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Indian Dream (BBC2) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'In 2001 Avie Luthra won the Dennis Potter Award for young writers. Yet, faced with a similar subject, Potter himse...
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Indian Dream (BBC2) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'Luthra's sometimes charmingly amateurish award-winning script delivered a strange mix of messages about attitudes ...
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Indian Dream (BBC2) - Gareth McLean, Guardian
'An Occasion drama is not to be confused with an Event piece of television. That is something else entirely.'...
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Indian Dream (BBC2) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'What began as a cultural comedy of manners tried to twist itself into an ethnic sensitivity lesson halfway through...
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Teachers (C4) - Alun Palmer, Daily Mirror
'The winter months are going to be very cold indeed without Teachers (C4) to keep us company.'...
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Sex Rules (C4) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'Sex Rules follows Pornography: The Musical. Like some priapic Lothario, Channel 4 seems increasingly undiscriminat...
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Indies' RTS hopes
Indies Mosaic Films, Matchbox TV, Clementine Productions and Zig Zag Productions have all been nominated for awards at next week's Royal Television Society London regional programming awards. Both Mosaic and Matchbox are in the running for the independent producer gong. The BBC took the majority of nominations, with 16 out ...
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Halloween toon show quizzes kids
Cartoon Network is running a live-animation interactive quiz over Halloween. Skatoony Spooky invites kids to ring up and speak to animated quizmasters who will respond live on air. Created and produced in-house by director/animator James Fox, the show is billed as a cross between Las Vegas glitz and a US ...
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Gaunt: reality TV is ruining trust
Award-winning documentary maker Marilyn Gaunt has claimed that reality TV shows like Big Brotherare damaging documentary-makers' ability to gain the trust of their subjects.
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Ludus sells three formats to US
Format house Ludus is set to make its first foray into the US after selling the US rights to talent agency CAA for three of its formats - Laughing all the Way to the Bank, which features comics learning their trade at a boot camp, with a studio audience betting ...
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Ware exit prompts rejig at ITN Factual
ITN has promoted Philip Armstrong Dampier and Marilyn Bennett to run ITN Factual, following the departure of Julian Ware as director of programmes last week, writes Paul Revoir.
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Evolutions MTV job
Evolutions Post Production has won the contract to do the majority of the post-production for this year's MTV Europe Music Awards. Before the awards, MTV is producing The Road to Edinburgh - four live music events in the five-week run-up to the awards, which Evolutions is also posting. Two suites ...
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Pepper posts drying-out drama
Comfortably Numb is a 75-minute docu-drama for Channel 4 about recovering alcoholics in a clinic. Produced by Kudos and written and directed by Leo Regan, the programme was posted at Pepper. The decision to shoot with DV was made to give it a realistic, documentary feel, so post supervisor Jethro ...
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Flawless to make DJ talent show for ITV
Flawless Media is developing a DJ talent show for ITV which will offer the winner a year-long management contract. The six-part The Joy of Deckshas been backed by drinks brand Smirnoff and will be the first advertiser-funded series to be broadcast across both ITV1 and ...
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Parthenon to distribute for scandinature
Factual indie Parthenon Entertainment has signed a five-year distribution deal with Scandinavian wildlife production outfit Scandinature Films. Parthenon will handle international sales of the firm's entire natural history and science catalogue, which includes 36 hours of documentary programmes including Viking Voyages, Dead Sea Scrolls and ...
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Five hands dinnage scheduling duties
Five strategic planning director Susanna Dinnage has been promoted to schedules and planning director. She will take over the scheduling duties of Ashley Hill, who currently has the title of director of broadcasting which is to be dropped when he retires in the new year after six years at the ...
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Dale explains rationale for drama-docs
Channel 4 head of documentaries Peter Dale has claimed factual producers are increasingly making drama-documentaries because they were used to tighter budgets and could handle 'the search for the story'.
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RDF makes first sales for US court TV
RDF International has made its first distribution deals for Court TV, after taking on nearly 80 hours of programming from the US crime and investigation network. Dutch broadcaster SBS has acquired the free-TV rights to I, Detective(26 x 30 minutes), where viewers get the chance ...
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Open Mike gets paramount comedy orders
Indie Open Mike Productions is the company behind the two Paramount Comedy channel commissions, which were reported in Broadcast(17.10.03). Jo Brand will host a chat show while in 12 x 5-minute £100 in Brightoncomedians are given£100 to spend on something ...
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Mipcom deals hit by early closure
Major distributors failed to make last-minute sales at this year's Mipcom television market after companies closed their stands early, the organiser of the event has claimed, writes Michael Rosser.