... Monday, August 15, 1983 Sunday, August 21, 1983 THE rapid turnabout in the fortunes of TV-am continued according to this latest week of ratings compiled by AGB for BARB, with the service increasing its audience lead over the BBC's Breakfast Time. The gap in TV-am's favour increased to 600,000 in the weekday peak quarter-hour audience, from 400,000 the week before. TV-am also increased its ...

... OUT OF TOWN ABERDEEN His Majeety's Andy Stewart (8-101 AYR CMc On Approval (to 61 Gaiety Johnny Beanie/ Anne FieWs/BW Clement/ Ruasel Lane/Kei* Raymel/Rumour/lan Muir/Bruce McCkire Dancers BATH Theatre Royal Btonoe) (from 81 BELFAST Grand Opara House Yakety Yak I Lyric Castles in the Air I BIRMINGHAM Alexandra Love from a Stranger Malcolm Knight Prods Hippodrome Ain't Miebehavin' Rap Dear ...

... THURS, SEPTEMBER 8 MOUERE by Mikhail Bulgakov, a version by Dusty Hughes from a literal translation by Helen Rappaport. The Pit. Management: Royal Shakespeare Company. Cast includes: Antony Sher. Director: Bill Alexander. Press: Judith Cheston. 628 3361. FRI, SEPTEMBER 9 VIVIEN by Percy Granger. Lyric Studio. Hammersmith to October 1, lunchtime. Cast: David Blake Kelly. Eileen Nicholas, Dermot ...

... THE COUNTRY GIRL by Clifford Odets Thorndike. Leatherhoad to September 17, then West End. Cast: Hannah Gordon, Martin Shaw. John Stride, Simon Merrick, Michael Percival. Stephen Hoye, Kate Doming. Dominic Snowdon. Director: Robin Lefevre. Designer: John Byrne. Lighting: Dave Horn. DOWN THE DOCK ROAD by Alan Bleasdale. Gateway. Chester to October V Cast: Richard Syms, Phillip Reader. Richard ...

... THE PLAYERS, continuing hs policy of broadening out beyond Victorian mutlc hall, opened a new musical romance by Dudley Stevens. Meet Me Round the Corner, this week. Based on the life of composer Paul Rubens, it has Nigel Williams. Rosamund Shelley. Daphne Anderson, Nicholas Bennett, Graham Callan. Christine Collier, Felicity Harrison, Judith Hibbert, Eleanor McCready, Dursley McUnden. Ted ...

... THURS, SEPTEMBER 29 RIENZI by Wagner. Coliseum. Management: English National Opera. Cast: Kenneth Woollam. Kathryn Harries. Dennis Wicks. Felicity Palmer. Malcolm Donnelly, Sean Rea. Alan Woodrow. Geoffrey Moses. Conductor: Heribert Esser. Producer: Nicholas Hytner Designer: David Raiding. Lighting: Pat Collins. Translation: Francis Rizzo and Robert Darling, revised by Victor Morris. Sponsor: ...

... OUT OF TOWN ABERDEEN HI* MJeely' Blackout 127/281/Tha Cornel 130. 1 Oct) AYR (Wety 1883 Gaiety Whirl BAS4NOSTOKE Central Studio The Merchant of Venice HoraeahoeT/C Havmertet The Gene* Ballet (28-1 Oct I BATH Theatre Royal The Cherry Orchard S^rtSUn Mouee PM Newpelm Prod* Lyric Educating Rita BEXHILL-ON-MA De La Werr PwMon The 18th Annual Festival of Light Muk 130-1 Oct) bilJnqham Forum Don't ...

... Acme Arts (UK) Action Time (UK) AIP (UK) Airtime International (UK) Aisling Films (UK) Alayash TV Cinema (Iraq) Allmedia Enterprises (Aust) Alnasser Him Dist (S Arabia) Amalgamated TV Services (Aust) Amanda Films (UK) Anglia (UK) Anthony Morris (UK) Arbitrage Ltd (Finland) Artel Home Video (Netherlands) Arts et Melodic (France) Arts International (UK) Atlantic An Entertainment (UK) Atlantis TV ...

... Monday, August 29, 1983 Sunday, September 4, 1983 Prepared by AGB for BARB (Broadcasters' Audience Research Board) Individuals viewing BBC-1 (million.) 1 Blankety Blank 10.30 2 Juliet Bravo 9.25 3 News And Sport, Sat 8.85 4 The Noel Edmonds Late Late Breakfast Show 8.75 5 Three Of A Kind 8.45 6 Remington Steel (US) 8.05 7 Top Of The Pop. 7.95 8 Fame (US) 7.65 9 The Adventures Of The Wilderness ...

... THE FINAL production of tha currant toason at the Royal Shakespeare, Stratford upon-Avon. Measure for Measure, open* on October 4. Directed by Adrian Noble, it has Daniel Massey, JuHet Stevenson. David SchofieM and PaflflV Mount in leading roles. A NEW COMEDY by Charles Dyer. Lovers Dancing, opens at the Albery on October 27, with Paul Edington, Colin Blakary, Georgina Hale and Jane Can- ...

... FOLLOWING the impact Eric Bogosian made on Edinburgh audiences, Voices of America, his one-man show, has been extended at its original venue the Assembly Rooms with additional shows at the Circuit. For 30 minutes Eric Bogosian fast-talks his way up and down an imaginary radio-dialogue, a both hilarious and chilling vision of American life today. After a flying visit to the Tron Theatre, ...

... Monday, September 12, 1983 Sunday, September 18, 1983 The Networks and Regions Breakfast I Shares I Reach THE American import The Winds of War and a repeat of the film Star Wan helped push up ITV'n share of viewing to 54 per cent according to the latest ratings figures compiled by AGB for BARB, for the week ending September 18. The Monday instalment of The Winds of War split the week's ...