Tell the Beeb: U.S. Magazine Ads Are in Free FallEither the BBC has endless funds or...they know something we don't. Wish it was the latter!BBC's decisionDespite my tone in this post, I do respect BBC enough to trust their market research that Americans are ready for a smart competitor to...
It's been an eventful year at the Beeb and the drama is far from over. The latest grand plan is at the mercy of many uncertainties, says Torin Douglas It's been an eventful year at the Beeb and the drama is far...
Poor old David Sawday. Not only was the former Tesco spin doctor pilloried during the first episode of the latest series of Have I Got News For You, but the programme researchers got his name wrong! From now on, if the Beeb is correct, we...
WHEN the history of these things is written, March 1999 may be seen as a turning point for the BBC. That was when the government stopped forcing ITV to stick a news programme in the middle of prime-time television, and so freed it to air whatever non...
Barb Beebe, who earned a PhD in education at the online university, is the new vice president of continuing education and community services MINNEAPOLIS -- Capella University PhD graduate Barbara R. Beebe has been named Vice President of Continuing Education and Community Services for Allegany College of Maryland....
PACIFIC Abyss... the non-story so far. A bunch of irritating American diving bores boast constantly about braving the dangers of their mission to explore the Pacific Ocean's darkest depths. And Springwatch blonde Kate Humble spouts pointless platitudes. What the hell is the Beeb's resident naturalist babe...
"HI-DE-HI," boomed Boris Johnson's dad Stanley after his shambolic son knocked at the door. Is this an appropriate way to greet London's mayor - as if he's running a hopeless holiday camp? In scruffy Boris's case, probably yes. But - like his boss Dave Cameron -...
WHENEVER he is backed into a corner it has always been Sir David Murray's style to come out aggressively. He was at it again last week when he emerged for a round of interviews with the media outlets he chooses whenever the heat is on: Rangers World;...
Police in Little Rock are trying to figure out why a man walked into the Democratic Party headquarters there, calmly asked for the state party chairman and fatally shot him. Police Lt. Terry Hastings said the shooter later pointed a gun inside a nearby church and then led...
LOS ANGELES AFP — Indian-born actor Shelley Malil pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempted murder in a California court on Wednesday following his arrest for allegedly stabbing his estranged girlfriend. Malil, 43, best known for a small part in the hit 2005 comedy "The 40-Year-Old Virgin,"...
RADIO COMMERCIAL With the BBC's huge audiences, mega budgets and famous names, commercial radio is struggling to keep its young stars. John Matthew Hall wonders how it can ever compete Picture the scenario. You, the hip young gunslinger of Middle-of- Nowhere FM, have just won...
ANOTHER variety-packed week as Albert Square's manic marry-go- round went into overdrive and weird kid Ben Mitchell earned a new nickname... Silly Elliot. Naturally, sinister psycho Sean Slater's "hilarious" wedding to poxy Roxy was an unfunny comedy of nonsensical errors beset by all the traditional 11th-hour...
THE Beeb's Return to Castaway 2000 recalled the strange saga of reality TV's first runaway Ray Bowyer - who staged a mad dash from the Scottish isle of Taransay and inexplicably turned down a fat national newspaper cheque to sell his stupid story to the Stornoway Gazette... for a fiver....
LIKE the X Factor without revolting wannabes, the Beeb's Saturday night spectacular Last Choir Standing is hard to hate. Because of my strikingly-Welsh name, I'm rooting for the kids from Bangor-based Ysgol Glanaethwy, who admit they've struggled to learn to sing in English. Talking of not...
FRIDAY night and the burning question is: What's the difference between Celebrity Masterchef and Big Brother? Answer: Celebrity Masterchef has an audience. A seriously substantial audience. Which makes it all the more confusing that - after four weeks of genuinely gripping culinary...
ONLY two new Beeb cooking shows this week. On Eating With The Enemy (BBC2) amateurs were humiliated by smartarse critics. And Step Up To The Plate (BBC1) was hosted by dancer Anton du Beke. Why...
A RARE opportunity to catch John Barrowman on the BBC. And a merciful end to all those sleepless nights worrying about why he's gay. Oh how I've tossed and turned in my desperation to get to the bottom of musical John's fascinating sexuality. ...
Marianne Faithfull Live at the BBC DECCA Faithfull's early pop career was as coolly, poshly, folksily soignee as any early pop career has ever been: a sonic emblem of the unreachability of a certain archetype of feminised English romanticism: a gently vibrating watercolour voice framed with...
WESTCHESTER, Ill. -- Corn Products International, Inc. (NYSE: CPO), a leading global provider of agriculturally derived ingredients to diversified industries, announced today that it will release 2008 second-quarter financial results for the period ended June 30, 2008 before the markets open on Tuesday, July 22, 2008. ...