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CRCA ops director leaves for BBC new media
Commercial Radio Companies Association operations director Rachell Fox has quit the organisation to join BBC new media. The radio body has appointed Alison Winter as research and communications manager. Winter was
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NewsGrade kicks off with Stewart interview
Michael Grade kick started his first day as ITV executive chairman with an internal internet interview with news presenter Alastair Stewart. Also in his diary this week are two away days with director of television Simon Shaps and his team.
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Educational television to be monitored
The Voice of the Listener & Viewer is to establish a special forum to monitor broadcasters' commitment to educational programmes on terrestrial networks. The special group, which will be open to
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Bazalgette to give RTS memorial lecture
Endemol Entertainment UK creative director Peter Bazalgette has been confirmed as the speaker for this year's Royal Television Society Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture. The lecture, entitled 'Big Brother and Beyond', will
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NTL announces 5,000 jobs to go
Cable Business NTL is planning to more than double job losses to almost 5,000 as it struggles to reduce its£10bn debt.NTL chief operating officer Stephen Carter said last Thursday (26
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BBC creative head leaves for US.£
BBC Controller of creative services Dave Howe has quit the broadcaster to join the Sci Fi channel in the US, writes Will Strauss.
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Capital launches online dance station
Capital Interactive has launched Capital Radio show Dancemasters as a new online dance station, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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C4 to air dating reality show
RDF Media is producing a new primetime dating show for Channel 4 in the style of its critically acclaimed C4 series Faking It, writes Penny Hughes.
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LNN boosts factual programming
LNN Factuals Network has secured a host of new programmes for the London region. LWT has commissioned three factual series including 16 x 30-minute travel series Dream Ticket, 30-minute magazine show
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NewsDoctor drops Channel 4 MMR legal action
Libel action taken against Channel 4 by a doctor who featured in an episode of the current affairs series Dispatcheshas been dropped.
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Mercury buys ITV series with aussie firm
Australian wildlife independent Storyteller Productions and fledgling London-based producer/distributor Mercury Media this week signed their first sales deal with ITV for the daytime series Animal Allies. The 13 x 30-minute series
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C4 to look at Spice Girls' solo careers
Straight TV has been commissioned to produce a one-off documentary about the Spice Girls' solo careers for Channel 4. C4 commissiong editor, music and young people's, Jo Wallace ordered the 60-minute
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C5 To show how to control mad dogs
Channel 5 has commissioned Sunset & Vine to produce a 6 x 30-minute series examining how psychology expert Jan Fennell claims to be able to change the behaviour of out of
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Tiger to make architecture series for C4
Channel 4 commissioning editor, arts Janet Lee has ordered a 3 x 60-minute authored series on architecture from independent producer Tiger Aspect and sister company Tigress Productions. The Home Unzipped (working
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TVF picks up Princess Diana rights
Documentary distribution company TVF International has secured the international rights to Brook Lapping's 4 x 60-minute ITV series Diana - Story of a Princess. The series tells the life story of
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ITV orders modern fairytale animation
ITV controller of children's and youth Janie Grace has ordered two children's specials from animated studios Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment. The King's Beard is a 75-minute modern fairytale based on an original
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Key to produce Granada super vet doc
Granada executive producer of regional programmes Eamonn O'Neal has commissioned Rochdale-based indie Key Productions to create a documentary on the work of a ground-breaking vet. The 8 x 30-minute series will
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CBBC to tackle foot and mouth
The devastating effect that foot and mouth disease can wreak on children in rural communities is to be highlighted in a new hard-hitting drama commissioned by the BBC's kids department, CBBC.Out
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Fashion returns to BBC
The BBC is to venture back into fashion television with a new series featuring 'real people and their wardrobes', three years after flagship strand The Clothes Show was axed, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Play UK to puppet celebs
PLAY UK has ordered a series of Spitting Image-style shorts from Chrysalis Entertainment, featuring stars such as Jamie Oliver and David Beckham, writes Simon Ellery.