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Wonder years
Shows like C4's Pornography prove that World of Wonder's Fenton Bailey is as at home with boned-up docs as pop ephemera, reports David Wood.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Keep it in the family?
With many of Auntie's most successful shows such as The Royle Family (above) now being produced by outside suppliers, Tim Dams asks why BBC Production is missing out.
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OPINION - Content is king, the rest is detail
Shorthand. We all use it and it's endemic to the TV and radio industries, just as all industries develop their own jargon. We write about Gavyn Davies and you realise we're
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GENRE AUDIT: NEWS - Here is the news, 2009
What will TV news look like in 10 years' time? With technology revolutionising the way news is gathered and delivered, our three-page special offers a few pointers.
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GENRE AUDIT: NEWS - Taking a hit
The pictures may be blurry, unreliable and prone to freezing, but broadcasters will soon welcome the internet as a cheap and efficient way of distributing video, says Bob Eggington.
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GENRE AUDIT: NEWS - Brand new take
Once regarded as the enemy of newsrooms, marketing makeovers have now become so commonplace even the BBC succumbed when updating its bulletins. But have editorial concerns taken a back seat, asks Andy Fry.
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NewsSky explores IPTV launch for Picnic
Picnic, BSkyB's proposed pay DTT offering, could launch as an IPTV service that would rival BT Vision.
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INTERVIEW - Keeper of the faith
News 24 and BBC World offered viewers a ringside seat at the Paddington rail disaster and the military coup in Pakistan, says Tim Orchard, as he makes the case for the BBC rolling news and global channels he runs.
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OFF THE RECORD - News on the cheap
Congratulations to the BBC's Fergal Keane - winner of the TV news gong at this year's Bayeux Awards for war correspondents. It was Keane's hard-hitting reports from Sierra Leone that impressed
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OFF THE RECORD - Eat my shorts
Shock news from Off The Record's favourite Christian radio station, Premier, which was proud to announce this month the hiring of a big-name presenter for one of its evangelical slots. Knowing
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OFF THE RECORD - If you can't stand the heat ..
Times are hard at Mentorn Barraclough Carey, which has auctioned off hundreds of items of cooking equipment after its daytime food show, Quisine (left), was cancelled by ITV. All MBC staff
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OFF THE RECORD - If you can't stand ... (part 2)
Criticism that there just aren't enough programmes around to justify the glut of awards ceremonies was surely laid to rest last week when it was announced that Blighty's very own Floyd
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OFF THE RECORD - Top of the league
New marriage is obviously suiting Rupert Murdoch, who was in perky form at BSkyB's annual general meeting last week. After announcing that 2.4 per cent of Sky's shareholders had voted against
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NewsNeal Street gains Worth novel rights
Sam Mendes' indie, Neal Street Productions, has secured the television rights to best-selling novel Call the Midwife as its follow-up TV project to the critically acclaimed Stuart: A Life Backwards.
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OFF THE RECORD - The (non) Cable Guy
Red Ken Livingstone, the anti-Murdoch, was in fine fettle this week at the World Cable Dinner on Monday. The newt-loving MP told the assorted grands fromages that he should be mayor
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BBC3 pilot gets go-ahead
Supernatural drama Being Human has become the second of BBC3's pilot dramas to be commissioned for a full series.