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NewsHumphrys defends interviewing style
A defiant John Humphrys told politicians yesterday he had no intention of going 'easy' on them and would walk out of the BBC if told to do so by his bosses.
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NewsTelewest rolls out TV on demand
Telewest has confirmed the launch of its TV-on-demand service, which will be called Teleport.
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NewsAnother black Wednesday for BBC1
In the battle between Channel 4 and BBC1 over heavyweight documentaries, C4's Cutting Edgeprogramme came out on top with a hefty average of 4.5 million (22.2%), as BBC1 slumped to its worst peaktime performance since December last year.
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Nissan pays for travel series
Car manufacturer Nissan has paid for a 26 x 30-minute travel and motoring series which it plans to offer free to broadcasters in exchange for branding and adverts for its 4x4 vehicles around the show. The advertiser-funded series is being produced by Pro Active Television and distributed by its sister ...
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Play School to be remade in Maori
Play Schoolis to be remade in the Maori language after BBC Worldwide sold the rights to the format to a New Zealand producer. Maui Productions will make 260 x 30-minute episodes of the classic children's series, renaming its characters for the Maori audience. Humpty Dumpty will be called Hamuti Tamuti, ...
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Linda O'Grady
Linda O'Grady, vice-president of research at Discovery Networks Europe passed away aged 38 on 9 June after a short acute illness. O'Grady joined the company in 1988 and headed the DNE research team for the past seven years. Before Discovery, Linda worked at BBC Broadcast where she was a broadcast ...
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Going for gold
Winners at Promax last week included broadcast creative agencies Devilfish and Angelfish, who picked up eight gold awards for work for Flextech, Reality TV and Five, and Bruce Dunlop Associates who notched up a total of 12 awards across the BDA Group.
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Format focus: Ultimate Raid
Celebrities pick the books, music and movies that have formed the cultural backdrop to their lives.
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Motive films more Gaelic games for RTE
Motive Television's Dublin production arm has been commissioned by RTE Sport to make Rise and Shine(working title), a new live Gaelic games series. The 10 x 60-minute weekly show will air from late July and will feature action, interviews, guest appearances and 'irreverent chat'. The executive ...
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Fifth Gear relaunches as one-hour show
Five motoring show Fifth Gearis to be extended to an hour-long format in a bid to ape the successful relaunch of BBC2's Top Gear. For its eighth outing in the autumn, The North One show will be filmed at a studio in Birmingham. ...
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Leith to exit Granada Wild
Granada Wild head Brian Leith has confirmed that he is leaving the company in October, but will remain linked to the company as executive producer on a new Nigel Marven-fronted ITV show.
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Humphrys refuses to go easy on MPs
Todaypresenter John Humphrys has told politicians he has no intention of going easy on them and would resign if bosses told him to do so. He defended his interview technique when he and other broadcast journalists were cross-examined by a committee of peers. Labour's Lord Maxton accused him of usurping ...
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Granada makes sales in eastern Europe
Granada International has sold a raft of TV movies including Dangerous Watersand Dead Will Tellto RTL Klub in Hungary as part of a series of eastern European deals. Pro TV in Romania has acquired a package of 24 TV movies, ITC and ...
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Dead famous sold
Dead Famous, Living TV's paranormal series made by Twofour Productions, has been sold to A&E's Biography Channel US. Following a deal brokered by distributor Minotaur, A&E has taken the full first series, which sees presenters Gail Porter and Chris Fleming on the trail of deceased Hollywood legends including Marilyn Monroe, ...
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TWI takes cookery show down under
TWI has sold its daytime series Chef v Britain, which kicked off on ITV1 this week, to Australian broadcaster Nine Network. The 15 x 30-minute cookery challenge show, presented by Claire Sweeney and TV chef Gino d'Acampo, features members of the public going head to head ...
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Low, common and loving it
With genteel classics replaced by raucous entertainment shows, the American public is learning to love the populist face of British TV.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Rebecca Johnson
The commissioning editor of Bravo, Trouble and Challenge, is hoping to stir up more debate with Booze Britain 2and says nothing is too risqu as she goes in search of a successor to The Word.
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Clear jobs cut
As funds fail to materialise VFX house Clear has been forced to make emergency cuts after promises of funding for its planned telecine suite fell through.
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Series to show celibate teenagers
Teens who volunteer to abstain from sex are to be filmed for a new BBC2 documentary. No Sex Please, We're Teenagers, commissioned from indie IWC Media, will follow a group of 12 Harrow teenagers aged 15 to 17 as they take a vow of chastity for ...
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Granada to make celeb show in US
Granada America is to produce a Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes-style show for US network NBC, working titled I'm a Celebrity But I Want to be a Pop Star.