... A pity entertainment is overshadowed by chat BY ANN PURSER EAMONN ANDREWS started it--all the lovely available people brought along to the studio to chat about themselves for the entertainment of the viewer. Now Dee Time BBC-1 Saturday must be voted the ...

... get ting his teeth into a serious dramatic role occasionally, but even more, he'd appreciate having his highly successful chat show season extended from 11 weeks per annum to 25, the way Parkinson operated for 1 1 years. That's why Wogan had Jane Russell ...

... present for she died well over a hundred years ago. A pity for she sounded the most interesting of the lot. She was, as Muir confided, a splen did old bird who, during the course of time, and quite an eventful life, developed into a lovely old bag Moreover she ...

... should have got a laugh and reminded me of Dave Allen's observation tele vision is immediate this show is recorded. Out of all the adulations there was one glaring omision Irving Davies. He didn't even receive a mention. Yet the show owed a lot to him. His ...

... has become a rather quaint notion. From Mrs Merton to Chris Evans' TFI Friday it is quite plain that the host is the star and the guests are just there to make them look good. In some cases the poor suckers have a hard time getting even a word in edge ...

... A face to launch a thousand quips James Green on the darling of the alternative crowd BBC-2 Cool It PHIL COOL is a lanky Lancastrian in his thirties who could be charged with causing grievous bodily harm to his face. It is a perfectly normal face in repose ...

... program mes including World of Books, before joining ITV as a reporter on Aquarius in 1969, winning an Emmy award for a programme on Salvador Dali. His career then blossomed when he was given a chat show of his own, and by the end of the seventies he was ...

... Border makes a 14th series LOOK WHO'S TALKING, a new series of 13 half-hour celebrity chat shows, is being made by Border for network transmission later in the year. They will be produced by Derek Batey who talks to a showbiz personal ity in what Border ...

... of a lady coming apart at the seams. There's no loubt she does a lovely line in neurotics. Ronald Hines was rather dull as her dull husband and Yocki Rhodes impressed as the Dutch au pair, also Tommy Boyle as a gas fitter with a nice line in ...

... series Between the Lines has been billed as a gritty look behind the police lines. A cast featuring no stars and a documentary style in which scenes are shot with a jerky hand held camera combined to give Cops a raw feel at odds with the ...

... ordinary working class lyrics of country music grabbed him as a convert. He changed his stethoscope for a guitar and his well-modulated vowels for a gee- haw accent. The name Wangford comes from a place in Norfolk. While it may not be the No 1 music of Britain ...

... tells you a lot about the paucity of showing among the Kiwis. The pair of them are currently mak ing their TV debut here in a joint BBC North West and Friday Productions series sold as a combined cooking-and- chat show, and promising fast-talking wit to ...