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PROGRAMMING - BBC uses 'dung cam' to spy on elephants.
Wildlife documentary-maker John Downer is to camouflage a tiny camera as a piece of animal faeces for a new BBC1 special about a herd of elephants, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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OZZY BACKS VIRGIN BID.
Singers Ozzy Osbourne and Robert Plant have pledged to support Virgin Radio's bid for the West
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AWARD FOR ITC CHIEF.
Independent Television Commission chief executive Patricia Hodgson has been appointed a 'companion' of the Chartered Management
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Big Brother coverage to swamp Channel 4.
Big Brother 4 is going back to basics with a smaller, more 'feminine' house, but the show will command more of Channel 4's summer schedule than ever before, writes Colin Robertson.
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PROGRAMMING - C4 to scrutinise multinationals.
The first-time director behind The Luckiest Nut In The World - the Channel 4 film presented
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Sharman sets sights on peak.
BBC daytime controller Alison Sharman has committed to developing two shows a year that can be
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MONKEY MOVES.
Indie Monkey Kingdom, producer of Five's hidden camera show Swag, has hired two senior producers -
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RATINGS - ITV stays king of the Saturday night jungle.
ITV1's foray into Saturday night peaktime drama seems to have paid off with the channel's new police drama, MIT, averaging nearly 7 million, writes Jon Rogers.
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Feedback first at Panorama.
For the first time in its 50-year history, BBC1 current affairs strand Panorama is to devote an entire show to viewer feedback after a programme screened last October on anti-depressant drug Seroxat elicited an avalanche of calls and emails, writes Leigh
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Granada enters mobile market.
Granada's programming back catalogue, including footage from classic shows such as The Professionals, will be made
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TELEVISION DEBATE.
There are a few delegate places still available for the Broadcast conference on Monday 19 May
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RDF enters daytime market.
RDF Media is launching a daytime department on the back of winning its first two commissions for the genre, worth #1.75m, writes Penny Hughes.
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Celebdaq to ring changes.
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has ordered changes to the channel's flagship show Celebdaq to broaden its appeal away from the celebrity trading website from which it takes its name, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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CARLTON TO CANADA.
Carlton International has sold more than 200 hours of programming to Canadian networks. CBC has bought
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GMTV breakfasts with E! Entertainment.
GMTV is in talks with celebrity channel E! Entertainment to provide showbiz content to the US broadcaster's recently launched UK channel, writes Paul Revoir.
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THREE JOIN BOARD.
RDF Media director of programmes Stephen Lambert, Wall to Wall chief executive Alex Graham and Discovery
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Waddell quits BBC for family firm.
Jannine Waddell, the BBC executive who oversees long-running travel show Holiday, is quitting the corporation to join her father's Northern Ireland-based indie, Brian Waddell Productions (BWP), writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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JOB FOR ATTIC CASH MAN.
Leopard Films has appointed Bernard Periatambee as head of factual entertainment. A former series producer for
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ASIAN SAFETY TALK.
The safety of journalists working in the field will be one of the issues debated at
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Profits rise at Chrysalis TV ahead of sale.
Chrysalis, the media group whose television production company is being sold to a consortium fronted by former Granada chief executive Steve Morrison, this week revealed a sharp increase in profits, writes Paul Revoir.