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Sunset + Vine boosts TV Corporation
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
Carlton International chief warns UK producers as new figures reveal drop in UK TV exports for second year running
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Channel 4 puts regional indie research on permanent basis
Horseferry Road pumps£500,000 into Researchers Development Programme
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IN MY VIEW - Simon Shaps.
The BBC should take heed of the lessons of Popstars in devising interactive TV projects.
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UNIQUE RELAUNCHES.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,