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RATINGS - Hearty Sunday night fare goes down a treat.
ITV 1 managed to get the better of a strong BBC 1 challenge in a head-to-head drama tussle this week, writes Jon Rogers
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B+ YOUNG TALENT LIST.
Production staff from the regions have a strong presence in the shortlist for the first B+ Young Talent Awards. Editor Neil Haggerty (27) and dubbing mixer Ashley Jane Armstrong (25) -
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GRANADA PLUS GOES 24-7.
Granada Sky Broadcasting channel Granada Plus is set to broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week from 17 June. The channel will continue to show repeats of classic TV
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LASTMINUTE.COM ON SKY.
Website lastminute.com is the latest company to sign up to BSkyB's Sky Active service. The company's services, which include travel deals and theatre tickets, will be available through the service from
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PROSPECT FOR HASTINGS.
Former BBC talks and specials producer Richard Hastings is joining indie Prospect Pictures on 1 May as head of development. Hastings, who previously worked at Princess Productions and Action Time, has
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SCI-FI SHORTS WINNER.
James Moran has won this year's Sci-Fi Shorts competition. His script, entitled Cheap Rate Gravity, will now be turned into a short 10-minute film and shown initially alongside the film Men
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Brass Eye is surprise flop at Bafta awards.
Channel 4's controversial Brass Eye paedophile special was left empty handed at this year's Baftas as the BBC walked off with the largest share of gongs, including two for BBC 2
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Beeb Ventures to close.
BBC Worldwide's commercial web division, Beeb Ventures, set up to push shopping opportunities around BBC brands, this week became a late victim of the dotcom crash after closing with the loss of 38 jobs, writes Leigh Holmwood
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PRICE TRIBUTE.
Christopher Price, the host of BBC Choice's Liquid News and the golden boy of the corporation's digital channel, was found dead at his London home on Monday, writes Luke Satchell
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SCREEN WEST JACKPOT.
Screen West Midlands has secured lottery funds of£500,000 for the coming year to distribute to film and television projects. Two strands of funding are available - production development and sector
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RTS HONOURS STUDENTS.
The Royal Television Society handed out three student awards last Friday (19 April). Suzie Templeton was rewarded for animated tale Dog, while Monica Rubio, Maverick Lychfield-Kelly and Patricia Gomes took the
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NEW HEAD AT FREMANTLE.
Fremantle Enterprises commercial director Tony Stern has been appointed head of co-production with a brief to bring the distribution and production arms of the company closer together. Stern will work with
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SOMETHIN' ELSE MOVE.
Somethin' Else has appointed Helen Kemp as business development manager of its interactive division. Kemp was previously an account manager at Matinee Sound & Vision where she worked for two years.
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PROGRAMMING - TWI scores Discovery World Cup commission.
TWI has secured its first ever commission from Discovery Networks Europe (DNE) with a 2 x 60-minute football documentary series to air as part of a night dedicated to the World Cup 2002, writes Steve Aston
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PROGRAMMING - BBC 1 hopes to banish demons.
BBC 1 has ordered a full six-part series of its fantasy drama Strange following a successful 60-minute pilot.The 6 x 60-minute series, a collaboration between the BBC and indie Big Bear
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PROGRAMMING - Animate! winners get C4 slots.
The channel 4-backed digital animation scheme Animate! has awarded funding to six filmmakers whose shorts will now air on C4 later this year, writes Penny Hughes
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PROGRAMMING - NIGELLA GOES AL FRESCO.
Self-styled domestic goddess Nigella Lawson is taking her culinary wand out of her kitchen with a new show for Channel 4, writes Penny Hughes
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PROGRAMMING - Bragg looks at moral issues.
Granada controller of arts Melvyn Bragg is to depart from his role as presenter of ITV 1's The South Bank Show and front a new series exploring moral dilemmas, writes Steve Aston
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PROGRAMMING - TALENT TO MAKE ENHANCED VILLA FOR SKY ONE.
Talent Television has been commissioned by Sky One deputy director of broadcasting and production Kate Marsh to make a fourth series of dating show The Villa (pictured). The new 8 x
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PROGRAMMING - CHANNEL 4 BUYS MTV'S TAKE ON OZZY'S FAMILY.
Channel 4 is finalising a deal to buy MTV's much-vaunted The Osbournes, the fly-on-the-wall US show about heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne and his dysfunctional family. The show, which has already