All articles by Robin Parker – Page 161
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NewsAt It to follow up New Face doc for Five
Five has commissioned Eyeworks At It to produce a sequel to last year's film for the Extraordinary Peoplestrand, A New Face For Marlie.
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NewsEndemol: BB8 had to play it safe to survive
Endemol has admitted it deliberately played it safe with Big Brother 8after Ofcom's intervention in the show's celebrity version earlier this year.
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Flickr joins C4 for photography show
Channel 4 has embarked on its most integrated multimedia factual project to date, teaming up with photo sharing site Flickr and search engine Yahoo! for a series dubbed ' Operatunityfor photographers'.
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BBC4 probes international summits in triple co-pro
BBC4 is to examine the historical and political backdrop to three key international summits in a co-production from Ten Alps indie Blakeway Productions and Barnes Hassid Productions.
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C4 bolsters fact ent with double hiring
Channel 4 has beefed up its factual entertainment department with a new editor to focus on the 10pm slot and a new commissioner for daytime.
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NewsC4 hands Warner daytime post
Channel 4 has promoted Helen Warner to daytime commissioning editor following Adam MacDonald's move to ITV. [ALL]
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NewsCorrie cleans up at TV Quick awards
Coronation Streetcleaned up at the annual TV Quick & TV Choice awards, winning in four categories including best soap. [ALL]
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NewsC4 and MTV resurrect Dubplate Drama
Channel 4 and MTV are bringing back interactive urban music show Dubplate Drama. [ALL]
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NewsTiscalli roll-out reaches 5m
Broadband, telephone and IPTV provider Tiscali will be available in cities such as Birmingham, Leicester and Liverpool from today as it gears up for a national roll-out. [ALL]
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NewsNuts TV unveils launch line-up
Model Lucy Pinder and comedian Dan Wright, presenter of BBC3's F*** Off I'm Ginger, are among the faces of Nuts TV, which launches next week. [ALL]
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NewsC4 denies Big Brother faces axe
Channel 4 has said that reports of Big Brothernot returning next summer are 'a flight of fancy'. [ALL]
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BBC to provide interactive tool for teen drama
The BBC is to offer writers and producers of teen drama a framework to create interactive online content using new software from indie Somethin' Else.
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NewsPlenty of questions over trust - but few answers
Edinburgh:Trust in TV was the inevitable central theme of this year's Edinburgh TV Festival, but solutions to the crisis in viewer confidence were few and far between.
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NewsC4 to add four more channels to 4oD
Channel 4 is poised to add four more third-party channels to its 4oD service this autumn as it moves closer to becoming an online content aggregator.
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NewsMore 4 doubles doc output
More 4 has reasserted its commitment to international documentaries by doubling the number of new films in the True Storiesstrand to 40 over the next year.
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C4 goes back to basics
Edinburgh:Channel 4 chose attack as the best form of defence at the Edinburgh TV Festival, firing its opening salvo with the announcement that Celebrity Big Brotherwould be rested in 2008 after this year's troubled show.
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NewsFrears blasts MacTaggart lecture
The director of Oscar-winning movie The Queen, Stephen Frears, has described Jeremy Paxman as a public school bully following the Newsnightanchor's MacTaggart lecture. [ALL]
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NewsAnna Ford: Thompson lacks social skills
BBC newsrooms operate in an 'atmosphere of fear' fuelled by job cutbacks which are damaging the corporation's news output, according to former BBC newsreader Anna Ford. [ALL]