All Broadcast articles in 28 November 2003
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RatingsJudge John Deed returns with 6.6m
BBC1's courtroom drama Judge John Deedmade a successful start to its third series last night (27 November) with 6.6 million (27.8%).
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The World's Most Powerful - Celebrity (BCB2) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'A programme so brain-rottingly vacuous it would surely have been turned down by Sky One, Bravo and possibly even B...
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Judge John Deed (BBC1) - Nancy Banks-Smith, Guardian
'Judge John Deed is a class act. Intelligent, articulate and beautiful.'...
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Judge John Deed (BBC1) - Paul Hoggart, The Times
'I enjoyed it much more than I exptected to.'...
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Judge John Deed (BBC1) - Robert Hanks, Independent
'The agitprop edges are softened and made bearable by the way they are filtered through a storytelling sensibility ...
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NewsNo 'radical' change for radio process
Ofcom's senior partner for content and competition Kip Meek has said he doesn't expect any 'radical' changes to be made to the system of awarding radio licences.
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A New Life Down Under (Channel 4) - Christopher Matthew, Daily Telegraph
'Was it my imagination or did chunks fo the commentary sound as if they had been lifted straight from the tourist o...
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A New Life Down Under (Channel 4) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Express and Daily Star
'Channel 4 has come up with an absolute beaut of an idea - A New Life Down Under, where Brits uproot and move to Au...
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The World's Most Powerful - Celebrity (BBC2) - Alun Palmer, Daily Mirror
'This programme was so cheap you could almost hear the producer screaming at the researcher for going by taxi rathe...
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NewsFlynn quits BBC Ventures
The chief executive of the BBC Ventures group of commercial companies Roger Flynn has resigned following the BBC's confirmation that it is to sell off its BBC Technology division - exclusively revealed in Broadcastthis week.
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NewsTWG seeks£27m from Rajar
The Wireless Group (TWG) chairman Kelvin MacKenzie has revealed he is seeking compensation of£27m from Rajar.
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Blurring fact and fiction
While the practice of fusing drama and documentary has its uses, not least in avoiding legal issues, is it part of a ?noble tradition' going back to Grierson or is it just a way of making drama on the cheap? By Peter Keighron
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RatingsBodysnatchers fails to grab viewers
BBC1's new stomach-churning series Bodysnatcherslast night (26 November) which investigated the parasites that infest the human body appealed to 4.6 million (18.5%).
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Bodysnatchers (BBC1) - Gareth McLean, Guardian
'Bodysnatchers was stomach-churning, gut-wrenching and toe-curling? Is this what Reithian ideals have come to?'...
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Bodysnatchers (BBC1) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'There were passages of Bodysnatchers that looked like out-takes from a Japanese endurance game show.'...
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Bodysnatchers (BBC1) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star
'For stomach-churning, skin-crawling, vomit-inducing television this in depth and up close examination of the life ...
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Jungle: Canopyworld (BBC1) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'Viewers will love Charlotte Uhlenbroek even though she smiles unceasingly like Carol Smillie.'...
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Jungle: Canopyworld (BBC1) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'For all her (successful) gimmicks last night, the programme retained the air of a genuine investigation - and a hi...
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Jungle: Canopyworld (BBC1) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'The fact is that whatever its sins and shortcomings in other directions, the BBC delivers the best wildlife films ...
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TWI shows struggles of 'superman'
Former Superman star Christopher Reeve's continuing struggle to walk again is to be chronicled in a second film for BBC1 by indie TWI. The first film pulled in 5.1 million viewers, and TWI is now also working on a separate show about Reeve for US network ABC.