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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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Tiny planets to be seen in Scandinavia
Animation house Pepper's Ghost Productions is poised to sign deals with stations in Scandinavia to air its CGI pre-school series Tiny Planets, which screened on CITV in the UK, following sales to Fox Kids in Scandinavia, NRK in Norway and Disney and Canal+ in France. ...
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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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MacKenzie: 'I hate Rajar'
Kelvin MacKenzie has repeated his call to scrap the techniques used by the Rajar audience survey after his TalkSport station ranked bottom among national commercial broadcasters.
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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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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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Emap seeks metal MD
Emap, publisher of Broadcast, is hunting for a managing director to spearhead its Kerrang! radio brand as it prepares to launch the station in the West Midlands. The position has been created to grow the Kerrang! radio business which will bring together its existing digital ...
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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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Discovery wants Thunder races for US
Leopard Films has been commissioned by Discovery Channel US to produce a 60-minute special based on its Thunder Racesformat. The show, which sees teams turning broken-down cars into racing machines, will be shot this autumn in the Las Vegas desert. Executive producer for Discovery is ...
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Waking The Dead gets two more series
BBC1 crime drama Waking the Deadhas been commissioned for a further two series by controller of drama commissioning Jane Tranter. The fourth and fifth series, which will comprise six two-parters, will again feature a crack team of police forensic experts looking into 'cold cases'. Filming ...
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MTV signs OB Crew
Scottish TV and Grampian TV Resources have won the contract to provide outside broadcast facilities for the MTV Europe Music Awards. The team will deploy extensive digital OB equipment, including WiCam digital wireless cameras supplied by McMillan, to help put together content in the run-up to the event, as well ...
