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    Jerry Hall to present celebs and gurus show

    2003-05-15T08:30:00Z

    Jerry Hall has been lined up to present a BBC3 series looking at the world of gurus and the celebrities who listen to their message, writes Jon Rogers.

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    Prime spot for cams

    2003-05-15T08:30:00Z

    Prime TV is planning to turn London's Olympia into a giant Big Brother house next week for The Production Show by installing 16 mini-cams around the venue. As part of a competition to win a magnum of champagne, the kit hire company will hide the ...

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    Earl Spencer to talk on Burrell

    2003-05-15T08:30:00Z

    Carlton-owned production arm Planet Wild has secured an exclusive interview with Earl Spencer, in which he talks for the first time about why his family stood as witnesses for the prosecution in the Paul Burrell trial, writes Paul Revoir.

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    Survey: studies not best route into TV

    2003-05-15T08:30:00Z

    The results of an independent survey into employment and training methods within post-production has delivered a blow to anyone who thinks that a media studies course is the best way of getting into television, writes Will Strauss.

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    Capital and BBC to enhance networks with broadband

    2003-05-15T08:30:00Z

    Two of the country's biggest radio broadcasters are installing 'broadband' style networks between their stations to allow programme material to be networked across the country, writes Kevin Hilton.

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    Edinburgh to host MTV Europe music awards

    2003-05-15T08:30:00Z

    This year's MTV Europe Music Awards will be broadcast live from Edinburgh on 6 November, the first time the ceremony has been held in Scotland in its 10-year history. The event, held in Barcelona last year, will take place at a specially built 6,000-capacity venue in Leith and will be ...

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    Nat Geo showcases Asian directing talent

    2003-05-15T08:30:00Z

    The National Geographic Channel's executive vice-president of programming and production, Bryan Smith, has commissioned four young Asian directors to each shoot a documentary for a new series, Reel Talent, covering a range of topics across Asia. The 30-minute films, funded by Nat Geo, include: ...

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    Anneka fronts family food series

    2003-05-15T08:30:00Z

    Former Treasure Hunt presenter Anneka Rice is to make her TV comeback with a new advertiser-funded daytime cookery series on Five, writes Penny Hughes.

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    UK Style sends out design ambulance

    2003-05-15T08:30:00Z

    UK Style head of lifestyle Nick Thorogood has commissioned indie MadMac Productions to make a second series of interior makeover programme Design+ER. Each of the 15 x 23-minute episodes will see a team of experts arrive at a viewer's home in a design 'ambulance' to ...

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    Clarke goes it alone

    2003-05-15T08:30:00Z

    422 London creative director Simon Clarke has quit the company to set up his own design facility. Clarke, who has a background in creating visual effects work for science-based programmes, spent four years at 422 but felt he wanted to offer producers a different way of working. Clarke Associates will ...

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    Five to look at celebs who've bared all

    2003-05-15T08:30:00Z

    TV and radio indie Somethin' Else is making a 60-minute show for Five, examining how celebrities use their naked bodies to get ahead, writes Penny Hughes.

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    Mile high flies again for Sky One

    2003-05-15T08:30:00Z

    Sky One commissioning editor for drama Sara Johnson has asked indie Hewland International to make a second 26 x 60-minute series of drama series Mile High. Filming will kick off in London and mainland Europe in September to air on Sunday nights from January next ...

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    West End's DGP goes east for Channel 4

    2003-05-15T08:30:00Z

    Soho post house DGP has cut and graded A Bit of Oriental, a new show for Channel 4 produced by Spiritworld. The 1 x 30-minute programme is a light-hearted documentary that looks at the lives of Oriental women and how they are perceived in British ...

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    BBC4 to look at the greatest historians

    2003-05-15T08:30:00Z

    BBC4 has ordered a major 3 x 50-minute series that aims to bring the world's greatest historians to life. Great Historians, to be executive produced in-house by Jonathan Gili, will use actors to explore the work of Edward Gibbon, author of ...

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    Five Live loses Payne to Sky Sports

    2003-05-14T15:39:02Z

    BBC Radio Five Live sports anchor Ian Payne has defected to Sky Sports to accompany Andy Gray and Richard Keys as a major face of the channel's football coverage from the start of next season, writes Sam Matthews

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    Cathy Come Home writer dies

    2003-05-14T14:31:34Z

    Jeremy Sandford, the writer of the ground-breaking BBC television play Cathy Come Home, has died aged 69.

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    6.7 million now reach for the sky

    2003-05-14T10:27:06Z

    Satellite broadcaster BSkyB signed another 150,000 households in January, February and March, taking the total to 6...

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    Digital surge helps Sky hammer rivals

    2003-05-14T10:13:09Z

    Satellite broadcaster BSkyB is still hammering its cable rivals, winning a further 150,000 subscribers in the past ...

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    Sky's stark warning to struggling soccer clubs

    2003-05-14T10:10:31Z

    Broadcaster may put TV riches into Champions League instead. ...

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    BSkyB scans Freeview option

    2003-05-14T10:09:12Z

    BSkyB chief executive Tony Ball confirmed yesterday that the pay-TV group was considering starting a mass market e...