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NewsRicochet to uncover fashion's third world factories for BBC3
High street shops will come under scrutiny in a new BBC3 reality TV documentary about how the clothes we wear are made in third world countries.
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ITC clears ITV's Tonight
The Independent Television Commission has ruled in favour of Tonight's decision to interview the five suspects in the Stephen Lawrence murder case, writes Wale Azeez.In its ruling the ITC said the
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BBC AND ITV AGREE FEE FOR LYNAM TRANSFER
The BBC and ITV have settled their Des Lynam 'transfer fee' dispute, in an agreement which will see ITV pay the BBC a six-figure sum for poaching the sports presenter mid-contract.
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GRAY LEAVES WRITERS' GUILD AFTER SIX YEARS
General secretary of the Writers' Guild Alison Gray is to leave the organisation after six years. During her time at the guild, Gray is credited with overseeing a radical restructuring and
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CELADOR CASHES IN ON MILLIONAIRE SERIES
Celador Productions is to launch a range of new consumer products based around its successful ITV series, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (right). Slated for release this September are a
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LIVE SPORTS AUCTIONS RETURNS TO SKY SPORTS
Sky Sports and the Auction Channel have agreed a new 12-month deal for a second series of Live Sports Auctions after a successful first run which kicked off last December.Live Sports
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GINGER AND ERICSSON PLAN GLOBAL AUDIENCE FOR VIRGIN
Chris Evans' Ginger Media Group is to collaborate with telecoms equipment manufacturer Ericsson in early trials of new technology which could allow listeners in any part of the world to tune
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BBC LAUNCHES INTERACTIVE SAFETY COURSE ON CD-ROM
BBC training and development has produced an interactive safety training course on CD-Rom, inspired by Bectu's June conference which highlighted a 'deficit of health and safety instruction in an increasingly untrained
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3DD SELLS ROBBIE WILLIAMS CONCERT PACKAGE
Music distributor and packager 3DD Entertainment has finalised a deal which will see Robbie Williams' Slane Castle concert broadcast live with simultaneous transmissions on Sky One, Sky Box Office, Sky's new
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FOX BROUGHT ON BOARD TO PRODUCE CITV PROMOTION LINKS
Carlton controller of children's and young people's programming Michael Forte has hired Martyn Fox as executive producer of CITV's promotion links.Fox, who recently worked with CITV as series producer of Top
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MILLENNIUM BLACKADDER TO PREMIERE ON SKY
BSkyB has stolen a march on the BBC by winning the exclusive rights to the television premiere of a one-off millennium special episode of hit comedy series Blackadder (left). The programme,
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GWR READING STATIONS RECEIVE£2M FOR NEW COMPLEX
GWR Group is to pump£2 million into its two Reading-based radio stations, 2-Ten FM and Classic Gold 1431/1485. The extra funding is to be ploughed into a new purpose-built complex
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ASA UPHOLDS COMPLAINTS AGAINST SKY DIGITAL AND C5
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the body which enforces standards in non-broadcast ads, has upheld two complaints against BSkyB's Sky Digital campaign and one protest against a Channel 5 promotion.One complainant
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DBC SIGNS DARBY AND MCBRIEN FOR MARKETING ROLES
Digital pay-per-view venture the digital broadcasting company (dbc), which launched the movie service u>directfilms on Sky Digital last month, has recruited two new members of staff to its marketing department. Charlotte
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NewsHistory sails with Columbus
The History Channel has ordered a feature-length HD special from Lion Television on Christopher Columbus' ill-fated fourth voyage.
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RA PULLS UP STATIONS FOR BAD TASTE AND LANGUAGE
The Radio Authority upheld six complaints about programmes on commercial radio in the second quarter of this year. Two of the complaints related to jokes on 104.9 Xfm that were judged
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FLINTHAM AND TOWNSEND FILL NEW POSTS AT SKILLSET
Skillset, the national training body for broadcast, film, video and multimedia, has filled two newly created posts - in-house research manager and communications director. Neil Flintham joins as research manager with
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LWT borrows BBC teen group
LWT has lured teen pop band S Club 7 away from the BBC to make a one-off, hour-long special for an ITV primetime Saturday night slot in September.S Club 7 rose
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Double Jab meets Bocelli for BBC2 doc
Renowned classical singer Andrea Bocelli has given a very rare interview to Double Jab Productions for a BBC2 documentary.
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BBC 2 decides to send in the Clunes
BBC 2 controller Jane Root has lined up a new film starring Martin Clunes as an 'anarchic TV presenter who will go to any lengths to win ratings'.Called Sex 'n' Death,