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INTERVIEW - The Assembly line
The extra£6 million BBC Wales has been given to spend on news is the first benefit of devolution. There will be others, says controller Geraint Telfan Davies, who is convinced Wales has a growing role to play in the BBC.
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Satellite slowdown
Despite making bullish noises, cable and satellite channels are picking up new customers at a slower rate and discovering their existing audience can be fickle in its viewing habits.
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OFF THE RECORD - Pretty woman
Guests at the schmoozetastic premiere of Notting Hill in London's fashionable West End last week were at a loss to name the mystery man who was enthusiastically embraced by its star,
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OFF THE RECORD - The bottom line
Sophie Rhys Jones has got a big bum. Now, before you start writing a letter of complaint, don't take OTR's word for it - ask ITN's friend of the royals, Nicholas
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OFF THE RECORD - Plowman's awards pickle
Spare a thought for poor BBC Production entertainment supremo Jon Plowman, who flew back from Montreux last week just hours before the Beeb's very own The League of Gentleman picked up
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OFF THE RECORD - What happened next?
Red faces at the Royal Television Society sports awards last week when rivals in the sports entertainment award, the Beeb's Question of Sport (right) and TalkBack's They Think It's All Over,
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OFF THE RECORD - Missing person
OTR was delighted to be invited to Virgin Radio's sixth birthday bash at the Sound Republic in Leicester Square last week. In attendance were newly signed DJs Pete and Geoff, and
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OFF THE RECORD - Candid camera
When Jennifer Wilson, executive producer of programmes at video news agency APTN, found a roll of film at Camden Town tube station, she did the nosey (sorry, decent) thing by having
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OFF THE RECORD - Radio waves
OTR is assured that Paul Gambaccini's four-letter tirade at last week's Sony radio awards barely ruffled a feather among the collected grands fromages. An awards insider says only one person complained
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TV producers lament fall in quality and standards
An overwhelming majority of production staff believes the quality of television programmes has deteriorated during the past four years.There is also widespread concern over what many programme-makers perceive as a fall
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BBC team follows in Mallory's footsteps
A BBC features production team has been filming the search for the body of English mountaineer George Mallory, which was found on Mount Everest last week, for a BBC 2 documentary, writes Liz Shackleton.
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BBC to pay SDN to carry Knowledge
The BBC is planning to pay digital terrestrial (DTT) operator S4C Digital Networks (SDN) for carriage of its licence fee-funded education channel, BBC Knowledge.BBC sources have confirmed that the corporation is
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FULL SERIES OF MRS BRADLEY MYSTERIES IN PRODUCTION
BBC Drama and WGBH Boston have started production on a four-part series of Mrs Bradley Mysteries following the success of the pilot, which racked up eight million viewers when it aired
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C4 TO SHOW SEASON OF BLACK HISTORY IN AUTUMN
Channel 4's multicultural department is spearheading a special season of shows about black history this autumn. Included will be a 60-minute documentary made by Touch Productions called Brown Babies, about children
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PARAMOUNT BAGS FOUR C4 COMEDY PROGRAMMES
The Paramount Comedy Channel has got its hands on four Channel 4 comedy shows for its autumn schedule, including 23 episodes of The Comic Strip.Paramount head of acquisitions and programme strategy
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LION BRUSHES UP ON CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS FOR CLOSE UP
Lion Television is producing a 50-minute documentary for BBC 2's Close Up strand about nine contemporary artists, including Anthony Gormley and David Mach, who have been commissioned to produce works of
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C4 TAKES CO-PRO ROLE ON GERMAN NEOLITHIC MAN DOC
Channel 4 has signed up as a co-production partner on $800,000 (£496,500) German documentary The Living World of Otzi the Iceman, currently in post-production. A co-production between ZDF Enterprises, ORF, Discovery
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SCREEN GRAB LEADS AUTUMN PILOTS FOR BBC CHOICE
BBC Choice director of programming Katharine Everett has ordered a number of pilots for the channel's autumn schedule, including a 30-minute show, Screen Grab, which takes a humorous look at what's
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BENJAMIN SCOOPS THREE EXTRA RUNS OF JAMBOREE
ITV has commissioned three more 13 x 10-minute series of the pre-school show Jamboree from Floella Benjamin Productions. Produced by Benjamin and directed by Keith Taylor, the second series begins in
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BAZAL DIGS IN TO PRODUCE GARDEN MAGIC FOR BBC 1
BBC head of daytime Jane Lush has commissioned Bazal to make a new series, Garden Magic. Initially running on BBC 1 for 16 x 30-minutes at 11.00 from 25 May, it