... BBC Television have invited a principal dancer from the j Bolshoi Ballet. Nicolai Fadeyechev, .to dance Prince Albrecht in i Giselle on November 23. He will .1 p rtner Nadia Nerina in the title- rdle. An estimated I4.000.1KX) BBC I viewers saw Fadeyechev partner Ulanova in Swan Lake from the Riverside studios two years ago. This is an international produc tion of Giselle. In addition to ...

... Technical News GRANADA CONVERTER--STRIKING ACHIEVEMENT A REVOLUTIONARY new television device--the only one of its kind in the world--has been developed by Granada TV. Now, tor tne n*st time, television pictures and sound recordings can be converted in a fraction of a second into the television lines system of any country. The device, called the Granada Convenor, opens up vast new possi ...

... ABC Television's top beat music show Oh Boy! is rapidly in creasing its audience. On September 27, the network TAM rating stood at 37. It has grown with each succeeding week as follows 42. 43. 45, and on Octo ber 25 it was 46. Last week, November 2, Oh Boy! scored a network I'AM rat ing of 51. This was the show in wnich Tommy Steele appeared. This means that Oh Boy! is now seen every ...

... 'SATURDAY SPECTACULAR' Associated Television RECENT criticisms in these columns of lack of vitality and spectacle in Saturday Spectacle appear to be bearing fruit. The Dave King Show had more slickness and personality in its production numbers than most Spectaculars recently, and producer Brian Tesler and choreographer Lionel Blair are to be complimented for this. Dave King presented ...

... Southern TV Looks for Relief Announcer COUTH ERN Television is looking for a relief announcer for the studios at Southampton Qualifications needed? A pleas ing personality, manner and looks, a clear voice and good enuncia tion. The station's Head ol Prescn talion, who will appoint the announcer says: Otn'ously we do not want anyone with a strong accent of any type, but perhaps the soft Sussex ...

... IN VISION LAST week The Alan Young Show came to a grinding halt. Apart from the previous misery inflicted on viewers by this series Mr. Young topped the lot by making one of the most outrageous, unashamed plugs I have vet seen on television. At the end of a train sketch Mr. Young said good night to viewers and then came back again to say that he had forgotten something. What was it? The fact ...

... 'MR. VENUS NOT FOR ITV IN a recent natiooaJ newspaper it 1 was stated that a ninety-minute cxcerpt from Mr. Vervus was going to be seen. According to all the main ITV companies, ATV. Granada TV, Associated-Rediffusion and ABC-TV this is not true. The only thing to be seen from Mr Venus on television will be this weekend ill ATV's Sunday Night at the London Palladium, when a song from the ...

... GIFT FROM SCOTTISH TV AT a receot Press conference given by the Edinburgh Fes tival Society Ltd., which is seeking an additional £25.000 a year to safeguard the future of the inter national event, was presented with a cheque for £5,000 by Mr. Roy Thompson, the Canadian chairman of Scottish Television Ltd. ...

... 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM' BBC-TV A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM is about the last play one would think of as making perfect TV. Moonlight, woodland background. Athenian costumes and fairies can hardly survive, without some suffering, the fierce glare of the screen's realism. It was not surprising, therefore, that Rudolph Cartier's production, in spite of some effective and ima ginative ...

... 'RIVERSIDE ONE' BBC-TV I COMPARE last week's River side One with the same week's Chelsea at Nine, which is undoubtedly its inspiralion. While it is not possible for any one programme to remain consistently al the same level, the fact is that Riverside One, starting badly is steadily improving, while Chel sea, judging at any rate from the last edition, is getting out of hand in spite ...

... 'THE GREATEST MAN IN THE WORLD' ABC-TV I WAS staggered when I looked in on 'The Greatest Man in the World.' The production was bad, the script was unfunny and the acting was poor. Altogether this was the worst Armchair Theatre I have ever seen. Don't take me too seriously. I I don't mean it. Those of you who did not see the play may believe what I have written in my first paragraph. Those of ...

... 'LOVE FROM A STRANGER' BBC-TV FRANK VOSPER'S old thriller, Love from a Stranger, based on a story by Agatha Christie, creaked a bit when it was presented on Boxing Night. Even so, there is still a good deal of suspense in this story of the professional murderer who sweeps a young lady with £15.000 off her fee* and takes her to a lonely cottage in the country, where they are quite cut off ...