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    Ex-Carlton controller Clark joins Arabic MBC

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Former Carlton Television controller of factual programmes Steve Clark has been appointed director of news and production for London-based Arabic cable and satellite broadcaster MBC.Clark, who will report to MBC chief

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    Apted slams fakery at Adelaide conference

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    UK film and documentary director Michael Apted has hit out at fakery in factual programme-making at an Australian documentary conference. Speaking at the Australian International Documentary Conference in Adelaide on Tuesday

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    Pearson buys worldwide rights to Baywatch

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Pearson Television has bought the worldwide rights to 199 episodes of drama Baywatch (right) from US distributor The Fremantle Corporation.Pearson produces the show, which is now into its tenth series and

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    Friedricks and Fierman sign for Team International

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    US producer/distributor Team Communications has appointed Larry Friedricks and Paula Fierman as co-presidents of newly created international distribution subsidiary Team International Distribution (TID). Friedricks and Fierman are joining Team from Paular

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    Chatsworth wins pre-sales deals for Battlefields

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    UK indie Chatsworth Television's distribution arm has secured a pre-sales deals for the fourth series of Battlefields with US broadcaster PBS. The 12 x 60-minute historical documentary on the battles of

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    NVC sells Diverse's The Phil around the world

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    NVC Arts has sold Diverse Production docu-soap The Phil, which aired on Channel 4 in the UK, to NHK (Japan), ABC (Australia), Prime TV (New Zealand) and Canal 22 (Mexico). The

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    Aardman clinches movie deal with Dreamworks

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    UK animation indie Aardman Animations has signed an exclusive, four-title film deal with DreamWorks SKG, the US studio backed by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. The deal comes on

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    TRADE TALK - In a Real world

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    After winning a£1 million order to make Front Room at Pebble Mill, Tony Steyger is leaving the BBC for Victoria Real, reports Dominic Timms.

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    TRADE TALK - Mark Rowland

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Has some reassuring words for those programme-makers who are still worried about new media.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - Snipers take their toll

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Although the makers of Guns on the Street have been cleared of misleading viewers, press probes into investigative current affairs have made broadcasters wary of the genre. Jason Deans reports.

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    OPINION - ITV must move to replace Eyre fast

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    What a week. It began with Greg Dyke's much-anticipated debut at the BBC - and no sooner was he through the door than he'd announced a review of Broadcast as if

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    BBC 1 - BBC dinosaur bites back

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Earlier this year, BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon might have been forgiven for collecting his coat and leaving but now the schedule appears to have perked up. Peter Keighron canvasses industry opinion on Salmon's great leap forward.

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    INTERVIEW - Change in the Eyre

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    He's decided to take up a new challenge as chief executive of Pearson, so is it merely a case of 'job done' or did the politics of the most difficult job in broadcasting finally get to departing ITV chief executive Richard Eyre?

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    RATINGS ANALYSIS - Serial offenders

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    ITV and BBC 1 crave renewable hit series. But the trouble is, with the exception of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? they've been thin on the ground over the past few years.

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    OFF THE RECORD - Life imitating art

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Far from running down the NHS with hostile shows such as Cardiac Arrest, Off The Record hears that BBC dramatists are now helping out this once great British institution. Cornwall sources

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    OFF THE RECORD - Slow starter

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    New Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) chairman Lord Holme was fast out of the blocks for a 63-year-old, speaking at a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch last week less than a month after

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    OFF THE RECORD - Bush fires

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Remember the fuss at Channel 4 over the title of hit drama Queer as Folk (originally called Queer as Fuck before it was toned down by C4)? Apparently the station is

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    OFF THE RECORD - Cover blown

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    And so, finally, the BBC has taken the lid off its new investigative series MacIntyre Undercover. It kicks off with a terrifying journey into the dark world of organised football hooliganism,

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    OFF THE RECORD - Turn on, toon in, drop out

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Congratulations to Nickelodeon, which continued its campaign for global kids domination last week with news of a new start-up in Malaysia. But a word of caution - remember the hot water

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    OFF THE RECORD - Asher caught soliciting

    1999-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Having trouble pitching a programme idea? Then let Express celebrity columnist and one-time flame of Paul McCartney Jane Asher come to your aid. In response to a reader who said he