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OFF THE RECORD - The fine art of complaining
Producers who are pissed off with their programmes being shifted around the schedules of BBC 1 and ITV at a moment's notice should follow the example of OTR's favourite Manhattan cable
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OFF THE RECORD - Snap happy
Delegates at this week's Radio Festival in Cardiff are being armed with cameras disguised as radios in a cunning wheeze by Digital One and BBC Digital Radio. Festival-goers are being encouraged
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OFF THE RECORD - You're nicked
Headline of the week goes to the beautiful people of Channel 5. Accompanying the press release about their new docu-soap, Chopper Coppers - the thrilling tale of police officers chasing bad
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OFF THE RECORD - Praise the Lord for television
It's not often we have the privilege of featuring the Pope on the back page, but here is His Holiness himself receiving a top-notch Snell and Wilco CVR45 standards converter.A what?
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OFF THE RECORD - =. DUTY LOG
This week's round-up of incoming calls is from Talk Radio. Readers can now call our own duty office with their comments on ...A stressful caller: 'Stress is a reaction to technology.
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Simons quits ITN's new-look LNR
London News Radio (LNR) programme director John Simons has quit a week after ITN took editorial control of its two stations, LBC 1152 AM and News Direct 97.3 FM.Simons was to
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C4 launches raid on US with drama
Channel 4's drama department is spearheading an assault on the US market and is on the verge of signing deals to co-produce American versions of two of its UK dramas.C4 wants
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Sullivan out of BBC 1's Copperfield
BBC 1 has overhauled its£4 million adaptation of David Copperfield, dropping Only Fools and Horses writer John Sullivan and shifting the production from BBC entertainment into BBC drama, writes Tim Dams.
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Lygo heads search for animation
Channel 4 has created a new animation team under the auspices of Kevin Lygo's entertainment department as part of a drive to find a peaktime, British-made animated sitcom, writes Tim Dams.
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SKY ONE DRAWS UP SUMMER ANIMATION STRAND
Sky One is introducing a two-hour summer weekday animation strand, Animaktion, to go out for six weeks from Monday 26 July between 08.00 and 10.00. The line-up, which replaces Sky One's
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ALL-STAR CAST FOR LUCY SULLIVAN IS GETTING MARRIED
Letitia Dean, Sarah Stockbridge, Frances Tomelty and Niall Buggy have been cast in the 16 x 30-minute drama series Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, which independent Carnival TV is producing for
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UNITED SIGNED FOR ITV2 FOOTBALL FIRST CONTRACT
ITV2 has commissioned United Productions to make a second series of football news programme Football First to go out at the start of the new season in August. The series will
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INITIAL TO PRODUCE ECLIPSE CONCERT SPECIAL FOR C4
GMG Endemol Entertainment subsidiary Initial is to produce a 60-minute concert special, Lynx Voodoo Eclipse, for Channel 4. The concert is being staged on 11 August to mark the solar eclipse
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R2 TO AIR CELEBRATION OF SINGING COWBOYS
BBC Radio 2 is to air a 4 x 30-minute series commemorating the great cowboy songs and singers of the silver screen. The Singing Cowboys, which is produced by BBC music
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PRECISE MEDIA KEEPS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH DISCOVERY
New Manchester-based independent production company Precise Media has won its biggest commission to date in the form of a 3 x 60-minute series from Discovery Networks Europe. Eye on the World
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FLASHBACK TO RE-VERSION 100 HOURS OF HISTORY
Flashback Television has been asked to re-version 100 hours of history programming for The History Channel this summer. Much of the material is US in origin, and the bulk of the
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Drama heads ITV autumn schedule
ITV's£220 million autumn 1999 schedule includes a strong line-up of drama, which director of programmes David Liddiment hopes will take advantage of its post-News at Ten schedule.Unveiling the slate on
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Indie pulls in the Money
Adam Faith's proposed digital TV station, The Money Channel, has handed its entire 88-hour a week production contract to Brighton-based indie Communicopia, writes Tabitha Cole.
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Brighter bags C4 order
Independent Brighter Pictures has won its first commission through its newly opened Glasgow office with an 80 x 30-minute pop culture quiz for Channel 4, writes John Plunkett.
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C5 extends Family Affairs run
Channel 5 has recommissioned its daily soap, Family Affairs, from Pearson TV for another 12 months but former Coronation Street executive producer Brian Park will not continue with the show beyond this summer, writes John Plunkett.