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OK! TO ROLL-OUT MASTHEAD FORMAT ON ITV DAYTIME
ITV controller of daytime Dianne Nelmes has commissioned a new masthead celebrity show based on weekly celebrity gossip magazine OK!. OK TV! has been in development for the past 12 months
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LNN PRESENTS ANIMAL ACTION TO LWT
London News Network (LNN) is making an 8 x 30-minute children's factual series based around Croydon's wildlife hospital, the Wandle Valley Wildlife Hospital. Animal Action is fronted by former Blue Peter
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SCHOFIELD TO FRONT ANIMAL TALES FOR BBC 1 SPECIAL
Philip Schofield is set to host a BBC 1 special provisionally titled Schofield's Animal Tales. Caroline Van Den Brul will executive produce the one-off programme which will feature 'high-tech vets' at
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LANDSEER SEEKS OUT LONDON'S POP LEGACY
Landseer Productions is to make an eight-part series about the history of London's pop music scene to run in the Carlton region of ITV from July. Routes of Rock, narrated by
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Lion TV wants to roar with Vardanis
Lion Television has poached BBC features and events series producer Fenai Vardanis to work on a new daytime commission for BBC 1 - Passport to Mallorca.Production on the 30 x 30-minute
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Johnny Vaughan's production company, World's End, is developing a new current affairs show for Channel 4, writes Tim Dams. Called The Kitchen Cabinet, the proposed show will be hosted by the
Johnny Vaughan's production company, World's End, is developing a new current affairs show for Channel 4, writes Tim Dams. Called The Kitchen Cabinet, the proposed show will be hosted by the
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Expats show heads Chrysalis tv trio of new commissions
Head of Chrysalis TV Tony Moss has secured three new factual entertainment commissions, including a BBC 1 series looking at UK citizens who have moved abroad, writes Jason Deans.Brits Abroad, a
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September/United scale Everest
United Productions has teamed up with September Films to make a feature film charting the last journey of mountaineer George Mallory, who disappeared on Mount Everest 75 years ago, writes John
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - ITV cleans up with British Soap Awards
Highlights of the first British Soap Awards pulled in a dazzling 9.4 million viewers for ITV last Wednesday (19 May), writes Claire Handley.Airing between 20.00 and 21.00, the star-studded ceremony took
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TV rapped for stunting children's development
Television was this week blamed for hampering children's ability to learn to speak and understand English.Gila Falkus, a speech and language therapist working mostly with pre-school children in west London, warned
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Talk gets down to business with breakfast show
Talk Radio has stepped up the battle for breakfast-time listeners with a new 60-minute early morning business programme to be provided by business information giant Bloomberg.The 60-minute show, Bloomberg on the
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The BBC is understood to have secured the exclusive UK terrestrial rights to Titanic, the biggest ever grossing feature film, in a deal with Twentieth Century Fox, writes Jason Deans. But
The BBC is understood to have secured the exclusive UK terrestrial rights to Titanic, the biggest ever grossing feature film, in a deal with Twentieth Century Fox, writes Jason Deans. But
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Kavanagh quits EC media funding agency
David Kavanagh has quit as chief executive of the organisation that administers the (75 million (£49 million) arm of the European Commission's media development funds, writes Alice Macandrew.Kavanagh resigned a fortnight
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ITV sends hopeful pilots into entertainment dogfight
ITV looks set to stage a second entertainment pilot battle this summer with four one-off programmes planned for Saturday night slots, writes Claire Handley.Last summer director of programmes David Liddiment commissioned
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JACKSON DENIES DG BID
Channel 4 chief executive Michael Jackson has dismissed a weekend report he is being lined up as a 'parachute' candidate for the job of BBC director general. Jackson told Broadcast: 'I
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CHRYSALIS SACKS NOBLE
Chrysalis Radio-owned Heart 106.2 has dismissed presenter Kara Noble after a photo she took of a topless Sophie Rhys-Jones appeared in The Sun on Wednesday (26 May). Noble was sacked from
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YTV TO RECAST REED ROLE
Yorkshire Television (YTV) and production company Excelsior are working to recast their new ITV drama, Uncle Silas, following the death of Oliver Reed. A number of actors are understood to have
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BECTU FIGHTS UTV CUTS
Ulster Television (UTV) announced 35 redundancies across its technical, journalistic and production staff this week. Broadcasting union Bectu said it would fight any compulsory redundancies. Assistant general secretary Gerry Morrissey said:
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20 CHASE LONDON LICENCE
Twenty groups are bidding to run the independent local radio licence in north and north-west London. They include Fan FM, a 24-hour sports and music channel backed by former News Direct
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Myers quits Border to set up rival outfit
Border Radio Holdings (BRH) group managing director John Myers has quit unexpectedly to set up a rival radio business.Myers told Broadcast he already has backing for the new company and plans