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Home (BBC4) - Gareth McLean, Guardian
'Written and directed by Richard Curson-Smith? Home (BBC4) was compelling and unpleasant claustrophobic and relentl...
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Home (BBC4) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'Where JG Ballard's story was obliquely funny, Richard Curson-Smith's drama was openly so, and it included one winn...
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SAS - The Real Story (C4) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'The final episode tried hard to take a cool approach and failed. This failure was caused by the makers' obvious ex...
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NewsTen countries book Paradise Hotel
Indie Mentorn has sold the US run of its hit format Paradise Hotel, which screened to good ratings on the Fox network this summer, to ten countries, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NewsPurvis joins City University
Former ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis is to become the first chair of television journalism at London's City University.
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NewsTop jobs for Granada men in merged ITV
Carlton and Granada are expected to split ITV into three divisions - production, news and broadcasting - if their£4bn merger is given the green light this week.
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NewsSky News launches in Eire
Sky News is to launch an Irish news service early next year with the opening of its Dublin studio, broadcasting a daily 30-minute evening bulletin on the channel, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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Derren Brown Plays Russian Roulette Live (C4) - Mark Lawson, Guardian
'In this slick, but sick entertainment, Channel 4 shot television in the foot.' ...
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Hitler: the Rise of Evil (C4) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'I wouldn't mind if I never saw another programme about Adolf Hitler. But if Saturday night's Hitler: The Rise of E...
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Hitler: the Rise of Evil (C4) - Paul Hoggart, The Times
Robert Carlyle struggled manfully to catch the man's intense, driven energy, but he ended up looking like a psychot...
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Hitler: the Rise of Evil (C4) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
'The series at least gives a reasonably accurate rehearsal of Hitler's early career. Read a book if you want the gr...
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Sparkling Cyanide (ITV1) - Jim Shelley, Daily Mirror
'It was so twee and English it might as well have been Christmas.' ...
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Sparkling Cyanide (ITV1) - Gareth McLean, Guardian
'Sparkling Cyanide was, according to the publicity blurb, 'a contemporary dramatisation of Agatha Christie's classi...
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NewsITV ends 'News at When' confusion
ITV's News at Tenwill once again be consigned to the history books after the network brokered a compromise with the Independent Television Commission (ITC) which will see the nightly news shown in a regular 22.30 slot, writes Paul Revoir.
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NewsGervais stays at Xfm
Ricky Gervais, best known as oily boss David Brent from BBC2's hit comedy The Office, has agreed a further six-month contract to present a show on London alternative music station Xfm, writes Michael Rosser.
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NewsKerrang! Radio gets West Midlands licence
Kerrang! Radio, run by media giant Emap, has been given the green-light to launch a new FM service in the West Midlands following a hard-pitched battle, writes Michael Rosser.
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Canterbury Tales: The Sea Captain (BBC1) - Paul Hoggart, The Times
'It was beautifully acted, seductive and really rather chilling.' ...
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Canterbury Tales: The Sea Captain (BBC1) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'Presumably the idea of updating Canterbury Tales is to provide drama that's both mythic and rooted in a particular...
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Eastenders (BBC1) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Express
'Eastenders' long, dark night of the soul began on Monday and now looks as if it could stretch into this evening.' ...
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French Leave (C4) - Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail
'I imagine we're supposed to enjoy their domestic ding-dongs, but for me they seemed as pointless and dispiriting a...