All Broadcast articles in 31 October 2003
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NewsBrabazon gets 2 Rory Peck awards
Freelance cameraman James Brabazon walked off with two of the four awards at last night's prestigious Rory Peck awards in London.
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RatingsThe Bill stops 11m
ITV1's live episode The Bill, which marked its 20th anniversary last night (30 October) successfully apprehended the viewers with 11 million (44.3%) watching in the final 5 minutes.
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NewsSky's contestants 'cried' & 'sobbed'
Six men who are planning to sue Sky after they were tricked into wooing and kissing a 'woman' who turned out to be a transsexual are said to have 'cried' and 'sobbed' for hours after her secret was revealed to them.
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NewsO'Hara to step down at Rajar
Jane O'Hara, the managing director of radio audience research body Rajar, is to step down from the post at the end of the year.
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NewsFreeview set to reach 2.5m homes
Freeview is set to reach 2.5m homes by the start of next year as the DTT service reaches its first birthday.
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NewsSky show contestants to sue
A group of men tricked into wooing and kissing a 'woman' who turned out to be a transsexual are suing Sky for conspiracy to commit sexual assault.
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The Last White Kids (C4) - Gareth McLean, Guardian
'As intriguing as Shona Thompson's film was, there was a certain paucity of material and it didn't have much of a n...
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Hunting Chris Ryan (BBC1) - James Walton
'Call me sceptical, but this had a distinct whiff of choreography about it. (Think a mixture of professional wrestl...
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NewsBrucie is back on the Beeb
Veteran presenter Bruce Forsyth is to re-join the BBC eight years after leaving for ITV.
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Superstars (BBC1) - Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail
'Commentator Paul Dickinson described things we could see for ourselves, such as: 'He's just pumping those legs bac...
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Holiday Showdown (ITV1) - Paul Hoggart, The Times
'TV executives are like over-enthusiastic diary farmers. They cannot see a good idea amble past without milking it....
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BBC2) - Robert Hanks, Independent
'Because of the way it is packaged, people think of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as fast food, when it is a gourmet del...
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Finding the Parfitt fit at Radio 1
After disappointing, if not disastrous, ratings, is it time for Andy Parfitt to do more than just tweak the line-up at Radio 1, but rather usher in some major changes?
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Ratings7m watch the fall of IDS
BBC1's live coverage last night (29 October) of the Conservative MPs deciding the future of their leader Ian Duncan-Smith reached a peak of 7 million at 19.00.
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Gifted (ITV1) - Carol Midgley, The Times
'[Kay Mellor] didn't, in the end, produce a very good drama.'...
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Gifted (ITV1) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'Compared with last night's Gifted, a clunking melodrama by Kay Mellor, Footballers Wives offered a far more balanc...
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Gifted (ITV1) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'And yet, of course, a noble aim doesn't always mean good drama. Judged purely as a piece of television Gifted had ...
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Gifted (ITV1) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Express
'Gifted was certainly topical. It was also laboured , clumsy and thoroughly unconvincing.'...
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Gifted (ITV1) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'What followed was a date-rape information pack in dramatic form? What it wasn't quite was a fully functioning dra...
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Gifted (ITV1) - Gareth McLean, Guardian
'She may be good at storytelling, but Gifted suggests that Kay Mellor doesn't have the precision to tackle a subjec...