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    Reporter hits out at BBC war coverage

    2003-03-27T09:37:55Z

    The BBC has been accused by its own defence correspondent of misleading viewers by playing down the success of the ...

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    Outrage at TV film of dead Britons

    2003-03-27T09:36:03Z

    The government expressed outrage last night at the parading of the bodies of two British soldiers on the al-Jazeera...

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    Has she got news for you, Deayton!

    2003-03-27T09:26:39Z

    Desperately trying to clean up his image for a return to TV, Angus Deayton's hopes could be dashed by his ex-mistre...

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    Gloomy advertising outlook sees Capital Radio shares slide 7.5%

    2003-03-27T09:15:37Z

    Capital radio said it remained 'cautious' about advertising demand as it reported a 5 per cent fall in first-half r...

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    Capital radio warns of failing ad revenue

    2003-03-27T09:11:46Z

    Capital radio shares were sold off yesterday after the company announced that advertising revenues remained in nega...

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    News chiefs to stop staff entering Iraq

    2003-03-27T09:10:30Z

    TV news chiefs have shelved plans to send up to 100 more staff into Iraq because of fears for their safety amid continued fierce fighting between coalition and Iraqi forces, writes John Plunkett

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    BBC news chief admits problems of accuracy

    2003-03-27T09:08:23Z

    The BBC's director of news acknowledged yesterday that there were difficulties in reporting the war the war accurat...

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    Fern's baby trouble

    2003-03-27T09:04:17Z

    ITV's This Morning show has been censured for causing suffering to a baby during a celebrity nappy changing competi...

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    Nortan rap for 'joke'

    2003-03-27T09:02:35Z

    Chat show star Graham Norton has been rapped by television watchdogs for a crass joke about Maurice Gibb after his ...

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    Evans was 'unstable'

    2003-03-27T09:00:49Z

    Chris Evans had become 'unstable , irrational and unprofessional' in the weeks leading up to his sacking from Virgi...

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    Marchant hits out at Channel 4

    2003-03-27T09:00:21Z

    Tony Marchant, one of Britain's leading dramatists, has teamed up with the producer behind Clocking Off and Queer as Folk to launch a stinging attack on Channel 4 - accusing the broadcaster of a lack of clarity, writes Penny Hughes

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    Top 3 indies rule television

    2003-03-27T08:50:10Z

    Endemol UK, The Television Corporation and TWI supplied over 50 per cent of the output of the UK's top 150 independent producers last year, according to Broadcast's first ever survey of independent production.

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    Sci-Fi's latest landings

    2003-03-27T08:30:00Z

    Sci-Fi channel has picked up the latest series from Buffy the Vampire Slater creator Joss Weedon as part of a batch of programmes from 20th Century Fox. Firefly, set in the wake of a civil war 500 years in the future, will air in 15 ...

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    Frontline offers HD

    2003-03-27T08:30:00Z

    Frontline Post Production is to offer HD editing from April, after upgrading its Avid DS. The suite was bought through Root 6 and runs version 6.02 of the software. Managing director Tim Mein told Broadcast: 'We continuously monitor the needs of our clients and feedback tells us that this is ...

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    Foyle's War to run and run

    2003-03-27T08:30:00Z

    ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott looks to have found his elusive long-running detective series to replace Inspector Morse, writes Jon Rogers.

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    UK firm invents new motion-capture kit

    2003-03-27T08:30:00Z

    A UK animation company has come up with the first

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    Ferdenzi to triangle

    2003-03-27T08:30:00Z

    Soho 601's Sinead Ferdenzi has joined Triangle Post Production as head of bookings. Ferdenzi had been at the Ascent Media company before it merged with SVC to become One Post, but turned down the offer of a senior role. Managing director Tom Horton said that Ferdenzi's experience with big facilities ...

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    Disney to play Faking It for kids

    2003-03-27T08:30:00Z

    Disney Channel has commissioned a new in-house series with shades of Channel 4's Faking It, which will give young sport stars a crash course in a completely new discipline, writes Paul Revoir.

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    Sony and Panasonic make staff cuts

    2003-03-27T08:30:00Z

    Two of the industry's biggest kit manufacturers, Sony and Panasonic, have been forced to make a small number of job cuts in their UK operations as a result of the struggling broadcast technology market, writes Sam Espensen.

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    National Geographic homes in on hellish creepy-crawlies

    2003-03-27T08:30:00Z

    National Geographic Channel has commissioned indie Steel Spyda to produce Insects from Hellkicking off with a one-hour special Mosquito Hell. Insects from Hell,is a 6 x 30-minute series, presented by Jake Willers, which looks at ...