Entries from Journal Live - Blog Central tagged with 'bbc'
Good stuff, BBC
The BBC Trust has announced this morning that it is its abandoning plans for an online video service - and hats off to them. Newspaper groups around the country - including The Journal's owners Trinity Mirror - had protested that...
Entries from Coventry Telegraph - CV3 tagged with 'bbc'
Whitley Abbey pupils shine for Children in Need
TWO classes of 14 and 15-year-olds organised a fundraising day at their school and collected more than £700. The teenagers at Whitley Abbey Community School in Coventry washed cars, baked cakes and painted nails for BBC Children In Need. Daniel...
Entries from Liverpool Daily Post - Pool of Life tagged with 'bbc'
History speaking to young people
THIS video of two Liverpool school pupils on a visit to Givenchy les la Basse in northern France is a great example of how history can be brought to life when taken away from textbooks. It was filmed by Jennifer...
Entries from Birmingham Mail - I Will Survive tagged with 'bbc'
WHAT A WEEK!!
It's been nearly a week since my last entry and this is the first chance to catch up. My weekend was a mixture of work and pleasure. I went to see my friend Leno in the coronary unit of...
Entries from Birmingham Mail - Is It Just Me tagged with 'bbc'
And the winner is . . . .
Nice to the see the BBC are not letting anything a silly as public opinion or common sense get in the way of their US election coverage with a staff of 175 racking up the expenses on our money to...
Entries from Journal Live - Blog Central tagged with 'bbc'
TV on Poles / TV o Polonii
Polish friend of mine who use to work BBC in Newcastle is looking for polish people living in North East and who due to changing economic climate decided to return to Poland. She would like to invite them to take...
Entries from Look Back tagged with 'bbc'
Songs censored by the BBC
By LAURA JONES NOEL Coward, The Beverley Sisters, George Formby and George Melly - these are just some of the acts banned by the BBC which feature in a new collection by Ainsdale historian Spencer Leigh. After months of research...
Entries from Sunday Mercury - Paul Flower tagged with 'bbc'
The Brand & Ross perspective
I'm rapidly reaching the conclusion that one of the most important attributes to possess is a sense of perspective. I wasn't going to comment on the Ross/Brand/Sachs affair but since it's still running out of control like a herd of...
Entries from Birmingham Post - News Blog tagged with 'bbc'
Sir Michael Lyons' roar too late for Birmingham
Sir Michael Lyons is rapidly emerging as the man of action who forced plodding old Auntie BBC to face up to a storm of public protest over the foul-mouthed antics of presenters Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand. Lyons, chairman of...
Politicians and BBC bosses have got it wrong
Good grief... it's much ado about nothing at the BBC - all that palaver concerning Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross on Radio. So they made some 'lewd' comments on the voicemail of Andrew Sachs of Fawlty Towers (something to do...
Entries from WalesOnline - 0725 to Paddington tagged with 'bbc'
Bowing to the inevitable
Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand have finally been suspended by the BBC, meaning we shall be deprived of Friday Night with Jonathan Ross in 48 hours' time. Will the Controller of BBC1 have the wit to play an episode of...
Entries from Coventry Telegraph - Pass the Remote tagged with 'bbc'
Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross suspended by BBC.
RUSSELL Brand and Jonathan Ross have been suspended and their programmes taken off air as the furore over their lewd calls to actor Andrew Sachs shows no signs of abating. The pair will not return to work for the...
No Christmas Top of the Pops.
Wizzard, with I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day, a familiar tune on the Top of the Pops Christmas special after it hit number one in 1973 THE Top of the Pops Christmas Special, a traditional fixture of...
Bagpuss set for comeback.
HE became a cult hero after being a kids favourite, that 'old, saggy cloth cat' and now Bagpuss might be back after the rights to the show were sold. And that's not all. Remember the Clangers? And Ivor the...
Entries from Coventry Telegraph - The Geek Files tagged with 'bbc'
Doctor Who director plans new superhero series inspired by Marvel comics
A NEW superhero series inspired by Marvel comics is being developed for British television, reports The Stage. The series, to be called Superpower, is being written for BBC One by former Doctor Who director Joe Ahearne, who said he...
Entries from Sunday Mercury - The Grassy Knoll tagged with 'bbc'
Dr David Kelly - A very British murder?
The Case When the BBC and the government clashed over the "45 minute" dossier that took Britain to war in Iraq there was always going to be trouble. But no-one could have imagined that the heated battle over whether...
Entries from Liverpool Daily Post - Pool of Life tagged with 'bbc'
Would you ban this record?
THAT was the question on Daily Post feature writer David Charters' lips last week as he considered which records were banned by the BBC's Dance Music Policy Committee. Among them were Liverpool comedian Arthur Askey's The Christening (1947) which made...
Entries from Coventry Telegraph - CV3 tagged with 'bbc'
Styvechale couple's shipwreck rescue is featured on the BBC
By Helen Thomas A YEAR ago Georgie Hale and her husband Clive were caught up in a terrifying experience when they were shipwrecked in the Atlantic Ocean. Dramatic pictures filmed by Georgie during their ordeal were today being shown on...
Entries from Sunday Mercury - Anorak City tagged with 'bbc'
Heroes : series 3 spoilers
Heroes returns to BBC TV on Wednesday - and the new series will be full of big surprises. 1. We'll get to learn the terrible truth about Sylar's secret past. 2. We'll see the return of characters we thought we'd...
Entries from Coventry Telegraph - Pass the Remote tagged with 'bbc'
Theme tune of the Week: Simon and the Witch
APOLOGIES for running late on this. It's something for the tad younger readers this week. BBC1's Simon and the Witch was a 15 minute treatment for wee youngsters in the 80s. The clue? Simple: Garfunkel's singing partner (Simon) teams...
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