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Muslim writers say La Plante attack on BBC is 'insulting'
Sunday, 3 January 2010
Muslim writers have hit back at the crime doyenne Lynda La Plante after she claimed they found it easier to get scripts commissioned by the BBC than she does.
Sport on TV: Stumped for your best moment of 2009? You can't beat Kallis
Sunday, 3 January 2010
When Mike Atherton referred to the mayhem that swirled around South Africa "for an hour either side of tea" on the fourth afternoon in Durban, it sounded like someone had forgotten to butter the tea cakes or mislaid the napkins. Whereas what we witnessed in the Second Test (Sky Sports 1) was virtually the destruction of a nation's sporting psyche. Here was arguably the best Test side of 2009 falling apart at the seam, the middle-order suddenly unable even to offer a shot as if they had forgotten how to play the game.
Thompson defends BBC executive pay
Friday, 1 January 2010
Mark Thompson, director general of the BBC, has defended the six-figure pay packets of some of its managers, after the corporation's former governor PD James said that the "extraordinarily large salaries" were "very difficult indeed to justify".
Cable wars heat up as Fox and Time Warner fight over fees
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Viewers are set to be the end-payers in Rupert Murdoch's latest drive to ensure media content brings in revenue, reports Stephen Foley
Angry Italian-Americans demand MTV pull 'hateful' reality show
Sunday, 27 December 2009
Advertisers withdraw as docu-drama accused of derogatory stereotyping
Are you having a laugh? Politicians who can't resist a comedy cameo
Sunday, 27 December 2009
Nick Clegg in panto, Boris in the Queen Vic, and now Prezza at Nessa's wedding...
Tennant pays tribute to 'Doctor Who' heroes as he bows out
Sunday, 27 December 2009
Among the millions of Doctor Who fans watching the farewell appearance of the time traveller's 10th incarnation on New Year's Day, possibly none will be sadder than the actor who plays him, David Tennant.
Sport on TV: Just because you're clever, that doesn't mean game is in the bag
Sunday, 27 December 2009
As you while away those long afternoons with the family over the festive period with bored, sorry, board games, the chances are you opted for Scrabble rather than a chess tournament. It's almost as intellectually challenging but not quite as daunting, and you can watch 'Star Wars' at the same time. And these days it's just as significant, prominent, momentous. The word game's popularity has exploded, detonated, fulminated, with 150 million sets sold worldwide in 31 languages, and Imagine: Scrabble – A Night on the Tiles (BBC1, Tuesday) showed that it is taken equally as seriously as its rather snobbish relative. After all, no less than the Beeb's doyen of the arts, Alan Yentob, was scrabbling around in his sack, occasionally lost for words.
CBS and Walt Disney 'may join US Apple TV venture'
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Apple's plan of offering television subscription via the Internet might receive a boost with US media companies CBS and Walt Disney's probable participation in the venture, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.
How TV's big sister coped with the end of Big Brother
Monday, 21 December 2009
Davina McCall admits she cried when Channel 4’s ground-breaking reality show was axed. But there’s plenty to look forward to, she tells Rob Sharp
Sport on TV: Sheep steal the show before Gatting gets round to cooking
Sunday, 20 December 2009
Tis the season for Christmas specials; no 'Katie & Peter' this year, obviously, but One Man and His Dog (BBC2, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday) got its annual fresh-airing.
Barely a dry eye as Sir Terry Wogan signs off
Friday, 18 December 2009
Jane Thynne: With a blast of The Party’s Over, Terry Wogan signed off from the breakfast show he first presented in 1972.
Georgia's answer to 'The Simpsons'
Friday, 18 December 2009
They are a yellow-skinned cartoon family, consisting of a dopey husband and his lavishly coiffed wife, who live in a made-up city with their children. But this isn't The Simpsons.
Balls orders review over reality TV children
Monday, 14 December 2009
Richard Garner: The Schools Secretary said parents were worried that programme-makers were guilty of 'pushing the boundaries'.
BA passengers advised to 'sit tight'
Monday, 14 December 2009
Passengers affected by the British Airways cabin crew strikes should "sit tight" for the next 24 hours, a travel organisation said today.
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