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NewsGrounds pens his first drama for BBC1
Writer Tony Grounds, creator of the award winning Ray Winstone vehicle Births, Marriages and Deaths, is to turn his sights on the family unit in a new drama for BBC1, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Ad gloom for Capital and GWR
Capital Radio and GWR, the UK's two largest commercial radio groups, have forecast gloomy results in their latest trading updates, writes Michael Rosser.
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Cutting Edge: Tale of Two Alis (C4) - Paul Hoggart, The Times
'The result was extremely unsettling, morally ambiguous and emotionally complicated.'...
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Cutting Edge: Tale of Two Alis (C4) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'The film was ultimately about the disgusting process by which a mutilated boy gets turned into a valuable media co...
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Canterbury Tales: The Knight's Tale (BBC1) - Gerard O' Donovan, Daily Telegraph
'Of the six stories in the BBC's current series of Chaucer adaptations, Canterbury Tales: The Knights Tale was alwa...
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Canterbury Tales: The Knight's Tale (BBC1) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star
'The problem dogging Canterbury Tales is most viewers don't know Chaucer's poems, so each play has to be judged on ...
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Art and the City (BBC3) - Rupert Smith, Guardian
'The implausibly lovely James Gooding travelled to Milan in Art and the City (BBC3), the first of a self-consciousl...
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ONE Life launches with 3.4m
BBC One's gritty new documentary series ONE Lifegot off to a promising start with Lager, Mum and Meat 22.35 attracting 3.4 million (23.9%), despite being scheduled against the US blockbuster, Gone in 60 Secondson ITV1, ...
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ONE Life: Lager, Mum and Me (BBC1) - Gerard O'Donovan, Daily Telegraph
'Seeing them realise so movingly on the beach in Skegness was one of the most powerful, tear-inducing moments of te...
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ONE Life: Lager, Mum and Me (BBC1) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'Church and state can nag us for ever for our riotous boozing, but one little film like this one - out of the mouth...
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ONE Life: Lager, Mum and Me (BBC1) - Jim Shelley, Daily Mirror
'It was simple, affecting television. Above all, it really made tangible the emotions a child would have about her ...
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ONE Life: Lager, Mum and Me (BBC1) - Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent
'But, as watchaable as it was, Lager, Mum and Me never strayed far from the box-office reliability of its will-she,...
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ONE Life: Lager, Mum and Me (BBC1) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'If you didn't already realise it, here was a film to show you that happiness rests on the most fragile of foundati...
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Auction Man (BBC1) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Express
'If you want to see the seamy side of auction rooms, dodgy dealings and price fixing, you'd be better off searching...
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New bosses throw£1.5m at Molinare
Only days after completing a deal to purchase post facility Molinare, new joint owners and managing directors Mark Foligno and Steve Milne are already ploughing money into the struggling facility, writes Sam Espensen.
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Ukraine buys 100 hours of Granada
Granada International has sold 100 hours of programming, including all four series of At Home with the Braithwaites, to a Ukrainian broadcaster. The package, which also includes a selection of PD James mysteries and the GEUSA/Showtime co-produced comedy Beggars and ...
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M2 will target market for HD
M2 Television has invested in a batch of new Panasonic and Snell & Wilcox kit in order to set up a duplication arm. The kit, which is HD and HD cross-conversion equipment, includes two Panasonic VTRs - an HD D5 and a DVC Pro HD with variable frame rate converter.
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Maverick seeks£2m to fund fresh muffin
Maverick Entertainment Group is looking for£2m of outside investment in order to beef up its commercial output and fund new television series, such as Muffin the Mule.
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TV execs knock 2010 target
The government will not meet its 2010 analogue switch-off target, key broadcasting figures have predicted, writes Colin Robertson.
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ITV seeks 22.30 slot for 'News at When?'
ITV is back in discussions with the Independent Television Commission (ITC) in a bid to move its News at Tenprogramme to 22.30, writes Paul Revoir.