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Green mulls new BBC unit proposal
Former Big Brother executive producer Conrad Green and the BBC have confirmed they are in talks about creating a small factual entertainment unit within BBC entertainment, writes Georgina Lipscomb.Green, 31, is
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BBC sets up kids units
Children's BBC controller Nigel Pickard has picked key members of his team to launch and develop the corporation's two new children's channels, greenlit by the media secretary Tessa Jowell a fortnight
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BBC re-opens Hippodrome
The BBC's Hippodrome Theatre in Golders Green, north London re-opened its doors this week after a£2.5m refurbishment, writes Barbara Marshall.The BBC bought the theatre on a 100-year lease in 1963
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October backs new talent indie Raw TV
October Films, producer of Staying Lost (Channel 4) and This Is London (BBC), is launching an indie with producer/directors Dimitri Doganis and David O'Neill, writes Penny Hughes.Raw TV will be minority
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Lib Dems back ITV merger
Liberal Democrats swung their support behind ITV this week and demanded the lifting of ownership rules to allow Carlton and Granada to merge, writes David Rose.'They should be allowed to come
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Broadcasters back training programme
Four terrestrial broadcasters - the BBC, Channel 4, Carlton and Granada - are backing Youth Culture Television (YCTV) training schemes, writes Penny Hughes.The BBC has placed former BBC news business manager
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TIGER TO FILM MEL B ON TRIP
Tiger Aspect Productions is to make a one-hour documentary for Channel 4 featuring 'Scary Spice' Mel B, writes Penny Hughes. Voodoo Princess (working title) sees the pop star exploring the voodoo
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AWARD WON BY LION
Lion TV's interactive department has won an award for best social innovation for its web-based database of patients' experiences of illness, DIPEx, in the 2001 Social Innovation awards. Lion TV has
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PARAMOUNT SHORT-LISTS FIRST FILMS AWARD
Four scripts and five directors have been short-listed for the Paramount Comedy Channel and First Film Foundation Comedy Shorts initiative. Winning entries will have their films produced by the foundation by
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ITC builds new content arm
The Independent Television Commission is merging its programme and advertising & sponsorship groups in a bid to pre-empt the future structure of Ofcom, writes Steve Aston.The combined group will be headed
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Mill boosted by television arm
High-end post facility The Mill is expanding with the creation of a TV arm and additional premises.Mill TV has been set up to concentrate on long-form television work and will be
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SPIRE APPOINTS EXEC
Oxford-based Spire Films, which produces Delia Smith's How to Cook series, has appointed Richard Farmbrough as an executive producer. His brief is to expand the production company's factual output and he
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Man of the people?
The preservation of the much attacked BBC governors is not the only challenge facing the corporation's new chairman, Gavyn Davies. He also must find ways of improving the BBC's accountability to the public.
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FREE TO AIR - Portillo's big chance
So Michael Portillo has entered the ring, so to speak, in a bid to become the vice-chairman of the BBC. This pleases me greatly as I have become slightly deluded and
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BBC strengthens Afghan presence
BBC World Service has ramped up its presence in Afghanistan by creating an additional medium wave frequency service, writes Georgina Lipscomb.BBC news has also deployed more correspondents to the region following
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BT RAPPED OVER ADSL
The government has criticised BT in its most strongly worded statement to date for failing to stimulate demand for broadband services. E-commerce minister Douglas Alexander accused BT of failing to follow
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SKILLSET ADDS PATRONS
BBC director general Greg Dyke and Channel 5 chief executive Dawn Airey are two of 10 industry figures who have agreed to become patrons of national training organisation Skillset. Others who
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Buyers jittery about Mipcom
Buyers from the Australian commercial networks have unanimously agreed not to attend Mipcom because of safety fears following the attacks in the US.Senior managers at the notoriously competitive Nine Network, Seven
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RATINGS: WEEK ENDING 9 SEPTEMBER - Soapstars finds singing to Popstars' tune tough
Looking at this week's data - the last before the terrorist attacks that hit America - there are hints that in television programming the certainties may no longer apply. So while
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C4 begins to feel the slump
Channel 4 director of programmes Tim Gardam has taken the next step towards refining his commissioning process, while admitting the advertising downturn has put pressure on the budget, writes Penny Hughes.In