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INDIE FINANCE - Heavyweight that can hold its own
Since Brook Associates merged with Brian Lapping four years' ago, high ratings have never been on the indie's agenda - but that has not hampered the creation of a successful business.
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TX - Single white farmers
It was hardly ideal timing, but Thames Television's decision to press ahead at the height of the foot and mouth crisis earlier this year with The Farmer Wants a Wife -
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It's a fact: history does a lot for minority ratings
Take away The Weakest Link from BBC 2's early evening and what do you get? An unusually varied minority channels' top 10. This is one of those weeks when BBC 2's
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OFF THE RECORD - Celador's Wolf's rose-tinted past
Where were they then? Unbelievably, Celador International commercial director Adrian Wolf once enjoyed a short-lived career as a presenter on Top of the Pops. Back then he was known as Adrian
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ITN signs£216 million ITV news contract
News operation secures longer-than-expected six-year deal running to 2009
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Aston goes into receivership
UK manufacturer that dominated video character generation market for nearly 30 years calls in receivers
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Heartbeat spin-off near to green light
ITV is close to commissioning a spin-off from its high-rating series Heartbeat.Whitby Royal will be set in the same location as the drama and will focus on a hospital. Popular
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September 11 programme commissions grow
The rash of programmes being commissioned in the wake of the 11 September attacks grew this week after Wall to Wall unveiled a 60-minute piece on Muslims in the US for
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Tern TV wins Praise and Skye commissions
Glasgow indie Tern TV has secured a raft of new commissions for both multichannel and terrestrial broadcasters.UKTV managing director Andy Whitman has ordered the 13 x 30-minute series Changing Lives
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Brighter to turn spotlight on pitfalls of celebrity
Endemol Entertainment UK-owned Brighter Pictures has bagged a range of commissions, including a show for the BBC which highlights the pitfalls of celebrity.An as yet untitled 6 x 40-minute documentary series,
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Flextech to air Company's bachelors final
Flextech women's service Living TV is to broadcast the Company Magazine Bachelors 2002 final in London as part of a sponsorship deal.The TV programme, which will air at the end
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Brook Lapping and Kessler shoot Nazi doc
Brook Lapping and Kessler Productions are shooting a 90-minute one-off documentary on former head of the Gestapo Adolf Eichmann for the BBC, Discovery Networks Europe and German broadcaster NDR, writes Simon Ellery
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The Stanford experiment to air on BBC2
BBC2 controller Jane Root and controller of factual commissioning Nicola Moody have commissioned a controversial 4 x 60-minute series based on the Stanford prison psychology experiment that took place in 1971.
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C4 to show extreme surfing action
Channel 4 is to screen a 60-minute surfing programme, The Newquay Boardmasters 2001 from Boomerang Productions.The 30-minute show, originally shown on the Extreme Sports Channel, will air on 31 December.
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BBC1 orders hairdressing comedy drama
The BBC is beefing up its comedy drama output with a new series on 'the Manchester hairdressing wars' from the creator of The Riff-Raff Element, writes Leigh HolmwoodDebbie Horsfield has written
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SMG TV wins C4 fatcual commissions
SMG TV Productions has strengthened its relationship with Channel 4 after scoring two factual commissions, writes Steve AstonThe company has been commissioned by C4 editor of religion Elizabeth Clough to produce
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BBC loses new Star Trek series to BSkyB
The BBC will not show the new series of Star Trek after failing to win the terrestrial rights for the first time since it began screening the programme in the 1960s.
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BBC asks for Brooklyn bridge film reshoot
BBC 2 controller Jane Root has asked director Lucy Blakstad, who was commissioned to make a series about bridges, to reshoot her film about New York's Brooklyn Bridge in order to
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Kenyon Confronts returns for third series
BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and BBC head of current affairs Peter Horrocks have commissioned a third series of investigative strand Kenyon Confronts, before the second run begins airing at the
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ITV1 gives BBC1 a peak-time lesson
Strong ITV1 line-up and corporation's decision to replace The Blue Planet with a six-year-old Christmas repeat of One Foot in the Grave results in disastrous evening for BBC1