Posts Tagged ‘channel’

Once on This Island

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

A habitat restorer and an animal lover square off in T. C. Boyle’s rollicking novel set in California’s Channel Islands.

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Once on This Island

Islamic school in Ofcom complaint

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

The head teacher of an Islamic school in Birmingham says he is drafting a complaint to Ofcom over a Channel 4 Dispatches programme.

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Van Outen pulls out of new show

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Presenter Denise Van Outen pulls out of fronting Channel Five’s new show OK! TV, just days before it is due to start.

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Titchmarsh gets ITV garden show

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

Broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh is to front ITV’s first prime-time gardening and lifestyle series, the channel announces.

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Titchmarsh gets ITV garden show

Former S4C boss agrees settlement

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

The former chief executive of S4C is not taking the channel to an employment tribunal after agreeing a settlement with them.

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Why is My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding so popular?

Friday, January 28th, 2011

The Channel 4′s series My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding following the nuptials of Gypsies and Irish Travellers has been a huge ratings hit. So why does it seem to have divided opinion?

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Why is My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding so popular?

Shuttle demand boosts Eurotunnel

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Eurotunnel, the company which manages the Channel Tunnel, said traffic and sales increased during 2010.

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Shuttle demand boosts Eurotunnel

Katie Price complains over ‘vile’ gag

Friday, December 10th, 2010

Reality TV star Katie Price files an official complaint over a “vile sexual slur” Frankie Boyle made about her son during his Channel 4 sketch show.

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Pamela Anderson to join Indian BB

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson is to join the Indian version of Big Brother, a spokesman for the channel airing the show said.

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Pamela Anderson to join Indian BB

Television Review: It’s Beauty-and-the-Beast Time Again

Saturday, November 6th, 2010

“Great Migrations,” on the National Geographic Channel, brings back searing images of nature on the move.

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Television Review: It’s Beauty-and-the-Beast Time Again

End in sight? French want cross-Channel swim ban

Monday, November 1st, 2010

Swimmers should be banned from crossing the Channel from Dover to Calais, according to the French coastguard.

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End in sight? French want cross-Channel swim ban

Alstom loses Eurostar court case

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Alstom, the French engineering company, fails in an attempt to prevent Eurostar from running German trains through the Channel Tunnel.

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Former chief calls for S4C review

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

A former chief executive of S4C says the channel is wrong to “go to war” with the UK government over its funding.

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Former chief calls for S4C review

Steve Jones leaves T4 tv show

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

Steve Jones is to leave Channel 4′s Sunday morning show T4 after seven years.

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Steve Jones leaves T4 tv show

BBC funding ‘wrong model’ for S4C

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

S4C chief executive says a decision to transfer responsibility for its funding to the BBC is the ‘wrong model’ for the channel.

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