... AS the first low power test signal goes out on April 28th from the new IT A transmitter on the Isle of Wight in preparation for independent television in the South, a hard-hitting promotion and advertising campaign by Southern Television, the gramme contractors, will have al ready begun. This big campaign has twin targets-- the dealer and the public. It is designed to build up both in ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... NEW BBC-TV SERIES WITH A. E. MATTHEWS Edited by DEREK HODDINOTT ON July 4 the BBC will begin televising a series of thirteen Light Entertainment programmes about the adventures of a helicopter crew based on an aircraft carrier, John Warrington, the producer, calls these comedy documentaries because the action is played against an actuality back ground. The main bulk of the location shots ...

... AMERICAN REVIEW FOUNDATION for the Preservation of Matinee Theatre has been formed in an effort to save the five-day-a-week drama programme which is scheduled for removal by NBC-TV the latter part of June due to lack of commercial sponsorship. A fund raising campaign is being waged among the show's home audiences throughout the country in order to continue it without advertising backers. ...

... 'DEATH OF SATAN' SUNDAY night's Armchair Theatre play by Ronald Duncan, Death of Satan was a Television Event. We have had nothing quite like it before. Labelled a comedy--and there was much to smile at--it was an acute commentary on our modern way of life. Satan is not very happy ir. Hell, which he has made into a semb lance of a London Club, believing this to be a punishment. Instead, the ...

... A SCENE from Flowering Cherry, currently at the Hay- market, will be televised by the BBC on June 5. Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson head the cast, which includes Andrew Ray, Dudy Nimmo and Susan Burnet. The television presentation of this Frith Banbury production will be by John Vernon. ...

... 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 ...