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C4 unveils plans for new websites
Channel 4 has unveiled a£15 million plan to launch entertainment, film, horse racing and education internet sites and portals and to relaunch Channel4.com this year.Reporting to C4 director of strategy
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BBC News axes nine TV posts
BBC News head of television news Roger Mosey has axed nine key management posts in a move that BBC insiders claim is a U-turn by chief executive Tony Hall, write Tara Conlan and Jason Deans.
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BBC documentaries reshuffles pack
BBC Production's documentaries and history department has recruited a new managing editor of documentaries, at the same time as shuffling senior editorial chairs for flagship strands Modern Times, Inside Story and
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Abbott pens Sons and Lovers script
Award-winning writer Paul Abbott is adapting DH Lawrence's 20th century classic Sons and Lovers for a four-part BBC 1 series expected to air in 2001, writes Tim Dams.
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ITV to lower share target
ITV is expected to announce a lowering of its peaktime share target for 2000 from 40 per cent to 39 or 38 per cent at next week's annual presentation to advertisers, according to sources, writes Jason Deans.
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Halo joins up with Cinar Europe for BBC Animation
UK independent Halo Productions has linked up with Canadian producer/distributor Cinar Europe to secure a BBC 2 peaktime animation commission, Treasure. The 26 x 10-minute series, which will be aimed at
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BBC 2 commissions award-winning play for screen
BBC 2 has commissioned a TV version of the winner of the 1999 Dennis Potter Play of the Year award, writer Lin Coghlan's First Communion Day. Produced by Tigerlily Films for
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Final Morse script handed in to Carlton Productions
Writer Stephen Churchett has delivered to Carlton Productions the script for the 33rd and final TV adaptation of Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse novels, in which the Oxford-based detective dies. Principal leads
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LWT to film new series of Barrymore In The Summer
LWT's entertainment department will start filming a new series of Barrymore this summer, for transmission on ITV later this year. The 6 x 60-minute run of the Michael Barrymore (left) entertainment
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Former Kiss FM DJ Sarah HB moves to Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 has recruited former Kiss FM DJ Sarah HB to host a new Sunday morning breakfast show, The Breakfast Club. The presenter, who was at Kiss FM for eight
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Trouble and Bravo forge links with J17 and Loaded
Flextech channels Trouble and Bravo are extending their masthead programming with a number of mini-shows based on and linked with teenage style magazine J17 and lads' title Loaded. The Loaded Weekend
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Sky gets set for first interactive rugby broadcast
Sky Sports will broadcast its first interactive rugby union match on 5 February when England play Ireland in the Six Nations tournament. The game, to be broadcast on Sky Sports Extra
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Antelope takes on Marley biography
Independent Antelope Productions has been commissioned to make a 90-minute biography of Bob Marley for Channel 4 backed by a budget in excess of£500,000.The documentary, called Rebel Music, will be
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United creates network production unit
United Broadcasting & Entertainment subsidiary Anglia Television has unveiled a restructure that sees its network programme-making and facilities operations combined in a single network production unit (NPU), writes Jason Deans.The new
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C4 set to bring Big Brother to UK
Channel 4 is close to commissioning Bazal to produce a UK version of Big Brother, the controversial Endemol-owned show at the centre of a legal battle between subsidiary John de Mol
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - London's Burning gives cop show a roasting
In a tough Sunday night slot, new BBC 1 cop drama Second Sight saw its launch somewhat dampened by ITV stalwart London's Burning, writes Tim Dams.According to unofficial overnights, the Paula
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TWI sets up sports news service for mobiles
Sports producer and distributor Trans World International (TWI) is to launch a worldwide interactive sports news service that will be delivered over mobile phones, writes Tara Conlan.The service, Mobile Sports Channel