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    Comment - News from another era

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Clive Jones looks back at the changes he's seen in his career in news broadcasting

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    Conley returns to ITV with diet trial

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Diet and fitness guru Rosemary Conley is making her TV comeback following a seven-year hiatus with a six-part primetime ITV series in which she helps overweight people shed the pounds.

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    ITV crime drama spawns three-part follow-up

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    ITV Productions is making three new episodes of serial killer drama Cold Blood, which last aired on ITV1 in 2005.

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    Twenty Twenty takes on sex tourism

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Indie Twenty Twenty has won a commission from Channel 4 to make two films looking at the global sex tourism industry from the point of view of those who cater to the tourists.

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    TwoFour opens Gardens again for BBC

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    BBC daytime controller Jay Hunt has commissioned a second series of Open Gardensfrom indie TwoFour.

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    Quicksilver tackles domestic violence

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Oxford-based Quicksilver Media is to investigate domestic violence for Channel 4's Dispatchesstrand.

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    Comic Relief cashes in on Car Booty

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Leopard Films is making a one-off special of long-running BBC1 series Car Bootyin aid of Comic Relief.

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    UKTV wins EuroMillions in Camelot deal

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    UKTV has signed an exclusive seven-figure deal with National Lottery operator Camelot to air EuroMillions, poaching the rights from Challenge.

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    Commissioner's Q & A - Meredith Chambers

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Channel 4 commissioning editor, documentaries is looking for the right subject for a major doc series as well as more Cutting Edgetales and he's got around£145,000 an hour to spend.

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    Comment: My debt to telly

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Steven D Wright thinks he has learnt life's lessons from watching TV in his living room

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    Can Branson carry it off?

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Can Richard Branson really take on the Murdoch empire?

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    Shine completes Firefly purchase

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Shine has finalised a deal to buy independent production company Firefly for what is understood to be£10m.

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    Chrysalis tipped for overseas sale

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Foreign media groups are emerging as the most likely buyers to swoop on Chrysalis Radio's entire catalogue of stations following the launch of its strategic review earlier this week.

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    US facilities group wins Elstree lease

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    The fate of Elstree Film and TV Studios, home to Dancing on Ice and Big Brother, looks secure following the purchase of the site's 125-year lease by California-based film and television facilities group Pacifica Ventures.

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    Tributes pour in for Bill Sinrich

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    TWI executives have paid tribute to their former chief executive, Bill Sinrich, who died unexpectedly after a short illness on Friday 2 February.

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    Primeval snaps up healthy 7.2m audience

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    ITV1's£6m investment in its new fantasy drama Primevalpaid dividends as the show consolidated the commercial network's Saturday night line-up.

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    Genie returns

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Nickelodeon has ordered a second series of live-action kids comedy Genie in the House.

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    BT signs music deal

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    BT has signed a deal with music giant Universal Music to provide an on-demand music video service on its digital TV service, BT Vision.

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    Ignite fund ready to seal two deals

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Just three months after its launch, Ignite, the£2m investment fund set up by RDF, is close to tying up two deals with a factual and a comedy producer.

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    Daybreak deal boosts Target's drama output

    2007-02-15T08:00:00Z

    Distributor Target Entertainment has signed an output and development deal with Mentorn's newly formed drama arm Daybreak Pictures.