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KEITH SMITH TO BE REMEMBERED AT BAFTA EVENING
Barry Took is to host a celebration in April in honour of Keith Smith, the former BBC and ITV publicity executive who died suddenly last December.The evening will be held at
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PRIX ITALIA PUT BACK
The dates of the 1999 Prix Italia have been moved back a week to 18-25 September. Taking place in Florence and Sienna, the festival will include two new prizes: one for
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MCCALL TO FRONT ITV SEARCH FOR FIRST MILLENNIUM BABY
Don't Try This at Home presenter Davina McCall is to present the first night of programming in ITV's mission to find the first millennium baby, in a strand called Birthrace 2000.
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OFF THE RECORD - The awful truth
OTR is shocked to receive reports of ugly scenes at a C4 'master class' last week with uber-director Michael Moore. One audience member was far from happy and accused the Moorester,
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Election curbs to be swept away
Legal curbs that have hamstrung broadcasters in their coverage of general and parliamentary by-elections are likely to be swept away following a decision to scrap them for May's Scottish Parliament elections, writes John Lewis.
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Avid may cut price of Symphony
Avid Technology is understood to be considering dropping the price of its uncompressed non-linear editor Symphony at NAB in an attempt to boost sales.It is believed that the price-cut will bring
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Itel on the attack at Mip with Dinosaur
UK distributor Itel will be taking more than 150 hours of new factual programming to Mip-Doc and Mip-TV next month.Itel's Mip line-up will include United Productions' Dinosaur Attack, a 60-minute special
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SUMMIT TV TAKES NEWS FROM FT AND ASSOCIATED PRESS
London-based Associated Press Television News (APTN) and the Financial Times are supplying international input for South Africa's first business news television channel, Summit TV. The service is to be supplied by
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Tiger Aspect scores Sky One commission
Tiger Aspect has landed a commission to produce a new seven-part factual entertainment series for Sky One to go out this summer, writes Alice Macandrew.
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OFF THE RECORD - No armistice at Beeb
As abusive farewells go, it's hard to beat Chris Morris' infamous parting shot at the then Channel 4 chief executive Michael Grade. But Armando Iannucci, Morris' one-time sidekick on BBC 2's
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FOUNDING EYE ANIMATORS WAKE AND BASSETT QUIT
Eye founding animators John Wake and Alan Bassett have quit the company.Both men are understood to have left the animation facility last month.Wake is to join Big Finish, the holding company
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NEWS ANALYSIS - End of the line for Live?
Three years and£25 million later, Mirror Group has said it is open to offers for Live TV. But what does the channel that invented topless darts have to tempt potential buyers, asks Alice Macandrew.
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Ups and downs
Average viewing times were up last autumn compared with 1997, despite doom-mongering about the growing impact of the internet. But not all channels benefited from this increase.
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Alomo starts filming on Cry Wolf
Pearson Television subsidiary Alomo is about to go into production with a new BBC 1 sitcom, Cry Wolf, starring Peter Egan and Jemma Redgrave, writes Jason Deans.
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SO denies Resources allegations
The Scottish Office has denied allegations of impropriety over its decision to award the contract to televise the Scottish Parliament to BBC Resources, writes Dominic Timms.
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TALENT AIMS TO SCORE WITH SCRABBLE GAMESHOW
UK indie Talent Television will be taking a new TV gameshow format based on the Spears boardgame Scrabble to Mip-TV next month. A pilot for the 30-minute show, presented by Mary
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BEHIND-THE-SCENES - Comic Relief comes of age
Comic Relief has raised more than£139 million for charity since it began a decade ago. Viewers have also switched on in their millions. David Collins talks to the people putting together this year's event.
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Initial's new factual children's series, Wildtrack, gets its title sequence courtesy of antirom. Designed and directed by Luke Pendrell, the titles use the colours and textures of the African landscap
Initial's new factual children's series, Wildtrack, gets its title sequence courtesy of antirom. Designed and directed by Luke Pendrell, the titles use the colours and textures of the African landscape to
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INTERGRAPH TO PRESS AHEAD WITH ACTION AGAINST INTEL
Intergraph Corporation is expected to go ahead with its own anti-trust court case against chip-maker Intel, despite the surprise agreement reached on Monday (8 March) between the US Federal Trade Commission
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FOXTEL IMPROVES OZ ACCESS WITH SATELLITE PLATFORM
Australian pay-TV cable channel provider Foxtel has launched a satellite platform that will give it potential access to an extra two million Australian TV homes. The move follows a deal with