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... NOW that the three stars of Six Five Special have gone will the train begin to pull to a halt? I hope so. What started out as a good idea with lively presentation, has, I'm afraid to say, become a bore. The show looks the same every week, the comedy is now well tried and the mnsic sounds all the same anyway. I think it ought to be rested for three months and return in a new format. I'm ...
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... I The c*sponse for tickets to the 1st European Tele- j vision Exhibition has been very good, but there are still plenty left if you are interested in seeing an exciting display of British technical ingenuity and achievement. If you want to go, a complimentary j 1 ticket admitting two can be sent to you. Write to 19-21, Tavistock Street, London, W.C.2, and mark your envelope Exhibition in the ...
... IN VISION THE theatre has Found another excuse First it blamed television for falling audiences, then it was the entertainments tax, now it seems, it is the studio audience which is causing all the trouble. I do not say that Mr. Emile Littler hasn't got a point--he has, but I am fust wondering how strong this point is. Let me make it quite clear from the start that like Mr. Littler I'm ...
... TV VARIETY ABC Television have been trying out an experiment this past two months with a fortnightly variety show, and they have had' time to analyse their audience correspond ence and research returns. Their findings prove quite conclusively that as far as television is concerned good, rich variety is still extremely popular. In fact, their Saturday evening variety shows, produced from ...
... 'THE GREAT ADVENTURE' Each Thursday a team of critics rc view some of the week's I pro grammes on both channels. This week your reviewers are Eric Johns, Derek Hoddinott, Harold Darton and Margaret Cowan. ARNOLD BENNETT'S ironically humorous story, The Great Adventure, suitably adapted by Eric Crozier, made an excellent play for fireside viewing on the BBC-TV Sunday programme. It is, after ...
... 'THE PONYMAN' I l-OUND The Ponyman (Gran- ada TV) last week a rather slow affair, although a well-written one. A photographer and his pony come to a small town and reveals that he was a friend of Jeremy Kemp's. This news staggers the townspeople, who had tarrrcd and leathered him some years ago thinking he had raped a voting girl. 1 hey had been wrong and now. learning of the death of Kemp, ...
... Closed Circuit TV At Party NO fuss--a minimum of extra lighting--and the Marconi- RCA Closed Circuit Television Channel was installed at Caxton Hall on the day of the big Anglo- Franco-Italian party to promote increased use of French and Italian locations and studios by visiting American and British tilm producers. From just inside the Court Room, lit for the occasion by three Mole ...
... TV AND THE ARTS /MTING a new era of collabora- tion between Television and the Arts, Lord Harcwood, President of the Aldcburgh Festival Council, announces that as a result of a substantial financial contribution b> Associated Television Limited the Aldcburgh Festival is able to undertake the first world presenta tion of Benjamin Britten's new opera, Noye's Fludde. The first public ...
... PERSTORP CAMPAIGN AN Sunday, May 18. John M. Saxelby Director of Basil Butler Company Limited left by chartered plane for Sweden in company with the U.K. Distributors for Skanska Attikfabriken AB, who are the largest plastic manufacturers in Sweden, for a two-day sales con ference to discuss the future marketing of Perstorp Products in Great Britain. This trip coincides with the com mencement ...
... SWEDEN JOINS EUROVISION TO mark the permanent extension of the Eurovision link to Sweden, a gala performance is be- iog televised on the afternoon ol Sunday, June 1 from the eighteenth century theatre of Drottingholm'. near Stockholm, and will be relayed by the BBC. Viewers will see the first part of C. W. Gluck's opera. Orpheus and Eurydice, with Kirsten Meyer singing the part of Orpheus. ...
... WHAT THE TV DIRECTOR LOOKS FOR by Margaret Cowan TV drama is important. The percentage of drama hours per week on all channels is high, and is increasing. TV drama needs actors-- a con tinual stream of them all the time. Yet we see the same faces why? Producer/ directors will tell you they cannot risk failures there is no re-take in live drama. So the answer obviously is: more TV players who ...