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OFF THE RECORD - Put a sock in it!
Off The Record is no stranger to receiving unusual presents in the post - not long ago it was sent a pair of melons to celebrate the return to our (satellite
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OFF THE RECORD - Life's a beach
Readers who haven't tuned into ITV2 (OTR understands there are still a few) will have missed this intriguing trailer (right) for the digital and cable channel's re-runs of Baywatch. Those who
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OFF THE RECORD - Wales of a laugh
With a brief extending from Mark and Lard to Mahler and Liszt, BBC Radio head honcho Jenny Abramsky is naturally very broad-minded. But her tolerance was stretched to breaking point last
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OFF THE RECORD - Charm offensive
It's damage limitation time at Channel 4, where indies are reportedly unhappy that a larger and larger part of the C4 marketing budget appears to be being splashed out on fewer
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OFF THE RECORD - This is a low
A specially invited audience was treated to a one-off concert by hip young pop things Blur at the BBC Hippodrome in Golders Green last week.The band performed a set for BBC
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OFF THE RECORD - All Talked out
Talk Radio boss Kelvin MacKenzie was hopping mad when the BBC's very own listings mag, the Radio Times, refused to carry details of his station's schedule. Desperate to see their listings
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BBC mulls revamp of commissioning
BBC Broadcast chief executive Will Wyatt is considering a radical overhaul of the TV commissioning system, which could introduce a layer of genre commissioning editors below the BBC 1 and 2
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Darling Buds team to drive Reed vehicle
The team behind ITV's top-rating drama, The Darling Buds of May, is to make another HE Bates adaptation for the network, this time starring Oliver Reed, writes Nicola Methven.
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C4 swaps unloved circles for new identity
Channel 4's unloved circles logo will disappear on Good Friday (2 April), to be replaced by a new identity based on moving bands of colour.The on-screen look will feature vertical bands
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Ex-Ginger chief wins ITV thriller for indie
Michael Foster, former chief executive of Chris Evans' Ginger TV, has joined independent Northwestone Films and won a drama commission from ITV, writes Nicola Methven.
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TalkBack to think big for BBC 1 pilot
TalkBack Productions is to shoot a pilot for an ambitious BBC 1 gameshow, which is being lined up for a possible early Saturday evening slot, writes Liz Shackleton.
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YEAR OF PROMISE IS ITV NEW MILLENNIUM RESOLUTION
ITV is to give a full day's schedule over to a millennium project described by chief executive Richard Eyre as 'the ultimate New Year resolution'.The network is to launch ITV's Year
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PALADIN TO MAKE DIANA ANCESTOR DOC FOR C4
Indie producer Paladin Pictures is making a biographical documentary for Channel 4 on one of Diana, Princess of Wales' eighteenth-century ancestors, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire.The one-off special, which is due to
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SKY GETS AHEAD IN FILM ON ITS MOVIE CHANNELS
Sky Movies is producing two new series to air on its film channels in April. A 10 x 30-minute run of How to Get Ahead in Film, produced by Simon Kerslake
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BBC 2 COOKS UP A CROSS-ATLANTIC STEW
BBC features and events is in production on a new 6 x 30-minutes food programme for BBC 2 primetime transmission from 4 May. Big Kevin, Little Kevin, produced by Andrew Fettis
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WADDELL TO MAKE IRISH TRAVEL SERIES FOR TV3
Brian Waddell Productions is producing a 13-part travel series, Daytrippers, for Irish commercial broadcaster TV3. The show features celebrities introducing their favourite patch of Ireland. Transmission is scheduled for late spring.
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BBC BUYS INTO BKN'S ROSWELL CONSPIRACIES
The BBC has acquired a children's animation series, Roswell Conspiracies, from New York-based children's programming network BKN. The series is scheduled to launch on BKN affiliates in the US this autumn.
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C4 TO HIGHLIGHT CORNISH SOCIAL PROBLEMS
Channel 4 deputy director of programmes Karen Brown has ordered a series of shorts about this summer's solar eclipse in Cornwall from Plymouth-based indie A38 Films. The 5 x 3-minute films,
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YORK HIRED TO THROW LIGHT ON WESTCOUNTRY ECLIPSE
Westcountry Television is to cover the biggest event of the year in its region with a 3 x 30-minute documentary, Eclipse '99, from London-based indie York Films.
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Wearing takes on 'epic' Nature Boy
Catherine Wearing, producer of Our Mutual Friend and Common as Muck, is working on a high-profile, four-part drama for BBC 2.The original script for Nature Boy has been written by Brian