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    SONY PICTURES TO DISTRIBUTE SOLOMON & GAENOR

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Sony Pictures Classics is to handle the North American theatrical distribution for Solomon & Gaenor, the S4C/FilmFour financed film shortlisted for an Oscar in the best foreign language category last week

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    Discovery signs up LWT factual series

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Discovery Communications Inc (DCI) has ordered a slate of factual programming from LWT Productions (LWTP) as part of Granada Media's ongoing international expansion drive.The deal sees the creation of a new

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    OFF THE RECORD - The digital truth is out there

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Word reaches Off The Record of a shocking new campaign from anti-TV outfit White Dot urging viewers to throw away their digital set-top boxes. Hard to believe, we know, that anyone

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    TIGER DEVELOPS SITCOM UNDER NEW ITV FUND

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Tiger Aspect is developing a new sitcom for ITV that would star Ross Kemp and Julian Clary. The project is part of the Network Centre's new£1 million comedy initiative revealed

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    INITIAL NAMES GMG'S JONES AS DEPUTY TO GERRIE

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    GMG Endemol Entertainment production arm Initial has appointed Laurence Jones as deputy managing director. Jones, formerly head of production and programme finance at GMG, will now report to Initial managing director

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    SKY NEWS SIGNS NEW DISTRIBUTION DEALS

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Sky News has signed two international distribution deals, including one with Dutch cable consortium MediaKabel for carriage on its new basic digital service. The 24-hour news channel has also secured a

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    David Docherty

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    UK TV must wake up to the interactive revolution and the wealth of creative possibilities that it offers.

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    GOVERNMENT CRITICISM PROMPTS NZTV'S MEO TO RESIGN

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Chairwoman of New Zealand state-owned broadcaster NZTV Roseanne Meo resigned last week, following government disapproval of her hiring and firing of newsreader John Hawkesby last year. Prime minister Helen Clark criticised

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    TVC to complete on Mentorn option

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    The Television Corporation is planning to buy the remaining 50 per cent of Mentorn Group that it does not already own, writes Tim Dams.The deal will be completed by the end

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    Chyron stakes its faith on new media

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    The operating loss for Chyron Corporation more than tripled last year - but the company says expanding its products into new media markets will turn it back to profitability - a

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    ITN/NTL to launch free news channel

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    ITN's new joint-venture 24-hour news channel with cable giant NTL will aggressively challenge Sky News and BBC News 24 by offering the channel to cable operators for free.ITN and NTL executives

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    CARLTON THREE-PARTER TO SCRUTINISE LONDON MAYOR

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Roger Bolton Productions is to make three programmes for Carlton's regional First Edition strand about the issues facing the new London mayor. Focusing on transport, crime and the economy, the series

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    Carlton one-off lands new peaktime ITV slot

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    ITV has ordered a full series of celebrity profile show Stars and Their Lives, from Carlton TV and Hanrahan Television Productions, writes Colin Robertson.ITV has signed-up a 6 x 40-minute run

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    CARLTON HITS OUT AT NoW

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Carlton TV is talking to its lawyers over reports published in the News Of The World about Carlton's The Cook Report programme. A Carlton spokesman said company lawyers had 'informed the

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    OFF THE RECORD - Dirty Tricks goes to Carlton

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Off The Record's favourite celebrity pair, Liz Hurley and Hugh Grant, might just be kicking themselves this week after it was revealed that Michael Dibden's novel Dirty Tricks is to be

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    Canal+ set for London expansion

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Canal+ has made its first major move into the UK market by backing a new London-based production and talent management outfit to be run by ex-William Morris Agency chiefs, writes Ashley

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    EM.TV buys Jim Henson

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    The Jim Henson Company has been bought by German media group EM.TV & Merchandising, in a£427 million deal which could lead to a revival of The Muppets, writes Tim Dams.The

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    BUSH HOUSE FACES STRIKE

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    World Service trade union representatives will meet senior BBC News management next Wednesday (1 March) in a bid to resolve their dispute ahead of the planned overhaul of working practices at

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    Virtue opens internet broadcast studio

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Virtue Interactive has opened what it claims to be the first studio in the UK built exclusively to produce audio and video for webcasting, writes Nick Radlo.Programmes are streamed live from

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    Hill takes on new Border radio role

    2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

    ITV chairman and former Central TV chief executive Leslie Hill has become chairman of Century Radio's bid for the west Midlands radio licence, writes John Plunkett.The licence will be advertised in