All Comment articles – Page 189
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CommentLend a hand to young TV talent
Talent is precious but it is the young who really need help in taking their first TV steps, writes Camilla Lewis.
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Comment18 July '11
“It looks as if this show has run aground.” Read on for the verdict on last weekend’s TV.
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Comment15 July '11
“Unsentimental, convincing, heartfelt drama, a credit to its makers.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentThe Life Of Muhammad / Question Time v Newsnight
Alex Farber and Catherine Neilan consider new shows from the past week.
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Comment14 July '11
“A corrective to some of the overhyped rhetoric of the last week”. Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentOff Cuts: So who's counting?
BBC Children’s director Joe Godwin got a birthday surprise as he took to the stage at last week’s Showcomotion children’s conference in Sheffield: a video tribute from none other than Upsy Daisy herself.
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BBC still has faith in creativity and training
I want to respond to Mark Damazer’s observations (‘Young, gifted and blanked’, Broadcast, 8.07.11 ) that the BBC “has lost faith in the idea… of picking people with nothing to offer but creativity, flair, cleverness, intelligence and motivation”.
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Double Lesson / Desert Seas With David Attenborough / Single-Handed
Kiss FM and T4’s Melvin Odoom and Rickie Haywood Williams on classrooms, ‘gangster’ fish and the Garda.
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CommentDecisive action sets TV apart
NI and the wider press need not look far for lessons on morality.
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CommentSuffering the sheer joy of the best job in the world
Writers’ grumpy exteriors belie an optimism about the future, says Ashley Pharoah.
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CommentColleagues and friends remember C4's Sarah Mulvey
Friends and colleagues remembered the late Channel 4 commissioning editor Sarah Mulvey at a commemorative event this week. Here, science commissioning editor David Glover and Louisa Bolch pay tribute to a much-missed colleague.
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Comment13 July '11
“The emotion of the relationships was necessarily squeezed towards melodrama.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentPaula Milne: give the audience what they need
Acclaimed screenwriter Paula Milne, who penned Small Island and tonight’s BBC drama The Night Watch, says give them not what they want but what they need.
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Comment12 July '11
“One of the most powerful hours of comedy-drama I’ve seen of late”. Read on, for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment11 July ‘11
“A very effective blend of slightly erstatz mystery and surreptitious fine-art education.” Read on for the verdict on the weekend’s TV.
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Comment8 July '11
“Like its progenitor, Veena Sud’s adaptation is realistic, confidently slow-paced.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentRobinson on the Arqiva Awards
If you have had your fill of Murdoch severing a hundred year old newspaper then the good news is that commercial radio (aged 38 yrs) is thriving. The Arqiva awards, held in London this week celebrating success in ad funded radio, were the best yet, writes Paul Robinson.
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Comment7 July '11
“Sooke’s film was a generally engaging affair, presented by someone with a genuine ease in front of the camera.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentNo experience necessary in the hunt for fresh ideas
We’re opening up to the world beyond TV, says C4’s Richard Davidson-Houston.