All Disability articles – Page 36
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CommentBlog: Beautifying Disability
BBC3 has commissioned a new show that would attempt to launch a disabled woman as a mainstream fashion model. Emma Bowler questions the challenges it will face and how challenging it will be to viewers preconceptions.
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NewsBBC3 orders disabled model hunt
BBC3 will attempt to launch a disabled woman as a mainstream fashion model in a new twist on an established format.
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CommentNarrow perspectives
TV's white, middle-class bias will remain unless attitudes to diversity change.
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CommentBlog: Disabled disadvantage
Disabled programme makers are struggling to tackle prejudices in television and they don't have a celebrity like Lenny Henry to fight their corner, says Emma Bowler.
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NewsHot 100: Talent
We profile the actors, comedians and presenters who are commanding screen time, winning plaudits and wooing television audiences in impressive numbers.
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NewsHot 100: Talent
We profile the actors, comedians and presenters who are commanding screen time, winning plaudits and wooing television audiences in impressive numbers.
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Disabled film-makers shoot for glory on C4
Channel 4 is to chart the progress of nine disabled novice film-makers in a 12-part series from Maverick Television and Resource Base.
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How the report was worked out
The Creative Report aims to establish which channels and producers are succeeding creatively and to generate debate about how the TV industry measures creativity.
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NewsC4 to air von Hagens lectures
Channel 4 has commissioned Firefly to make a fourth series with controversial anatomist Dr Gunther von Hagens. [ALL]
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FeaturesOn location: Born to be Different
Series producer Dee Lahiri charted the lives of six disabled children - and built lasting relationships
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NewsExtraordinary People to go beyond shock doc appeal
Five is moving its flagship Extraordinary Peoplestrand away from its shock doc roots with its latest round of commissions.
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NewsRead Andy Duncan's speech in full
Maximising public value in the 'now' media worldThe New Statesman media lecture, 21 June 2006
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E4 greenlights comedy shorts to lead into BB
E4 has ordered a series of 10-minute comedy shorts to run at 10pm before Big Brother's Big Mouth.
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OAPs given£100 to make digital switch
Pensioners taking part in a digital switch-over trial in Bolton have been given an allowance of£100 each to make the change to digital television.
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Leopard leaps on true drama
ITV drama controller Nick Elliott has commissioned a hard-hitting one-off drama about disability, starring Brenda Blethyn and Timothy Spall.
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NewsSecond helpings for Beyond Boundaries
8am: BBC2 controller Roly Keating has ordered a second series of disability adventure travel programme Beyond Boundaries while the first series is still on air.
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Granada Starting Over In France
Granada International has licensed the US reality format Starting Overto French commercial broadcaster TF1.
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Tessa Jowell: RTS Cambridge keynote address
Tessa Jowell, secretary of state for culture, media and sport 7pm 15 September 2005