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C4 INTERNATIONAL TO SELL RIGHTS TO ROCK STAR FORMAT
Channel 4 International is in negotiations with several overseas broadcasters, including a Disney company, about acquiring the format rights to its six-part drama series, The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a
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EX-PRIMETIME CHIEF LEWORTHY JOINS CASE TV
Richard Leworthy, former CEO of Primetime, is to join independent Case Television as director. He joins founders Sue Francis and Patricia Williams and will oversee Case's production joint-venture with Canadian producer
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NEW YOUTH CHANNEL TF2 TO LAUNCH EARLY NEXT YEAR
TF1 is to launch a new youth channel, in spite of the decision by Rupert Murdoch to pull out of a joint project, TFX, which had been widely touted earlier this
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ASSET EXCHANGE STRENGTHENS MURDOCH'S SPORTING GRIP
Rupert Murdoch has tightened his grip on the world's sports market in an exchange of assets with Liberty Media, which owns 36 per cent of Flextech.The deal sees Liberty Media give
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NEWS CORP OPENS CHINESE OFFICE IN BEIJING
News Corp is expanding its operations in China by opening an office in Beijing to oversee investments in China. The company's Hong Kong-based Star TV already broadcasts to parts of mainland
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Trio to give Corrie airing on US cable
Granada Media has sold Coronation Street to US cable channel Trio, marking the soap's first appearance there since limited syndication in the 1970s.The deal will see Trio - which specialises in
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RTE signs Watchdog editor
Irish public service broadcaster RTE has poached the editor of BBC 1's Watchdog, Helen O'Rahilly, to become its new director of television production, writes Tim Dams.O'Rahilly fills the gap left by
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SBS/CME merger creates Euro giant
Scandinavia's SBS Broadcasting is to merge with Central European Media Enterprises (CME) in a deal worth $615 million (£381 million), forming Europe's largest broadcaster with 18 TV channels and 12 radio
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Mentorn International to sell the Blockbuster Movie Chart Show format around the world
Mentorn International, the distribution and sales arm of the Mentorn Group, is to sell the Blockbuster Movie Chart Show format around the world.The distribution deal comes just as video retailer Blockbuster
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Tough cookie
Sophie Turner Laing, new acquisitions controller at the BBC, takes the biscuit - no-one has a bad word to say about her, Hilary Curtis discovers.
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Peter Bazalgette
On how the UK television industry is too complacent in its approach to selling programmes to the world.
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Channel 5's bum rap
The ITC says Channel 5's schedule last year was awash with too many low-quality shows such as The Real Monty. But how can C5 deliver top-quality product on a shoestring, asks John Plunkett.
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When first we practise to deceive
Documentary-makers at home and abroad have been tarred with the same brush as some of their less scrupulous peers. Opening a three-page special, Meg Carter examines the damage to the genre and the effect on international sales.
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DOCUMENTARIES - Stick to the facts
We may be getting worked up about factual 'fakery' in the UK, but in the US even the smallest piece of staging in news programming could cost you your job. Remy Blumenfeld explains how American attitudes differ.
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Perfect timing
Those impatient for the arrival of video-on-demand should pause to think about the issue of programme rights.
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INTERVIEW - Pro7's Rola coaster
When ProSieben lured Rola Bauer from Alliance International, it signalled the German broadcaster's move towards making more international fiction like Total Recall (below) to complement its Hollywood imports.
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TX - BOB THE BUILDER
Producer: Hit EntertainmentBroadcaster: BBC 1Start: 15.45, 12 AprilLength: 26 x 10-minutesCommissioned by: Theresa Plummer-AndrewsExecutive producers: Kate Fawkes, Peter CurtisOriginal idea: Keith ChapmanDirector: Sarah BallBob the Builder is the latest character
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OFF THE RECORD - Bargain basement
Never let it be said that Off The Record doesn't know a bargain when it sees one. Anyone who is on the lookout for a cheap On Digital set-top box (one
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OFF THE RECORD - Will Dyke crack?
If that nice man from the Department of Trade & Industry, Stephen Byers, rejects Rupert Murdoch's bid to buy Manchester United, it could ruin Greg Dyke's chances of becoming the next
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OFF THE RECORD - Elstein makes the Grade
Michael Grade will be gutted. The Daily Mail has finally passed on the dirty raincoat of shame - AKA its 'pornographer in chief' tag - to none other than Channel 5