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INTERVIEW - Export strength
David Graham is no stranger to controversy. At Diverse he hit the headlines with a provocative current affairs show for Channel 4 and his company's report on selling programmes abroad has put him in the firing line again.
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Summertime blues
Summer 1999 was the first full season for ITV without the 'burden' of News at Ten in its schedules. Despite this, the network saw peaktime ratings falling faster than BBC 1's.
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DEAF CENTURYProducer: First Circle FilmsBroadcaster: Channel 4Start: 19.00, 2 OctoberLength: 3 x 60-minutesCommissioning editor: Richard McKerrowExecutive producer: Daniel WolfProducer/director: Mark GallowayFew stones have been left unturned by documentary film-m
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OFF THE RECORD - Italian job
And so to Florence and the 'higher brow than thou' Prix Italia awards, where this year's organisers tried to entertain the assorted grands fromages with a specially commissioned variety show. Things
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OFF THE RECORD - White Riot
Disturbing news reaches Off The Record from the set of BBC 1's new seventies-set drama, In The Land of Plenty, in which art imitated life rather too closely for comfort. In
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OFF THE RECORD - Silent protest
On a similar note, the crew from BBC 1's rather more easy-on-the-ears adaptation, David Copperfield, couldn't do enough to win over the locals in the tiny Oxfordshire village where they spent
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OFF THE RECORD - Tanked up
Fishy goings on at On Digital, which chose an exotic aquarium from which to schmooze assorted MPs at this week's Labour Party conference in Bournemouth.Guests at the do on Monday were
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OFF THE RECORD - Shop window dummies
OTR was saddened to see there were no bubble perms adorning Sky One's new show, C15: The New Professionals. Apparently Bodie and Doyle are all in favour of a 'a younger,
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OFF THE RECORD - Car spotting
Last word must go to London News Network editorial manager John Glover, who was waxing lyrical this week about the joys of its fantastic new traffic bulletin, Travel Talk. In a
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Transmedia goes into receivership
Independent Transmedia Productions, a major supplier to the Carlton Food Network and Channel 5, has gone into administrative receivership, writes Dominic Timms.Accountancy firm Levy Gee was called in by Barclays Bank
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Smith makes call for digital summit
Media Secretary Chris Smith is to call an urgent broadcasting summit to tackle the 'internecine war' between digital operators, which he says is confusing the public and hampering take-up of the
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Coogan and Normal set up Baby Cow
Steve Coogan has launched his own independent production company with his long-time collaborator and The Royle Family writer, Henry Normal, writes John Plunkett.The Brighton-based indie, Baby Cow Productions, will produce future
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Rouse takes over as editor of Broadcast
Broadcast has appointed a new editor, Lucy Rouse, to replace Steve Clarke, who becomes executive editor.Rouse, features editor of Broadcast since December 1998, takes over the editorship next week. She has
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BSkyB may start own sales outfit
BSkyB is investigating the possibility of setting up its own in-house distribution outfit, writes Steve Clarke.A decision on whether to go ahead with the business is likely to be taken within
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FILMING BEGINS ON LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET FOR ITV
Location shooting began this week at Ingatestone Hall in Essex on Warner Sisters Film & TV's adaptation of scandalous Victorian novel Lady Audley's Secret for ITV. The 120-minute drama, about a
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YORKSHIRE LOOKS BACK TO 1900 FOR CHANNEL 4
Channel 4 documentaries has commissioned a 3 x 50-minute series on the year 1900 from Yorkshire TV to run during the first week of the new year.Called 1900, the programme takes
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GMTV EXTENDS BAZAL SUNDAY DUO UNTIL 2001
Bazal has been recommissioned to produce GMTV's early Sunday morning news and current affairs show, The Sunday Programme with Alastair Stewart.The show, along with Bazal's Sunday morning ethics and religion programme
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BBC BROADCAST ACQUIRES REMASTERED THUNDERBIRDS
BBC Broadcast controller of programme acquisition Sophie Turner Laing has bought a digitally remastered version of Gerry Anderson's 1960s puppet animation classic Thunderbirds (left) from Carlton International for BBC 2. Thunderbirds,
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BRAVO TO PRODUCE SERIES OF SHORTS IN-HOUSE
Bravo has commissioned a raft of one-minute shorts, called Bravo Bullets, which will air in between its main programmes from 4 October. The interstitials, to be broadcast as the end credits
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R5 LIVE TO COVER 35 OF 41 RUGBY WORLD CUP TIES
BBC Radio 5 Live is to broadcast live coverage of 35 of the 41 matches at this year's Rugby World Cup. The R5 Live commentary and presenting team for the tournament,