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'TV on the PC' won't work say Atom Films boss
Online content sites must re-appraise approach says Comish
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Don't 'do TV on the PC' Atom Films boss warns
Comish urges online to rethink approach to content and not to try and beat TV at it's own game
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Memoirs in focus as BSkyB and A&E launch new channel
Gates, Pele, Escobar and McCartney among celebrities under the spotlight for new Biography Channel
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Canada splashes out on UK soaps
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation acquires over 800 episodes of Emmerdale and Coronation Street
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Big Brother gives Channel 4 best Friday ever
Climax of summer phenomenon peaks with 10 million viewers according to unofficial overnights
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Rights and marketing costs hit Wireless group
MacKenzie says outlook bullish despite more than doubling losses in first interim's since flotation
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Sony's new strategic vision
Sony surprised many at this year's IBC by appearing to eschew its core technology market in favour of blue-sky thinking about its way to the future.In addition to scaling down the
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UNIVERSAL TV POACHES MARKS FROM VIDEO NETWORKS
Former Video Networks head of programming Dan Marks has been poached by Universal Television & Networks Group to take on the new role of senior vice-president business development in charge of
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TRADE TALK - Secrets man
Investigative journalist Steve Boulton will be leading a McIntyre Undercover-style series for Channel 4. Jane Marlow reports.
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Off the Record - Twinkle, twinkle little star
On the subject of talent-finding, we'd love to be told that the latest story of scrapping over fresh faces is made up. Apparently, just over a year ago Mentorn's Star for
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Lookalikes - just like that
Marvel at the magical similarities between Carlton's chief sales conjurer Martin Bowley and the great Tommy Cooper. While one has observers rolling in the aisle while he makes a pig's ear
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UBC IN JOINT-VENTURE
UBC Media Group is making its second move as a digital radio operator by creating joint-venture company UBC Digital to provide content for digital data services. It will join radio consortium
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INTERVIEW - The leading lady
Drama doyenne Verity Lambert is one of the very few people to have two credits in the BFI's 100 greatest British television programmes. Now she is to begin one of her grandest projects so far, The Cazalet Chronicle.
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THOROGOOD REPLACES O'BRIEN AT HOME AND LEISURE
Discovery has named former BBC Choice programming executive Katy Thorogood (right) as the new programming chief for Discovery Home & Leisure. Thorogood, currently series producer for EastEnders, joins the channel in
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Heggessey in as Salmon nets sport
The BBC is expected to announce within days that Lorraine Heggessey will become BBC 1 controller, following Peter Salmon's surprise decision to become BBC director of sport.Salmon's move ends months of
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VOTE ON GRANADA/UNITED
Granada Media and United News & Media this week confirmed that they would be holding their respective extraordinary general meetings (EGM) regarding the proposed merger of their television assets on Wednesday
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Off the Record - Game for a jolly
Olympics jolly watch, week two. Those of us who are chewing on our knuckles, anticipating the publication of the Pannell Kerr Forster report into BBC accountability, will be devastated to hear
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UDEN PREPARES SEX FIVE-PARTER FOR LIVING
TV indie Uden Associates has been commissioned by Flextech's Living Channel to produce a 5 x 60-minute series Women Talk Sex (working title). Commissioned by Flextech vice-president, channel programming Lisa Opie,
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OPINION - Olympics should face up to reality
One of the buzzwords at this year's IBC 2000 in Amsterdam was digital content management. For the uninitiated it boils down to how to squeeze every last drop of juice from