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    High office

    2002-11-18T10:08:34Z

    American broadcasters are negotiating to buy the hit BBC2 comedy The Office in a deal that could net millions for i...

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    The price of fame

    2002-11-18T10:08:59Z

    Thirty contestants;£1000,000 up for grabs. To the young hopefuls who jacked in everything for the chance to take ...

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    I didn't run away

    2002-11-18T10:09:19Z

    Michael Jackson tells Mark Lawson how he sees Channel 4's prospects, what he thinks of his successor's criticisms, ...

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    ITV's Russian front

    2002-11-18T10:09:40Z

    Next week ITV screens its remake of Dr Zhivago. It had an Italian director, a British scriptwriter and a trilingua...

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    Survival of the fittest

    2002-11-18T10:10:07Z

    Plans to relax radio ownership rules in the forthcoming communications bill, could help kick start a revival in the...

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    Politicians and Paxman get flak from TV satire

    2002-11-18T10:10:43Z

    The biggest revival of satirical television since the heady days of That Was The Week That Was in the Sixties has b...

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    ITV duo in final effort to run ITN

    2002-11-18T10:11:07Z

    Carlton and Granada, the broadcasting companies that dominate ITV, are making a late attempt to allow them to take ...

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    Wizard Idea

    2002-11-18T10:11:46Z

    After the withdrawal of caprice form celebrity big brother, Edward Docx finds a late replacement - Harry Potter. ...

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    Dyke under fire from peer tipped to join TV watchdog

    2002-11-18T10:12:13Z

    Greg Dyke, director - general of the BBC, has come under attack from a close associate of Tony Blair for being over...

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    On the other hand, gestures make TV easy to understand

    2002-11-18T10:12:39Z

    Magnus Pike, Peter Snow, Andrew Marr and other well known gesticulators are better communicators than their peers w...

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    A closer watch on all channels

    2002-11-18T10:13:05Z

    The European Commissioner's review of the directive on television may seek to extend the law to all kinds of networ...

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    Radio groups rules out hostile bids

    2002-11-18T10:13:36Z

    Clear Channel, the US radio group expected to pounce on the UK market to once media ownership laws are relaxed next...

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    Sky One Mix launches for Christmas

    2002-11-18T10:50:10Z

    Sky One Mix, the new time-shift channel from BSkyB, is set to launch in time for the Christmas schedule which kicks off on 9 December, writes Paul Revoir

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    Radio sector set to win '3 plus 1' battle.

    2002-11-18T12:50:34Z

    The commercial radio industry was this week optimistic that the government's controversial 'three plus one' local

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    Channel 4 considers own history channel.

    2002-11-18T12:50:43Z

    Channel 4 is looking at jumping on the history TV bandwagon by launching its own factual/history channel, writes Paul Revoir

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    Joe Public to live like royals in ITV show.

    2002-11-18T12:50:48Z

    Television viewers are to be offered the chance of living like royalty in a new gameshow being developed by Granada for ITV 1, writes Steve Aston

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    Wall heads list for top Five job.

    2002-11-18T12:50:48Z

    Five shareholders have kicked off their search for a new chief executive and hope to make an appointment by Christmas, writes Georgina Lipscomb

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    Flagship BBC 2 show to cover economics.

    2002-11-18T12:50:48Z

    Award-winning documentary maker Adam Curtis has been commissioned to produce a major investigation into the world economy in the 1990s for a flagship new BBC 2 series, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    Bectu seeks BBC meeting.

    2002-11-18T12:50:48Z

    Broadcasting union Bectu is calling for an urgent meeting with the BBC over fears that around 200 job cuts could be made across three BBC programme divisions, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    C4 to move away from US.

    2002-11-18T12:50:48Z

    Channel 4 director of television Tim Gardam pledged this week to shift the channel's focus away