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FORMATS & DEALS - AMERICAN IDOL 3 SET FOR GLOBAL AIRING.
American Idol 3, the US version of hit ITV show Pop Idol, is to be screened
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FORMATS & DEALS - ACTION TIME DOES FORMAT DEALS IN EUROPE.
Distributor Action Time has secured a raft of format deals with broadcasters across Europe. Music gameshow
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FORMATS & DEALS - FRENCH TO REMAKE WILDLIFE RESCUE SHOW.
BBC children's challenge series Serious Jungle is to be remade by French production company Cellcast Television.
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FORMATS & DEALS - ELECTRIC SKY SELLS RIGHTS TO OCEAN SHOW.
Factual distributor Electric Sky has made a clutch of sales of underwater series Jewels of the
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Analysis - Profile - The view from 'Reality Row'.
After three years building up one of the biggest US outposts of a UK indie, RDF executive producer Cathy Rogers is heading home in search of fresh formats.
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On The Box - Dangerous public liaisons.
Colin Luke takes his hat off to a striking reality show and revealing documentaries, but is more bemused than impressed at jolly coppers carousing in the city streets.
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Analysis - Are they the living dead?
Veteran TV journalist and former MP Martin Bell may soon be joining the board of governors at the BBC. But will the arrival of the white-suited crusader be enough to save the current governors? Steve Clarke reports.
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Interview: Stuart Murphy - A happy first birthday for BBC3?
Critics have ruthlessly dissected the ratings for the BBC's 12-old-month baby and questioned whether its£97m budget is money well spent. So does Stuart Murphy, BBC3's controller, have cause to celebrate?
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Opinion - In My View - Here's to you ITV plc.
ITV might be the darling of the Competition Commission, but has Charles Allen come to the end of his nine lives, asks Dawn Airey.
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Opinion - Comment - Confessing all over dinner.
Television increasingly relies on serving up private revelations for entertainment. It's all part of a rather worrying outbreak of confessionalitis in our culture, says Tessa Mayes.
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Opinion - 'I'm a DG ... get me in here!'.
There are more difficult jobs in the world than the role of director general at the BBC, but it's hard to think of any.
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Interview - Red's storyteller.
Putting the writer at the centre of the creative process is key for successful drama, says Nicola Shindler, whose indie, Red Production, is behind some of the most original television dramas of recent years.
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Genre Focus: Drama - The American way.
US subscription channel HBO has built both a business and a creative reputation based on quality drama which taps into the Zeitgeist; can UK producers ever hope to emulate such success? Meg Carter reports.
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Genre Focus: Drama - Creating fiction from fact.
Drama-documentary is taking advantage of TV drama's increasing sensationalism and is attracting viewers with topical storylines and provocative subject matter.
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Genre Focus: Drama - Breaking the Silence.
Hear the Silence writer Timothy Prager on the challenges of turning real events and people into a drama about autism.
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Genre Focus: Drama - Dramatic licence.
Laura Mackie relishes the opportunities her position as BBC head of drama serials affords for her to bring dynamic projects to screen. She talks to Leigh Holmwood about the future of the genre in an age of reality TV.
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Production - Losses lead WPP to close Tyrell.
Advertising giant WPP has closed its loss-making equipment reseller Tyrell with the loss of 28 jobs.Staff
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Production - Buyers line up for BBC Tech.
The BBC has revealed the shortlist of bidders for its technology arm, BBC Technology (Broadcast, 6.2.04).
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Production - Pepper pours£1m into HD kit.
London post-production facility Pepper has purchased a Spirit Datacine together with a Da Vinci 2k Plus grading system in an investment representing£1m, writes Farah Jifri.
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In Production - The Nile put through The Mill.
Mill TV has completed work on The Nile, a three-part documentary for BBC Bristol. The show