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NOMAD RUSH HOME FROM HOME WINS TARA COMMISSION
New indie Nomad Rush Productions has been commissioned to produce 12-part series Home from Home for Irish cable and digital entertainment channel Tara TV. The show, which will include interviews with
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2000 to 1 quiz takes BBC 1 into new year
BBC 1 is launching a millennium quiz show with a top prize offering the winner the whole of the year 2000 off work.Called 2000 to 1, the quiz will be a
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BBC features pens BBC 2 Sound Track
BBC features in Bristol is working on a£3 million 8 x 60-minute series tracing the history of pop music for BBC 2, writes Tim Dams.
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Convergence to offer C5 a Private View
Channel 5 has commissioned Convergence to make its flagship arts programme for 2000, writes Tina Mistry.
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Granada films Anchor Me for ITV
Location filming began this week on Granada Television's new ITV drama, Anchor Me, starring Iain Glenn and Annette Crosbie, writes Jason Deans.
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - Cold Feet helps ITV to Sunday triumph
Television viewers were spoilt for choice last weekend as both BBC 1 and ITV earmarked 24-25 September for the return of some of their most popular dramas, writes Tina Mistry.
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C4 bags brace of drama deals in US
Channel 4 has struck pilot development deals for two of its cult dramas with two separate US majors.The outfit's distribution arm, Channel 4 International (C4I), has linked with Warner Bros Television
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BBC gives up Business Breakfast
BBC 1 is to revamp its early morning output, scrapping the hour-long BBC Business Breakfast programme, which starts at 06.00, writes Tim Dams.
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Barb to mix methods for digital data
Barb is this week expected to announce controversial measurement plans for digital-only TV viewing that involve the use of different techniques for Sky Digital and On Digital, writes Tina Mistry.
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Animation may get government help
Government support for the UK animation sector, including possible access to lottery funding, is one of the key recommendations from the panel investigating the television export deficit, according to industry sources.Ways
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Smith warns BBC over limits to future growth
Media Secretary Chris Smith this week conceded that the BBC might have to scale down its ambitions to extend services, writes John Lewis.
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Airey slams C4 and BBC1 at RTS
Channel 5 director of programmes Dawn Airey has launched a scathing attack on her former employer, Channel 4, accusing the station's chief executive, Michael Jackson, of being 'up his own arse', writes Steve Clarke.
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GARCIA BOOSTS BBC SPORT
The BBC has created the new position of sports scheduler, the latest in a series of moves to bolster its beseiged sports department. BBC daytime scheduler Javier Garcia takes up the
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GWR LINES UP MARCHER BID
The GWR Group is understood to be considering a bid for the Wrexham-based Marcher Radio group of stations. The five-station group would be GWR's third major UK deal this year following
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NEWS 24 GETS EC APPROVAL
The European Commission has approved the financing of BBC News 24 through licence fees, ruling that such state aid is acceptable as it funds the delivery of 'services of general economic
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ITV EXTENDS RSL TERMS
Restricted Service Licences (RSLs) for small-scale TV broadcasters are to be extended from two to four years, the Independent Television Commission announced on Wednesday (29 September). The extension, aimed at encouraging
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TALK COVERS EURO DECIDER
Talk Radio has beaten BBC Radio 5 Live to the exclusive live radio rights for the crucial Sweden v Poland match on 9 October, which will decide if England can still
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ON DIGITAL SALES UP
On Digital is expected to announce next week that it has signed up between 375,000 and 400,000 subscribers to the end of September. This would represent about 150,000 new customers in
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Murphy named as BBC Choice chief
UK Play channel editor Stuart Murphy has been chosen to take over as the new head of programming at BBC Choice.It is the latest step in a meteoric rise for Murphy.
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Sky access tops News 24
Sky News is now available in more cable homes than BBC News 24 for the first time since the corporation's news channel was launched at the end of 1997, writes John Plunkett.