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Off the Record - Press Gang
No matter how frantically busy today's TV execs get, somehow they can always find time get their names in the papers. In a new spot we round up their latest inky musings so you don't have to bother ...
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Sky adds extra£10m for original shows
BSkyB is to pump an extra£10 million into original programming over the next year, the lion's share of which will fund new peaktime British drama and comedy shows.Sky Networks' annual
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Worldwide in US deal with Granada
BBC Worldwide and Granada Media have launched GB Productions, a Los Angeles-based venture set up to sell UK sitcom and drama formats into the US.The ground-breaking operation will be headed by
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Edmonds gears up to make challenge to F1
Noel Edmonds is masterminding a major global project to rival Formula One level motor racing, writes Tina Mistry.
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Carlton signs Foster to boost production
Carlton Productions managing director Waheed Alli has drafted in Chris Evans' former agent, Michael Foster, to work alongside him in the new role of managing director of content, writes Jason Deans.
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Wyatt seeks new role in broadcasting
BBC Broadcast chief executive Will Wyatt does not want to sever his links with broadcasting when he retires from the corporation at the end of the year, writes Steve Clarke.
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STORYVILLE RETURNS TO BBC 2 IN AUTUMN
BBC 2's flagship international documentary series, Storyville, has unveiled a host of new films for its autumn run. At the heart of the series is An American Love Story, a portrait
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CHRYSALIS TOP TEN BOOKED AGAIN BY CHANNEL 4
Chrysalis Television has won an extended recommission of its Top Ten strand on Channel 4. The new 11 x 90-minute run follows on from a five-part series last spring. Steve Gowans
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RED DOOR TO MAKE SECOND SERIES OF GIGGLY BITZ!
Indie Red Door Productions has been commissioned to make a second run of children's comedy sketch show Giggly Bitz! for ITV controller of children's and youth programmes Nigel Pickard. The 7
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RADIO 2 TUNES UP FOR COUNTRY MUSIC WEEK
BBC Radio 2 is to broadcast a country music week between 18 and 24 September to coincide with the Country Music Awards. Terry Wogan will host his R2 breakfast show from
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VERA BAGS RECOMMISSIONS FOR THOMAS AND BREMNER
Vera Productions has won three Channel 4 recommissions for the autumn and winter, including two new series of The Mark Thomas Comedy Product (left). The first 5 x 30-minute series will
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ARDENT TIES UP NBC DEAL FOR QUEEN MOTHER TV MOVIE
Edward Windsor's independent, Ardent Productions, has signed a development deal with NBC for a TV movie based on the life of the Queen Mother. Ardent is also developing a second TV
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GRANADA TV MAKES WRITING HOUSE SERIES TO HELP KIDS
Granada Television's schools and religious programme unit has made an education series for Channel 4 designed to encourage children to write.The Writing House, a 10 x 15-minute series due to go
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RADIO 4 ORDERS WIETZ PLAY FOR BLITZ SERIES
BBC Radio 4 has commissioned indie Martin Wietz Associates to produce Dear Gerald, a play about a 12-year-old evacuee, to coincide with its documentary series about the Blitz, The Evacuation: The
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NewsAdvertisers resigned to relaxation of CRR
Advertisers are resigned to ITV's Contract Rights Renewal system being relaxed but are lobbying hard to ensure changes are not introduced too quickly.
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BBC 1 takes plunge with£195m slate
BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon unveiled a£195 million autumn schedule on Tuesday (10 August), which he billed as 'something the commercial sector can't or won't produce'.Highlights include a trilogy of
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C4 planning autumn slate of history, health and education
Channel 4 has commissioned a raft of history, health and education commissions for its autumn schedule, writes Wale Azeez.
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Channel X lands Sky commission
Sky One announced two new commissions this week, one marking its first ever order from indie Channel X and the other a new project for LWT, write Tina Mistry and John Plunkett.
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ITV grows King's Beard for Xmas
ITV has commissioned indie Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment for a 78-minute Christmas animated feature, The King's Beard, writes John Plunkett.
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - Bond film trumps BBC 1's Jack of Hearts
Jack of Hearts, BBC Wales' much-hyped six-part drama starring Keith Allen, was the centre of attention last week but the ratings showed a slightly different picture, writes Tina Mistry.