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Target Distribution seals Sky One deal
UK indie Target Distribution has finalised a deal with BSkyB to become its preferred distributor for all Sky One commissions until the end of 2000, writes Jason Deans.
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Itel will be launching four new BBC 1 dramas internationally in Cannes next week, including Lucy Gannon's tale of sexual obsession and adultery, Pure Wickedness (above, (4 x 60-minutes). Another Ganno
Itel will be launching four new BBC 1 dramas internationally in Cannes next week, including Lucy Gannon's tale of sexual obsession and adultery, Pure Wickedness (above, (4 x 60-minutes). Another Gannon-scripted
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Toons bag UK orders after Cordoba
Three of the 21 new UK ani-mation projects taken to last week's Cartoon Forum in Cordoba have secured commitments from domestic broadcasters, writes Tim Westcott.
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Aussie producers in public row
A public row broke out between representatives of Australian and UK-owned companies about what should qualify as domestic production at last week's AGM of the country's indie producers' trade body.Richard Becker,
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Free Wheeler
ITN Radio's Nicholas Wheeler is facing his toughest test yet - relaunching LBC and News Direct. John Plunkett reports on the ex-biker's chances.
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Hard cheese for indies?
The collapse of Transmedia Productions has cast doubt over independents' ability to make money from low-cost programming such as Crazy about Cheese. Wale Azeez investigates.
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OPINION - Export or die? Not necessarily
Producers and broadcasters heading down to Cannes this weekend for yet another dose of liver-threatening networking face an interesting choice: to internationalise or not.A schism is appearing between those (David Graham,
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DIGITAL TV - Digital: the producers' view
One year on from launch, how has digital TV performed? Action Time's Stephen Leahy and Lion's Paul Wooding explain what it has meant for the indie sector, while below Cap Gemini asks whether take-up has matched projections.
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INTERVIEW - Export strength
David Graham is no stranger to controversy. At Diverse he hit the headlines with a provocative current affairs show for Channel 4 and his company's report on selling programmes abroad has put him in the firing line again.
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Summertime blues
Summer 1999 was the first full season for ITV without the 'burden' of News at Ten in its schedules. Despite this, the network saw peaktime ratings falling faster than BBC 1's.
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TX - Ratings
DEAF CENTURYProducer: First Circle FilmsBroadcaster: Channel 4Start: 19.00, 2 OctoberLength: 3 x 60-minutesCommissioning editor: Richard McKerrowExecutive producer: Daniel WolfProducer/director: Mark GallowayFew stones have been left unturned by documentary film-m
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OFF THE RECORD - Italian job
And so to Florence and the 'higher brow than thou' Prix Italia awards, where this year's organisers tried to entertain the assorted grands fromages with a specially commissioned variety show. Things
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OFF THE RECORD - White Riot
Disturbing news reaches Off The Record from the set of BBC 1's new seventies-set drama, In The Land of Plenty, in which art imitated life rather too closely for comfort. In
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OFF THE RECORD - Silent protest
On a similar note, the crew from BBC 1's rather more easy-on-the-ears adaptation, David Copperfield, couldn't do enough to win over the locals in the tiny Oxfordshire village where they spent
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OFF THE RECORD - Tanked up
Fishy goings on at On Digital, which chose an exotic aquarium from which to schmooze assorted MPs at this week's Labour Party conference in Bournemouth.Guests at the do on Monday were
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OFF THE RECORD - Shop window dummies
OTR was saddened to see there were no bubble perms adorning Sky One's new show, C15: The New Professionals. Apparently Bodie and Doyle are all in favour of a 'a younger,
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OFF THE RECORD - Car spotting
Last word must go to London News Network editorial manager John Glover, who was waxing lyrical this week about the joys of its fantastic new traffic bulletin, Travel Talk. In a
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Transmedia goes into receivership
Independent Transmedia Productions, a major supplier to the Carlton Food Network and Channel 5, has gone into administrative receivership, writes Dominic Timms.Accountancy firm Levy Gee was called in by Barclays Bank
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Smith makes call for digital summit
Media Secretary Chris Smith is to call an urgent broadcasting summit to tackle the 'internecine war' between digital operators, which he says is confusing the public and hampering take-up of the
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Coogan and Normal set up Baby Cow
Steve Coogan has launched his own independent production company with his long-time collaborator and The Royle Family writer, Henry Normal, writes John Plunkett.The Brighton-based indie, Baby Cow Productions, will produce future