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Laughs run out for C4's Dotcomedy.
Channel 4 head of entertainment Kevin Lygo has axed Princess Productions' Friday night internet series Dotcomedy, but the indie has sold the format to five different countries, writes Ashley Davies.
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Partridge director quits to make films.
Partridge Films director of programmes Michael Rosenberg has left the company he founded over a quarter of a century ago in order to return to his roots as a filmmaker.Rosenberg, who
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Front runners emerge for Bergg's job.
Hallmark Entertainment Network UK managing director Jeff Henry and multimedia outfit Worldpop's chief operating officer, Liam Hamilton, are being tipped as leading contenders for the vacant Sky One general manager role, writes Simon Ellery.
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Granada rejected by NHS.
Granada Media is the only one of three bidders not to be awarded money from the first tranche of the£5m NHS fund for digital TV, writes Simon Ellery.
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NewsSomethin' Else boosts factual team
Cross platform producer Somethin' Else plans to ramp up its factual TV output by appointing Nina Davies as executive producer.
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Ideal World lures Holby City producer.
Ideal World has hired two new staff to spearhead its drive into television drama and comedy and entertainment, writes Ashley Davies.
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RATINGS - Number One Singles gives C4 record ratings.
Channel 4's The 100 Greatest Number One Singles went straight to the top of the charts, making all other channels one-hit wonders writes Jon Rogers.
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BBC BREAKFAST HIRING.
BBC One O'Clock News editor Jay Hunt is understood to be leading the field to replace BBC Breakfast editor Andrew Thompson who has just taken up the new post of BBC
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LWT promotes Graham
Tim Graham, head of development for LWT's multi-skilled digital unit The Lab, has been promoted to deputy managing director. Graham, whose credits include Gordon Ramsay: Beyond Boiling Point and The Borough
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CAT DEELEY CHART SHOW.
Television presenters Cat Deeley and Edith Bowman are to join Capital FM to present their first radio show. Hit Music Sunday, a pre-chart show put together by Deeley and Bowman's management,
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CIESLIK EXPANDS ROLE.
Yorkshire Tyne Tees Productions (YTTP) controller of commercial affairs Filip Cieslik has added the business affairs brief for Granada Television Productions to his role, following the departure of Simon Vyvian at
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BROADCASTER PANEL.
The University of Manchester International Broadcasting Symposium is looking for a panel of under-25s from broadcasting and academia to discuss the future of broadcasting. The symposium will be held on 1
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TALKSPORT RENEWAL.
The Wireless Group has had its TalkSport national analogue licence renewed by the Radio Authority for a further eight years. Under the terms of the renewal, TWG's annual cash payment has
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BBC GETS CHINA LICENCE.
BBC World has been granted a licence to broadcast in China for the first time by the Chinese State Administration for Radio, Films & TV. The BBC has also signed a
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EDINBURGH DATE CHANGE.
This year's Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival will begin and end earlier, leaving delegates free to enjoy the August bank holiday. The festival will open at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre
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TWO WAY ADDS TO BOARD.
NTL managing director Stephen Carter has been appointed to the board of interactive TV outfit Two Way TV as a non-executive director. Carter, who joined NTL from J Walter Thompson, replaces
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CORRECTION.
Pete Simmons, and not Gibbons, has been appointed group head of programmes at Chrysalis Radio, overseeing the Heart and Galaxy brands. He replaces Kevin Palmer who has become Chrysalis Radio Online
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Sky set to air E4.
Channel 4 is on the verge of signing an 11th hour distribution deal with Sky Digital for E4.As Broadcast went to press, The two parties were thrashing out last-minute details of
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C4 extends ITN contract.
Channel 4 has extended ITN's contract to produce the Channel 4 News until the end of 2003, writes Ashley Davies.
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Food Network wants more men.
Carlton Communications and retailer Sainsbury's are repositioning their joint-venture food channel, Carlton Food Network, to appeal to a male audience when it is rebranded as Taste Network in the spring, writes Simon Ellery.