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On Digital was set to announce plans on Thursday (8 April) to show a final four-part special of LWT's Gladiators over the May bank holiday weekend, writes Alice Macandrew. The digital
On Digital was set to announce plans on Thursday (8 April) to show a final four-part special of LWT's Gladiators over the May bank holiday weekend, writes Alice Macandrew. The digital
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NO ACTION AGAINST LEE
The police are to take no further action against Janet Lee, deputy head of programming and advertising at the Radio Authority, following her arrest last November.Lee was suspended by the authority
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TONIGHT BEGINS ITS RUN
Granada Television is to launch its new current affairs show, Tonight, on Thursday (8 April) with an hour-long interview featuring the five suspects from the Stephen Lawrence murder case.Martin Bashir spoke
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ATLANTIC 252 GETS LW RIVAL
Atlantic 252 managing director Travis Baxter has failed in a bid to win a second national long wave licence for the UK. The Isle of Man Communications Commission has awarded the
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UNITED CHIEFS WIN BONUS
United News & Media chief executive Clive Hollick was last year awarded 77,710 shares - worth£600,000 - as part of the group's executive reward scheme, in addition to his£667,626
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SHUKMAN'S FOREIGN AFFAIR
BBC News has appointed David Shukman as its new foreign affairs correspondent.The former Europe correspondent replaces George Alagiah, who has become the new anchor of the weekend editions of the One
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Live lays off staff in City TV rethink
Live TV has laid off around a third of the staff in its Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester offices as part of a rethink of its City TV services.The 18 redundancies across
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Sky looks at indie Mirror
Indie Illuminations Television is understood to be talking to BSkyB about airing a follow-up to The Mirror, its 1997 experimental BBC 2 project that embraced television and the internet, writes Adrian
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CWC considers cable merger with Telewest
Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) has confirmed that it is considering a proposal to merge its cable TV interests with rival operator Telewest in a deal that would leave just two
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Telemagination wins ITV special
Animation house Telemagination has been commissioned by ITV to produce The Last Polar Bear as a special for Christmas 2000, writes Selina Julien.The 30-minute show, based on the novel by Harry
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Discovery uses Lab for War Stories
LWT's new experimental production unit, The Lab, has won its first external commission - a historical documentary series for Discovery Europe, writes Nicola Methven.The Lab has been commissioned to make a
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TARTAN SHORTS FOR EDINBURGH FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCED
BBC Scotland and Scottish Screen have announced the winners of this year's Tartan Shorts creative initiative. Three producer/director/writer teams, chosen from more than 170 entries, have each been awarded£60,000 to
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CLARKE-JERVOISE MOVES TO BBC AS COMEDY EDITOR
BBC Entertainment has appointed Sophie Clarke-Jervoise as comedy editor to work alongside head of comedy Geoffrey Perkins on development and current in-house productions.The appointment is part of a restructure initiated by
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WILDSCREEN ROARS INTO BRISTOL FOR TENTH FESTIVAL
Wildscreen 2000, the tenth biennial festival of moving images from the natural world, will take place in Bristol from 7-13 October 2000. The centrepiece of the festival will be an expanded
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NTL BECOMES UK'S SECOND LARGEST CABLE TV OPERATOR
NTL has overtaken Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) to become the second biggest cable TV operator in the UK, following the completion of its takeover of Diamond Cable.According to figures compiled
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WELSH INDIES WIN FOUR AWARDS AT CELTIC FESTIVAL
UK broadcasters and producers scooped 10 of the 15 awards at the twentieth annual Celtic Film & TV Festival on the Isle of Skye. Welsh indies triumphed in four categories, with
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DOGMA HEADS MIRAMAX SLATE BOUGHT BY FILMFOUR
FilmFour has acquired the UK rights to five Miramax films: Dogma, starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon; teen film She's All That; Jane Campion's Holy Smoke; the first full-length feature from
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INDEPENDENT RADIO GROUP CUTS ITS LOSSES AS SALES RISE
Operating losses at the Independent Radio Group (IRG), which runs six commercial stations including Scot FM in central Scotland, fell 17 per cent to£2.4 million last year. Group sales were
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ITC AMENDS TELEWEST FIGURES
The Independent Television Commission has asked Broadcast to correct Telewest's subscriber figures for 1 January 1999 on finding that the figures Telewest supplied to the regulator were incorrect.Telewest had a total
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SHOWCASE FOR SHORTS
Films backed by the BBC and Channel 4 are among the seven shorts featuring in New Directions 1999, the First Film Foundation-sponsored event to give upcoming UK directors the chance to