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EDINBURGH: TVYP - Getting on course
Every year Broadcast sponsors a few young hopefuls to learn something about the inner workings of the industry at TVYP. Esther Eley talks to this year's five candidates, while below Helen Hayes Roberts looks back at last year.
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NewsTough act to follow up
Grade's big vision for ITV sounds good - but there are tricky questions behind the gloss
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EDINBURGH: TV CENSORSHIP - Sexual healing
As the industry gathers for its annual festival, Julian Petley reviews a programming year in which the media hit on sex.
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EDINBURGH: INTERVIEW - C4's wallflower
As director of programmes at C4, Tim Gardam has kept a low profile, working behind the scenes to reinvigorate output by balancing the need for a competitive edge with a desire to rekindle the social purpose behind TV.
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OFF THE RECORD - Spot of bother
Preparations for this year's Edinburgh TV Festival were nearly scuppered by an unusual source - a pair of sickly schoolchildren. The kids, you see, caught Chicken Pox in their home above
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OFF THE RECORD - Act of God
Spooky goings on at Rapture, the widely watched cable and satellite channel owned by United News and Media. The trouble started with a stunt on its nightclubbing show, Trainspotting, when a
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OFF THE RECORD - Chopper flopper
It's not easy being a radio exec. Just ask Virgin Radio deputy sales director Lee Roberts, who hired a helicopter to take him and a bunch of Ginger Media Group execs,
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NewsITV in-house target shocks indie sector
ITV executive chairman Michael Grade wants ITV Productions to account for 75% of ITV1's commissions as part of his strategy to restore growth.
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OFF THE RECORD - Middle-age spread
Older readers won't have any trouble recognising Off The Record's favourite seventies band the Osmonds. But who is the stranger among them?Why, it's none other than Channel 5 spinmeister LesleyAnne Saville,
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OFF THE RECORD - Off line
Those good people at On Digital were rightly proud of their tie-up with Demon Internet to provide the digital operator's email services last week.But On Digital execs with a Demon address
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OFF THE RECORD - Off side
It's good to know the BBC can still laugh at itself, despite the fact it has only two live football matches this season after the rest of the rights were snapped
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OFF THE RECORD - The naked truth
Channel 4's cricket coverage faced its first major test last week when a couple of streakers ran onto the Oval pitch during England's defeat by New Zealand. The BBC, older readers
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NewsJake Arnott cop thriller leads revival of ITV drama
ITV1 has kicked off its drive for upmarket contemporary drama by snapping up He Kills Coppers, the follow-up to the BBC's acclaimed adaptation of Jake Arnott's novel The Long Firm.
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TV Corp snaps up Mentorn for£25m
The Television Corporation (TVC) this week struck a deal to buy The Mentorn Group for an estimated£25 million - marking what is expected to be the first in a number
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BBC earmarks£5.5m for south-east overhaul
The BBC this week unveiled a£5.5 million plan to revamp its regional television and radio services for London and the south-east, write Tim Dams and John Plunkett.The plan will see
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Carlton axes Central and Westcountry
Carlton Television is jettisoning its regional brands, Westcountry and Central, in favour of a new on-air Carlton identity, writes Dominic Timms.From Monday (6 September) the regional broadcasters' individual on-air identities will
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Millionaire? to build on US success
Celador Productions' US version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? is poised to return for a second run on ABC during the all-important November sweeps, following its blockbuster performance this
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NewsCGS signs European broadcast deal
Championship Gaming Series (CGS) has signed a European broadcast deal with Eurosport and BSkyB, making the professional video-gaming league available in more than 400 million homes worldwide.
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SCHUMACHER TO DIRECT US VERSION OF QUEER AS FOLK
US movie director Joel Schumacher, whose credits include 8mm, Batman & Robin, Falling Down, Flatliners and St Elmo's Fire, has signed up to direct the US version of Red Productions' Channel
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THIRD SERIES OF DOPE SHEET COMMISSIONED BY C4
Channel 4 animation has recommissioned a third series of the late-night animation magazine strand Dope Sheet from Illuminations. Each programme consists of 1 x 30-minutes of various stories and features on