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    Canterbury Tales bags four Emmys

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Animated series The Canterbury Tales, an S4C/BBC Wales/HBO co-production, has picked up four Emmy Awards for outstanding individual achievement in animation.Joanna Quinn, who works at Cardiff-based Beryl Productions, has notched up

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    Bosom Pals, Tiger Aspect Productions' adult animation based on work by Beryl Cook, is to have its first public airing at the Cartoon Forum in Spain next month, writes Jason Deans

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Bosom Pals, Tiger Aspect Productions' adult animation based on work by Beryl Cook, is to have its first public airing at the Cartoon Forum in Spain next month, writes Jason Deans.

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    VNU LANDS£1.7BN TAKEOVER OF US RATINGS COMPANY

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    US and Canadian ratings outfit Nielsen Media Research has agreed to a $2.7 billion (£1.7 billion) takeover offer from Dutch publisher VNU. The deal, which has been approved by the directors

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    CNTS GOES ONTO THE NET AFTER SIGNAL INTERRUPTIONS

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Central European Media Enterprises' (CME) Czech subsidiary CNTS has begun transmitting nightly Nova TV news bulletins on the internet, following the interruption of the terrestrial broadcast signal it was supplying to

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    PEARSON ARCHIVE GAINS RIGHTS TO SEPTEMBER CLIPS

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Pearson Television International Archive business development executive Alessio di Capua has secured the worldwide distribution rights to September Films' library of clips. The deal, which covers around 50 hours of output,

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    FORT BOYARD BOOSTS EXPAND'S REVENUES

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Expand, the French company that owns the Fort Boyard entertainment format, has announced a 10 per cent increase in revenues for the first half of 1999, to FFr 604 million (£61

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    ZDF SUBSIDIARY IN DOCUMENTARY JOINT-VENTURE

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    German public broadcaster ZDF's commercial arm, ZDF Enterprises, and Hamburg producer Katharina Trebitsch have set up the joint-venture doc.station to develop and produce documentaries for the international market. The Hamburg-based company,

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    MERGED FIRMS TO TAKE MAJOR SHARE IN TV5

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Arte and La Cinquieme are to become the largest shareholders in international French-language satellite channel TV5. The two channels - which will officially merge their operations when France's new broadcast law

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    SIEGLER REWARDS THREE AT GRANADA ENTERTAINMENT USA

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Granada Entertainment USA president Scott Siegler has promoted Matt Goldammer to director, business and legal affairs, Rebecca Hedrick to story editor for TV movies and mini-series and EJ Lee to manager,

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    On the box - Stuart Murpny

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    UK Play channel editor Stuart Murphy on Weekender and BBC News 24's Zero 30.

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    Just desserts

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    After many years working with Peter Bazalgette, Tim Hincks was named deputy of GMG Endemol. But is he just a Baz clone, asks John Plunkett.

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    The Brits are coming

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    GB Productions' LA launch last week generated favourable column inches Stateside but mixed reviews in the UK. Jason Deans on the new BBC Worldwide and Granada joint-venture.

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    OPINION - Sky makes pace in digital battle

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Elisabeth Murdoch's evangelical address at last year's Edinburgh Television Festival may have been a triumph of style over content. Nonetheless it did contain one highly prescient message that at the time

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    REPORT - Who's top of the class in UK TV?

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Teacher's pet or class clown? As the industry packs its bags for next week's Edinburgh TV festival, and with an eye on the autumn schedules, Broadcast gives three contrasting views of terrestrial performance over the past year.

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    INTERVIEW - Let me entertain you

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Ex-Planet 24 man Duncan Gray spent his first year as Granada's entertainment chief gathering a strong team around him. Now he's ready to reap the rewards, with a raft of shows about to hit the network's new schedule.

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    RATINGS ANALYSIS - No score draws?

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Despite the assertions of media commentators that football is coming home, a closer look at the figures reveals remarkably little change in the number of people watching.

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    OFF THE RECORD - Porn to the job

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    As if having to make Live TV's piss-poor soft porn wasn't bad enough, now long-suffering staffers have to watch it as well. Off The Record's moles at the cable channel reveal

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    OFF THE RECORD - Airey fairy nonsense

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    And so to the rarefied atmosphere of the Royal Television Society, where OTR hears that next month Channel 5 director of programmes Dawn Airey (above right), is to 'reveal her most

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    OFF THE RECORD - Elstein's brain

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Still on the subject of Channel 5, OTR was as pleased as punch when its favourite movie, The Man With Two Brains, was screened last week. But just how does chief

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    OFF THE RECORD - Priory knowledge

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    It's quite like old times at Ealing Studios - home of the Ealing comedies - these days. Could it be because Granada's latest hilarious comedy dramas, The Royle Family and Bob