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CommentNo consultation with us on BBC Academy
Private journalism training providers are increasingly concerned about the threat to our livelihoods from the BBC Academy.
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CommentOff Cuts: Donations to the BBC?
Sinister repercussions of the BBC’s cutbacks: comedy writer/ producer James Serafinowicz spotted the BBC canteen resorting to drastic measures to keep staff fed.
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CommentBeaver Falls / Sugartown / The Hour
World Media Rights’ Matthew Barrett and Alaska’s Ian Lamarra on eager beavers, a sugar high and ’50s news.
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Comment20 July '11
“The hour has come for a drama such as this: stylish and confident with strong values underneath.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentTV as a shop window
Spun Gold’s Nick Bullen on the exploitation and commercialisation of TV brands.
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Comment19 July '11
“Clever, funny, interesting - a cut above the rest.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentLend a hand to young TV talent
Talent is precious but it is the young who really need help in taking their first TV steps, writes Camilla Lewis.
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Comment18 July '11
“It looks as if this show has run aground.” Read on for the verdict on last weekend’s TV.
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Comment15 July '11
“Unsentimental, convincing, heartfelt drama, a credit to its makers.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentThe Life Of Muhammad / Question Time v Newsnight
Alex Farber and Catherine Neilan consider new shows from the past week.
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Comment14 July '11
“A corrective to some of the overhyped rhetoric of the last week”. Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Double Lesson / Desert Seas With David Attenborough / Single-Handed
Kiss FM and T4’s Melvin Odoom and Rickie Haywood Williams on classrooms, ‘gangster’ fish and the Garda.
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BBC still has faith in creativity and training
I want to respond to Mark Damazer’s observations (‘Young, gifted and blanked’, Broadcast, 8.07.11 ) that the BBC “has lost faith in the idea… of picking people with nothing to offer but creativity, flair, cleverness, intelligence and motivation”.
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CommentOff Cuts: So who's counting?
BBC Children’s director Joe Godwin got a birthday surprise as he took to the stage at last week’s Showcomotion children’s conference in Sheffield: a video tribute from none other than Upsy Daisy herself.
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Comment13 July '11
“The emotion of the relationships was necessarily squeezed towards melodrama.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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CommentPaula Milne: give the audience what they need
Acclaimed screenwriter Paula Milne, who penned Small Island and tonight’s BBC drama The Night Watch, says give them not what they want but what they need.
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Comment12 July '11
“One of the most powerful hours of comedy-drama I’ve seen of late”. Read on, for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment11 July ‘11
“A very effective blend of slightly erstatz mystery and surreptitious fine-art education.” Read on for the verdict on the weekend’s TV.
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Comment8 July '11
“Like its progenitor, Veena Sud’s adaptation is realistic, confidently slow-paced.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.