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OFF THE RECORD - Shed loads of drama
Let's face it. Shed Productions' much-vaunted women's prison drama, Bad Girls, has not had an ideal debut. Stuffed with more randy floozies than an ITV drama launch, the series has attracted
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OFF THE RECORD - Bowled out
Sky Sports was naturally chuffed to bits to broadcast its first ever live coverage of a domestic Test cricket match last week. Only problem was that England's game against the Kiwis
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OFF THE RECORD - Paxo in 'cudgel' attack
Newsnight uberanchor Jeremy Paxman was in fiery form last week, and we don't just mean his controversial interview with Henry Kissinger on Start the Week. Fellow R4 presenter Janet Daley raised
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OFF THE RECORD - Ripping yarn
Ray Fitzwalter, he of Campaign For Quality Television (CFQT) fame, has obviously decided it's time to change ITV from the inside. The CFQT, you will remember, recently lambasted the Network Centre
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OFF THE RECORD - Spot the difference
OTR is often criticised for an absence of amusing tales about the facilities industry (are there any?). So we jumped at the chance when a postcard (below) from facility outfit Prime
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Dyke looks to popular drama to revive BBC 1
Greg Dyke, the new BBC director general, will put popular TV drama under the spotlight as part of a strategy aimed at strengthening the appeal of BBC 1.More money is likely
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Alli ponders future of Carlton Select
The future of Carlton pay-TV channel Carlton Select is being reviewed by newly installed Carlton Communications managing director of production Lord Waheed Alli, according to sources, writes Alice Macandrew.
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ITN wins editorial control of LNR
ITN has taken editorial control of London News Radio (LNR) in a radical overhaul of the company announced on Wednesday (30 June), writes John Plunkett.
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Diana author fronts series for Granada
Granada Television has signed an exclusive deal with Andrew Morton, the biographer of Diana, Princess of Wales and Monica Lewinsky, to write and present a TV series profiling famous twentieth-century women, writes Jason Deans.
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SIMON NYE SCRIPTS TV MOVIE OF THE RAILWAY CHILDREN
Men Behaving Badly creator Simon Nye is scripting a TV movie version of E Nesbitt's classic family story, The Railway Children, for Carlton and ITV. The 120-minute drama will be screened
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BEAN SIGNS UP FOR ITV'S EXTREMELY DANGEROUS LEAD
Sean Bean has been cast to play the lead in ITV thriller Extremely Dangerous, which is being made by former ICM co-chairman Michael Foster's independent, Northwestone Films (Broadcast, 19.3.99). The 4
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COUNTRY TRACKS RETURNS WITH CELEBRITY MUSCLE
BBC Birmingham network production is producing a second series of Country Tracks, the BBC 2 outdoors show. Presented by Pete McCarthy, the series will feature location reports from all over Britain,
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CARLTON TO START SHOOTING ONE-OFF LONDON DRAMA
Carlton has gone into production with Blue Murder, a TV movie for ITV. The 120-minute single drama, which stars Gary Mavers as a policeman who falls for a rich woman played
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AWARD-WINNING STUDENT ADVICE PROGRAMME RETURNS
Wobbly Picture Productions has just started shooting annual BBC 2 university entry advice special Student Choice '99. The 60-minute show, which will again be presented by Jayne Middlemiss, is due to
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ALL-STAR LINE-UP SET FOR PRINCE'S TRUST PARTY ON ITV2
Fuji International Productions will be supplying ITV2 with six hours of coverage of The Prince's Trust Party in the Park on Sunday (4 July). The concert footage, which was commissioned by
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ITV TARGETS GAMESHOWS FOR NEW COMEDY DRAMA SERIES
Keith Allen and Denis Lawson will be taking supporting roles alongside Michael Barrymore in Bob Martin, Granada TV's comedy drama for ITV. Allen and Lawson will play, respectively, warm-up man and
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TENTH ANNIVERSARY FOR EDINBURGH NIGHTS
BBC Scotland is producing its tenth guide to the Edinburgh Festival. This year's Edinburgh Nights, which will air at 23.15 on BBC 2 over the last two weeks of August, will
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MERIDIAN TO DISH UP ANOTHER SERVING OF SURPRISE CHEFS
Meridian Broadcasting has commissioned a seventh series of regional show Surprise Chefs from Action Time. Produced by Pat Pearson and directed by Peter Chipping, the 10 x 30-minute series will be
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C4 to reveal Ideal World's Other Side
Channel 4 has taken the unusual step of commissioning Scottish indie Ideal World to produce 60 x 60-minutes of 'raw' late-night television documentaries made by film students, established film-makers and members
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Siriol to create animation of kids' book classic for S4C
S4C has commissioned Cardiff-based production firm Siriol to make an animated version of the classic Welsh-language children's book character, Sali Mali, writes Lexie Goddard.