Tag Archive | "ITV"

Primeval resurrected

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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A lot of us were less than happy when ITV cancelled their science fiction show Primeval a few months ago, especially as the series had developed significantly from its early ‘monster of the week’ format (for those unfamiliar with it, temporal anomalies are allowing creatures from different eras into our own time, where they must [...]

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New Dennis & Gnasher coming on the Beeb …. Softies beware! (maybe)

Friday, August 21, 2009

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The new Dennis The Menace & Gnasher TV series on children’s BBC starts on September 7th (just in time for back to school). It looks and sounds a lot better than the 1996 25 minute per episode version which was a rather too diluted thing altogether.No doubt it will be less anarchic than Dennis at [...]

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DC Thomson buys Friends Reunited

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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Scottish publishing empire DC Thomson, home to long-loved titles like the Beano, Sunday Post and the Dandy among many other publications, has bought the Friends Reunited website through its subsidiary Brightsolid Limited. DCT picked up the site for £25 million according to the news this morning, buying it from seriously struggling commercial broadcaster ITV, which [...]

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