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Television Reviews: Why big brother is watching MTV

... fresh faced 31 year old American who was imported from MTV America's New York offices puts it all down to the expertise and experience gained in the six years since MTV was born in America. While the European version has supposedly been tailored for ...

Published: Thursday 27 August 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1021 | Page: 18 | Tags: television review 

Television Today: American soap--'It's so bland and boring'

... Norway. k She said she was delighted with the results of the Scandinavian deal and added that there might be a deal with America around the corner: We arc getting an enormous amount of interest from the States but the problem is American soap is so much ...

Published: Thursday 05 March 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 412 | Page: 19 | Tags: television review 

TELEVISION TODAY: Roxy gets on bandwagon

... concerned. The BBC deal with American net work CBS, will make Top of the Pops the only networked pop music chart programme in America. The deal is a co-venture between the BBC, Lionheart TV, the BBC's American distribution company and TEN the Entertainment ...

Published: Thursday 02 July 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 411 | Page: 15 | Tags: television review 

TELEVISION TODAY: A united news front

... A united news front TELEVISION NEWS from both sides of the border in Ireland is to be packaged and cabled in America in a goodwill project aimed at presenting a balanced view of events on the island. Ulster Television and the Irish public service station ...

Published: Thursday 31 December 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 13 | Tags: television review 

Television Reviews: A-Z Of C And W

... 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 and America, C and W (in fact, the Western part has long since been dropped) has an enormous unsophisti cated following. What Hank and ...

Published: Thursday 26 February 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 531 | Page: 33 | Tags: television review 

Televison Review: Cut-throat challenge of the ocean tycoons

... apart from being difficult to spell, was a form of sport. After an hour of this mini-series purporting to relive the 1983 America's Cup races of Newport, Rhode Island, it became clear that sport, as Mae West so memorably remarked about goodness, had ...

Published: Thursday 08 January 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 542 | Page: 16 | Tags: television review 

Televison Review: Jessye Norman's Christmas Symphony

... Coventry Carol to the Holly and the Ivy and other favourites on both sides of the Atlantic the programme was also screened in America. Robert De Cormier conducted to secure a lively, often sparkling response from his British and American choirs. Frank Granville ...

Published: Wednesday 23 December 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: 15 | Tags: television review 

Televison Review: Putting the family into entertainment

... The Cosby Show THERE are two questions in mind when sitting down to watch the newest series of The Cosby Show: why is it America's most successful programme watched by 60 million viewers, and what special quality does Bill Cosby have to make him the highest ...

Published: Thursday 03 December 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 383 | Page: 21 | Tags: television review 

Televison Review: Farrington

... looked like cool, slim, and haughty Harriet Farrington, Britain's consul-general in one of the arm-pit countries of South America. ITie one-time Hot Pants Harriet, who was not above turning her bath room into an illicit distillery in the Persian Gulf ...

Published: Thursday 11 June 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 387 | Page: 22 | Tags: television review 

Television Reviews: The Media Show

... Commercials were given a more serious slot in the second programme, examining the trend for politically orientated ads in America and specu lating as to whether we are likely to go the same way. Clearly, then, The Media Show looks like being intelligent ...

Published: Thursday 26 March 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 460 | Page: 23 | Tags: television review 

Television Reviews: Keep sex Ruthless

... on that occasion was the comedian Milton Berle, whom she introduced as Mr. television himself. In his heyday Berle was America's best stand-up comic, and it was sad to see him, aged 78, reduced to revealing intimate details of his 33-year-old mar riage ...

Published: Thursday 19 February 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 418 | Page: 22 | Tags: television review