... Relatively Speaking BBC2 MANY of these theatre pieces, produced and directed for BBC by Shaun Sutton and Michael Simpson respectively, have worked well in a medium for which they were never intended, and those that have not have simply reinforced one's ...

... amorous seducer if the maid is wealthy enough. Completing the three principals is grovelling Grunge, a menial not allowed to speak without permission but rather like butler Paul Shane in You Rang M'Lord with ideas above his station. It is one of those situations ...

... of the C.I.D. Of course, in real life heroics of this kind result in recurring spells in casualty and no personal life to speak of. Blake's girlfriend (Lizzie Mclnnerny) has been stood up enough times to be on first name terms with half the barman in ...

... must be capable of doing press ups. I await the rest of the series with real anticipation. What will he do next? Bill McCoid Speaking his mind BEN ELTON ...

... the NHS (God forbid) and a neo-hippy son who has a troublesome disregard for au thority. In the first episode the plain- speaking Chief managed to single- handedly quell a prison riot by offering the disgruntled cons a bag of chips and a visit from relatives ...

... was flown in for a rock space age item, and Jonathon Morris made an excellent narrator for The King's New Clothes scene. He speaks well and has a lot of presence. Musical Mania, including rock- n-roll dancing, made an upbeat finale. Taking part were Alvin ...

... of the running when competing with established broadcasters for big onscreen names, a financial expert warned this week. Speaking at a Sheffield confer ence on the new fifth channel, leading media analyst Bronwen Maddox said: We're just starting to see ...

... first non-broadcaster officially to declare an interest in the new Channel 5, which is due to start broadcasting in 1993. Speaking at a conference in Shef field, Initial's Mike Bolland announced that the company would lead a bid for the fifth channel, ...

... over prop from Star Wars, and high tech, the quiz looks old fashioned. I'm sorry, as Dame Edna likes to say, but I must speak my mind. And the 64,000 revival, despite offering the biggest-ever cash prize on British tele vision of £6,400, is like a ...

... of the effort. To provide adequate explanatory commentary and link each segment of the programme, the cops in this series speak for themselves, usually very articulately, from the driving seat of a patrol car on its way to the next investigation. This ...

... modest, naive, and young Dr Hans-Joachim Dorfman, played by German actor Chrostoph Waltz, who now lives in London. In Brussels speak no pun intended he is Soft Fruit, meaning he has respon sibility for plums and the like in the European Common Market's rich ...

... phones to ask Damien how big he wants the com circles cut? And the whole team from Chief Executive to newsroom assistants speak in television cliches. It is a tight little world of pressure and rivalries. The scripting is sharp rather than amusing, and ...