... BARB RatingsTHE NATIONAL TOP THIRTIES For week ending January 3 CHANNEL ALL/ANY TV BBC1 (INCLUDING BREAKFAST TIME) BBC2 TOTAL/ANY BBC ITV (INCLUDING TV-AM) CHANNEL 4/S4C TOTAL/ANY ITV OTHERS Average weekly viewing Share of Total Per Head (Hours/Minutes) viewing 33 20 100.0 11:34 34.7 3:02 91 14:36 43.8 14:13 42.6 2:58 8.9 17:11 51.6 1:33 4.7 Individual! viewing BBC1 (Millions) 1 EASTENDERS ...

... THE RADIO Authority has received three applications for the Independent Local Radio licence for the Aber deen area, one for both the FM and AM services from existing operator North- sound Radio, and two for just the AM service, from North East Community Radio and Waves AM. The Authority expects to make the awards in the next three months. BECTU, the broadcasting and entertainment union, is to ...

... MON, JAN 1 1 HEAD OVER HEELS Carlton drama series for ITV network (9.00 10.00 pm) Production company: Carnival Productions. Cast includes: Jackie Morrison, Ann Bell, Ian Embleton, Nigel Humphreys, Gemma Page. THE GOOD SEX GUIDE Carlton seven-part series for ITV network (10.40 pm) Production company: Prospect Pictures. Presenter: Margi Clarke. Contributors: Dr David Delvin, Dr Glenn Wilson, Sue ...

... Snaps OLD Vic bosses David and Ed Mirvish have named their new 2,000-seater Toronto theatre The Princess of Wales, in recog nition of Princess Diana's charity work with children, the sick and elderly. GUILDHALL School of Music and Drama is to become the first British stage school to offer degrees in acting. The three-year diploma coursc is validated by London's City University as a Bachelor of ...

... Snaps LIGHTING hire and sales company White Light has formed a new subsidiary company. Technical Insight will specialise in the refur bishment of theatre and other leisure venues. ART Therapy and Drama- therapy: Masks Of The Soul is a new publication by Sue Jennings and Ase Minde exploring the use of creative cures to mental health prob lems. Publisher is Jessica Kingsley, London Nl. ...

... #Q jdL ft OVERLAP No. 199 Overlap rules: Enter answers clockwise Each starts with the last letters never fewer than 2 nor more than 3 of the preceding answer (thus CONE NEST ESTEEM would be entered as CONESTEEM') and the answer to the illustrated clue overlaps the first. This week's clues: Fourteen lines, my boy and no discount! (6): Under such lands are Holland (6): Present uneasy conclusions ...

... I FOR THE FIRST time in 90 years, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company is presenting a non-Gilbert and Sullivan work, Orpheus in the Underworld, which opens the 1993 season at the Alexandra, Birmingham on March 18. The new translation by Jeremy Sams is directed by Martin Duncan, with design by Tim Hatley and choreog raphy by Steve Goff. The following week (March 25), there is the first performance ...

... |OUT OF TOWN ABERDEEN His Majesty Scotland The What? Return Of Laughing Matters BATH Theatre Royal Anna Karenina BELFAST Arts Centre King Lear Grand Opera House Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs Lyric Players Theatre Great Expectations Old Museum Arts Centre All Electric Puppet Company BILUNGHAM Forum The Importance Of Being Earnest BIRMINGHAM Alexandra Atfie Hippodrome Aladdin Midlands Arts ...

... Snaps KENT based Aapron Entertainments presents a new rock venue at the Woodman in Blackfen Road, Sidkup from January 29. Opening acts for the Ride To Rock night include Big Trouble, Sensei, Ed Gasket and the Dodgy Rockers. The Woodman music nights will be held on the last Friday of each month. NICKOLAS Grace will be guest speaker at the next meet ing of the Gallery First Nighters' Club on ...

... Snaps CENTRAL Television Enterprises, the market ing and distribution arm of the ITV contractor for the Midlands, is to look after programme sales for Carlton Television, the new London weekday ITV contractor. Among the titles CTE will handle are the dramas Head Over Heels, made by Nod Gay Television, and Wall To Wall Television's A Staement Of Affairs. LOBBY group Voice of the Listener and ...

... BARB Ratings THE NATIONAL TOP THIRTIES For week ending January 10 CHANNEL A Per ALL/ANY TV BBC1 (INCLUDING BREAKFAST TIME) BBC2 TOTAL/ANY BBC ITV (INCLUDING TV-AM) CHANNEL 4S4C TOTAL/ANY ITV OTHERS Individuals viewing BBC1 (Millions) 1 EASTENDERS (THU/SUN) 23.21 1 2 EASTENDERS (TUE/SUN) 20.68 2 3 NEIGHBOURS (TUE 13.34/17.37) 18 13 3 4 NEIGHBOURS (MON 13.31/17.38) 17.90 5 NEIGHBOURS (Ffll 13 ...

... SAT, JAN 23 THAT'S LIFE BBC1 series (9*25 10.05 pm) Presenters: Esther Rantzen, Adrian Mills, Gavin Campbell, Kevin Devine, Howard Leader, Doc Cox ADVENTURES Channel 4 series (8.00 9.00 pm) MON, JAN 24 THE ADVENTURERS BBC2 six- part documentary series (7.40 8.30 pm) HALE AND PACE London Weekend comedy series for ITV net work (10.00 pm) THE SOUTH BANK SHOW London Weekend arts documentary series ...