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NewsPEER POLL: EastEnders
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Should EastEnders be on the Bafta shortlist for soap of the year?
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The Great Escape: Revealed (Five) - Joe Joseph, The Times
?Rehearing the story of the ?great escape? and not finding yourself being moved in a new and different way would be...
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Animal Camera (BBC1) - Sam Wollaston, Guardian
?This has been a great programme - a refreshing antidote to the Attenborough style.?...
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The Alan Clark Diaries (BBC2) - Alun Palmer, Daily Mirror
?It's a bit pedestrian but John Hurt's performance and Alan Clark's own words mad this superior stuff.?...
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Inside Hitler's Bunker: the True Story (Five) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
?Another amalgam of hobbyist enthusiasm and serious history.?...
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Frasier (C4) - Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail
'Now in its 11th series, it is sharper and funnier than ever.'...
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Proof of the pudding
Broadcast's annual survey of the independent sector published in this week's issue reveals indies are in upbeat mood. Over the past 18 months, they have gone from being virtually ignored by legislators and regulators, to becoming the apple of Tessa Jowell's eye. The media secretary has warned that broadcasters must ...
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Morning to return
Granada has received an early recommission from ITV director of programmes Nigel Pickard for its This Morning daytime show. The 17th run will start in September and run through until summer next year. The series editor will again be Shu Richmond and it will have ...
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Meridian training
Meridian, the ITV franchise, which recently announced up to 175 redundancies, has entered into a partnership with the Southampton Institute to create a training and research facility similar to Meridian's proposed new digital production facility near Fareham in Hampshire. The institute will use the facility to teach degree students and ...
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Maverick move
Maverick Television has appointed former Channel 4 Interactive head of telephony development Jo Rosenfelder as its new head of commercial affairs. She will be charged with negotiating deals and running business affairs at the company, which has just moved to new premises in Birmingham. At the same time Maverick executive ...
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ITV orders two shows from SMG TV
ITV controller of children's programming Steven Andrew has commissioned SMG TV Productions to make a comedy drama series and a factual show for its CiTV block. Butterfingers , which tells the story of a goalkeeper and his magic gloves, is a 7 x 30-minute drama ...
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Imago to produce male makeover show
Norwich-based indie Imago Productions has been commissioned to produce a male makeover series for Discovery Health. Perfect Man , a 15 x 30-minute series, sees nine men transformed by a relationship coach into the ideal partner. The show is filmed at a secret location, where ...
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LNN Factuals head leaves for indie
London News Network (LNN) Factuals head Bob Whittaker has become the first ITV regional programme-maker to quit the merged company to set up an independent.
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Facestation returns
UK reseller Pixelution is distributing FaceStation, the facial-motion-capture plug-in for 3ds Max and Maya, which is available again. The software has been off the market since its developer, Eyematic, folded last year and the move follows the acquisition of FaceStation by US company Vidiator Technology. With this acquisition, an updated ...
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Zig Zag to examine split personality
Zig Zag Productions has been commissioned to make a one-hour documentary for Five about a woman who is split between seven personalities. Working-titled The Woman with Seven Personalities has been commissioned by controller of science Justine Kershaw and is expected to be part of the ...
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RTS judges give Dyke top honour
Former BBC director general Greg Dyke was this week given the prestigious judges award at the Royal Television Society's (RTS) annual programme awards, as the corporation won 17 of the 27 awards, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Five and PBS to make D-Day doc
Windfall Films is to produce a£500,000 docu-drama for Five focusing on the ingenious machinery of war used in the D-Day landings, writes Michael Rosser.
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ITV combines sport divisions
GRANADA Sport managing director Jim Raven is leaving the company as ITV Sport's production arms are reorganised following the ITV merger, writes Paul Revoir.
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Five in profit as RTL climbs out of red
Five has posted profits of£10m for 2003 - its first positive yearly profit figure since its launch in 1997. The channel attributed this to a 6% increase in advertising revenue. Five's majority shareholder, RTL Group, is back in the black after posting profits of E14m (£9.49m) for the year of ...