All articles by Robin Parker – Page 74
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NewsFellowes attacks TV's "cult of youth"
Veteran screenwriter Julian Fellowes has attacked TV commissioners’ obsession with reaching a “mythical” youth audience and their fear of portraying comfortable middle class life.
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NewsBuck up quality of Extraordinary People, indies told
Five head of factual Andrew O’Connell has called on indies to step up the quality of ideas they pitch to Extraordinary People as hekicks off a major review of the flagship documentary strand.
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NewsC4 invites pitches to produce horse racing coverage
Channel 4 is putting more than 400 hours of horse-racing output up for grabs for the first time in more than 25 years.
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NewsTiger’s Lee and Raw’s Farrar team up to launch indie Nerd
Former Tiger Aspect head of documentaries Jago Lee and Raw Television head of development John Farrar are setting up an indie - with a gameshow filmed in an underground city among its first projects.
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NewsTen Alps chief calls for online WoCC
The BBC’s Window of Creative Competition (WoCC) scheme should be extended online for the corporation’s planned strategic partnership with cultural institutions, Ten Alps chief executive Alex Connock has argued.
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NewsC4 to step up search for new doc faces
Channel 4 head of programmes Julian Bellamy has pledged to make a “nursery slope” for new factual presenters a key priority in his creative renewal of the channel.
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NewsHeston to work culinary magic on NHS for C4
Heston Blumenthal will attempt to raise the standards of hospital food as part of a Channel 4 series that builds on his earlier transformation of Little Chef.
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NewsC4 orders autism musical series
Autistic children will attempt to produce their own musical for the London stage in a forthcoming Channel 4 series.
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RatingsMarried Single Other trails New Tricks repeat
Married, Single, Other fell below 4m viewers last night, leaving the ITV1 comedy drama languishing behind a repeat of New Tricks on BBC1.
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NewsBBC lines up more George Gently
The BBC has begun filming on two feature-length episodes of Inspector George Gently – the first to be filmed in north-east England.
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NewsSaturday Kitchen criticised for swearing - again
Ofcom has rapped BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen Live for broadcasting the f-word, months after escaping censure for a similar slip-up.
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RatingsThe Mentalist catches lacklustre Winner
ITV1 and Five were neck-and-neck at 9pm on Friday night, with Michael Winner’s Dining Stars and US drama The Mentalist both watched by 2.1m.
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NewsReport: twice as many men on TV as women
Men appear almost twice as much as women on TV, with factual programming and news the worst offenders, according to research ordered by Channel 4.A pilot study, published to mark International Women’s Day (8 March) and undertaken as part of C4’s leadership of the Cultural Diversity Network, also revealed that ...
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NewsGalloway attacks "dirty" Dispatches doc
MP George Galloway has attacked a Channel 4 Dispatches investigation into his relationship with the Islamic Forum of Europe , branding it a “dirty little programme”.
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NewsBafta redrafts nominations after C4 oversight
Channel 4 entertainment shows including Derren Brown’s The Events were accidentally left off the Bafta nominations longlist, it has emerged.
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RatingsClint hangs BBC2 and C4 out to dry
Docs and comedy on BBC2 and Channel 4 lost out to a Clint Eastwood western from 42 years ago on Five last night.
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NewsC4 viewers heap praise on Mowlam biopic
Ratings-busting drama Mo was the most praised show on Channel 4 last month – but viewers complained in droves about a technical hitch that saw The Godfather Part II transmitted in the wrong order.Scroll down for full list of “rated and slated”A total of 60 people contacted C4 to praise ...
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Comment
Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone / Push The Button
LoveStuart Maconie’s Freak ZoneSundays, 5.30-8pm, BBC 6MusicBBC 6Music’s mission to capture the spirit of the late John Peel is best demonstrated by Maconie’s anything-goes show. Many a Sunday dinner has come close to ruin from the rush to turn down an unwelcome blast of free jazz, but that’s kind of ...
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NewsVirgin Media chief blasts Canvas "whitewash"
Virgin Media chief executive Neil Berkett has launched a ferocious attack on the “shameless whitewash” of the BBC Trust’s consultation on Project Canvas.
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NewsFresh One lands sci-fi food show for Al-Jazeera
Fresh One Productions has won its first children’s commission – an Arabic-language show for Al- Jazeera that puts a sci-fi spin on the indie’s brand of socially conscious food programmes.