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ENGLAND'S DREAMING (AND LAUGHING): THE BRITISH TV COMEDY EXPERIENCE... AND WHAT AUSTRALIA CAN LEARN FROM IT
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BRITAIN HAS LONG BEEN CONSIDERED the home of classic television comedy. While its film industry has lost its once pre-eminent place in the world, the UK continues to produce the world's most innovative television comedies.
From the classic galton and simpson comedies Steptoe and Son and Hancock's Half Hour to current successes The Office and Little Britain, the UK excels at making quirky, dark programs that consistently reinvent the TV comedy format. While australia has produced some f...
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AT 75, VOICE OF BRITAIN HAS A NEW ACCENT THE BBC ENLIVENS ITS PROGRAMMING TO EXPAND REACH
The Boston Globe
; ... indelible sounds and images: international news delivered from exotic places by men with ... dial to find an announcer beginning the news with Greenwich Mean Time. So the BBC has ... before. Its prime asset is its vaunted news-gathering operation, which with some 2 ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Britain's media giants.(reformation of BBC and ITV necessary to compete with American broadcasting)
The Economist (US)
; ... Viacom; Canada has Seagram; Australia, News Corp; Japan, Sony; even the Germans have ... big'' media companies-including United News and Media, Carlton, Granada, Pearson, even ... politicians when ITV decided to move its nightly news demonstrated how much interference commercial ...
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Media: The story of my success Britain has become smarter, and BBC 2 must change in order to reflect that, says the channel's head, Jane Root
The Independent - London
; This time last year, things looked pretty bad for BBC 2. We knew there was a thundering on-screen funding gap between us and Channel 4. Based on most current estimates, it's a staggering pounds 100m. The proposed creation of BBCs 3 and 4 was on the cards, ITV and BBC 1 were battling it out in peak
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The schoolmarm contemplates life in the marketplace: Britain has preserved the BBC, a form of broadcasting that cannot stay unchanged; there is a least-bad way to change it. (British Broadcasting Corporation Ltd.)
The Economist (US)
; ... of superior programmes with a formidable news division led by Ed Murrow. Now, a quick ... Mr Checkland has put more money into the news division, which he merged with the current-affai ... linked to the World Service's television news to create a joint BBC TV International ...
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Don't knock Auntie, she's lovely Despite the fact that it shafted me, the BBC is an outstanding example of what is great about Britain
The Sunday Telegraph London
; ... great about Britain. When abroad, I find the BBC's international news channel far superior to CNN. The World Service has over 100m ... it is fiercely competitive. But at its best, in entertainment, news or education, the BBC is unbeatable. We should be proud of it ...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Confused and chaotic pictures of Britain; The BBC's first collaboration with Tate Britain hatches a pair of curate's eggs - one an anodyne television travelogue, the other a hotchpotch of unrelated illustrations.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; Byline: BRIAN SEWELL AT THE outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 some sagacious worthies of the Pilgrim Trust, the Georgian Group and the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, far from sanguine that it would be short and we victorious, commissioned from 97 artists a survey of
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Confused and chaotic pictures of Britain The BBC's first collaboration with Tate Britain hatches a pair of curate's eggs - one an anodyne television travelogue, the other a hotchpotch of unrelated illustrations
Evening Standard - London
; AT THE outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 some sagacious worthies of the Pilgrim Trust, the Georgian Group and the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, far from sanguine that it would be short and we victorious, commissioned from 97 artists a survey of buildings, villages
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Little Britain is bringing home big profits for BBC
The Scotsman
; THE delinquent teenager Vicky Pollard, Daffyd - "the only gay in the village" - and the other dysfunctional creations from the TV comedy Little Britain have helped rake in record profits of GBP 55 million for the BBC in overseas programme exports and DVD sales. BBC Worldwide, the corporation's
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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What is the loneliest job in Britain? Being a Tory at the BBC.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ... programmes such as Today and Breakfast News I couldn't have formed a cricket team from ... face didn't fit and I moved to Breakfast News. The General Election of 1992 put things ... bias. He asked Jenny Abramsky, a senior news executive, to answer. Her reply was short ...
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Why migrants today aren't doing enough to integrate, by BBC's George Many arrivals don't attempt to make Britain their home, says newsreader
Daily Mail
; ... senior journalists and is the main presenter of the Six O'Clock News. He said: 'I am not against immigration. I am an immigrant and ... Africa and across the world before taking over the Six O'Clock News in 2003. He said he was aware that his comments might be seen ...
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