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    Edinburgh Festival 2001

    2001-08-24T08:11:00Z

    Broadcast and produxion.com bring you breaking news from this year's festival as it happens - why wait for the morning papers. Start here with a brief guide to a handful of the best of this year's sessions

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    Promotion for BB2 deputy commissioning editor

    2001-08-24T08:11:00Z

    C4's Durrance becomes deouty commissioning editor, features

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    Promotion at ITV's Wish You Were Here

    2001-08-24T08:11:00Z

    Wish You Were Here producer Kim Robson has been promoted to the role of series producer of the ITV travel series, working alongside executive producer John Longley.Ruth England

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    Pop Idol legal threat resolved

    2001-08-24T08:11:00Z

    Australian producer Screentime and distributor Target settle dispute with Thames and 19TV over ITV's forthcoming Pop Idol series

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    Beeb and MSN to share content

    2001-08-24T08:11:00Z

    Deal will see major BBC brands carried on Microsoft-owned portal

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    BBC retains Open Golf championship

    2001-08-24T08:08:00Z

    New deal with St Andrews means the world's oldest golf championship remains free-to-air for the next five years

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    SKY AND NICK TEAM UP

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    BSkyB and Nickelodeon UK have struck their first ever joint programming deal, in which they share UK rights to Japanese animation series Yu Gi Oh!, writes Jon Rogers. The deal was

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    BBC 1 plans high-tech Ancient Egypt series

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    The BBC is to embark on one of its most ambitious history projects to date when it uses Walking With Dinosaurs-style computer effects to bring ancient Egypt alive, writes Leigh Holmwood.Pyramid,

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    Right to reply reduced on C4

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has scaled back its consumer feedback programming from 10 hours to just over three hours a year, while putting viewers' 'right to reply' on the web, writes Penny Hughes.Four

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    BBC ups Tiger drama

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Tiger Aspect has expanded its drama department after scooping a BBC 2 commission for a four-part drama, writes Penny Hughes.Channel 4 drama programme finance manager Marigo Kehoe joins Tiger's drama department

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    SMG boosted by£1m talent deal

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    SMG TV Productions has inked a£1m development deal with The Artists' Rights Group (ARG) to harness talent such as Ross Kemp and John Hannah, writes Steve Aston.The two-year deal will

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    TV to breed new wildlife

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    ITV AND BBC 1 are putting together plans to overhaul their approaches to natural history programming which are expected to result in an increase in wildlife programmes on ITV but a

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    TRAIL ONE-OFF FOR BLUE PLANET

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    The BBC has created a new balloon ident for BBC 1 to coincide with the transmission of its latest landmark natural history series, The Blue Planet, writes Barbara Marshall. Produced by

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    Web museum to put BBC archive online

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    The BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) is formulating ambitious plans to place the whole of its archive on the internet in order to create an 'electronic museum', writes Leigh Holmwood.The NHU,

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    S4CI puts£6m in cartoon venture

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    S4C International (S4CI) is pumping£6m into animation following the launch of a children's strategy group chaired by former BBC head of children's television Anna Home, writes Penny Hughes.The Welsh broadcaster

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    BBC awaits Jowell's verdict on digital

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    The BBC faces at least another two-week delay before hearing whether it can press ahead with its new digital channels after media secretary Tessa Jowell abandoned her plans to speak at

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    Autumn laughs for ITV

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    ITV put comedy back into the heart of its schedule as it announced its autumn line-up this week, writes Steve Aston.The Sketch Show comedy series created by Steve Coogan indie Baby

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    Warner builds team at Betty

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Outgoing Channel 4 commissioning editor, features Liz Warner has poached Fulcrum TV executive producer Gill Wilson to become head of popular factual television at her new indie, Betty, write Penny Hughes

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    BBC signs ideas code

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    BBC Radio has signed up to a code of practice designed to prevent the theft of ideas proposed by freelancers and independents, writes Georgina Lipscomb.The Code of Practice for the Submission

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    Lygo plans more C5 repeats

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 director of programmes Kevin Lygo is looking to repeat more C5 programming, despite having an extra£26m in his budget, writes Georgina Lipscomb.According to sources, Lygo wants to 'showcase'