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HIGH POINT SENDS PEOPLE'S PRINCESS TO TNT IN US
UK independent distributor High Point has sold Live TV's 90-minute drama, The People's Princess, to TNT in the US.A Movie Screen Entertainment production for Mirror TV, the drama documented the last
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Granada to launch German operation
Granada Media has taken another step in its plans for international expansion, with the establishment of German production subsidiary Granada Produktion fur Film und Fernsehen (GPFF).Rikolt von Gagern, managing director of
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Crescent Entertainment seeks buyer for Mayfair
UK distributor Mayfair Television Entertainment (MTE) is up for sale as part of a search for new owners by parent company Crescent Entertainment, according to sources, write Jason Deans and John
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Watts hires Roberts for Star Kids
Southern Star Sales chief executive Robyn Watts has poached Cascade sales head Teleri Roberts to run the company's newly established children's and family programming business.Roberts is to join the Australian producer/distributor
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ANALYSIS SPECIAL: DYKE'S BBC - EDITOR'S COMMENT - Dyke storms the Beeb
Greg Dyke's appointment as DG poses as many questions as it answers. For now BBC staff are chuffed, but how will they feel when the new regime kicks in and Dyke hires his cronies? Broadcast writers and industry leaders run the rule over the new chief's li
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Sky plays Ball
Tony Ball's appointment as BSkyB's new chief exec took many by surprise. But can his low-profile style maintain Sky's reputation as a big-hitter?
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OPINION - Dyke must ring the changes at BBC 1
Is it too cynical to suggest that Alan Yentob's review of BBC 1, announced before Greg Dyke's appointment, comes a little late in the day?Given the governors' unusually robust comments in
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NewsTiscali secures Setanta deal
Tiscali TV will offer coverage of FA Premier League football on its UK broadband service after signing an agreement with Setanta. [ALL]
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WAR ZONE: SCHEDULING - WHO'S WINNING THE BATTLE OF THE SCHEDULES?
With 30 per cent of viewers now tuning into multi-channel TV, the terrestrials are fighting for their audience share with aggressive last-minute schedule changes. But is there more to the changes than just ratings?
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INTERVIEW - Independent spirit
Unique Broadcasting's Tim Blackmore says being given an MBE was like reading his own obituary. But there's life in the old dog yet - for the man who was in on the launch of Radio 1 is set to become chairman of production.
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - All washed out
It has only taken a few brief years for docu-soaps to become established as standard primetime fare, but once eager viewers are already starting to find the formula a turn-off.
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OFF THE RECORD - Family affair
Suggestions that Greg Dyke's appointment as BBC director general designate amounts to a break with corporation tradition are wide of the mark, Off The Record can exclusively reveal. Exhaustive research has
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OFF THE RECORD - Taking advantage
On a similar note, the frantic round of drinks parties being hosted by the new DG and his predecessor, Sir John Birt, has already claimed its first victims. One of Dyke's
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OFF THE RECORD - Ducking the issue
Those good people at Classic FM pulled out all the stops when they opened their new Oxford Circus HQ. As well as a Japanese water sanctuary and a grand piano, which
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OFF THE RECORD - Going Nationwide
Remember Nationwide - BBC 1's eccentric current affairs strand littered with items on skate-boarding ducks? Well, had it not been axed in 1983 it would be 30 this autumn and to
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NewsBBC supports democracy initiative
The BBC will play a key role in a new worldwide multimedia initiative designed to initiate discussion about democracy in modern society. [ALL]
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OFF THE RECORD - Leaking Dyke
OTR is glad to report that Broadcast hack Jason Deans was among the first to quiz Sir Christopher 'not very' Bland when news of Dyke's appointment broke last Thursday. Bland, taking
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OFF THE RECORD - Done Ronin
Prize for most pretentious (surely enlightening? - ed) press release of the millennium so far goes to the good people of Ronin Entertainment, the newly formed indie, which will produce the
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Simons quits ITN's new-look LNR
London News Radio (LNR) programme director John Simons has quit a week after ITN took editorial control of its two stations, LBC 1152 AM and News Direct 97.3 FM.Simons was to
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C4 launches raid on US with drama
Channel 4's drama department is spearheading an assault on the US market and is on the verge of signing deals to co-produce American versions of two of its UK dramas.C4 wants