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NewsDesperate Housewives to run until 2011
US studio ABC has signed up Desperate Housewivescreator Mark Cherry for a further four years. The eight-figure deal will secure the future of the hit US show until 2011.
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Lane quits Princess Productions
Kelly Lane, assistant managing director of Princess Productions' recently launched talent agency, has left the company less than three months after joining, reports Colin Robertson.Lane, who joined the start-up from the
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BBC reviews WAP proposals
The BBC has dropped proposals to use licence-fee money to fund a news headline service on handheld devices including mobiles, according to BBC director of public policy Patricia Hodgson, writes Tara Conlan.
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Worldpop poaches Hamilton from LWT
Multimedia music start-up Worldpop has raided the ranks of ITV by hiring LWT managing director Liam Hamilton to become its first chief operating officer.Hamilton is expected to leave LWT in the
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NewsComment - Fight the supers' power
Nick Rosen suggests some solutions for producers finding it hard to win commissions
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UBE to launch new channel
United Broadcasting & Entertainment (UBE) is gearing up to launch two new interactive digital channels, the first of which will be a dedicated parenting channel, writes Colin Robertson.
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ITC slams ITV again over output
The Independent Television Commission stepped up its criticism of ITV this week, slating the network's factual, arts, entertainment and comedy output in the year since News At Ten disappeared, writes Colin Robertson.
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Ball woos Gallagher for Sky job
The search for the new 'face of Sky' following the departure of Sky Networks managing director Liz Murdoch, has begun in earnest with Ginger TV managing director Eileen Gallagher already being wooed as a potential successor, writes Colin Robertson.
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ITV'S ELLIOTT LINES UP A&E AND BAD GIRLS FOR ITV
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has ordered a third 16 x 60-minute series of Shed Production's female prison drama Bad Girls. Executive produced by Brian Park, the series, which is
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LWT MAKES FIRST RETURN TO UNCOVER IBIZA FOR SKY ONE
Sky One has commissioned LWT to return to Ibiza for the fifth series in the Uncovered ... strand, marking the first time the producers have returned to the location that launched
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BEST AND ALDRIN TO LAUNCH BBC'S MUSIC EXTRAVAGANZA
BBC Music Live will kick off its 24-hour coverage on BBC 1 at 22.00 on 28 May with a 60-minute special featuring George Best and astronaut Buzz Aldrin choosing their favourite
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Comment - The shocking truth
All journalists face hard choices around what news images to show, says Steve Clark
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PICKARD READIES£5.9 MILLION BEANSTALK TOON
ITV controller of children's and youth Nigel Pickard is to screen the $4 million (£5.9 million) fully-animated version of Jack and the Beanstalk from Entertainment Rights and Martin Gates Productions. The
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ZENITH HEADS TO A HOUSE IN TUSCANY FOR UKTV SERIES
Zenith Production's ongoing series A House in ... has been recommissioned by UK Horizons and UK Style channel editor Andrew Lowrey. Zenith head of features Alan Ravenscroft will present and executive
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ITV RETHINKS OLDEST MUMS DOC AFTER NEW BLAIR ARRIVAL
ITV has abandoned plans to screen its Real Life: Britain's Oldest Mums documentary to tie in with the birth of Leo Blair last weekend. Instead the film will run after Euro
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CFN'S GRAY TO MAKE ITALY EASY IN NEW SLATE OF SHOWS
Carlton Food Network director Anne Gray has ordered four new series including a 24 x 30-minute show Cucina Valentina from Cucina Valentina Productions.Directed by Simeon Pines and produced by Derek Hanlon,
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ITV AND LWT COME TOGETHER FOR LENNON 60TH SPECIAL
LWT is hoping to repeat the success of last year's Abbamania extravaganza with a similar one-off tribute to the late former Beatle John Lennon.ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz has ordered