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    TX - In tune with the 'yoof'.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    The phrase 'as if' might be used to express incredulity, but the truth is there are few surprises as far as the ethos of the newest drama series on the newest

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    UK STYLE WEBSITE.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    UKTV's leisure and lifestyle channel UK Style has commissioned web technology and design company Blueberry.Net to launch its first website.

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    IN MY VIEW - Samir Shah.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    On the cock-up that is the rival 22.00 news bulletins and why it means less competition.

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    OFF THE RECORD.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Our Interpol contacts inform us that Sky's former Prince of Darkness, David Bergg, is hiding out in Argentina. A crate of Sunny Delight for the first reader to send in a

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    RATINGS - Reality TV is what we really, really watched.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    The combination of marketing hype, Lythgoe put-downs and teenage hysteria ensured Popstars a secure footing in the ratings charts, writes Jon Rogers.

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    SALMON'S RACE ROLE.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    BBC director of sport Peter Salmon has taken on the additional role of diversity 'champion' for race - a role currently filled by BBC director of news Tony Hall who is

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    SMITH TAKES QUESTIONS.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Media secretary Chris Smith will be taking questions on the government's communications white paper at a Voice of the Listener & Viewer (VLV) seminar on 1 February. The event will be

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    WOODS PROMOTION.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    LWT managing director Lindsay Charlton has promoted Geraldine Woods to deputy director of broadcasting. The new position expands Woods' current commissioning role as broadcast executive to include liaison with the Granada

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    OFF THE RECORD - Testing viewers' patience.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Those of you who spent much of your childhoods composing TV schedules in the sandpit may empathise with one David McKeran, an artist, who has devoted a good eight years (when

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    THREE VIE FOR NW RADIO,

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    The Radio Authority had received three applications for the north-west regional digital multiplex licence by the closing date of 16 January. The Digital Radio Group is proposing to broadcast 10 programme

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    MARSH POST VACANT.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Outgoing BBC Birmingham head of lifestyle and features Kate Marsh will not be directly replaced. Instead, the BBC will advertise for another managing editor, who will report to controller of leisure

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    OFF THE RECORD - Lythgoe's Popstars stunt.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    First class 'sell the sizzle, not the sausage' action from LWT's publicity machine for Popstars, the ITV show in which Nigel 'Sparkle' Lythgoe handpicks wannabe band members with more kindness than

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    LUCKY WINS US PILOT.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Indie Lucky Dog is piloting a US version of comedy A Many Splintered Thing following a deal with Paramount. The comedy, based around the life of an adulterer, was originally made

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    OFF THE RECORD - Lookalikes.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Go flubbalub at the remarkable similarities between BBC TV tsar Mark Thompson and the recently resuscitated Bill and Ben. To avoid confusion, we'd like to point out that Bill and Ben

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    THE LIFE OF MAMMALS.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Agency 422 has won the design contract for BBC natural history unit (NHU) flagship David Attenborough series, The Life of Mammals, writes Barbara Marshall.

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    MOVIE LAUNCH.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Universal Studios Networks UK has announced that its new movie channel, The Studio, will launch on 1 February. The Studio is a joint-venture between Universal Studios and NTL and will be

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    YTV Keeler scoop.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Yorkshire Television (YTV) is producing a major documentary on the Profumo scandal for ITV, featuring the first major TV interview with Christine Keeler (right). The 60-minute piece, dubbed internally as Keeler,

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    ITC SANCTIONS NOTE.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    The ITC has issued a new guidance note on revised procedures for statutory sanctions, replacing the series of notes put out since 1991. The document, which takes into account new legislation,

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    INTERVIEW - The learning zone.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Anal fistulae, stinky feet, piles, streaming perspiration, underage sex, embarrassing children, self-help books, sex therapy. It's all Richard McKerrow's fault that programmes on these subjects have sparked the odd watercooler moment.

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    HTV identity safe in ITV.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Carlton Channels chief executive Clive Jones has told HTV employees that rebranding the franchise would be 'unnecessary' because it is likely to be replaced by a new identity for the whole of the ITV network, writes Colin Robertson.