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Ratings6.5m were Mad About Alice
New BBC1 comedy Mad About Alice , starring Amanda Holden and Jamie Theakston, kicked off on Friday night (23 January) at 20.30 with 6.5 million viewers (27.7%).
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Bosom Pals (BBC1) - Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail
'Two 25-minute encounters with Beryl Cook's big-bosomed creations might be enough for most people's tastes.'...
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NewsBBC clears schedules for Hutton
The BBC is to rip up its regular daytime schedule tomorrow (Wednesday) in order to bring gavel to gavel coverage of the Hutton report.
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Bosom Pals (BBC1) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'All that's lacking is a decent script - even though no fewer than seven writers are credited.'...
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Bosom Pals (BBC1) - Peter Conchie, Independent
'The success of Bosom Pals - and, on balance, I think it was a success - was its tenderness.'...
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The Afternoon Play (BBC1) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star
'It was so trite and predictable, it wouldn't have been scheduled as an evening play in a month of Mondays.'...
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The Afternoon Play (BBC1) - Joe Joseph, The Times
'It's a little bit When Harry Met Sally, with a twist of The Philadelphia Story, and a dash of Richard Curtis.'...
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The Afternoon Play (BBC1) - Rupert Smith, Guardian
'Johanna Baldwin's agreeable fable didn't break new ground - in fact if anybody else tries to tell me that men are ...
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NewsNew focus for ITV News
ITV News has unveiled its new look and£1m state of the art set, which will accompany its re-launch on 2 February, the day the merger between Carlton and Granada becomes official.
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NewsNUJ slams Saville request
A move to prosecute two television journalists for contempt for refusing to betray confidential sources to the Bloody Sunday Tribunal in Northern Ireland would be 'utterly wrong,' the National Union Journalists (NUJ) has said.
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SRH reports growth
Scottish Radio Holdings has said it made a strong start to its financial year, with like-for-like revenues fro the three months to December rising 7.7%.
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NewsSMG's Cruickshank confirms departure
Don Cruickshank has confirmed his resignation as chairman of Virgin Radio owner SMG.
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RatingsI'm a Celebrity brings 10m to ITV1
The beginning of ITV1's I'm a Celebrity? Get Me Out of Here! was the inevitable ratings juggernaut last night (Monday 26 January) with 10.1 million (41.1%).
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RatingsI'm a Celebrity... is success for ITV2
ITV2's coverage of the start of I'm a Celebrity? Get Me Out of Here! was also a runaway success for the commercial broadcaster with just over 1 million (12.6% of multichannel homes).
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NewsJohnson takes C4 chairman brief
A former advertising executive who went on to become one of the country's leading catering entrepreneurs has been named by Ofcom as chairman of Channel 4.
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NewsHutton 'to criticise' BBC?
The BBC was preparing for strong criticism in today's publication of the long-awaited Hutton report after leaks to The Sun newspaper blamed the corporation for a
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The Miners' Strike (BBC2) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'The Miners' Strike, BBC2's TV history of that crucial clash? was a self-consciously mythologising affair - a Band ...
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The Miners' Strike (BBC2) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
?BBC2's offering was definitely stronger than Channel 4's - though it too suffered from the feeling that most of it...
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The Miners' Strike (BBC2) - Rupert Smith, Guardian
'Steven Condie brought us face to face with the ugly truth of 1984.'...