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Mentorn sells Robot Wars to Germany
Mentorn International has sold Robot Warsto RTL in Germany for a 30-episode run beginning on RTL2 on 14 October.The series will air in a Sunday primetime slot and is
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Morrissey signed up for CyberDodo series
Former Men Behaving Badly star and voice of Bob the Builder Neil Morrissey has been signed up to do the voiceover of a new kids series being supported by the World
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Chrysalis to make history of TV doc
Channel 4 has commissioned a three-part series from Chrysalis Entertainment that will attempt to deliver the 'definitive history of television show business in Britain', writes Simon ElleryOrdered by commissioning editor factual
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The History Channel to commemorate WWII
Indie Flashback TV has been commissioned by The History Channel US to produce another 6 x 60-minutes of Battle Stations, a series looking at the men and machines that made a
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Carlton to show escape from London series
Freeform Productions has been commissioned by Carlton head of regional programmes Emma Barker to produce new factual series A House in the Country.The 10 x 30-minute series will air in
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Flextech orders motor-heavy raft for Bravo and UK Horizons
Flextech has announced details of six new series for its wholly owned men's channel Bravo and its BBC joint-venture UK Horizons.Bravo channel editor Matthew Paice has ordered three series including 15
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New BBC London News service to launch
BBC London News , the BBC's revamped regional news service for the capital, will go live on 1 October.The service is part of a tri-media operation based at the corporation's broadcasting
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Two new series for CBBC Autumn line-up
CBBC controller Nigel Pickard has ordered two new series for BBC 1's autumn line-up, writes Leigh HolmwoodDrama I Was a Rat was adapted from a children's book by Philip Pullman and
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Music special event to be screened on C4
Splinter Films has bagged a commission to produce a one-hour special on Emap and Qmagazine's forthcoming Q15 event at London's Scala nightclub.The event, which was staged over two nights
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NTL acts to calm investor nerves
Cable company forced into action for second time in three months after shares crash to new low in New York
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RTS Cambridge 2001
Television's big hitters gathered in Cambridge last weekend despite events in the United States and the withdrawal of the convention's 'dream ticket' BSkyB chairman Rupert Murdoch and Liberty chief John Malone. Despite this delegates debated many of the c
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ITV1 deadline set for digital satellite launch
Carlton channels chief Clive Jones says channel will begin broadcasting on digital satellite by the end of November 'come hell or high water'
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New BBC digital radio stations get mixed reception
Commercial radio outfits welcome boost to digital but express competition concerns as consortium of commercial TV companies abandons plans to seek judicial review
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Endemol drops out of Big Breakfast race
Big Brother producer says it has 'really hot idea' but show is too expensive
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Jowell to publish 'digital action plan'
Media secretary promises plan to drive digital take-up as she admits industry faces 'challenging timetable' for analogue switch-off
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RTS: Who said what
Granada chairman Charles Allen: 'I'd like to have heard what John Malone had to say because he sounds like a good person to work for'
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Overseas ownership threat to regional production
Granada chief Steve Morrison says he 'could not see production from the regions sustained if we are bought by an overseas company'
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Tapscott urges greater kids input
New Paradigm Learning president Don Tapscott says broadcasters and producers should listen more to children now 'for the first time in history they are an authority on something interesting'
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Cambridge Comment by Katy Elliott
As the story of the terror in America and its potential consequences unfolded, fuelling the biggest TV news story of all time, there was a strange irony in the fact that
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Programme brands stronger than channels
Wall To Wall managing director Alex Graham welcomes era when 'programme brands? have a stronger identity than the channels which are broadcasting them'