All Comment articles – Page 84
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CriticsTV Critics: Wasted; Inside the Factory
“It’s very funny – in a way that might occasionally make you ashamed of yourself for laughing.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Naked Attraction; Coach Trip: Road to Ibiza; Dispatches: How School Bosses Spend Your Millions
“By the time bisexual Mal revealed ‘what kind of vagina she liked’ with an anatomical description you could feel your brain starting to desiccate.”
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CommentDiscovering the rules of Naked Attraction
Convincing more than 80 people to strip off on TV taught Naked Attraction series editor Vivienne Molokwu plenty of lessons.
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CriticsTV Critics: Robot Wars; Keith Richards: The Origin of the Species; The Marvellous World of Roald Dahl
“Silly, this certainly was. And probably pointless, too. But you couldn’t help thinking that Robot Wars’ time has finally come.”
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CommentPiecing together the media technology puzzle
European broadcast innovation is more than holding its own, writes Oliver Botti.
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CriticsTV Critics: Refugee Camp: Our Desert Home; The Investigator: A British Crime Story; Fleabag; Full Steam Ahead
“This moving documentary has given human faces to a camp we usually only see from the air.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Joy of Data; Long Lost Family
“Fry made data seem like some magical and benign force wafting around all of us: magnetic, unthreatening, a bit sexy.”
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CommentHabits may be changing but TV viewing remains high
Brand and ethos behind a channel is increasingly important, says Chris Cowan
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CommentBattle lines are drawn in SVoD
Content and curation are key to standing out, says Kate Bulkley
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CommentDigital is the way to woo young
Love Island success shows that online audience connection is key
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CriticsTV Critics: Horizon; The Search for the Lost Manuscript; Imagine
“Dumbed down, sexed up, a tad dishonest and, at times, plain daft.”
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CommentTime to join the global VoD revolution
Broadcasters have been sleeping on the job when it comes to video on demand. A global iPlayer could change this, says Sam Barcroft
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CriticsTV Critics: Swim the Channel; The Somme 1916 – From Both Sides of the Wire; Forces of Nature with Brian Cox
“It was like the 40 Minutes docs of old (remember those?), the slightly offbeat feel somehow adding up to a deeper understanding of a very British subculture.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Secret Agent; One Night in 2012: An Imagine Special
“The television of 1996 was evoked as much as the London of a 100 years earlier.”
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PodcastTalking TV: the highlights part 2
In the second of two special editions of Talking TV, host Jake Kanter returns to interviews with First Dates executive Nicola Lloyd, writer Tony Jordan on Dickensian and unlocks the secrets of Storage Hunters UK with Sean Kelly.
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CriticsTV Critics: Ross Kemp: The Fight Against Isis; The Investigator: A British Crime Story; The Question Jury; Love Child
“Kemp’s occasional Partridgisms aside, this was actually a pretty solid documentary, blunt and informative, with impressive access to people and places.”
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CommentImproving diversity will help us make better TV
Attracting brilliant, diverse creative talent is vital if we are to stay on top of our game, says Mark Linsey
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CommentCulture and practice need to change
Blame doesn’t lie with individual TV execs, says Alex Addo
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CommentDon’t fret over TV’s future
The young may not be tuning in, but who cares? says Steven D Wright
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CommentFast forward to the future at BBC
After bumps of charter renewal, corporation prepares for new phase