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COMMISSIONS - SEPTEMBER EXPLORES BRITAIN'S WILD SIDE.
September Films has been commissioned by Sky One to make a studio-based live audience entertainment show
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COMMISSIONS - ITV'S ANDREW STOCKS UP ON KIDS SHOWS.
ITV controller of children's and youth programmes Steven Andrew has commissioned a number of new programmes.
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CD-UK invades Germany.
Blaze Television's ITV1 music show CD:UK is to be adapted for Germany where it will go head-to-head with BBC rival Top of the Pops, writes Michael Rosser.
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C4 JETTISONS MY NEW BEST FRIEND.
Tiger Aspect's award-winning comedy My New Best Friend has become the victim of its own success
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FORMAT FOCUS: THE BAR.
A format in which 12 recruits try to make a success of running a bar has overtaken Big Brother in Europe, writes Michael Rosser.
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FORMATS & DEALS - BRAVO AND LIVING TO TAKE OVER ALIAS.
Bravo and Living TV have secured a deal with Buena Vista International Television to acquire US
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FORMATS & DEALS - CARLTON LOOKS AFTER TELL-TALE'S SPROGS.
Carlton International has picked up the TV and video rights for animated series Sprogs. The deal
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FORMATS & DEALS - SOMETHIN' ELSE TO MAKE ARABIC SELECTOR.
Somethin' Else, the UK's biggest radio production company, has been commissioned by the British Council to
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FORMATS & DEALS - RDFI TEAMS UP WITH ZIG ZAG IN FACTUAL DEAL.
RDF International has secured the worldwide distribution rights to a host of new factual programmes from
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FORMATS & DEALS - ZONE VISION BUYS RIGHTS TO US CHEATERS.
Zone Vision's Reality TV channel has picked up the rights to the latest season of US
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Analysis - Profile - Can C4's pizza man deliver?
While the Hutton controversy raged, Luke Johnson slipped in as the new Channel 4 chairman. How will the channel cope with his more hands-on approach?
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Analysis - On the box - Shameless bids for attention.
Despite the debatable status of the contestants in I'm a Celebrity ..., Elizabeth Partyka finds their stomach-turning antics more compulsive than repulsive.
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Analysis - The alternative verdict.
Lord Hutton chose to believe almost everything politicians and civil servants told him during the course of his inquiry and reserve his criticisms for the BBC. Conor Dignam passes his judgement on Hutton's verdict.
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Opinion - In my view - The mission continues.
The BBC might have lost a great leader, but it will still strive to become the world's most creative organisation, writes Wayne Garvie.
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Comment - BBC is guilty as charged.
Staggered by the loss of Greg Dyke and the holes in the Hutton report, the BBC must learn from its mistakes and look to the future, says former deputy director general Will Wyatt.
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Opinion - Making mugs of us all.
In a tumultous week, Hutton wrong-footed the media, Dyke won our hearts and an unlikely new chairman slipped in unnoticed at Channel 4.
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PEER POLL: Was BBC director general Greg Dyke right to resign?
YES: 23%NO: 77%Next week's question:Should ITV hire ex-BBC director general Greg Dyke?Vote on www.broadcastnow.co.uk.
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Making movies - Making the leap into the movie market.
With Celador Films' Dirty Pretty Things up for an Oscar this year and films such as Touching the Void proving box office hits, David Wood reports on what is driving UK TV production companies to branch out from the small screen into the glamorous yet expe
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Interview - On a winning streak.
After picking up four awards at the Broadcast Awards and creating the Wife Swap format, RDF is looking ahead to another buoyant year. The secret, Peter Keighron discovers, is caring as much about making TV as making money.
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Production - BBC Technology attracts 40 bids.
The BBC has received 40 serious bids for its BBC Technology arm.As part of an open