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PALADIN EXPANDS FACTUAL WITH LION EXEC.
Paladin Invision, the new indie created by the merger of Paladin Pictures and Invision, has appointed former Lion TV senior development producer Bernadette McDaid as its new head of development. She
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AOL TO BUY OUT BERTELSMANN TO CALM FEARS.
AOL Time Warner has lowered its 2002 profit forecasts and warned that the global advertising downturn could worsen in the first half of the year. The company said this week it
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LOTTERY CASH FOR THE COMMUNITY CHANNEL.
Charity service The Community Channel has secured #900,000 of new funding safeguarding the channel's future until 2004. The money is a mixture of Lottery funds through the National Lottery's Community Fund
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MACONIE AND THORNTON TO HOST CONFERENCE.
This year's Music Radio conference, organised by the Radio Academy, is to be held on Thursday 18 April at the Shaw Theatre in London. Hosts will be broadcaster and writer Stuart
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BIG BROTHER BUILDS NEW HOUSE AT ELSTREE.
The producers of Big Brother have confirmed that the set for series three, due to air this summer, will be built at Elstree Film & TV Studios. The previous two series,
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GRANADA FINALISES US VIDEO LAUNCH DEAL.
Granada International is to launch The Forsyte Saga, Othello and Dr Zhivago on video in the US following a deal with video publisher Acorn Media.Acorn has previously handled the US release
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More plugs for BBC on Radio 1.
BBC Radio 1 is to be given more high-profile BBC branding in an attempt to reconnect the corporation's younger audiences - many of whom don't realise the station is a BBC
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Geldof joins SBS for radio bid.
Bob Geldof's Indie Ten Alps has joined forces with Scandinavian broadcaster SBS Broadcasting in a move which could see both companies enter the UK radio broadcasting market for the first time, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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RATINGS - Old trooper wins Christmas Day war for BBC.
It may have only picked up a lukewarm response from the critics, but BBC 1's decision to revive Only Fools and Horses pulled in gigantic ratings for the corporation on Christmas Day, writes Jon Rogers.
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BBC BANKS ON NEW SERIES OF COMEDY FAVOURITE.
Veteran BBC sitcom As Time Goes By has been recommissioned for a ninth series by BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey. The new 4 x 30-minute series, which again stars Dame Judi
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NEW COLLINGWOOD O'HARE ANIMATION FOR ITV.
ITV controller of children's and youth Janie Grace has commissioned a 52 x 5-minute animated series from Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment. Yoko!Jakamoko! Toto!, which tells the story of a bird, an armadillo
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C4 LAUNCHES INTERACTIVE FOOTBALL SHOW.
Channel 4 is to air an interactive documentary series set in a football club in which viewers get the chance to be a soccer manager. You're The Manager, featuring Stevenage Borough
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ITV LOOKS SET TO RESURRECT PRIME SUSPECT.
ITV is in discussions over reviving its acclaimed detective series Prime Suspect for a sixth outing. The show's leading actress Helen Mirren confirmed in a Radio Times interview this week that
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XMAS HIT RED CAP TO GET FULL BBC 1 SERIES.
BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey has commissioned a full series of EastEnders' actress Tamzin Outhwaite's army drama Red Cap, after a one-off special scored well in the festive ratings. Outhwaite, who
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RICOCHET TO DELIVER FUTURE SEX FOR C4.
A subdivision of Ricochet Films specialising in digital TV programming has been commissioned to make a new six-part series on sex for Channel 4. Ricochet Digital will produce 6 x 30-minute
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SWEENEY FRONTS BBC 2 SERIES ON THE THEATRE.
Former Brookside actress Claire Sweeney - who found fame on Celebrity Big Brother and recently took to the London stage in the musical Chicago - is to present a new series
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DJEM PRODUCTIONS' THE ROOM TO AIR ON VH1.
London-based formats house Djem Productions, established by former Top of the Pops presenter Tony Dortie, has licensed a music reality gameshow to US music channel VH1. The programme, The Room, is
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CBBC gives tots two new shows.
CBBC Controller Nigel Pickard has unveiled two new pre-school commissions - seen as the next generation of Teletubbies and Tweenies - with one series to be produced by little-known indie Novel
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12 Yard quiz for Sky One.
The Indie set up by The Weakest Link creator David Young, 12 Yard Productions, has landed its first commission with a daytime quiz show for Sky One, writes Simon Ellery.
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Oliver cooks up one-off.
Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver is in advanced talks with the BBC to make a one-off documentary in which he would open and run a restaurant with the help of 16 disadvantaged young people, writes Leigh Holmwood.