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CommentPremier League rights ruling
The EU has ruled that it is not illegal to buy set top box decoder cards from foreign broadcasters, which could have a major impact on the way Sky and others buy sport, films and foreign TV rights. Mark Owen considers the consequences.
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Comment30 Sep '11
“Obviously you can’t do the whole biography in a 70-minute film. But I’m not sure the right pages have been torn out.” Read on
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Comment29 Sep '11
“Cut it in half and there’s a potentially great comedy.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTop Boy / Hidden / Shirley
Camden Creative’s Robert Elliott and Testimony Films’ Steve Humphries on ghetto kids, a hard man and Shirley Bassey.
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CommentOff Cuts: Meeting MOTD's needs
Q: What happens when you name your meeting rooms after your iconic shows?
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CommentSmooth Radio: one year on
Commercial radio’s challenger to BBC Radio 2 celebrates its first birthday as a national network with a mixed report card, writes Paul Robinson.
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Comment28 Sep '11
“Not all deforestation is bad, as you’d know if you lived next door to an out-of-control leylandii.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentBlue Peter 2.0
Blue Peter editor Tim Levell reveals the thinking behind the latest revamp of the BBC children’s show, which was broadcast from Salford for the first time this week.
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Comment27 Sep '11
“A large part of this documentary series’ magic is its real-life soap.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentGet off your arse and make your show
Bigger Picture’s John Matthews responds to the anonymous anti-commissioner tirade by ‘Gerri Gossage’ that ran last month in Broadcast – and he’s none too impressed.
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Comment26 Sep '11
“Linguistics isn’t natural television material, it needs a wit and a wag and a wordsmith to bring it to life.” Read on for the verdict on the weekend’s TV.
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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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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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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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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.