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Coffee Time: Screen test
1 Who played Pam Ferris's co-star in Rosemary & Thyme? 2 Name the ITV naval drama series starring Lee Boardman that sank without trace. 3 Which veteran BBC sports commentator's autobiography is entitled Interesting, Very Interesting? 4 Martin Clunes starred as Doc Martin. But in which county...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., iTV, TVs
Research articles 2008-09-13
ON THE MINDS OF TV'S MASTERS
THE Edinburgh International Television Festival being held next weekend features a special edition of Noel Edmonds's Sky gameshow Are You Smarter Than A 10-Year-Old. In classic Edinburgh-ironic style, Edmonds himself is being inveigled into hosting a spoof version, asking: Are You Smarter Than A TV Executive? TV critics,...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Cohen, festival, iTV, Scotland, TVs
Research articles 2008-08-17
It is commercial television that is really in peril
Carol Vorderman has, apparently, become too expensive for Channel 4's game show Countdown. Gone are the carefree days when Channel 4 could afford to poach Paul O'Grady from ITV to chase teatime ratings. Now, says C4 chief executive Andy Duncan, it can only fulfil its public service remit if someone...
Tags: arithmetic, British Broadcasting Corp., iTV, Ofcom, TVs
Research articles 2008-08-02
Sharon Osbourne leaves X Factor
LONDON AFP — Sharon Osbourne has quit her role as a judge on the popular ITV talent show The X Factor, it was announced on Friday. Osbourne -- who appeared on the hit show for four years -- declined to say why she had decided to leave, but there...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, iTV, TVs
Research articles 2008-06-06
Channels not buying enough Scottish programmes TELEVISION:
DIRECTOR of Ofcom Scotland Vicki Nash calls herself the "midwife" of the Scottish Broadcasting Commission SBC. And after releasing new figures last week - which reveal that the "outrageously" small amount of money the UK's main broadcasters are spending on network programmes in Scotland had shrunk further - she was...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., broadcaster, broadcasting, iTV, Scotland, TVs
Research articles 2008-05-25
Phoneys won't fool me again
MY name is Fiona McIntosh and I am a first-class mug. I am one of the millions of people who voted for a gurning TV star in spandex, in the belief that my vote counted. It's amazing how easy it is to be taken for a ride....
Tags: Ant, British Broadcasting Corp., Digital Equipment Corp., iTV, TVs
Research articles 2008-05-11
Detective Agency
SHAME that recently deceased director Anthony Minghella's final film for the BBC - The No . 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - was a feeble African travelogue. A bit like ITV's separatist saga Wild At Heart - only with black people in it.
Tags: agency, British Broadcasting Corp., iTV, MARKETING, TVs
Research articles 2008-03-30
Men behaving badly
Ashley Cole is a difficult man to warm to. The friends of Ashley, like the friends of Heather Mills, are small isolated groups emerging only after dark. But it's just possible that this tiresome berk may have sparked a revolution that will improve football. The man who nearly...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Games, iTV, TVs
Research articles 2008-03-29
Badly behaved but still loveable; REWIND Proof telly isn't as good as it was Men Behaving Badly
A LOT of women may say the average life of a man in his thirties is boring. Doing as little as we can get away with in work; coming home for tea often a takeaway and a few cans of lager; then either watching television or going to the...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., iTV, TVs
Research articles 2008-03-22
British TV network ITV sees 2007 profits sink
LONDON AFP — ITV, the biggest British commercial television network, said Wednesday that net profits dived by more than a third last year amid a scandal over its premium rate TV phone-in services. In 2007, net earnings tumbled 37 percent to 137 million pounds (178 million euros, 270 million...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., iTV, TVs
Research articles 2008-03-05
FTSE off the top.
Investors wait for new lead from Wall Street Jonas Crosland Early gains by leading shares in London were pared back as investors took a step back ahead of the start of trading on Wall Street. So by lunchtime, the FTSE100 index was up 45.0 points...
Tags: bank, Banking, British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc., Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, Investment, iTV, stock, TVs
Research articles 2008-01-29
EVERYTHING NEW UNDER THE SON? 2008 PREVIEW: WITH JAMES MURDOCH
AS the dust settles on News Corporation's Dow Jones takeover, 2008 will be the year we see what James Murdoch is really made of. The son of Rupert and heir apparent to his father's empire silenced his critics during his four years at BSkyB, but will be even more stiffly...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc., iTV, MARKETING, News Corp., radio, TVs
Research articles 2008-01-06
BONGS ARE BACK IN TOWN
GREAT excitement at ITN as we prepare for the scrap of our professional lives... we're going head to head with the mighty BBC. As you no doubt know by now, News at Ten returns this month to its rightful slot in the ITV schedule on January 14....
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., iTV, TVs
Research articles 2008-01-06
Project Kangaroo has this TV viewer jumping for joy; London.(The World)
Byline: Emma Hall Slowly but surely I've come to expect ultimate control over what I watch and when I watch it, thanks to the liberating technology of Sky Plus TiVo to you. But I still miss things I would like to have...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., broadcaster, iTV, TVs
Research articles 2007-12-10
British broadcasters team up for on-demand service
LONDON AFP — Three of Britain's biggest broadcasters have teamed up to launch an on-demand service, in what commentators said Wednesday seeks to avoid the fate of the music industry faced with online distribution. The BBC, ITV and Channel Four televsion said the service, dubbed "Kangaroo", should be available...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., broadcaster, INTERNET, iTV, on-demand, team, TVs
Research articles 2007-11-28
All the winners
HERE are the winners of the National Television Awards: Most Popular Entertainment Programme: Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway ITV Most Popular Entertainment Presenter: Ant and Dec ITV Most Popular Drama: Dr Who BBC Most Popular Actress: Lacey Turner EastEnders BBC Most Popular Actor:...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., iTV, TVs
Research articles 2007-11-01
AIR Worldwide Provides Residential Property Portfolio Insurance-to-Value Assessments for Reinsurance Renewals
BOSTON -- AIR Worldwide Corporation AIR today announced a new service to assess insurance-to-value ITV of U.S. residential property portfolios for reinsurance contract renewals. Available immediately for insurers, reinsurers, and brokers, the service draws upon AIR's expertise in property valuation and its extensive residential property database to reliably estimate the...
Tags: Insurance, ISO, iTV, Quality, reinsurance, TVs
Research articles 2007-10-15
Singer Marianne Faithfull has Hepatitis C
LONDON AFP — Sixties singer Marianne Faithfull announced Friday she is suffering from Hepatitis C. Faithfull, 60, who was recently treated for breast cancer, said she had been living with the virus since the 1990s. It was while discussing her cancer treatment on ITV 1's 'This Morning' show...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, iTV, TVs
Research articles 2007-10-12
TV comedy guru returns with a mission to save ITV TELEVISION:
EVERYONE wants a piece of Paul Jackson. No sooner has the ITV head of comedy and entertainment finished telling the Scottish television industry about his plans for the broadcaster's future than he is surrounded. The sight of him being hauled through a hundred backslaps and handshakes to do...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., entertainment, iTV, TVs, tycoon
Research articles 2007-07-08
Grade: Scottish TV suffering from shortage of talent MEDIA: REGIONS
SCOTTISH television producers are not getting their share of network commissions because they are not talented enough, according to the heads of ITV and the BBC. In a fiery exchange at the Ofcom conference on public service broadcasting in the nations and regions in Cardiff, ITV chief executive...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., commission, iTV, network, SALES, Scotland, talent, TVs
Research articles 2007-07-01
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