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Knight goes to Nats
Nats Post Production has added Louise Knight to its team of post-production managers. Knight was previously joint managing director of Rainbow Post where she worked for six years. 'I wanted to concentrate on the post side,' she said. 'Because of my position at Rainbow I was often involved in things ...
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Mediahouse living deal
TWI's Mediahouse studio has won the contract for Living TV's new daily live talk show Loose Lips, produced by Scream Films. The show will kick off on 31 March and run for 20 weeks. Living TV channel controller Richard Woolfe told ...
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Runners get advice
Skillset is to hold a careers advice day next month for runners wanting to get ahead in TV. Offering access to producers, directors and broadcasters, the event features workshops and talks from such luminaries as 1Xtra programmes editor Wilber Wilberforce. Skillsformedia advisors, who are experienced working freelancers, will also be ...
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Rushes needs shorts
Talented short film-makers are wanted for this year's Rushes Soho Shorts Festival. Entries must have been produced in the last 12 months (up to 6 May 2003) with a running time of up to 12 minutes and can be entered in one or more of the following categories: short film; ...
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NewsAirey hunts Sky scheduling head
Sky Networks managing director Dawn Airey is set to shake-up the broadcaster's programming department further by creating a new post for a head of scheduling and promotions across Sky channels, writes Paul Revoir.
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History Channel and S4C sign two-series deal
A documentary on Irish political party Sinn Fein is part of an output deal signed between The History Channel UK and S4C International (S4CI) for 10 hours of co-produced programming, writes Penny Hughes.
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UK reality TV tops Rose d'Or shortlist
The UK's strength in reality programme formats was reflected in the shortlist published this week for the prestigious Montreux Rose d'Or awards, writes Jon Rogers.
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Peers threaten government over ITN
The government was this week warned it could be defeated in the House of Lords over its refusal to allow ITV to run its own news service to compete with the BBC and BSkyB, writes David Rose.
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Dawson's Creek switches to Five
Fans of Channel 4's US teen drama Dawson's Creekwho want to know whether Dawson and Joey get it together are going to have to switch terrestrial channels after Five pulled off a deal to screen the sixth and final series, ...
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News19TV takes indie of the year award
Pop Idolproducer 19TV won indie of the year at the 2003 Indie Awards this week as reality shows swept the board.
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NewsAherne and Cash bury the hatchet
The lucrative creative partnership between Royle Family writers Craig Cash and Caroline Aherne - which broke up amid recriminations last year - could be rekindled following a reconciliation between the two, writes Leigh Holmwood
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NewsBlair says yes to MTV but no to Al Jazeera
Prime minister Tony Blair will this week be interviewed by MTV as part of a PR drive to justify war in Iraq - but has turned down a request for an interview with the Al Jazeera news channel, writes Paul Revoir
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NewsBBC issues Iraq war guidelines
The BBC has issued guidelines for covering the potential war in Iraq, including how BBC correspondents should refer to British troops and report the widespread opposition to the war around the world, writes Leigh Holmwood
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NewsBig hitters combine for radio licence bid
A consortium including Celador's Paul Smith and Richard Eyre, the former chief of ITV and Capital Radio, has emerged as a surprise bidder for the UK's biggest remaining radio licence, writes John Plunkett
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Congratulations, you've just won£1m. But we don't want to give you that, do we?
Three in court accused of using coded coughs to win TV show ...
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Friend of Five takes over at parent
Gerhard Zeiler was made chief executive of the RTL Group yesterday ...
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BBC starts website controls inquiry
The BBC has launched an investigation into editorial controls at one of its most popular websites ...
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The army major, a recurring cough and the£1m quiz prize now in dispute
An army major cheated on a television quiz show, a court was told yesterday ...
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Test case for radio industry
The Competition Commission yesterday outlined its potential concerns over a propsed radio deal ...