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BBC 1 review stresses remit
The BBC has completed its long-awaited review of BBC 1 and is expected to unveil a series of proposals this week that reiterate and clarify the channel's 'distinctive public service remit'.Pledges
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Government urges restraint on Y2K bug
A government delegation led by Margaret Beckett has held top-level talks with the BBC and ITN to ensure news bulletins do not cause unnecessary panic about the threat of a millennium
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ITV goes on the offensive with soap and quiz blitz
ITV next week unleashes an unprecedented blitz of programmes with a schedule dominated by daily editions of Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, writes Steve Clarke.
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Liberty/Four Media deal shocks Soho
Soho's broadcast facilities were in a state of shock after Liberty Media, owner of UK facilities Tele-Cine and Todd AO, agreed a $238 million (£145.1 million) takeover of Four Media, which bought TVP Group and TVI earlier this year, writes Dominic Timms.
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RDF Television is working on a major Channel 4 fly-on-the-wall series following a group of under-25s packed off to survive on an uninhabited Pacific island, writes Jason Deans. Shipwrecked, being film
RDF Television is working on a major Channel 4 fly-on-the-wall series following a group of under-25s packed off to survive on an uninhabited Pacific island, writes Jason Deans. Shipwrecked, being filmed
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Granada's Harries to direct Aherne India trip for BBC
Granada Television controller of comedy Andy Harries is stepping back behind the camera to direct a factual special that follows Caroline Aherne's (left) trip to investigate the work of an Indian
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BBC drama prepares two new series for BBC 1
BBC Production's drama department is in production with two new drama series for BBC 1 next year. A Likeness in Stone, a thriller written by Michael Crompton and dramatised from Julia
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Seventh Art creates popular arts series for C5
Channel 5 has commissioned Seventh Art Productions to produce a new 4 x 30-minute art series to air in January 2000. The series, with the working title High Five, follows Seventh
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Hayling orders second helping of Hidden Love for C4
Channel 4 editor, documentaries Alan Hayling has ordered a second 6 x 50-minute run of its strand Hidden Love, the series that included the controversial film on bestiality, Animal Passions. The
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LWT's The Lab experiments with two regional jobs
The Lab, LWT's experimental production unit, is working on two new regional commissions. LWT has ordered a 60-minute special from The Lab, Countdown to the Millennium, for December, which will look