All Broadcast articles in 31 October 2003 – Page 5
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Britain's Worst Driver (Five) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'I'm tempted to award Five the prize for the most irresponsible series on TV, Britain's Worst Driver.'...
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RatingsVictoria fails to amuse viewers
BBC1 didn't have much to be amused about last night (27 October) as Looking for Victoria, the corporation's latest drama-documentary got 5.1 million (21.7%).
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NewsC4 promotes Kawash to MD of 4Ventures
Channel 4 has promoted Anmar Kawash to become the new managing director of its commercial arm 4Ventures.
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NewsCarrington to take CBBC's acquisitions post
CBBC controller Dorothy Prior has appointed Michael Carrington as new head of children's acquisitions to take over from Theresa-Plummer Andrews, who is retiring next year.
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NewsUKTV drops UK Gold 2
UKTV is dropping its time-shift channel UK Gold 2, which shows UK Gold programmes 12 hours later, and replacing it with a new channel UKG2 targeting a younger, more contemporary audience.
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NewsLondon Tonight takes best news award
London News Network's (LNN) London Tonightwon best news programme at the Royal Television Society's London awards last night (Monday), just days after new owners ITN said they would radically revamp it.
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Looking for Victoria (BBC1) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'What a muddled, piecemeal and unoriginal thing was last night's Looking For Victoria.'...
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Looking for Victoria (BBC1) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'Looking for Victoria may have reinforced a lot of television cliches, but it effectively undermined several histor...
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Looking for Victoria (BBC1) - Carol Midgley, The Times
'Thanks to Scales' well-honed skill, it became an entertaining navigation - part drama, part documentary? Part two ...
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Lifer - Living With Murder (C4) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star
'It was a fascinating and, for the most part, deeply depressing documentary.'...
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Lifer - Living With Murder (C4) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'Lifer was the kind of old-school documentary that you now tend to see only when BBC4 repeats something from the ar...
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NewsITV bumps off Family
ITV's home-grown gangster drama Familylast night (27 October) got the bullet from its Monday night peaktime slot after failing to deliver big enough audience numbers, writes Conor Dignam.
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RatingsITV1's Single is left alone by viewers
ITV1's unusual scheduling of a drama on Saturday night failed to draw the viewers as Singlewas left struggling with 4.4 million (20.3%), writes Jon Rogers.
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NewsCNN appoints Maddox to senior VP of news
CNN International has promoted Tony Maddox to the position of senior vice president of news operations in a move that will see him relocating to its Atlanta headquarters from his current base in London, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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NewsBehind Closed Doors up for kids' Bafta
BBC drama Behind Closed Doors, which looked at domestic violence from a children's point of view, has been nominated for a Lego Children's Bafta award as the BBC once again swept the board, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NewsWilloughby defects from CBBC to CITV
ITV has poached a young CBBC presenter to front its new flagship Saturday morning kids show, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Single (ITV1) - Gareth McLean, Guardian
'Quite good drama on ITV1 shocker! Albeit on the wrong night of the week.'...
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Single (ITV1) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'If you can't actually go out on the pull on Saturday night, this should make a passable alternative.'...
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Single (ITV1) - Paul Hoggart, The Times
'Single teeters permanently on the brink of depression, but it is engaging enough and has the reassuring ring of au...