Comment – Page 230

  • Two Greedy Italians
    Comment

    5 May '11

    2011-05-05T11:24:00Z

    “It’s not exactly reinventing the omelette, but, it still makes a refreshing change.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Kate Bulkley
    Comment

    Love, honour and make profit

    2011-05-05T07:58:00Z

    The road to a happy TV union rarely runs smooth, says Kate Bulkley

  • TV freelancers
    Comment

    Training can help stem the TV exodus

    2011-05-05T07:58:00Z

    Your important survey (‘What do freelancers want?’, Broadcast, 29.04.11) raises issues that should make the whole industry sit up and take notice. We at the Indie Training Fund welcome your editorial exhorting more indies to invest in their workforce, rather than just paying lip service to training.

  • Compete For The Meat
    Comment

    Compete For The Meat / Gordon's Great Escape / Scream If You Know The Answer!

    2011-05-05T07:58:00Z

    Hat Trick International director of sales Sarah Tong and Cal Turner, executive producer Prospect Pictures, on a pub quiz, exotic food and a rollercoaster.

  • Simon Cowell
    Comment

    Off Cuts: All bets off for Cowell

    2011-05-05T07:58:00Z

    ITV1’s new roulette-inspired game show Red or Black is not, we repeat not, a gambling show

  • Exile
    Comment

    4 May '11

    2011-05-04T12:03:00Z

    “I am all for gloom in drama, but you have to believe in it.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Children's Craniofacial Surgery
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    Children’s Craniofacial Surgery

    2011-05-04T08:00:00Z

    Striking the right the balance between the squeamish factor and the need to show the mechanics of this astonishing surgery was a tricky job, says Nick O’Dwyer.

  • The Unofficial Royal Wedding
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    The Unofficial Royal Wedding

    2011-05-03T12:48:00Z

    Executive producer David Notman-Watt on the challenges of using citizen journalism, a 48 hour edit and dealing with breaking global news.

  • Case Sensitive
    Comment

    3 May '11

    2011-05-03T10:57:00Z

    “As excitement and chases go, this is first class stuff.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Prince William and Kate Middleton
    Comment

    28 Apr '11

    2011-04-28T11:46:00Z

    “It was broadbrush stuff but then Starkey has been teaching in Jamie’s Dream School for a while.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Dambusters
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    Dambusters: Building the Bouncing Bomb

    2011-04-28T08:00:00Z

    Dambusters producer Tom Cook on the challenges of filming an explosive reconstruction.

  • Night Garden
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    Off cuts: Daisy doo! to global aid

    2011-04-27T14:45:00Z

    Thought In The Night Garden was harmless fun for toddlers, or at worst, soporific viewing for stoners? Think again.

  • Vera
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    Vera / Psychoville / March Of The Dinosaurs

    2011-04-27T12:59:00Z

    True Vision’s Brian Woods and Olwyn Silvester, production chief at Atlantic Productions, on cops, clowns and animated dinosaurs

  • Secret Millionaire
    Comment

    27 April '11

    2011-04-27T11:01:00Z

    “By the time each episode finishes, we ache with the glorious sense that a better world is possible.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Derren Brown
    Comment

    26 April '11

    2011-04-26T12:13:00Z

    “It was moderately entertaining, if a bit overlong, but a waste of Brown’s – and Nathan’s – talents.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Essex Jungle
    Comment

    21 April '11

    2011-04-21T11:37:00Z

    “Chris and his reptiles actually live in Strood, which was over the Thames estuary in Kent last time I looked.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Touching The Void
    Comment

    Off Cuts: A Certain Ratio

    2011-04-20T15:25:00Z

    Oscar-winning film-maker Kevin Macdonald took the lecturers’ prerogative during his whistle-stop speech on the history of documentary last week. Delivering the inaugural BBC Documentary Lecture, Shrinking Cameras, Expanding Worlds, the Touching The Void director had to make a choice about which format to show his ...

  • So What If My Baby Is Born Like Me
    Comment

    20 April '11

    2011-04-20T11:13:00Z

    “You don’t get a lot of moral philosophy on BBC3 but that’s essentially what this was.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Robin Crowley
    Comment

    Small online radio stations will thrive in G4 revolution

    2011-04-20T08:04:00Z

    GaydarRadio has left the Sky EPG to tune into the iPhone generation, says Robin Crowley

  • Kate Bulkley
    Comment

    TV turns the tables on online

    2011-04-20T07:59:00Z

    Top brains are crossing over into web world, reports Kate Bulkley