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    'TV on the PC' won't work say Atom Films boss

    2000-09-20T10:13:00Z

    Online content sites must re-appraise approach says Comish

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    Don't 'do TV on the PC' Atom Films boss warns

    2000-09-20T10:10:00Z

    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

    2000-09-19T17:16:00Z

    Gates, Pele, Escobar and McCartney among celebrities under the spotlight for new Biography Channel

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    Canada splashes out on UK soaps

    2000-09-19T16:04:00Z

    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation acquires over 800 episodes of Emmerdale and Coronation Street

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    Radio 2 signs Docherty

    2000-09-18T14:22:00Z

    Comic lines up for new Saturday night chat-show

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    Big Brother gives Channel 4 best Friday ever

    2000-09-18T13:56:00Z

    Climax of summer phenomenon peaks with 10 million viewers according to unofficial overnights

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    Rights and marketing costs hit Wireless group

    2000-09-18T11:37:00Z

    MacKenzie says outlook bullish despite more than doubling losses in first interim's since flotation

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    Sony's new strategic vision

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-09-15T00:00:00Z

    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