... The Marshall Chronicles CHANNEL 4 IMAGINE Woody Allen at a high school student and you have a good picture of Marshall Brightman, the nervous, intelligent, bright central character of this new American teenage comedy series. Forget the sucked-down hair and rebel leather of the Fonz, this lad wears glasses and a ne, is polite, and is the nicest kind of wimp. The sort of skinny fellow who gets ...

... Good news for Protheroe The BBC in the Midlands has appointed ROGER PROTHEROE (left) to the post of News Editor for BBC Television, Nottingham. He will now be responsible for the daily regional news programme, East Midlands Today, broadcast each weekday evening on BBC1. Prothcroc was previously an assistant editor in the Pebble Mill news room, having moved to regional television from BBC Radio ...

... 'No' vote will cost actors more warns Equity By SUZAN LEAVY EQUITY'S vice president, John Barron and assistant secretary Christine Payne, this week hit out at union members opposed to the proposals for the new television commercials agreement and said that a 'no' vote in the ballot could result in actors losing millions of pounds. Payne told The Stage and Television Today that it was ...

... TWC's strength is fourfold TROUBLED leisure group Trans World Communications will channel its energies into its four operating Independent Local Radio stations rather than diversifying into other areas of business, its new chairman said this week. The company has had a turbulent summer which saw the departure of its chairman and founder, socialist mil lionaire Owen Oyston, in July, after two ...

... THE IBA has appointed two new members to the board of Channel Four. They are publisher Carmen Callil and Detta O'Cathain of the Milk Marketing Board. Their appointments take effect from July 1 and last five years. They replace Roger Graef, independent producer and director, and the Hon Mrs Sara Morrison, of the General Electric Com pany, who have completed their terms as members of the board. ...

... YORKSHIRE The Contract DIRTY TRICKS are well to the fore in this three-part thriller by Gerald Seymour, a tautly written piece with Ian Toynton directing a strong Anglo-German cast filmed largely on location in Berlin and along the East-West German border. Reagan and Gorbachey may have been talking peace and friendship, but television drama is still embroiled in the Cold War. This time ...

... CHANNEL4 It's a HuddHudd World ON THE pretext of celebrating Rov Hudd's fiftieth birthday this one-off show as dated as the Old Year or even those 50 years. It had a fatal flaw. Not the production standards. Nor the revue team. The material was as funny as acne and constructing a programme on the foundations supplied by a battery of writers meat it had no chance. In a running time of some 25 ...

... Chatterbox HTV THERE is no reason why young Aled Jones with the magic voice should also have the qualities of a chat show host and presenter. Musical talent even as enormous as his doesn't mean he is gifted in other areas. But, surprisingly, he makes a reason ably good job of it. Of course, the inexperience shows and if he does strumble over a name or two he is ready to admit it and in front ...

... Clip shop opens A NEW company supplying film and video footage to makers of films, commercials and television programmes has opened in London. Clip Shop has been set up by Jenny Morgan and Helen Bennitt in response to the need for economical film re search in the expanding visual com munications market. Morgan and Bennitt have a back ground in archive research which spans Weekend World, The ...

... Crystal Maze CHANNEL 4 THIS IS the programme that the off button was made for. It's possible that watching Crystal Maze is marginally more pleasant than banging your head against a very hard wall, possible but unlikely. Thanks to innovative television like this somewhere an oriental version of Clive James is getting laughs and his own series at the expense of British gameshow contestants. ...

... Wipe Out GRANADA PROBABLY BEST described as a chiller-thriller, Wipe Out, Granada's latest five part series, takes that well loved fictional creation--the mad scientist and thrusts him right into the heart of our computer obsessed age. John Fairling is a psychologist who heads a hush-hush research project at a prison hospital, aimed primarily at controlling the minds of 'obstinate' patients. ...

... Independents fear GTC delay on programming INDEPENDENT production companies aiming to win programme funding from the new Gaelic Television Committee fear that they may not survive the delay in commissioning material for the screen. The government's 1990 Broadcasting Act com mitted £9.5 million to Gaelic television, to be administered by the GTC, which was set up by the Independent ...