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Adrian Monck

David Dimbleby for Chairman

The campaign should begin now – not least to persuade David Dimbleby to throw his hat in the ring once more. The new BBC Trust will need a chairman willing to hold the BBC to account. Plus the ability to repeat the kind of homilies about BBC values that always sounded so inappropriate when voiced…

November 28, 2006
TV News critics 2

Mark Lawson (like me, shamefully overlooked by Cotswold Life, see right) obviously took my earlier blog to heart. He has a piece in today’s Media Guardian – which if not a mea culpa is a kind of they-a culpa – calling on TV critics to reinvent themselves…

November 27, 2006
Grade to ITV

Jeff Randall seems to have had the scoop on Michael Grade‘s move to ITV. Grade probably only had it in him to go on making worthy speeches for so long! ITV News at 10.30pm is left to go with “reports that…” in the headlines and poor old Harry Smith doing a studio spot. Sir Peter…

November 27, 2006
France 24 – dodgy continental graphics

Jean Gabin in Quai des Brumes, Philippe Noiret in La Vie et rien d’autre, Depardieu in Le Colonel Chabert, Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Béart in Un Coeur en Hiver. Some of my favourite movies are French. But I have a problem (not in my lousy taste in movies) – I don’t get the French fascination…

November 27, 2006

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