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Chrysalis sells Bentley drama to US A&E network
Chrysalis Distribution has sold the second series of Bentley Productions' ITV drama, Midsomer Murders, to US cable network A&E, writes Jason Deans.Chrysalis Television International managing director Nick Witkowski said Chrysalis will
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Pearson TV gains foothold in Finland
Pearson Television has broken into the Finnish market with a commission to make a daily drama, Salatut Elamat (Secret Lives), for commercial broadcaster MTV3.MTV3 has committed to three series of Secret
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Italy eyes new law to curb News Corp
The Italian government is considering new TV ownership restrictions aimed at limiting the ambitions of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Europe.Communications under-secretary Vincenzo Vita, speaking in an interview with Italian weekly L'Espresso,
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MURDOCH DISMISSES TALK OF KIRCH STAKE AS 'PREMATURE'
Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corp (right), has said talk that the company is close to finalising an agreement to take a stake in Germany's Kirch Group is
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JOSPIN KEEPS FRENCH BROADCASTERS WAITING
The French broadcasting industry may have to wait until after a parliamentary election later this year for a new broadcasting law. Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin is thought to be awaiting
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DT SETS UP KABEL DEUTSCHLAND TO RUN CABLE NETWORKS
German state telecoms outfit Deutsche Telekom (DT) has established a separate subsidiary, Kabel Deutschland, to run the cable television networks it plans to sell off. The new unit, which will be
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BBC FILMS APPOINTS MACTAGGART TO DEVELOPMENT ROLE
Ivan Mactaggart has been appointed to the new post of business development manager for BBC Films within the corporation's Rights Agency. Mactaggart, who was previously director of the First Film Foundation
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PEAKVIEWING TRANSATLANTIC UNVEILS NATPE SLATE
Peakviewing Transatlantic, the distribution arm of Gloucestershire-based indie Peakviewing Productions, will be attending the Natpe programming market for the first time later this month with a programming slate including pre-school puppet
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PUSCHNIG QUITS ACQUISITIONS POST AT RTL
RTL Television director of acquisitions and sales Erhart Puschnig is to leave the German commercial broadcaster after 15 years for personal reasons. RTL's new secretary general, Dr Thomas Hesse, will take
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E.TV ACCUSED OF EIGHT LICENCE VIOLATIONS
South Africa's Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) has accused the country's first commercial free-to-air broadcaster, e.tv, of violating eight licensing conditions. If found guilty by the Broadcasting Monitoring & Complaints Commission (BMCC),
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ASIA WAKES UP TO BBC WORLD SERVICE'S THE WORLD TODAY
The BBC World Service launched The World Today, a new daily English-language breakfast programme for Asia, on Monday (11 January).The World Service is producing a 170-minute edition of the show for
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No public service without the public
Public service broadcasting, as one wag famously pronounced, is a bit like an elephant - difficult to define but easy to recognise when you see it. This is hardly a perfect
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COMMENT - Time to champion successes on free TV
Let us now praise free television.In the past six months ITV and the BBC have produced some shows as good as any in their long histories.As the hubbub of those with
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Network first?
One year after the ITV Network Centre unveiled its ambitious targets for peaktime share, are Liddiment and Eyre on course for achieving these goals?
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1999 - the year of Tigger and Eeyore
On the face of it new year should be the time of the Tiggers, bouncy optimists thrilled by the idea of new beginnings and fresh challenges.But these early months of the
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THE ECONOMY - PART ONE - Surviving the rollercoaster
With both the IMF and Treasury providing gloomy forecasts for 1999, what effect will this economic downturn have on the broadcasting industry? Opening a two-part special, Meg Carter finds that TV executives are cautiously optimistic.
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Vertue's reward
Newly installed Pact chairman Beryl Vertue enjoyed huge success with Men Behaving Badly. Can she work the same magic with the producers' alliance?
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Schlock of the new
Light entertainment's new wave of presenters are highly valued - but are they worth their big buck salaries when it's the shows fronted by TV's golden oldies that still top the ratings?