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Indie Business - Make drama without crisis
Many factual indies have a creative urge to move into drama. Ashley Davies analyses the business challenges facing those that opt to diversify while, below, Jacquie Lawrence tells how she's making the journey at World of Wonder.
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Interview - Backstage comic
Simon Wright's Working Title TV has tended to keep a low profile in the UK, but the company's latest production, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), has thrust the Universal-owned outfit into the limelight.
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And Finally ... BBC Talent executive Angie Stephenson - you can succumb to her charm or brave her left jab
If you weren't in TV, what would you be doing?Playing guitar in an indie bandWhat's your proudest achievement?Getting Greg Dyke, Matthew Bannister and Alan Yentob to audition for BBC TalentWho do
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Off the Record - Reptilian charm
And so to the glittering RTS awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Tuesday night. Off The Record was delighted when TV cook Jamie Oliver won a best newcomer gong for
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Off the Record - Go with the flow
Griff Rhys Jones got more than he bargained for when he recently asked leisure gameshow tsar Peter Bazalgette to help his campaign to save the Hackney Empire. Only if you help
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Off the Record - Earning the popcorn
Congratulations to the good people of Carlton who are rightly proud of a groovy new sponsorship deal for their late-night film review show, Movie Nights. The show is being sponsored by
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Off the Record - The Marxist party
Can it be true? Word reaches OTR that the beautiful people of LM magazine organised a party to celebrate their libel battle with ITN. The trial ended with the court ordering
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Off the Record - Onan the barbarian
You read it here first. The most talked-about show this summer will be Channel 4's Big Brother - at least, it will be if the Dutch experience is anything to go
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Off the Record - Snack attack
Peter Salmon proudly unveiled his channel's summer highlights at BBC 1's seasonal programme launch at the Great Eastern Hotel on Monday. His BBC 2 counterpart Jane Root, however, will celebrate the
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Off the Record - A Lamontable choice
And so to ITN, where this week hacks have been busy burning the midnight oil dissecting Chancellor Gordon Brown's budget. And none more so than ITN's thrice-weekly political debate show for
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Telewest launches blueyonder as losses widen
High-speed 512Kb internet service aims to have 200,000 subscribers by end of 2001 says Illsley
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Channel 5 agrees to new run of Picturehead lottery doc
Channel 5 has commissioned Picturehead Productions to make a follow-up to last year's 7 x 30-minute Everyone's A Winner documentary series about National Lottery winners, writes Georgina Lipscomb.Commissioned by C5
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Katrina waves goodbye as Long joins Nightime
Janice Long is joining the Nightime team on BBC Radio 2 as the new presenter of the Monday-Friday show, writes Georgina Lipscomb.From 3 April, she replaces Katrina Leskanich from pop
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Digital Monsters snaps up slots on CITV and Fox Kids
Saban sells rights to Pokemon-style animation