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    Gullane and Tell-Tale team up for two new series

    2001-09-28T10:17:00Z

    New shows Ella and Sprogs mark first collaboration between two of the country's leading children's entertainment producers

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    Sunset & Vine to extend Hawk-Eye reach

    2001-09-28T10:17:00Z

    Production company to set up joint venture company with Siemens research to tout Hawk-Eye technology to more sports

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    Brit broadcasters scoop two gongs at 53rd Prix Italia

    2001-09-28T10:17:00Z

    BBC and Channel 4 take a prize each but night belongs to Scandinavians

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    Somethin' Else iTV appointment

    2001-09-28T10:17:00Z

    Somethin' Else has appointed former Tventures joint managing director Alex Wright as interactive TV specialist.Wright, who becomes managing director for the XY Network, the company's mobile internet arm, will work

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    TV charts terror

    2001-09-28T10:17:00Z

    Broadcasters quick off the mark with rolling news coverage of US tragedy

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    Fusion builds radio interests

    2001-09-28T10:17:00Z

    Fusion Radio Holdings, run by former London News Radio head Nigel Reeve, is building its portfolio of local radio stations and has merged with The Milestone Group's radio interests in a

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    World Service ups presence in Afghanistan

    2001-09-28T10:17:00Z

    BBC launches additional medium wave service and increases reporter numbers

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    TWG and GWR deny sale speculation

    2001-09-28T10:17:00Z

    Both radio groups say they have no intention of selling out

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    Ideas Lab loses its head for good

    2001-09-28T10:17:00Z

    Departed chief at C4 unit Liz Warner not to be replaced as senior staff take on more responsibilities

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    ITN will need extra funds to cover war

    2001-09-28T00:00:00Z

    ITN will ask broadcasters for more funds as part of its news contracts with ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 if war breaks out in Afghanistan, it was revealed this week.The

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    BBC AND HBO TIE UP FOR CHURCHILL'S LONELY WAR

    2001-09-28T00:00:00Z

    The BBC is again co-operating with US cable network HBO over an epic war drama, following the£7m Band of Brothers, writes Katy Elliott. A Lonely War dramatises Winston Churchill’s isolation in

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    C4 begins to feel the slump

    2001-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 director of programmes Tim Gardam has taken the next step towards refining his commissioning process, while admitting the advertising downturn has put pressure on the budget, writes Penny Hughes.In

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    At It opens LA office to expand US output

    2001-09-28T00:00:00Z

    London Indie At It Productions has opened an office in Los Angeles and is to name its first US head of productions within weeks, writes Simon Ellery.Called At It America, the

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    Lib Dems back ITV merger

    2001-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Liberal Democrats swung their support behind ITV this week and demanded the lifting of ownership rules to allow Carlton and Granada to merge, writes David Rose.'They should be allowed to come

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    DEL BOY ON QUEST TO DIRECT HOLIDAY DRAMA

    2001-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Shooting has started on David Jason's directorial debut, comedy drama The Quest, writes Steve Aston. The Yorkshire Television production is being shot on location in the Lake District and elsewhere in

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    THIS MORNING CRISIS TALKS

    2001-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Granada is in crisis talks over the continuing poor performance of its revamped This Morning show while other companies are believed to be creating alternate formats for the slot in case

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    Carlton in factual rejig

    2001-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Carlton has created a separate division for its factual entertainment output, headed by controller of factual entertainment Nick Bullen who now reports directly to Carlton director of programmes Steve Hewlett, writes

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    Seven vie for Big Breakfast

    2001-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 heard verbal pitches for its Big Breakfast slot last Thursday (20 September) with just seven bids now in the running, write Simon Ellery and Penny Hughes.New indie Monkey pitched

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    Green mulls new BBC unit proposal

    2001-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Former Big Brother executive producer Conrad Green and the BBC have confirmed they are in talks about creating a small factual entertainment unit within BBC entertainment, writes Georgina Lipscomb.Green, 31, is

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    Sky starts rebrand

    2001-09-28T00:00:00Z

    BSkyB has unveiled the first stage of a major rebrand of its UK service which will see the Sky logo as well as a number of channel identities change, writes Barbara