... DBS systems whose signal comes straight into the home without scramb ling will not be able to afford quality programming. Speaking to a Royal Television Socie ty audience Carlos Kennedy, from the Society of Motion Picture and Televi sion Engineers, said: ...

... turned the wife of race horse owner Captain Bamford into a silly. Alas she was un able to emulate the celebrated Francis and speak! What success this rather ponderous opening episode achieved was due almost en tirely to the cast. Few can match Roy Barraclough ...

... here, and though Piafs was a story of over night success Pam Gems is having nothing to do with fairy tales. This Edith Piaf speaks in the harsh Cockney street language where every other word is of the four letter variety. In what is necessarily an episodic ...

... Jane Carr's Grusha is that rare thing, truly peasant-like as opposed to actress-peasant: slow of thought but swift to act and speak, she is harsh of voice and dumpy of figure and eminently more attractive for it because she isolates what is most important ...

... George Layton was a pleasant but stub born Herbert, the catalyst in the situation, who forced Nathan and Ellen to resume speaking by in sisting that he and Doreen would live in their own house. Graeme McDonald has taken over production of the current ...

... accounts for charity. BBC2 Rory Bremner Of course Bremner has leapt at the chance to get his teeth into John Major, so to speak, and it has to be said that his is the best imperson ation of our new leader so far. The Gulf War has ended and the coverage ...

... their deadly laser guns, while the Doctor's current sidekick. Ace (Sophie Aldred, who should really do something about her speaking voice) scores a bull's eye every time with her catapult. There was some fun to be had in the time-warp confrontation between ...

... international destruction to spend his time as a market gardener propagating house plants. Just to keep his hand in. so to speak, he creates a robot for com pany which, of course, is female and called Rosalie Gradually. Klebs falls in love with his robot ...

... and five national radio networks, George Russell, the chairman of the Independent Television Commission said this week. Speaking at a conference on broadcasting at Leeds University, Russell maintained that the Corporation was a national cultural institu ...

... not addicted to this series, I found last Monday's episode unexciting. But excite ment is not its aim. Its loyal followers speak with affectionate familiarity of the activities so it must have a certain magic and entertainment value to stay popular for ...

... To Christmas BBC 2 There are two occasions each year when it is not a good idea in fact it can be positively dangerous to speak to Mother in any family, says the Executive Producer of a festive series. Those fateful days are the day before the family ...

... than Kenneth Haigh. the original Jimmy, but he can also produce both the bitterness and the charm which the role requires. Speaking with quite a strong Midlands or Northern dialect, he perfectly suggests someone who is genuinely fond of both Alison, his ...