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SYDNEY OLYMPICS - Let the show begin
The BBC is planning its most extensive coverage ever of the Olympics, with over 21 hours of programming a day. Naomi Marks talks to those in charge of running this major sporting event from September onwards.
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INTERVIEW - BSkyB grows up
Sky is maturing as a new strategy evolves and Mark Sharman, who is filling the shoes of the high profile Elisabeth Murdoch as head of broadcasting and production, is the man charged with keeping audiences growing.
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OFF THE RECORD - Hop on the bus, Gus
It was a weekend topped and tailed by transport hell for many of those poor lushes in Edinburgh this weekend. Train delays on the way up; out- and-out cancellations on the
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OFF THE RECORD - Gus, mate, was it something we said? Not knowing you
Those culture monkeys at BBC Knowledge would have been forgiven for throwing Alan Partridge-style hissy fits (right) when registering for the festival.Somebody had obviously misheard the name of their illustrious operation:
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OFF THE RECORD - Cagoule crisis
Somebody else who may have been on the verge of making a scene was Michael Grade. Having splashed out thousands on Pinewood Studios-branded anoraks to hand out to delegates, he was
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OFF THE RECORD - Brighter pitcher
Brighter Pictures' shrinking violet Remy Blumenfeld was bouncing about£20,000 richer after winning a programme-pitching competition in which three indies tried to outpitch one another for a hypothetical Channel 4 brief.
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OFF THE RECORD - Teapot diplomacy
Yorkshire TV sultan John Whiston revealed himself as the new Kofi Annan when he visited Beijing to help out with drama Joy Luck Street, touted as the Chinese Corrie but apparently
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OFF THE RECORD - Advisor, my arse
Also on the far Eastern trips front, Star TV czar James Murdoch told of how, when travelling in Japan for his dad's firm, he tried very hard indeed to master a
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OFF THE RECORD - Attachments - geddit?
Please spare a thought for poor Jane Root, whose new Tony Garnett drama, Attachments (the one about dotcom youngsters with, surprise surprise, sex and naked skateboarding in the opening scenes), was
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OFF THE RECORD - Barclay nap
If you have time, please spare another thought for the baby-faced king of cable, Barclay Knapp, whose name this weekend gave a new definition to the old popular rhyming slang fave.
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OFF THE RECORD - You can run, but you can't hide
A message to the Channel 4 executive whose exuberance/clumsiness (delete where applicable) caused an entire tray of champagne to come crashing to the ground at the Guardian party, and who then
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OFF THE RECORD - Porn shop
The same goes for a certain chap who works for an organisation upholding moral standards. Your secret vote at the session about whether hardcore pornography should remain encrypted wasn't secret from
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OFF THE RECORD - Lookalikes - Freudian analysis
Calculate the similarities between the industry's own top number cruncher David Graham and politician-turned-all-round-great-Radio 4 chap Clement Freud. While one is a master of his medium working for the common good,
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OFF THE RECORD - The occasional diary of a BBC director general
SATURDAYGregster, the Greg-meister, Gregorama. What a speech! What a performance!What on earth possessed Thommo to use as many words as humanly possible with Rs in? Genre this, genre that, watershed frigging
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ITV plans factual approach to domestic violence
Nelmes sounds out indies for 'substantial piece' with view to possible series
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BSkyB recovers after Kirch sell-off
Share price re-bounds after German pay-TV group sells remaining stake
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Going Online: Translating ideas to Broadband
Big Brother has, if nothing else, woken the industry up to the reality that a multi-media production really can turn on a mass audience rather than a niche group of early adopters