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C5 takes religion 'out of the ghetto'
Channel 5 controller of children's and religious programming Nick Wilson has unveiled a raft of new religious shows including a pilot, It's Your Funeral, featuring celebrities planning their own funerals.The new
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BBC Scotland gets to work on Tinsel Town drama for 2
Production is set to begin this weekend on Tinsel Town, a new 10 x 40-minute BBC Scotland drama series for BBC 2, writes Tim Dams.The script is based around the pacy
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Wallace and Gromit producer Aardman Animations is to take its first animated children's series, Rabbits!, to this year's Cartoon Forum in Spain in search of financial partners and distributors, writes
Wallace and Gromit producer Aardman Animations is to take its first animated children's series, Rabbits!, to this year's Cartoon Forum in Spain in search of financial partners and distributors, writes Tina
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C4 asks for great thinkers from JIP
Channel 4 has ordered a series on the greatest thinkers of the past 1,000 years from Jeremy Isaacs Productions (JIP), which is due to be transmitted around the millennium, writes Wale
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - ITV winning ratings war with colour doc
ITV's ploy of scheduling documentary series Second World War in Colour at 22.00 paid off handsomely last Thursday (9 September), bringing in a 7.4 million audience (42 per cent share), writes
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Spice Girl Mel G hosts ACU's Pure Naughty
The Manchester-based BBC African Caribbean Unit (ACU) has lined up Spice Girl Mel G to present Pure Naughty, a new black music and talk show for BBC 2, writes Tim Dams.Starting
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Galaxy airs TFI spin-off on Saturdays
The Chrysalis-owned Galaxy network of dance stations is to broadcast a Saturday lunchtime spin-off of Channel 4's TFI Friday in a joint-venture with C4 and the Ginger Media Group (GMG), writes
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Glover quits Nat Geo for Yahoo!
National Geographic Channel managing director Jerry Glover quit on Thursday (16 September) to join global internet outfit Yahoo!Star TV director of network services and ex-head of Sky News John O'Loan has
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Keating to head up BBC digital output
UKTV head of programming Roly Keating has been appointed to the newly created post of BBC controller of digital channels, overseeing all the corporation's non-news licence fee-funded and pay-TV services.A founder
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New management in at LBC and News Direct
ITN has installed a new editorial management team at LBC 1152AM and News Direct 97.3 FM as part of its revamp of the stations begun earlier this year, writes John Plunkett.Former
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Smith to outline switch-off criteria
Media Secretary Chris Smith will outline the criteria broadcasters must meet for the analogue switch-off when he speaks to industry leaders at the Cambridge Convention of the Royal Television Society (RTS)
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YOUNG HAILS SOAPS
BBC Broadcast head of drama series Mal Young has commissioned a 10-minute soap, The Avenue, for his Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture at the Royal Television Society Cambridge Convention on Thursday (16
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ROWLINSON STEPS UP
BBC Sport head of development John Rowlinson has been appointed deputy controller, TV sport.Rowlinson's brief will include assisting controller Mike Miller, as well as taking direct responsibility for the department's international
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DIGITAL ONE LAUNCH DATE
National commercial digital radio multiplex Digital One has announced that it will officially launch on 15 November, simulcasting the three existing national commercial services Classic FM, Talk Radio and Virgin. The
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ITN IN ON DIGITAL TALKS
ITN has had preliminary discussions with digital terrestrial broadcaster On Digital about possible carriage for its planned 24-hour news channel.ITN is understood to be planning to launch the channel around the
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LOW INTEREST IN PAY-TV
Only about 55 per cent of households are interested in signing up to pay-TV, far below the level at which the Government would find it acceptable to switch off analogue, according
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Zenith challenges News at Ten move
Zenith Media, one of the UK's biggest advertising agencies, has concluded that moving News at Ten was unnecessary for ITV to achieve its ambition this year of winning 39 per cent
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ITV SCHEDULING KEEPS HEAT ON BBC 1
ITV is set to increase the pressure on BBC 1 over the next few weeks with a series of aggressive scheduling stunts, according to the latest Zenith On TV report, writes
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Children's classic Bill and Ben is to be revived in a£2 million, 26 x 10-minute updated version for BBC Worldwide and BBC 1, writes Tim Dams. Featuring the original flowerpot
Children's classic Bill and Ben is to be revived in a£2 million, 26 x 10-minute updated version for BBC Worldwide and BBC 1, writes Tim Dams. Featuring the original flowerpot
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Hit Wildlife puts up£1.5m for co-pros
Hit Entertainment's natural history arm, Hit Wildlife, has committed $2.5 million (£1.5 million) to co-productions with indies, bringing its total investment in independent production this year to $6 million (£3.7 million),