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EDINBURGH: NEXT GENERATION
What happened to last year's list of twenty-something hotshots? David Wood charts their progress, while Leigh Holmwood gets on the trail of some of last year's TVYP young guns as they set off on their careers.
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EDINBURGH: TVYP - Getting on course
Every year Broadcast sponsors a few young hopefuls to learn something about the inner workings of the industry at TVYP. Esther Eley talks to this year's five candidates, while below Helen Hayes Roberts looks back at last year.
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EDINBURGH: TV CENSORSHIP - Sexual healing
As the industry gathers for its annual festival, Julian Petley reviews a programming year in which the media hit on sex.
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EDINBURGH: INTERVIEW - C4's wallflower
As director of programmes at C4, Tim Gardam has kept a low profile, working behind the scenes to reinvigorate output by balancing the need for a competitive edge with a desire to rekindle the social purpose behind TV.
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OFF THE RECORD - Spot of bother
Preparations for this year's Edinburgh TV Festival were nearly scuppered by an unusual source - a pair of sickly schoolchildren. The kids, you see, caught Chicken Pox in their home above
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OFF THE RECORD - Act of God
Spooky goings on at Rapture, the widely watched cable and satellite channel owned by United News and Media. The trouble started with a stunt on its nightclubbing show, Trainspotting, when a
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OFF THE RECORD - Chopper flopper
It's not easy being a radio exec. Just ask Virgin Radio deputy sales director Lee Roberts, who hired a helicopter to take him and a bunch of Ginger Media Group execs,
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OFF THE RECORD - Middle-age spread
Older readers won't have any trouble recognising Off The Record's favourite seventies band the Osmonds. But who is the stranger among them?Why, it's none other than Channel 5 spinmeister LesleyAnne Saville,
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OFF THE RECORD - Off line
Those good people at On Digital were rightly proud of their tie-up with Demon Internet to provide the digital operator's email services last week.But On Digital execs with a Demon address
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OFF THE RECORD - Off side
It's good to know the BBC can still laugh at itself, despite the fact it has only two live football matches this season after the rest of the rights were snapped
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OFF THE RECORD - The naked truth
Channel 4's cricket coverage faced its first major test last week when a couple of streakers ran onto the Oval pitch during England's defeat by New Zealand. The BBC, older readers
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Sky denies rift as digital chief exits
BSkyB digital chief Ian West has left the company suddenly, just two months after the arrival of the satellite broadcaster's new chief executive Tony Ball.The departure of West after 10 years
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Airey rules out move to BBC
Dawn Airey has ruled out a move to Greg Dyke's BBC - saying she intends to remain as Channel 5 director of programmes, writes Steve Clarke.Speaking at the station's autumn launch
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Two senior posts go as CVE restructures
Two senior Chrysalis Visual Entertainment (CVE) executives, managing director Julie Blessyn and Chrysalis Television International (CTI) managing director Nick Witkowski, are understood to be negotiating redundancy packages.The redundancies are said to
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S4C and BBC Wales launch joint channel
Welsh language broadcaster S4C is gearing up to launch a joint-venture digital channel with BBC Wales to provide coverage of the Welsh Assembly, write Alice Macandrew and Wale Azeez.The new channel,
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BBC EDUCATION DISSECTS THE PLAYS OF ARTHUR MILLER
BBC education goes into production next week with Miller Shorts, a 4 x 30-minute series for BBC 2 that explores the most famous plays of Arthur Miller. Each programme examines a
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THEAKSTONE TO NAMEDROP THE STARS IN BBC 1 SPECIAL
BBC entertainment and features in Manchester has gone into production with a new show for BBC 1 hosted by Jamie Theakstone (left). Namedroppers is currently a one-off special that, if successful,
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ITV2 SECURES RIGHTS TO READING ROCK-FEST
ITV2 has secured the exclusive broadcast rights to The Reading Festival, held over the August bank holiday weekend. The general entertainment channel, aimed at a younger audience than the ITV network,
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ROGERS PRESENTS A ROUGH HISTORY FOR UK HORIZONS
BBC/Flextech joint-venture channel UK Horizons has commissioned a 10 x 30-minute series from Granada TV telling the anecdotal history of some of the UK's more unusual places of historical interest. A
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WHIZZIWIG RETURNS TO CITV FOR THIRD SERIES
Carlton Television children's drama Whizziwig has been recommissioned for a third series by ITV controller of children's and youth programmes Nigel Pickard. The 7 x 30-minute run, which features the antics