Bringing back earlier TV production (9)

I believe the answer is:

retrieval

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'bringing back earlier tv production' is the definition.
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'earlier tv production' is the wordplay.
'production' indicates anagramming the letters.
'earlier'+'tv'='earliertv'
'earliertv' is an anagram of 'RETRIEVAL'.

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(Other definitions for retrieval that I've seen before include "Extraction of data from a file (computing)" , "Salvage" , "Getting information from a file" , "Action of recovery" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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