... Doctor 'feel good' does the rounds again By LISA ROHUMAA I'VE ALWAYS thought the truly satisfying aspect of tabloid television programmes like True Crimes, Crimewatch and 999 is that wonderful feeling when they're over. My god, the relief! All those little old ladies conned out of their life savings, all those little boys stuck down wells, the potholers from Penge rescued (again) from the ...

... And it came to pass--eventually 'Never mind the quality feel the width' decrees an exhausted but awe struck SIDNEY VAUNCEZ CHANNEL 4 The Mahabharata PETER Brook's condensed six-hour version of his nine-hour theatre presentation of the Mahabharata for Channel 4 comes bang on top of the South Bank's International Story Festival. His Mahabharata would have fitted happily into that ambience ...

... Home To Roost YORKSHIRE This will be the fourth and final series of Home to Roost and whatever you think of the show it is family entertainment that does not resort to swearing, sex-based gags, drugs, or violence. For which, many thanks. That opening makes it sound some what wimpish and I suppose to some measure it is. The situation concerns the generation gap between a father and son who live ...

... Crazy Comparisons THAMES CRAZY indeed. Whether it is Thames for making the series, us for watching, or artists for appearing, somebody is one brick short of a dozen. It is the bottom end of the game show strand and totally ludicrous. The best that can be said is that the four times a week show is cheap and easy to make, and it fills a gap in the schedules. But it is not the kind of pro gramme ...

... Eurocops CHANNEL 4 EUROCOPS, the drama series which casts a kaleidoscopic eye over the continents's police forces, is currently encamped in Germany. If I was expecting to spend a dull hour in the company of an efficient but cold bunch of 'tecs, my prejudices were proved wrong. Bernd Fischerauer's film was cine matic in style, with a smokey, languid feel to it that was rather seductive. Tommy, ...

... Fear of the Dark CHANNEL4 FOUR WRITERS have been commissioned to write a series of one-hour dramas each portraying an individual character coming face to face with the supernatural. The series has the general title While Reason Sleeps, which affords plenty of scope since it could be argued that reason went to sleep with the death of Socrates more than 2,000 years ago and has been pretty ...

... Southern and Invicta set to merge SOUTH Coast Independent Local Radio groups Southern Radio and Invicta Sound are set to merge. If the amalgamation is approved by shareholders, it will create a single ILR group covering Hampshire, Sussex and Kent. Merger talks between directors and shareholders of both companies began earlier this year, but were given a new- impetus by what Southern Radio's ...

... Radio pulls a world youth fund Cracker BBC Radio 1 FM this week back ed a new project which will run over 90 new radio stations throughout December to raise funds for young people around the world. Under the title of Radio Cracker, for the first time special event, tempo rary FM radio stations have been licensed by the Radio Authority and the Department of Trade and Indus try. Thousands of ...

... The lengths that some people will go to SOME British agents have recently voiced their disapproval at the way the American film industry snaps up all our young acting talent and catapults their fees so high that no British film maker can afford to use them ever again, thus they base themselves in the States. This is obviously not a new trend for Michael York, Michael Caine, Lynn Redgrave and ...

... Holmes the new BBC secretary DAVID HOLMES is to be the new secretary of the BBC, succeeding David Barlow, who as reported recently in Television Today is becoming the Corporation's controller of public affairs and international relations. David Holmes has lor the past three years been chief assistant to the BBC's director general, responsible for handling the BBC's relations with the ...

... TVS try out live shows in studio part of 'new look' for afternoons TVS is to make a quiz, a magazine, and a do-it-yourself series to go out live from studio each week for ten weeks, from October. The programmes are part of a move by the company to try and make Monday to Thursday programming between 1.30 and 4.0pm more appealing and more cohesive in presentation. Although the company will not ...

... 'ARTS WILL STARVE IF TVS LOSES OUT ' By ANGUS TOWLER THE PERFORMING arts in the South and South East of England could be starved of significant financial backing if TVS, the existing ITV contractor for the area, loses its franchise, theatre and festival directors feared this week. TVS set up a Trust Fund when it began broadcasting in 1982, to which it contributes £550,000 per annum. Run ...