All Comment articles – Page 188
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Comment23 Sep '11
“Mr Drew’s history class is a hundred times better than David Starkey’s.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment22 Sep '11
“What really holds the thing together is an underlying sympathy.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentWorld Service will not wither
Change will strengthen the BBC’s global ‘lifeline’, says Lord Patten.
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CommentEvolution is the key to Songs Of Praise survival
50th anniversary of the Sunday staple reflects commitment to quality, says Aaqil Ahmed.
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CommentOff Cuts: Criminally entertaining
Tim Hincks reliably delivered the laughs at the RTS Cambridge Convention. Opening with thanks to Endemol - “I owe them a massive debt” - Hincks reflected on when he invited James Murdoch to Edinburgh.
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CommentLight amid the doom-fest
RTS was the most upbeat in years as cross-platform strategies emerged.
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The Fades / Educating Essex / An Idiot Abroad 2
Spun Gold’s Gill Wilson and FirstLookTV’s Will Hanrahan on undead teens, Essex kids and Karl’s moans.
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CommentBBC’s schizophrenic faultline
In an extract from Bafta’s annual TV lecture, Peter Bennett-Jones claims there is a schizophrenic faultline in its make-up and management of the BBC.
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Comment21 Sep '11
“The raw battery acid of competition coating their nerves is inherently interesting.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentHas data become the enemy of originality?
In an extract from Bafta’s annual TV lecture, Peter Bennett-Jones claims original and polemical programming is in short supply - and data could be the culprit.
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Comment20 Sep '11
“It offers a slice of oddball humour quite unlike anything else to be found.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment19 Sep '11
“It is moreish partly for the obvious reason that Fellowes is deft at keeping a large number of characters and plots in play.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentC4's autumn crossroads
Following the launch of Channel 4’s autumn line-up, Balihar Khalsa questions how the new shows measure up to the broadcaster’s risk-taking ambitions.
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Comment16 Sep '11
“I’d find Connolly funnier if he didn’t spend quite so much time poleaxed with mirth at his own jokes.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment15 Sep '11
“The problem is that knowledge and science generally take second place to B-movie spectacle.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentProtect the World Service
Will changes to funding damage or revolutionise this key resource?
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CommentWhat to dump in comms bill skip
There are no easy answers to Jeremy Hunt’s big issue of media plurality, says Steve Hewlett.
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CommentFresh Meat / Billy Connolly’s Route 66 / The Body Farm
Big Brother’s Nadine Sharma and Big Talk’s Dan Cheesbrough on freshers, road trips and forensic drama.