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A flair for nurturing talent
Nicknamed by ex-boss Lorraine Heggessey Mrs Fix-it, Sally Debonnaire has moved to Avalon where she hopes to get back to the creative side of things.
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Exploring new territory
On the eve of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival, Danny Cohen considers what the genre has to do to compete with technological change and expanding choice.
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Me and Greg Dyke's mum
Dawn Airey finds herself uncomfortable with the level of compulsion involved in the government's digital switchover plan.
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Making drama out of history
The autumn schedule is awash with a royal flush of monarchical drama - but how much of a dramatic licence should programme-makers use when portraying well-documented historical figures? Meg Carter looks at the key ingredients and skills needed for producing historical drama.
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Blindfolded by C4
Channel 4 should not be embarrassed that More4 offers entertainment of a cerebral rather than a carnal nature.
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NewsBBC editing move to cost facilities£18m
One of the BBC's biggest production departments, factual and learning, has announced plans to take 75% of all post work in-house by 2007, in a move that could cost the UK facilities sector up to£18m in revenues.
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NewsCreation of a cable giant
NTL and Telewest tied the knot this week in a landmark merger aimed at boosting the pair's ability to take on rivals BSkyB and BT.
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NewsITV could drop News for lads channel
ITV is considering pulling the ITV News Channel off Freeview in a bid to keep lads channel Men and Motors on the digital terrestrial platform.
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NewsPickard stays as head of ITV1 programming
Nigel Pickard has told ITV chiefs that he is staying on as ITV1's director of programmes, despite the restructure at network centre two weeks ago that brought in Simon Shaps above him.
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NewsPlowman to set up BBC comedy board
Jon Plowman, the BBC's head of comedy entertainment, is to take over as head of the corporation's in-house comedy department, and has set up a new board to develop programmes.
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Sex Traffic producer heads for Kudos role
Granada producer Derek Wax, the man behind multi-award winning drama Sex Traffic,is joining Spooksproducer Kudos Film and Television as an executive producer.
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CBBC orders London bomb drama
Hat trick is to make a children's drama documentary about the 7 July London bombings - the first UK television drama to be made about the tragedy and the indie's first commission for CBBC.
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Endemol teams up with MobiTV for mobile channel
Endemol UK has teamed up with mobile broadcasting platform MobiTV to launch the Reality TV channel on Orange's telecoms network.
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New-look This Is Your Life brings red book back to TV
SMG TV Productions is set to revive classic entertainment show This Is Your Life, following a deal with rights holder Click TV, which is part of Portman Film and TV, the company majority owned by Chrysalis chairman Chris Wright.
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EC OKs product placement
The European Commission (EC) is set to give the greenlight to product placement, creating a potential multimillion pound industry.
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NewsTributes to a comic genius
The broadcasting world this week mourns Ronnie Barker, a giant of TV comedy whose career in the business gave us 50 years of laughter.
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NewsInternational sales boost profits at Entertainment Rights
Strong international sales for classic kids' character Postman Pat helped drive a 56% increase in operating profits at Entertainment Rights for the first half of 2005.
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NewsAardman's sketch show sold to Latin America
Canadian kids entertainment outfit Decode Entertainment has sold Planet Sketch, a co-production with Bristol-based Aardman Animations, to Cartoon Network Latin America.
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NewsTV Loonland launches new film division
Aim-listed children's animation company TV-Loonland has launched a new feature film distribution division and added a new member to its London-based sales team just in time for Mipcom.