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Runel to head up Fox Kids across Europe
Fox Kids Europe has promoted Benoit Runel to the new role of executive director of programming and acquisition, writes John Plunkett.Runel, who has been deputy general manager and programming director of
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Mayfair sells Trial by Fire
Mayfair Television Entertainment, which recently decided to scale down its operations and contract its programme sales to Minotaur International (Broadcast, 7.1.00), has sold thriller Trial By Fire to 16 territories, writes
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BBC fantasy drama sold worldwide
BBC Worldwide has notched up sales to seven countries for new fantasy drama Gormenghast ahead of its first UK transmission on BBC 2 next week, writes Tim Dams.The four-part adaptation of
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TRADE TALK - Natural charm
Making David Attenborough epics such as The Life Of Birds for the BBC is natural history producer Mike Salisbury's ideal job, he tells David Wood.
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On the box
Trouble between the Covers series producer Karen Kelly on Predictions and The Millennium Poem.
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Lis Howell
On why the best ideas originate with those willing to go it alone rather than those who sail with the fleet.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Who's losing control?
Are commissioning editors turning into TV's very own Stressed Erics (above) - a breed of overworked, highly pressurised but ultimately powerless paper pushers, asks Ashley Davies.
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PUBLIC SERVICE TV - Rights and responsibilities
Few people doubt that public service needs to be redefined for the digital age, for commercial broadcasters as well as the BBC. But no consensus has been reached on how to achieve this. Steve Clarke gets to grips with the debate.
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OPINION - US giant puts UK players in shade
What price content? According to Messrs Levin and Case, the answer appears to be $160 billion (£97 million) - or a deal which the Financial Times reckons puts a 70 per
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Free to air
Whatever happened to detector vans? I ask not only because I am still waiting to be visited by one (I pay my licence fee but have for some reason failed to
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PUBLIC SERVICE TV - The end of an era?
In an age of increasing commercial pressures and growing competition, Broadcast's foreign correspondents examine the state of public service broadcasting in countries where its very existence is now under threat.
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INTERVIEW - Drama at Channel 5
Following a rap on the knuckles from the ITC last year for the low level of drama production, Channel 5's head of drama Corinne Hollingworth hopes to rectify matters this year, with a 103 per cent increase in her budget.
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RATINGS - TX
GORMENGHASTProducer: BBC dramaBroadcaster: BBC 2Start: 21.00, 17 JanuaryLength: 4 x 60-minutesExecutive producers: Michael Wearing, Hilary Salmon, Rebecca Eaton (WGBH Boston)Producer: Estelle DanielDirector: Andy WilsonDesigner: Christopher HobbsBy Tim Dams
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END CREDITS
A BBC executive, who prefers to stay anonymous, offers a cut-out-and-keep guide to success at the corporation.
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PRESS GANG
No matter how frantically busy today's TV types get, somehow they can always find time to give themselves a plug in the papers. We round up their latest inky musings so
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OFF THE RECORD - Another Kiss goodbye
As imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the good people of London's Kiss FM were no doubt over the moon at news of BBC Radio 1's latest appointment, the oddly
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OFF THE RECORD - Cross dressers
It is with heavy heart that Off The Record reports that mild-mannered Classic FM grand fromage Roger Lewis has been involved in a late-night incident with the police when he was
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OFF THE RECORD - Excuses, excuses ..
Top of Sky staffers' new millennium wish list will be an improved train service between Waterloo and their far-away headquarters in Isleworth, south-west London. It certainly can't get any worse following
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OFF THE RECORD - A watery grave
Commiserations to the beautiful people of Blue Peter, whose grand unveiling of the time capsules they buried in 1971 and 1984 turned into something of a, er, damp squib. The producers
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OFF THE RECORD - A healthy Discovery
As the television industry snuffles and coughs its way through the national flu epidemic, news reaches OTR that Discovery Europe has hit on a scheme to beat the bug. Have they