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Ideal World looks at house-hunters for new C4 show
Channel 4 commissioning editor, features Liz Warner has greenlit a new 8 x 30-minute property programme from Ideal World, Location, Location, Location, writes Ashley Davies.
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BBC 2 lines up Hamilton/Al-Fayed libel drama
BBC 2 has lined up a fast response drama dedicated to the recent Hamilton versus Al-Fayed libel case, writes Tim Dams.
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - Channel 4 clocks on with Longitude
Channel 4's critically acclaimed adaptation of Dava Sobel's Longitude picked up a respectable audience for the channel this week, writes Tim Dams.
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Police may act against Kiddey film
Carlton West Country could face legal action from Devon and Cornwall police over an investigative documentary into an alleged miscarriage of justice, writes Jason Deans.
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Dyke to lead BBC review
BBC director general Sir John Birt's decision to step down early will allow Greg Dyke to take full control of the BBC's annual performance review, writes Tim Dams.
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Pact airs United/Carlton fears
Producers' alliance Pact has called on the competition authorities to investigate the merger of Carlton Communications and United News & Media, because it fears indies could lose out as a result of the deal, writes Tim Dams.
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C4/BBC accused as Miller quits TV
Uden Associates managing director William Miller is quitting the industry because broadcasters' attitudes are 'killing creativity' and forcing indies to run their businesses like 'slave ships'.Singling out Channel 4 and the
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Thorogood takes role at EastEnders Revealed
BBC Choice programming executive Katy Thorogood is relinquishing her commissioning role for a nine-month secondment in BBC Production, writes Tim Dams.
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Census takes snapshop of UK broadcasting
Age, ethnicity and disability will all come under the spotlight this summer as Skillset and the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) launch the first annual census of the UK broadcasting industry, writes Lucy Rouse.
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C5 BACKERS READY BIDS
As Broadcast went to press Channel 5 shareholders Pearson, United News & Media (UN&M) and CLT-Ufa were poised to exercise their options to bid for the 19 per cent stake put
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C5 PONDERS SKY AND ITN
Sky News and ITN are battling head to head to win the contract to make Channel 5's new daytime current affairs show.The two are understood to have put forward pitches for
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TRIO SHARE GMTV STAKE
The sale of the Guardian Media Group's 15 per cent stake in GMTV has finally been concluded. Scottish Media Group (SMG), Granada Media Group (GMG) and Carlton Communications have each paid
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OFF THE RECORD - Phone rage
What's this (right)? Could it be the fragrant Elisabeth Murdoch caught on camera some years ago in her first job at BSkyB, manning one of the phones at its customer call
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OFF THE RECORD - Charity cases
Those caring sharing Channel 4 types certainly did their bit for the homeless in 1999. Take its backing of October Films doc Staying Lost, for example, which it had to defend
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OFF THE RECORD - Desert island kids
Channel 4 was probably hoping for a few Lord of the Flies-style antics when it marooned a bunch of kids on a desert island for its hugely anticipated new docu-soap Shipwrecked.
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OFF THE RECORD - Prize turkey
The most boring job in TV must surely be won by the chap whose job it is to set off the pyrotechnics on ITV's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Well,
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OFF THE RECORD - Taking liberties
OTR's eye was caught by an ebullient press release from the good people of London's 'most entertaining station', Mohamed Al-Fayed-owned Liberty Radio. Its top 10 most-played songs last year included Elton
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NewsHowie fills Clinton-Davis shoes
UKTV has promoted Diana Howie to the role of acting head of commissioning following the move of Jo Clinton-Davis to ITV.
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OFF THE RECORD - 'Andy Harries? My arse'
Cast your mind back, if you will, to the British Comedy Awards last month, where Caroline Aherne's The Royle Family swept the board.Jim Royle-style couch potatoes must have been bemused by
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OFF THE RECORD - Snail mail
Much ruffling of feathers over at Carlton when minions received an email from Carlton International grand fromage Rupert Dilnott-Cooper, warning them to expect a big stock market announcement regarding the company's