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Television News: America gets the Birds

... America gets the Birds INDEPENDENT production group SelecTV this week claimed to have made significant inroads into the American television market with a format deal for the hit sitcom Birds Of A Feather, which is made for BBC 1 by its subsidiary Alomo ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 236 | Page: 20 | Tags: television review 

Television Reviews: Dinosaur!

... Dinosaur! GRANADA GRANADA has joined forces with Satel (Austria), Primedia (Canada), Arts and Entertainment (America) and Orf (Austria) to tell the greatest story ever told the discovery of the huge beasts that ruled the earth for over 150 million years ...

Published: Thursday 05 September 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 212 | Page: 15 | Tags: television review 

Television Reviews: Irish styles shine

... the 1840s to the fifties the Appala chians put new names in old songs and so tell of their history of new beginnings. In America, Jean Ritchie, who sings Appalachian style, put forward an interesting theory for the distinctive cadences of Irish singing ...

Published: Thursday 04 July 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 19 | Tags: television review 

Television Today: Equity to act over US ad offers

... of course we would repay that loyalty and instruct our members not to accept engagements for commercials to be screened in America if it came to strike action, he said. A tentative agreement had been reached this week which had been approved by the joint ...

Published: Thursday 18 April 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 316 | Page: 19 | Tags: television review 

TELEVISION REVIEWS: New Statesman

... Quayle. Whether or not this is true, the makers of this latest series have obviously decided to avoid any com parisons with America's golden-haired boy by giving Alan a lovely, Neil Kinnock shade of red, coiffure. suzan Leavy ...

Published: Thursday 17 January 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 351 | Page: 21 | Tags: television review 

TELEVISION TODAY: MU 'confident' of future TV work

... the quality of the music that you get is often not worth it. We have already had interest from film and programme makers in America and France and the interest our pro posals have aroused in Hollywood is astound ing, he said. However many producers in ...

Published: Thursday 21 February 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 387 | Page: 21 | Tags: television review 

Television Today: Country acts told to push for airtime

... image and it was up to per formers to try to redress the bal ance. Country is looked on as a very amateur thing, whereas in America it is accepted as mainstream music. The vast majority of performers do not come on stage dressed as cow boys. There are clubs ...

Published: Thursday 25 April 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 396 | Page: 17 | Tags: television review 

Televison Review: The Tracey Ullman Show

... Her opening story was about worry over the trauma of dying her hair red and how her husband would react. Where else but in America would the couple go to the local minister for counselling? Here, having said she would wash the colour out and carry her ugly ...

Published: Thursday 08 August 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 380 | Page: 21 | Tags: television review 

Televison Review: Television Reviews - 2 Point 4 Children

... another. So it is with this promising new series promising because it has some sharp lines which would seem to be a clone for America's Roseanne Ban- show. Father, played by Gary Olsen, is an idle, beer-drinking overweight type who wears a check lumberjack ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 443 | Page: 19 | Tags: television review 

Television Today: ITV to monitor EC growth

... Buds Of May and Emmer- dale, the company saw its programme sales to ITV and Channel 4 fall slight ly, while sales to North America dropped significantly. YTV attributed this to sales racked up by drama series Yellowthread Street and Till We Meet Again. ...

Published: Thursday 26 December 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 435 | Page: 15 | Tags: television review 

Television Reviews: In Conversation With David Frost

... In Conversation With David Frost SKY WHAT do America's President Bush and Britain's most successful contemporary composer of stage musicals have in common? Both have been In Conversation With David Frost recently as part of the interviewer's latest i ...

Published: Thursday 21 February 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 474 | Page: 23 | Tags: television review