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    BBC TO AIR TENNIS EVENT.

    2003-02-03T12:58:26Z

    The BBC has agreed a new long-term deal with The Stellla Artois Championships, to broadcast the

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    ITC OKAYS C4'S AUTOPSY.

    2003-02-03T12:58:26Z

    The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has cleared Channel 4 over its controversial move to screen Professor

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    C4 will not fill Bellamy's role.

    2003-02-03T12:58:26Z

    Channel 4 will not appoint a commissioning editor, nations and regions to replace Julian Bellamy, following his promotion to head of factual entertainment last week, writes Penny Hughes.

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    Maverick hires 4 Learning ed.

    2003-02-03T12:58:26Z

    Birmingham-based indie Maverick Television, producer of Channel 4's Celebrity Wheelchair Challenge, has poached 4 Learning managing editor, programme support Kate Norrish, writes Penny Hughes.

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    Programming - Movie stars to be next C4 list.

    2003-02-03T12:58:26Z

    Channel 4 has asked Yorkshire TV to produce another 100 Greatest ... marathon, with a six-hour

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    Programming - Somethin' Else wins C4 order.

    2003-02-03T12:58:26Z

    Indie Somethin' Else has secured a rare TV commission with a six-part music show for Channel 4, to be presented by former Saturday Show front man Joe Mace and Tom Findlay from dance band Groove Armada, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    POSTMAN PAT MOVES.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    Cosgrove Hall Films, the company behind Andy Pandy and Engie Benjy, is to make the new

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    SKY'S MARSH TO ITALY.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    BSkyB deputy director of broadcasting Kate Marsh is joining News Corporation's Italian pay-TV outfit Stream to

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    Endemol hires for new posts.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    Big Brother executive Philip Edgar-Jones and Dominic English, the producer behind the now defunct 11 O' Clock Show are to take up newly created senior positions at Endemol UK, writes Penny Hughes.

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    CELADOR'S RUSSIAN DEAL.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    Celador's Russian deal Celador International's Brainiest quiz show format, which aims to find a nation's intellectuals,

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    Tivo calls time on UK PVR strategy.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    Personal video recorder (PVR) Tivo has been pulled out of the UK in a move which

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    'Stop bleating,' Howells tells TV execs.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    Broadcasting minister Kim Howells has called on broadcasters to stop 'bleating' about unfair competition and concentrate on producing better programmes, writes David Rose.

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    JOBS CUT AT BBC NEWS.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    The BBC's news division is to axe 102 staff posts and make 61 redundancies as part

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    BBC fills top jobs at NHU and children's.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    The BBC has filled its two vacant senior programming posts by promoting CBBC head of programming

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    BASHING CELEBS BANNED.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    The BBC has scrapped its BBC2 celebrity boxing show after the British Boxing Board of Control

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    Fame Academy exec given BBC formats job.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    The BBC has rewarded the executive producer behind its recent Fame Academy reality show with a permanent job as creative head for format entertainment, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    BBC4 comeback for legendary After Dark.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    Controversial late-night live discussion show After Dark, in which actor Oliver Reed famously tried to give American feminist Kate Millett a drunken kiss, is to be resurrected by BBC4, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    TV ROLE FOR BB3'S ALEX.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    Nickelodeon has signed Big Brother 3's Alex Sibley to host a new mass phone-in gameshow called

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    What Not to Wear gets BBC1 outing.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    BBC2 makeover strand What Not to Wear, which features acerbic presenters Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine dishing out fashion advice to shell-shocked members of the public, is to transfer to BBC1 for a celebrity special, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    BBC1 JOB FOR LIDDLE.

    2003-02-03T12:58:25Z

    Former Today editor Rod Liddle has been signed up as a team captain on the new