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    Guardian unveils Variety radio format for internet

    2000-02-25T13:03:00Z

    Media group to launch format ahead of Radio Authority decision on licence

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    ICG drama chief plays down plans to go solo

    2000-02-25T13:03:00Z

    Ross denies speculation she is to set up drama indie

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    United eyes internet float with new media division

    2000-02-25T10:23:00Z

    Uk media company pumps£370 into web businesses with view to flotation within next two years

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    Bazal makes docu-soap for Channel 4

    2000-02-25T08:00:00Z

    LeStage commissions flatmates eight-parter

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    Keeling quits FilmFour to head Auction Channel

    2000-02-25T07:58:00Z

    Multi-channel veteran to oversee European operations

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    Bannister to star in BBC's Blood on the Carpet

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    BBC Production chief executive Matthew Bannister is to appear in a forthcoming episode of BBC 2 strand Blood on the Carpet, talking about his controversial overhaul of BBC Radio 1 in

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    Smith plans mark BBC funding U-turn

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Media secretary Chris Smith unexpectedly overturned his own policy and the previous government's policy when he unveiled a 'balanced package of measures' for the future funding of the BBC on Monday

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    Inquiry into Sky/Vivendi extended

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    The Competition Commission has taken the unusual step of extending its investigation into Vivendi's purchase of a stake in BSkyB after it received 'important late evidence' just days before its report

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    Canal+ set for London expansion

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Canal+ has made its first major move into the UK market by backing a new London-based production and talent management outfit to be run by ex-William Morris Agency chiefs, writes Ashley

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    PEARSON TELEVISION LAYS DOWN THE LAW FOR ITV

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Pearson Television has been commissioned by ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott to make a 90-minute drama pilot called The Law, written by Wing and a Prayer writer Matthew Hall. Billed

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    MAVERICK TV PREPARES 30-MINUTE DRAMA SINGLE

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Indie Maverick Television has been commissioned for a 30-minute short film by Scottish Screen in association with Scottish TV. The film, Long Haul, tells the story of a long-distance lorry driver

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    BAZAL MAKES FLATMATES DOCU-SOAP FOR CHANNEL 4

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Bazal has been employed by Channel 4 outgoing commissioning editor, daytime Julia LeStage to make an 8 x 30-minute docu-soap about choosing and living with a new flatmate. Set in seven

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    BBC 2 GIVES UNDERWORLD CHARACTER A SOLO PILOT

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    BBC Production's comedy entertainment department, under Jon Plowman, is working on a broadcast pilot for a new BBC 2 comedy show Buller. The 30-minute pilot is based on Ricky Grover's underworld

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    CARLTON THREE-PARTER TO SCRUTINISE LONDON MAYOR

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Roger Bolton Productions is to make three programmes for Carlton's regional First Edition strand about the issues facing the new London mayor. Focusing on transport, crime and the economy, the series

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    BBC 1 THRILLER LINES UP ALL-STAR CAST

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Wil Johnson and Claire Goose have been lined up to star in a new 2 x 50-minute BBC 1 contemporary thriller, Waking the Dead. Set

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    TO THE LIGHTHOUSE WINS NEW RADIO DRAMATISATION

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Vanessa Redgrave and Juliet Stevenson are to star in a new dramatisation of Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse for BBC Radio 4. Produced by BBC Radio drama, the two-part drama will

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    TIGER DEVELOPS SITCOM UNDER NEW ITV FUND

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Tiger Aspect is developing a new sitcom for ITV that would star Ross Kemp and Julian Clary. The project is part of the Network Centre's new£1 million comedy initiative revealed

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    BBC's NHU plans continent specials

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    The BBC's Natural History Unit (NHU) is to expand this autumn's£4 million blue chip BBC 2 series - working titled South America: The Lost Continent - into an annual series

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    BBC's Garvie wins shows

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    BBC Production's Manchester based entertainment and features department has secured a raft of commissions, including a new peaktime BBC 1 entertainment strand and a new mid-week lottery format, writes Tim Dams.The

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    Carlton one-off lands new peaktime ITV slot

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    ITV has ordered a full series of celebrity profile show Stars and Their Lives, from Carlton TV and Hanrahan Television Productions, writes Colin Robertson.ITV has signed-up a 6 x 40-minute run