV is preparing for a stand-up row over growing demands to restore News at Ten.ITV chief executive Richard Eyre is due to speak at an industry meeting on Thursday (18 November)

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    Rapido scores sitcom first with C4 project

    1999-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Light entertainment specialist Rapido is developing its first sitcom to go out on Channel 4, writes Katy Elliott.The independent has struck a deal with the broadcaster to develop a script with