Comment – Page 167
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CommentTearing down the boundaries
New generation of hybrid genres provides opportunities – and threats.
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CommentThe best job I never had
DG is up for grabs, but what else is out there, asks Steven D Wright.
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CommentDigital comes of age at the Bafta TV Craft Awards
The volume and quality of multichannel entries is good for TV, says Andrew Newman.
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CommentThe demand for formats shows no sign of waning
Buyers seek warm-hearted content that drives co-viewing, says Leila Monks.
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CommentOff Cuts: Crossing the profanity pond
Adapting The Thick of It as Veep for HBO, Armando Iannucci continues to have free rein to swear with abandon.
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CommentWhy not Mandy’s Wild Adventure?
What is CBeebies’ problem with women? It has launched three new series this year, all the talk of the playground, but what is the one thing that unites Tree Fu Tom, Mike The Knight and Andy’s Wild Adventures? They’ve all got male leads.
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CommentUK studios have long been American-owned
Your assertion (Broadcast 30.3.12) that the ‘new’ Warner Bros studio at Leavesden “marks the first time a US studio has set up a permanent production base in the UK” is not correct.
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CommentSchool Of Hard Sums / Mighty Mississippi / Divine Women
Zig Zag’s Paul Hughes and Spun Gold’s Lucie Richards on maths, Mississippi and goddess worship.
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Comment12 April '12
“Bettany Hughes acts as a kind of Indiana Jones of gender redress.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment11 April '12
“It just charted, in its unsensationalist, unsentimental way, the stories of prostate cancer sufferers.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment10 April '12
“I’d love to say that this film was uplifting, but it wasn’t.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment5 April '12
“A toothsome little documentary series taking writer Giles Coren around our isle.”
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CommentDigital switchover: data is the key to survival
As digital switchover ushers in its final phase, with London next to switch, harnessing viewer data is set to become a major battleground, writes Suranjan Som.
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Comment3 April '12
“The episode actually trod a fine line between sentimentality and ridicule, and frequently went flying over it.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentPositive message from MipTV
At the MipTV market in Cannes this week, television appears to be turning its back on the theatre of cruelty in favour of more uplifting formats, writes Broadcast editor Lisa Campbell.
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Comment2 April '12
“There was very little evidence in [Hirst’s] conversation of the searching self-dissatisfaction that is often the hallmark of a great artist.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment30 Mar '12
“The characters are archetypes. And it is almost totally humourless.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment29 Mar '12
“If ever a franchise was dying on its feet, it’s this.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.