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    Sunset + Vine boosts TV Corporation

    2001-03-30T12:00:00Z

    Facilities to rights group nearly doubles programme revenues as operating profits rise by 35 per cent but facility arm Molinare hit by 'challenging time for revenues'

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    UK drama under threat as overseas sales slump

    2001-03-30T08:39:00Z

    Carlton International chief warns UK producers as new figures reveal drop in UK TV exports for second year running

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    MTV to launch dance channel

    2001-03-30T08:39:00Z

    MTV Dance to target clubbers with night-time service

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    Channel 4 puts regional indie research on permanent basis

    2001-03-30T08:39:00Z

    Horseferry Road pumps£500,000 into Researchers Development Programme

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    IN MY VIEW - Simon Shaps.

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    The BBC should take heed of the lessons of Popstars in devising interactive TV projects.

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    UNIQUE RELAUNCHES.

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Radio indie Unique is relaunching itself and introducing a new structure as part of its strategy of expansion. The changes, implemented by new managing director Pippa Sands, will see the creation

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    PROFITS UP FOR ULSTER.

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Ulster TV has reported year-end results showing a group operating profit for the year ending 31 December up 20 per cent to£14.3m. The broadcaster also reported a£800,000 loss for

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    MILLIONAIRE ONLINE.

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    ITV has paid£2m for the rights to produce an interactive version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? in a deal with the show's producer, Celador.The ITV website will host

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    LWT's 'Nasty Nigel' picked for pop role.

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    LWT Controller of entertainment Nigel Lythgoe has quit the company to join former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller's indie, 19 TV.Lythgoe, who has become a household name after appearing on ITV's

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    Learning to speak the language.

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    A regulator, like the government, is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't. The point was proved this week as the Independent Television Commission published its annual report incorporating

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    Mendes sets up joint-venture.

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Former Alliance Atlantis managing director Sonja Mendes and Beyond International director of co-productions and business development Juliet Grimm are launching a joint-venture television consultancy, writes Simon Ellery.

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    RATINGS - Raw Spice peps up Wednesday night on ITV.

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    ITV's much-vaunted documentary on the gestation of the Spice Girls was the programme viewers were hollering for last week, writes Jon Rogers.

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    ITV to return to world's trouble spots.

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    ITV has ordered a new documentary series from Granada Television to be fronted by veteran TV war correspondent Michael Nicholson, writes Steve Aston.

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    ITC's report soft on ITV.

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    The Independent Television Commission (ITC) delivered its final annual performance review of commercial terrestrial channels this week and immediately faced accusations that it had gone soft.Despite a relatively turbulent year, in

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    NEW VP FOR HEALTH.

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Health service Channel Health has named James Ramsay as vice-president programming and content. Ramsay joins this week and reports to Channel Health chief executive Joanne Sawicki.

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    GWR STAYS UPBEAT.

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Radio group GWR, owner of national station Classic FM, has tried to calm nerves about the advertising downturn in the radio sector by forecasting continued growth. The group said it expected

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    SMG GROWS AT HOME.

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Virgin Radio-owner SMG has again upped its stake in Scottish Radio Holdings, owner of Radio Clyde and Radio Forth - by a further 0.5 per cent taking it to 28.5 per

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    GRANADA TO REVIVE SHERLOCK HOLMES.

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Granada is to revive its successful drama series Sherlock Holmes on ITV. The programme is currently being cast by Granada controller of drama and comedy Andy Harries. It will show a

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    Graham Norton to make NY show.

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Comedian Graham Norton has been signed up to host a New York-based chat show for BBC Radio 4 as part of a raft of BBC orders, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    SON OF GOD USES RED VISION.

    2001-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Red Vision has created the content graphics for the landmark BBC/Discovery Channel co-production Son of God, presented by Jeremy Bowen for BBC 1.Using breakthroughs in archaeology, astronomy, forensic science and history,