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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Aardman's Byles joins Soho 601 as duo quit
Soho 601 has appointed Aardman head of CGI Will Byles in the same week as losing two staff to New Zealand post facility Oktobor, writes Barbara Marshall.
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LEADER - Annus horribilis is a lesson to TV
As the industry crawls towards Christmas, broadcasters will be forgiven for saying a hearty good riddance to 2001. This was the year TV crashed to earth after two years of speculation
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FREE TO AIR - Highs and lows of 2001
As 2001 draws to a close, it is a good time to reflect on the lights - both high and low - of the broadcasting year. Having sat through the bum-numbing
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TRADE TALK - Staying power
The reorganisation of the BBC arts department brings new challenges for stalwart commissioning executive for independents Roger Thompson.
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NewsFormer BBC exec repays£300,000 following arrest
A former BBC Wales executive arrested under suspicion of theft in 2005 has repaid over£300,000 to the corporation.
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IN MY VIEW - Samir Shah
On whether the BBC will go against the 'white male' grain in choosing its new director of TV.
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ON THE BOX - Theroux the keyhole
Sparks flew When Louis Met the Hamiltons, says BBC head of development, drama serials Sarah Brown, but Blind Date is past its sell-by.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Steering a course
Is the Channel 4 board making a virtue of a necessity by appointing Mark Thompson as the broadcaster's new chief executive and does Thompson have the vision needed to take the channel into new waters?
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WINNERS AND LOSERS OF 2001 - Bucking the trend
In a year of gloom and doom, Broadcast showcases the handful of media players who have successfully swum against the tide and had a bumper 2001.
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INTERVIEW - Getting factual right
BBC factual and learning co-director Glenwyn Benson is banking on risk-taking and interactivity to restore the morale of a department hit by job losses and a reduction in orders.
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CITY WATCH - Carlton sees light at end of tunnel
In the past year and a half Carlton Communications has seen its pre-tax profits dive 40 per cent and its share price plunge. But the ITV licensee has responded with cost-cutting and disposals to improve its position.
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TX - Orchestral manoeuvres
The starting point for the children's animated feature The King's Beard was an exercise at film school that involved writing a one-paragraph story.Tony Collingwood, who wrote and directed the feature, came
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Ratings: Week ending 2 December - A right royal knees-up gets ITV back on its feet
This week's data includes two new additions - firstly, the top 30 programmes now has the same multi-channel audience information as the top 50. Secondly, a regular primetime rolling graph showing
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OFF THE RECORD - Balls dropping? Bollocks more like
Fancy sprucing up your New Year's Eve schedule? How about taking live pictures from Times Square? The organisers of the New York festivities are offering a free satellite feed to British
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OFF THE RECORD - Shameless showoff
Anybody else spot Andy Harries hogging the limelight at the British Comedy Awards on Saturday night? Not content with constant name checks in previous years (thanks Bill Bailey), this year the
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NewsHappy Days for Five
Target has been commissioned to make a 60-minute special about cult 70s American sitcom Happy Daysfor digital channel Five US.
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OFF THE RECORD - Tasty geezer gives us the trembles
Broadcast isn't often associated with tasty geezers, gangland bosses and big men who call their mum 'duchess', but it's amazing who turns up at our parties. While you expect Ant, Dec
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OFF THE RECORD - Stop press
An OTR spy went to see a Granada film last weekend and it was all right. Honest.
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Government announces structure of its digital TV action plan
Kim Howells and Douglas Alexander to head steering board as part of government's action plan for digital TV
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NewsBSkyB profits drop
BSkyB has reported pre-tax profits of£395m for the six months to 31 December, a drop of 4.6% compared with the same period.