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BBC’s Changing Fortunes explores new patterns of wealth
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BBC World News series Changing Fortunes explores the new patterns of wealth that have emerged over the last two decades.
The final episode of Changing Fortunes on 10th March, 2013, Explores how to be wealthy is to be mobile. And with so many international high-net-worth individuals now able to move around the globe at will, certain destinations...
TV to be primary source for news and entertainment in 2013
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As a source for news and entertainment, television reigns supreme—for now. An online survey of over 2,000 US adults carried out for Belkin by Harris Interactive found that men and women of every age group expected TV to be their primary source for both news and entertainment in 2013,reports eMarketer. This was more true of women than...
BBC1 Breakfast Time: 30 years of cereal TV
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This article titled "BBC1 Breakfast Time: 30 years of cereal TV" was written by John Plunkett, for guardian.co.uk on Thursday 17th January 2013 14.27 UTC
It was exactly 30 years ago on 17 January that not a particularly expectant nation sat down to watch its first taste of breakfast television.
BBC1's Breakfast Time,...
Death in Paradise returns with nearly 7 million viewers
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This article titled "Death in Paradise returns with nearly 7 million viewers" was written by John Plunkett, for guardian.co.uk on Wednesday 9th January 2013 11.12 UTC
BBC1's Ben Miller drama Death in Paradise returned to BBC1 with nearly 7 million viewers on Tuesday, a million up on its first series launch.
The fish out...
BBC World News launches new studios, new programming, new presenters
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Mumbai: Fresh from announcing important new distribution deals in the US and Burma, the BBC’s international television news channel, BBC World News, is unveiling a dramatic new look next week when it re-launches from new studios in central London. The channel will feature a refreshed line-up of programmes and presenters, and will be...
Michael Buerk savages BBC’s coverage of Queen’s diamond jubilee
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This article titled "Michael Buerk savages BBC's coverage of Queen's diamond jubilee" was written by Caroline Davies, for guardian.co.uk on Sunday 30th December 2012 14.23 UTC
The broadcaster Michael Buerk has heavily criticised the BBC's coverage of the Queen's diamond jubilee, saying it was "cringingly inept"...
Game of Thrones most pirated TV show
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This article titled "Game of Thrones most pirated TV show" was written by Mark Sweney, for guardian.co.uk on Monday 24th December 2012 13.35 UTC
Game of Thrones was the most-pirated TV show of the year, with a single episode being illegally downloaded by more people than typically watch the hit programme in the US.
HBO's...
BBC World News Horizons explores a new generation of biofuels
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In the seventeenth episode of the Horizons series, presenters Adam Shaw and Saima Mohsin take a closer look at a new generation of energy crops in Brazil and the United States, where companies are using plant biomass and single celled plants or algae to produce fuel.
At some point our traditional sources of power such as coal and oil will...
BBC World News The Ideas Exchange brings together Martin Varsavsky and Carlos Moncayo
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BBC World News’ new eight-part series, The Ideas Exchange, pairs up business leaders from around the world to debate today’s business landscape and their secrets to success. The third episode travels to Madrid to discover what Argentine-Spanish entrepreneur, Martin Varsavsky - a self-made millionaire by 27, who has founded...
Cmoedy Central to air “Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs”
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New York :Comedy Central and Jon Stewart's Busboy Productions announced today the first group of comic all-stars booked for its biennial autism benefit, "Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs."
Taping on Saturday, October 13 from the Beacon Theatre in New York City, the benefit for Autism...