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South-west gets cash boost
Development agency South West Screen has launched a£25,000 fund that aims to match cash broadcasters put into projects based in the south-west of the country, writes Penny Hughes
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S Club 7 becomes teaching aid
The sickly sweet lyrics of pop band S Club 7 are to be used to teach children around the world to speak English, following an unlikely deal between Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment and BBC Worldwide, writes Colin Robertson
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Target sets up licensing division
Target Distribution has launched a dedicated licensing arm in a bid to become a 'one-stop shop' for television and merchandising rights, writes Jane Marlow
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Record year for BBC Worldwide
BBC Worldwide is claiming record programming deals at this year's Mipcom television market, notching up more than£5m worth of co-productions and programme licensing agreements, writes Paul Revoir
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Lygo raps BBC over ratings war
Channel 5 director of programmes Kevin Lygo has added his voice to the growing clamour of criticism over the BBC's burgeoning commercialism with a warning that it should not abuse its power in a bid to chase ratings, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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TWI pushes into Europe
Indie TWI is setting up production bases in Germany, Scandinavia and France and has hired two production heavyweights to beef up its UK production in a concerted move for growth, writes Penny Hughes
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Falling literacy blamed on BBC
An attack on the BBC for dumbing down children's programmes won a standing ovation from delegates yesterday. ...
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German media giant admits backing Hitler
Bertelsmann, the German media empire, built its post-war wealth on a lie, it has admitted, acknowledging that the l...
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Bullish Murdoch sticks to his guns
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch yesterday attempted to reassure nervous News Corp shareholders by sticking to previous ...
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It's not hard work, I just have to be me
His skin glows like a burnished mahogany table and his voice is as gnarled as an old bedpost. Yet to millions of fe...
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Boss quits over telly racing row
The Jockey Club's security chief sensationally quit yesterday as horseracing reeled from TV claims that the sport i...
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Lesbian show 'too clean' say angry viewers
Viewers rang the BBC last night to moan about lesbian drama Tipping The Velvet ' saying it wasn't raunchy enough. ...
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Magic is back
Children's classic The Magic Roundabout is to be made into a film starring Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams. ...
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Launching digital channels 'will put BBC£100m in red'
The cost of funding new digital TV channels will plunge the BBC into the red by almost£100 million next year, say ...
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MacIntyre care home libel win
A police force is facing a£750,000 legal bill after it admitted making libellous comments about a TV documentary f...
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Fame school is a 'flopstar'
The BBC's much-hyped reality talent show Fame Academy is failing to make the grade, having shed almost one million ...
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BSkyB chief executive paid£7.5m despite£1.3bn loss
The chief executive of satellite television group BkyB was paid£7.5 million last year, even though the company rep...
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NewsThompson to take axe to C4 schedule
Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson is to announce sweeping programming changes next week, following his pledge to reinvent the C4 schedule in his MacTaggart lecture in August, writes Penny Hughes