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Superstars (BBC1) - Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail
'Commentator Paul Dickinson described things we could see for ourselves, such as: 'He's just pumping those legs bac...
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Holiday Showdown (ITV1) - Paul Hoggart, The Times
'TV executives are like over-enthusiastic diary farmers. They cannot see a good idea amble past without milking it....
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BBC2) - Robert Hanks, Independent
'Because of the way it is packaged, people think of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as fast food, when it is a gourmet del...
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Finding the Parfitt fit at Radio 1
After disappointing, if not disastrous, ratings, is it time for Andy Parfitt to do more than just tweak the line-up at Radio 1, but rather usher in some major changes?
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Gifted (ITV1) - Carol Midgley, The Times
'[Kay Mellor] didn't, in the end, produce a very good drama.'...
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Gifted (ITV1) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'Compared with last night's Gifted, a clunking melodrama by Kay Mellor, Footballers Wives offered a far more balanc...
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Gifted (ITV1) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'And yet, of course, a noble aim doesn't always mean good drama. Judged purely as a piece of television Gifted had ...
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Gifted (ITV1) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Express
'Gifted was certainly topical. It was also laboured , clumsy and thoroughly unconvincing.'...
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Gifted (ITV1) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'What followed was a date-rape information pack in dramatic form? What it wasn't quite was a fully functioning dra...
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Gifted (ITV1) - Gareth McLean, Guardian
'She may be good at storytelling, but Gifted suggests that Kay Mellor doesn't have the precision to tackle a subjec...
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Re:covered axed for TOTP spin-off
BBC3 is to axe its music show Re:coveredafter just two series and replace it with a Top of the Pops spin-off for BBC3.
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TV and radio ads may fall under ASA
ITV has welcomed proposals for new super-regulator Ofcom to hand over responsibility for television and radio advertising to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
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ITV lines up trio of new dramas
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has commissioned a trio of dramas, including a topical two-part action thriller featuring a corrupt Special Operations investigator battling to save the UK from a major security threat, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Ex-Loaded ed James Brown moves into TV
Former Loadededitor James Brown, ex- Blue Peterpresenter Richard Bacon and Lord Bell's Chime Communications have formed an unlikely alliance to create a new television show.
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Five plans Xmas Eubanks clip show
Five controller of youth and music Sham Sandhu has commissioned a one-off special from Carlton featuring the best bits of the channel's fly-on-the-wall series At Home with the Eubanks. In the 60-minute The Best of at Home with the Eubanks, ...
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BBC comedy cash
The BBC is to launch a new comedy writers' bursary worth£6,000 to mark the opening of its comedy development unit in Manchester on Thursday (30 October). The bursary, which will be open to comedy writers across the north, will give the winner two days a week with the BBC, developing ...
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Liverpool writers fund
Mersey Film has secured£25,000 worth of funding from North West Vision to find and develop writers in the north-west. The money will be used to develop script-writing talent to help regenerate local film production. Mersey Television, led by Brooksidecreator Phil Redmond, will pick up development ...
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Stewart media role
William G Stewart, presenter of Channel 4 quiz show Fifteen-to-One, has been appointed as the president of The Media Society. Stewart, who takes over from former Panoramareporter Richard Lindley, said his immediate aims included increasing the broadcasting membership of the ...
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Visual Voodoo gets nod for Panto special
CHANNEL 4 is to uncover the 'secret world' of celebrities in pantomime as part of a brace of commissions for ITN production arm Visual Voodoo, which are due to air at Christmas, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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LNN man back to BBC
London News Network (LNN) head of news Malcolm Balen is to return to BBC News as a consultant when he steps down from his post this week. The former BBC News executive editor, who said he made the decision to leave in the summer and was not affected by the ...