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Cutting Edge: Beauty Queens and Bloodshed (C4) - Robert Hanks, Independent
'The thing I admired about it was the way it found and kept a grip on a streak of black humour: not in terrifically...
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When Michael Portillo Became a Single Mum (BBC2) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star
'He oozed niceness as he struggled to feed four Merseyside kids for a week on a budget that would be loose change f...
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When Michael Portillo Became a Single Mum (BBC2) - Gareth McLean, Guardian
'This was a sweet and gentle film, rather than an urgent and political one.'...
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When Michael Portillo Became a Single Mum (BBC2) - Jim Shelley, Daily Mirror
'It was the most cynical, shameless attempt yet by Michael Portillo to re-invent himself.'...
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When Michael Portillo Became a Single Mum (BBC2) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'In short, they wanted to entertain us with a posh bloke out of his depth up North.'...
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When Michael Portillo Became a Single Mum (BBC2) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'Michael Portillo was taking part in, essentially, a version of Wife Swap.'...
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When Michael Portillo Became a Single Mum (BBC2) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'It gives one a warm glow that Michael Portillo should take the trouble to learn for himself what it's like to mana...
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Pye resurfaces at Sony
Former Granada senior executive Chris Pye has resurfaced with a new role as vice-president of worldwide formats at Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI), writes Michael Rosser.
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New OB vision mixer
An ultra-compact vision mixer designed for use in OB vehicles is being made available by broadcast solutions specialist Eyeheight. Managing director Martin Moore said the system was developed in response to 'the demand for a robust system which can be used as the main vision mixer in today's ultra-compact OB ...
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A view from MipCom
Allen and Green have been doing a lot of posturing lately yet few have heard of ITV outside the UK. Neverthless it was the talk of the town at last weekend's feisty Mipcom, says Broadcastnews editor Colin Robertson
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Japan to be tested
Indie Talent Television has brokered a deal for a Japanese version of Test the Nation. The Eyeworks live event format, which has been screened in the UK on BBC1, is set to air later this year on TV Asahi and is co-produced with TV Man ...
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Ofcom to tackle 'regional' issue
Ofcom is planning a crackdown on what counts as a regional operation for indie producers and could insist on senior indie staff living in the area where the office is based, writes Jane Marlow.
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Hampshire upgrades
Broadcast kit reseller McMillan has supplied£50,000 of new technology to Hampshire Street Studios. The three-year-old studio, based in north London, has added Panasonic camera equipment and an Avid Xpress Pro suite to existing facilities. The Hampshire Street Studio has been used so far for all kinds of production, including corporate ...
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Unions reject granada pay offer
Broadcast unions Bectu, the National Union of Journalists and Amicus have unanimously rejected Granada's pay offer of 2%. Around 60 union representatives met on Tuesday (14 October), where they agreed to ask the company for a new offer. Granada offered a cash rise of 2% to all employees who had ...
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Global Midsomer
Chrysalis Distribution has announced further deals for its hit drama Midsomer Murders, made by Bentley Productions. The 13 x 100-minute series seven and eight have been pre-sold to France 3, while South Africa's SABC3 has acquired a total of seven episodes from series five and ...
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French resistance
Zeal Television and R&G productions in France have secured a deal with French broadcaster Comedie to make a local version of surreal BBC3 gameshow format Resistance. The French version of the Chatterbox format will be made by R&G as a 60 x 5-minute series to ...
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Paramount orders first original shows
Paramount Comedy has ordered its first original commissions. Director of programming Heather Jones has ordered a home-grown chatshow, which is being shot at this month's Paramount Comedy Festival in Brighton and fronted by Jo Brand. The plan is to pilot it this year and develop it as a series for ...
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Hodgson in plea for less Ofcom duties
Patricia Hodgson, the chief executive of the Independent Television Commission, has called for fewer duties and responsibilities to be imposed on new super-regulator Ofcom once it takes over from the ITC. In a speech at the Treasury on Wednesday night (15 October), Hodgson said Ofcom has been charged with deregulating ...
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Nick Jr pins down three new shows
Nickelodeon UK has made three acquisitions for its pre-school channel Nick Jr. Angelina Ballerina, a 39 x 30-minute series from Hit Entertainment featuring the voices of Judi Dench and her daughter Finty Williams, I Spy, a 26 x 30-minute show ...
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Wife Swap in further deals
RDF media has completed further deals on its break-out hit Wife Swap following its commission last week from US network ABC for a full series.