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    Mentorn on the move

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    London-based The Mentorn Group is closing its Birmingham office and relocating Mentorn Barraclough Carey (MBC) Midlands to a new site in Oxford, writes Tara Conlan.

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    OFF THE RECORD - Madness by the Med

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    OTR has had a sneak preview (in other words, we've read most of the press release) of a new TV drama series, intriquingly titled Monaco Blue. It looks so powerfully subtle,

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    OFF THE RECORD - And look at that spelling

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Is it time for the corporation to come clean about its international money-making ventures? Should we take the sign below to be a straightforward 'cosa nostra' euphemism or is it a

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    KIDS TV - Poised to net kids' market

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    With the BBC on the brink of launching two children's channels, Disney to launch three and 11 already broadcasting, television executives are beginning to doubt that there will be enough children to watch them all.

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    OFF THE RECORD - More than my job's worth

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Security staff at the lavish post-Big Brother soiree on Friday night briefly denied access to an unimposing-looking character. His mates vouched for him, however, and he was let in. He was

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    MTV UK AND IRELAND UNVEILS SEVEN NEW PROGRAMMES

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    MTV UK and Ireland is drawing up plans for up to seven new shows including a post-club programme allowing viewers to send messages to each other through an on-screen ticker tape.

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    TRANS WORLD INTERNATIONAL WINS UEFA SERIES

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    International Management Group programming arm Trans World International has won the commission from Uefa to produce a 30 x 60-minute magazine show series based around this season's Uefa Champions League. The

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    INSIDER INSPIRATION TO BE INTERVIEWED AT SHEFFIELD

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Documentary maker Lowell Bergman (right), whose CBS investigation into the tobacco industry inspired feature film The Insider, will be interviewed by Channel 4 head of nations and regions Stuart Cosgrove at

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    SCRIPTWRITING - Teaming with ideas

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Scriptwriters may yet come back to the cutting edge of programme making, as US methods - team writing and longer runs - are taken up and technology opens up a host of interactive possibilities. Ed Shelton reports.

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    UK-based rights holder

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Chorion has fully funded a new computer animated series featuring Noddy which launches at Mipcom Junior next month with the BBC holding an option to buy UK rights, writes Barbara Marshall.

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    LNN SEEKING HEAD OF NEWS

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    London News Network is believed to be in talks with former BBC news executive editor, TV bulletins Malcolm Balen to become its new head of news. The role has been vacant

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    TARGET TO HANDLE LMNO INTERNATIONAL SALES

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Target Distribution has signed a distribution deal with LMNO Productions, the US light entertainment producer whose programmes include Krypton Factor, Guinness World Records, Prime Time and Kids Say the Darndest Things.

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    ULSTER TELEVISION SHOWS STRONG PROFITS GROWTH

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Ulster Television's group operating profit rose 24 per cent to£6.7m in the six months to June. Interim results released on Monday (18 September) revealed its television operating profit was up

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    WIRELESS GROUP RESULTS SHOW TURNOVER UP

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    The Wireless Group (TWG) has announced its interim results for the six months ending June 2000, the first set of results to be released since the company floated in May. Turnover

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    Gardam reorders top staff structure

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 director of programmes Tim Gardam has restructured his commissioning team, creating three department heads and reworking many of the channel's reporting lines.The moves follow a change to deputy director

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    GRANADA MEDIA GAMESHOW WINS THE GOLD IN TURKEY

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Granada Media gameshow format Win Your Weight In Gold has become a ratings success in Turkey, where it began broadcasting on ATV last week. On Saturday 9 September it achieved a

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    OFF THE RECORD - No fuel like an old fuel

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Panorama is on the ball, speedily grasping the news baton with a firm, confident grip. The team has decided to rush out an analysis of the fuel crisis. It will go

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    Frostrup to front Panorama

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    The BBC's current affairs department has confirmed TV presenter Mariella Frostrup as the host for a one-off report on reality television for the new series of Panorama, writes Tara Conlan.

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    FUNDING FOR NEW TFI FRIDAY

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 head of entertainment Kevin Lygo is understood to have given Avalon development funding for a potential replacement for TFI Friday.The show is believed to be based on the Friday

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    The future is niche for entertainment

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Entertainment is a declining genre with fragmenting audiences, but now is a good time to create new entertainment channels, according to a new study from strategic research company Human Capital.The report,