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Schedulers need a lesson
Fame Academy : an apology. In previous columns over a number of months I may have given the impression that Fame Academy, also known as Same Academy, Lame Academy and Blame Academy, was a worthless light entertainment show and an unworthy recipient of funds from ...
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NewsNew programme chief for Sci-Fi
Universal Studios has appointed a new programme director at the Sci-Fi channel to replace Jason Thorp who left to head up Fox's planned UK entertainment channel, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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NewsDTI greenlights Carlton & Granada merger
The government has cleared the merger of Carlton and Granada - crucially allowing them to retain control of their advertising sales houses.
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NewsSky reporter commits suicide
James Forlong, the former Sky News reporter who was forced to quit after it emerged he had faked a report from the Iraq war, has committed suicide.
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NewsKeep watershed, say viewers
TV viewers want to keep the 21.00 watershed according to a report by the ITC, BSC and BBC, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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Family (ITV1) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'The only reason that you would be sitting on the edge of your seat while watching this show would be if you were s...
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Waking The Dead: Final Cut (BBC1) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'There were so many different supposedly interlocking plot lines that one's head spun.'...
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Home (BBC4) - Gareth McLean, Guardian
'Written and directed by Richard Curson-Smith? Home (BBC4) was compelling and unpleasant claustrophobic and relentl...
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Home (BBC4) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'Where JG Ballard's story was obliquely funny, Richard Curson-Smith's drama was openly so, and it included one winn...
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SAS - The Real Story (C4) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'The final episode tried hard to take a cool approach and failed. This failure was caused by the makers' obvious ex...
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NewsTen countries book Paradise Hotel
Indie Mentorn has sold the US run of its hit format Paradise Hotel, which screened to good ratings on the Fox network this summer, to ten countries, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NewsPurvis joins City University
Former ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis is to become the first chair of television journalism at London's City University.
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NewsTop jobs for Granada men in merged ITV
Carlton and Granada are expected to split ITV into three divisions - production, news and broadcasting - if their£4bn merger is given the green light this week.
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NewsSky News launches in Eire
Sky News is to launch an Irish news service early next year with the opening of its Dublin studio, broadcasting a daily 30-minute evening bulletin on the channel, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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Derren Brown Plays Russian Roulette Live (C4) - Mark Lawson, Guardian
'In this slick, but sick entertainment, Channel 4 shot television in the foot.' ...
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Hitler: the Rise of Evil (C4) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'I wouldn't mind if I never saw another programme about Adolf Hitler. But if Saturday night's Hitler: The Rise of E...
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Hitler: the Rise of Evil (C4) - Paul Hoggart, The Times
Robert Carlyle struggled manfully to catch the man's intense, driven energy, but he ended up looking like a psychot...
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Hitler: the Rise of Evil (C4) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'The series at least gives a reasonably accurate rehearsal of Hitler's early career. Read a book if you want the gr...
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Sparkling Cyanide (ITV1) - Jim Shelley, Daily Mirror
'It was so twee and English it might as well have been Christmas.' ...
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Sparkling Cyanide (ITV1) - Gareth McLean, Guardian
'Sparkling Cyanide was, according to the publicity blurb, 'a contemporary dramatisation of Agatha Christie's classi...