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Talkback goes along for the ride with C4
Talkback Productions is set to be commissioned to make Other People's Holidaysfor Channel 4. The series - the length of which has yet to be agreed - follows C4's Other People's Houses, also made by Talkback, in which host Naomi ...
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Dimbley gears up for Harley celebration
Dimbley Partners Ltd has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to help celebrate the centenary of the Harley-Davidson motorbike. Journalist Bel Mooney will present The Beautiful and the Bad: Harley-Davidson, an American Iconwhich will air on 12 July. Featuring interviews with British and US enthusiasts ...
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Carlton to produce junior Eurovision 2004
Carlton will be the host producer for next year's Junior Eurovision Song Contestand will also produce this year's national final on ITV1. The hunt for the young musical act to represent the UK in November's final, held in Denmark, will be broadcast on ITV1 on ...
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BBC2 orders second batch of masterworks
BBC2 has ordered a further 10 x 50-minute episodes of The Private Life of a Masterpiecestrand which looks at major works of art. The new run, which is due to air next year, was commissioned from indie Fulmar Productions through BBC Wales by BBC2 controller ...
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BBC4 doc takes European view of Dunkirk
Acting BBC4 controller Nicola Moody has commissioned a 60-minute documentary telling the story of the second world war Dunkirk landings from a German and French perspective. The programme, which will be made in-house and executive produced by Mike Poole, will complement other BBC programming devoted to the landings next year, ...
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Llewelyn-Bowen hosts BBC2 lifestyle hour
Changing Rooms -star Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is to front a new block of lifestyle shows on BBC2 at Sunday lunchtimes. BBC controller of daytime Alison Sharman has ordered a 36 x 60-minute run of Sunday Home and Garden, which will see ...
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Immigration is BBC1's next special topic
BBC1 is to look at the controversial issue of immigration and asylum in the next instalment of its day-long current affairs specials. BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and head of current affairs Peter Horrocks have greenlit the project, which will aim to look at all angles of asylum. Programme details are ...
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BBC prepares to up Iraq presence
The BBC is preparing to send London-based Iraqi reporters into Baghdad and Basra for the first time, writes Michael Rosser.
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ITC penalises Shop America
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has fined teleshopping channel Shop America a hefty£60,000 for repeated breaches of its advertising code, just days after its sister station You TV was fined£40,000 for similar transgressions, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Sirius TV bought back for pound
The founders of shopping channel operator Sirius TV (SRTV) have bought the entire company for just£1 only three months after they sold it to Pacific Media, writes Paul Revoir.
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Global spread of C4 Sars film
The threat of the Sars virus may have receded in the UK, but the virus is still of great interest to overseas TV broadcasters, 13 of which have picked up Channel 4's Sars: Killer Bugfilm, writes Penny Hughes.
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Potter web launch
Endemol-owned companies Initial and Victoria Real are to film a one-off event for the web to mark the launch of JK Rowling's latest book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Hosted by actor Stephen Fry, the event at London's Royal Albert Hall will ...
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BBC enters music biz
BBC Worldwide is set to add further artists to its newly launched commercial music label despite criticism that it should not be entering such a competitive market. Inversion Records has been set up to develop non-BBC related artists and released its first album this week by acoustic guitarist Dominic Miller. ...
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ITC rethinks occult
The Independent Television Commission is considering revisions to its programme code after Living TV presented two shows about the paranormal as factual rather than entertainment. The TV watchdog is proposing the changes in an attempt to address the occult and attempts to contact the dead. The move follows the screening ...
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NewsITC sets out list of new indie rights
Broadcasters could be forced to lend development money to producers and limit their hold on primary rights to five years under new proposals from the Independent Television Commission (ITC), writes Jane Marlow.
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Carlton and Granada moot sales house disposals
Carlton and Granada have privately softened their stance on the terms of their proposed merger and have started to explore ways in which selling both sales houses could work, according to a source close to the deal, writes Paul Revoir.
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Ofcom could loosen ITN ownership rules
ITV could be allowed to have complete ownership of news provider ITN from the end of the year, according to media minister Baroness Blackstone, writes David Rose.
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NewsBragg speaks up for ITV 'indies'
Broadcasting peer Melvyn Bragg has made an impassioned plea for Ofcom to allow smaller independent ITV companies to be given independent production status, writes David Rose.
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NewsGladiators enter the arena
Sky One this morning unveiled the 12 gladiators who will take centre stage in the return of the classic series, including Olympic silver medallist Du'aine Ladejo.
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TV cook charged
US celebrity Martha Stewart was yesterday charged with fraud and obstruction of justice. ...