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Analysis - On The Box - Does your mother know?
Jane Marlow is enthralled by ITV1's sex therapy drama Between the Sheets which breaks new ground on the small screen, but wouldn't watch it with her mum.
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Analysis - Blurring fact and fiction.
While the practice of fusing drama and documentary has its uses, not least in avoiding legal issues, is it part of a 'noble tradition' going back to Grierson or is it just a way of making drama on the cheap?
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Opinion - Comment - Share and share alike.
Disney's Paul Robinson argues that in order for the BBC's PSB remit to be convincing and the licence fee to be justifiable, the corporation needs to focus on reach rather than share.
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Opinion - The bon mot goes missing.
ITV lives up to previous form and fails to imprint a memorable commentary on the England rugby team's famous victory.
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Regional Focus: The Broadcast Debate - Heading for a regional renaissance.
What impact will a consolidated ITV plc have on its regional USP? What role should the BBC play in supporting the regions and what is the definition of a 'regional production' anyway? Broadcast brings together key television executives to answer these que
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C4 WINS MANDELA GIG.
Channel 4 has picked up the terrestrial rights to the gala Aids and HIV awareness pop
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ORTV REPLACES MD.
ORTV managing director Lynne Osborne is taking early retirement in the new year. Her replacement, director
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Commissioning - BBC creates two factual strands.
The BBC's documentary and contemporary factual department has created two factual brands for BBC2 and BBC3.BBC2's
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Commissioning - Five orders Batman's life story.
Five has commissioned three one-off documentaries on subjects including the history of comic book hero Batman and the life of porn king Larry Flynt, writes Michael Rosser.
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Commissioning - TWI shows struggles of 'Superman'.
Former Superman star Christopher Reeve's continuing struggle to walk again is to be chronicled in a
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Commissioning - BBC to look at kids in care.
The BBC is launching a season of programmes about children in care.The season - to air
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Commissioning - Commissioner's Q&A - Tom Archer.
The BBC's acting commissioner for documentaries and contemporary factual reveals what we've got to look forward to at Christmas and gives the lowdown on how Wife Swap and Jamie's Kitchen have changed TV.
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Commissions - ITV's The Vault returns for third series.
ITV has recommissioned Carlton gameshow The Vault after it recovered from a shaky start as a
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Commissions - Granada takes a look at extreme dieters.
Discovery Health channel director Clare Laycock has commissioned Granada to make a show about extreme dieting
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Commissions - Discovery orders model town from Oval.
Discovery Home & Leisure channel director Paul Welling has commissioned indie Oval to make a 15
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Commissions - Miners strike drama to air on Radio 4.
BBC Radio 4 is set to dramatise the 1984 miners strike battle between Margaret Thatcher and
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Commissions - Sixth sense to test kids' business sense.
A reality show testing the business acumen of a group of schoolchildren has been commissioned by
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Bird to become Disney president.
Andy Bird, former president of Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) International, has resurfaced as president of rival
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Via Digital's Queer coup.
Indie Via Digital has won a lucrative commission to produce US 'pink' dating show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy for Living TV, writes Michael Rosser.