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OFF THE RECORD - Mayfair set (up)
Off The Record was honoured to bump into none other than Sir John Birt himself at Broadcast's 40th Birthday at the luxurious Mayfair Club in, er, Mayfair. But the Birtster, arriving
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OFF THE RECORD - Fortress Beeb
Donal MacIntyre, the BBC's fearless star of current affairs series MacIntrye Undercover, has a reputation for getting into difficult places such as model agencies, care homes and rings of soccer hooligans.
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OFF THE RECORD - No tab from The Lab
The reality of digital television has hit home for LWT production unit The Lab - makers of On Digital's German footie show Don't Mention the Score, featuring live Bundesliga matches. Seems
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OFF THE RECORD - Miss World stonewalled
Channel 5's Miss World 2000 beauty contest has suffered a major setback - the UK's gay and lesbian internet site rainbownetwork.com has refused to advertise the show. OTR can't understand it
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Moore named UK Play channel editor
UKTV has named Myfanwy Moore as the new channel editor of its music and comedy channel, UK Play, writes Tim Dams.Currently BBC entertainment editor of new comedy and entertainment, Moore joins
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Parsons sues de Mol over Survive!
Former Planet 24 boss Charlie Parsons is suing Endemol and its subsidiary.John de Mol Productions, seeking multi-million dollar damages for format theft.The legal wrangle centres on two shows - Survive! devised
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Radio indies go solo as trade body closes
Radio indies trade association Radio is to be wound up at the end of this year because a successor cannot be found to incumbent chairman Ian Willox, writes John Plunkett.The organisation,
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Eurosport mulls over sports news launch
Pan-European sports channel Eurosport is considering launching a sports news channel to rival BSkyB's fledgling service, Sky Sports News, writes John Plunkett.Sources said this week that Eurosport, a three-way venture between
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Berriff quits Granada TV to hook up with United
Award-winning documentary-maker Paul Berriff is leaving Granada Television to join the growing team of factual heavyweights at United Productions assembled by chief executive John Willis, writes David Wood.United's factual department already
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RICHMOND PRODUCES CONLEY COMEDY DRAMA PILOT FOR ITV
Independent Richmond Films & Television is producing a one-hour comedy drama pilot starring Brian Conley for ITV. Provisionally entitled Privates, the pilot features Conley (left) as a former policeman who runs
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SKY ONE STAGES SPICE GIRLS LONDON CONCERT
Sky One is to broadcast a series of live concerts beginning with the Spice Girls on 14 December. Spice Girls: The Live One, will air live from Earls Court at 20.00
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TYRO BEGINS WORK ON SEQUEL TO IMOGEN'S FACE
Production started in London this week on 1 x 100-minute ITV drama Pretending to be Judith, a sequel to Imogen's Face, which is being produced by independent Tyro Productions. The single
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C5 AND HOOCH JOIN FORCES FOR MILLENNIUM SHORTS ..
Channel 5 has joined forces with Hooch to fund, produce and screen 20 x 90-second short films, aimed at inspiring viewers in their late 20s and 30s about the millennium. Under
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... WHILE HEWLAND SERVES UP MINI MILLENNIUM MESSAGES
Independent Hewland International has been commissioned by ITV to make A Message for the Millennium. The run of 100 x 1-minute shows gives viewers the chance to say something special before
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CARLTON UNVEILS FIVE WINTER BOOKINGS FOR WEST COUNTRY
Carlton Television's west country region has unveiled five new commissions in its winter 2000 regional schedule. The line-up includes two 6 x 30-minute fly-on-the-wall series - The Big Shop, set in
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YORATH TO PRESENT SPORTS NEWS ON ITV
Gaby Yorath has joined ITN to present the sports news on its Saturday evening bulletin for ITV, the ITV Weekend News. Ex-Sky presenter Yorath, who co-hosts ITV's On The Ball, will
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BRIGHTER PICTURES UNCOVERS 'ROLEX ROBBERS'
Brighter Pictures has been commissioned by Carlton TV to make Time Bandits, an undercover investigation into the band of 'Rolex robbers' who have struck 39 times in London in the last
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C4 moves House to US and the Blitz
Wall to Wall Television's high-rating C4 factual series, The 1900 House, is being extended to second world war Britain and has also signed a deal for transportation to the US with
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Everyman special follows UN ambassador Halliwell
Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is to present a 2 x 50-minute Everyman special for BBC 1 produced by September Films, writes John Plunkett.Geri's World Walkabout, commissioned by BBC 1 controller
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ITV winter line-up focuses on drama
ITV is to reunite former Ballykissangel stars Dervla Kirwan and Stephen Tompkinson in a new 6 x 60-minute drama, Shades, to air in autumn 2000.The show, about strangers who meet after