Small MPU – Page 1266
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Indie Business - A pitch is worth 1000 words
You've worked for weeks on your idea, now you have just minutes to sell it. Below, commissioning editors tell Georgina Lipscomb what they look for in a pitch while, right, programme-makers discuss their attempts to become salesmen.
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Indie Business - The whole picture
In the competitive world of modern television, the way you pitch an idea for a programme has become almost as important as what you are pitching. Peter Keighron offers a step-by-step guide to mastering the hard sell.
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Interview - The Red invasion
Nicola Shindler set up Manchester-based independent Red Productions in 1998 with an impressive list of drama credits behind her, including Our Friends in the North and Hillsborough. Two years on, the company is thriving.
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TX RATINGS
APE-MANProducer: BBC scienceBroadcaster: BBC 2Start: 21.00, 22 FebruaryLength: 6 x 50-minutesCommissioned by: John LynchExecutive producer: Deputy head of BBC science John LynchSeries producer: Philip MartinIn the footsteps of The Human Body
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Off the Record - Nary a kilt to be seen
Would-be spotters of the Loch Ness monster got more than they bargained for recently, if an upcoming show on Channel 5 is anything to go by. The show, ambiguously entitled the
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Off the Record - Highs and lows
Off The Record was as pleased as the next man (and his name's Gary Lineker) that the Beeb has given Match of the Day a regular 22.30 slot, as opposed to
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NewsITV1 serves up second helping of Daily Cooks!
ITV1 has ordered a second series of Daily Cooks!from Prospect Pictures and doubled the episode length.
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Off the Record - It's how you see it
OTR is glad to report another famous victory for free speech, after 12 malcon-tents complained about the posters for the Channel 4-funded movie, East Is East. The complainants took offence at
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Off the Record - Boyle lanced
Commiserations to outgoing BBC Radio 4 grand fromage James Boyle (right), who missed out on the top job at the British Library, which was given to a librarian. What were they
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Off the Record - Sock shock
Staffers at BBC's much-maligned News 24 might want to check what their new managing editor Peter Knowles is wearing on his feet. OTR only mentions this after an intriguing tale reached
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Off the Record - News hounds
Shock news from OTR's favourite leisure and listings website, Flextech-owned Scene One, which reports that people in Britain watch a lot of TV. Hold the back page! 'The results of the
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BBC Natural History heads to Yellow Stone
BBC2 has commissioned a natural history series about the major ecosystems in the Yellow Stone National Park.
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Off the Record - Facilities news
Rumours that ITV's Year of Promise charity non-event is rapidly going down the pan were completely flushed out of the system this week when the campaign's latest supporter was revealed -
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BBC Kosovo documentary uncovers new evidence
Film blames west's guilt over Bosnia for Kosovo war
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C4 and Ideal World gear up for motoring website
Internet joint-venture to complement Channel 4 shows
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Greenland appointed to Skillset/FT2 training scheme
EXCLUSIVE- Patricia Greenland has been appointed by FT2 to head the London Production Manager Training Scheme on behalf of the Skillset London Forum, writes Georgina Lipscomb.The scheme encompasses a
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Tory MP resigns ITV brief for shadow media post
Greenway quits ITV consultancy role to formulate Tory broadcast policy