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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...
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"...
BBC1 ‘to do more for older viewers’
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This article titled “BBC1 ‘to do more for older viewers’” was written by Tara Conlan and John Plunkett, for guardian.co.uk on Saturday 27th August 2011 16.23 UTC
BBC1 is aiming to air more shows for older viewers, in a bid to reflect the channel’s late middle-aged audience.
According to the BBC1 controller,...
Sky’s Alex Crawford: ‘sexist’ to ask if motherhood compatible with frontline
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This article titled “Sky’s Alex Crawford: ‘sexist’ to ask if motherhood compatible with frontline” was written by Dan Sabbagh, for guardian.co.uk on Saturday 27th August 2011 13.43 UTC
Her four children ask why she can’t work at their school but Alex Crawford, the award winning Sky News reporter, said...
TV industry ‘quite corrupt’ with reality stars, says Channel 4 executive
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This article titled "TV industry 'quite corrupt' with reality stars, says Channel 4 executive" was written by Tara Conlan, for guardian.co.uk on Saturday 27th August 2011 13.18 UTC
The television industry is "quite corrupt" in the way it deals with people who take part in reality shows, according to a Channel...
The X Factor: what did you think of the new judges?
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This article titled "The X Factor: what did you think of the new judges?" was written by Heidi Stephens, for guardian.co.uk on Monday 22nd August 2011 11.18 UTC
As the four helicopters hovered over London and a nation cried "Are such displays of conspicuous wealth really necessary in these austerity times?", the big question...
BBC4 expected to be scaled back in cost-saving plan
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This article titled "BBC4 expected to be scaled back in cost-saving plan" was written by Tara Conlan, for guardian.co.uk on Tuesday 16th August 2011 08.32 UTC
BBC4 is emerging as one of the prospective casualties of the corporation's plans to find 20% of cost savings, with the scope of the channel expected to be scaled back.
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Big Brother 2011: will it thrive on Channel 5?
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This article titled "Big Brother 2011: will it thrive on Channel 5?" was written by Ben Dowell, for The Guardian on Sunday 14th August 2011 17.30 UTC
Nearly 11 years to the day since "Nasty" Nick Bateman's confrontation with Craig Phillips first made Big Brother a bona fide TV phenomenon, the daddy of all reality...
The Real Mad Men: The Remarkable True Story of Madison Avenue’s Golden Age by Andrew Cracknell – review
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This article titled "The Real Mad Men: The Remarkable True Story of Madison Avenue's Golden Age by Andrew Cracknell – review" was written by Leo Benedictus, for The Observer on Saturday 6th August 2011 23.05 UTC
Among the many great upheavals of the past 100 years, is there any that remains as patchily remembered as the...