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Peter Capaldi’s casting is a vote of confidence in Doctor Who
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LIke more than 6m other fans, I tuned into BBC One last night to discover the identity of the actor who would take Doctor Who into its second half-century. While there’s much about Steven Moffat’s era that I’ve disliked – wasting two and a half seasons on a plot-line that boils down to ‘my annoying,…
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TalkTalk adds Japanese, Arabic and Afrikaans content to TV service
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TalkTalk is expending its YouView-based TV service with a new suite of channels offering content to Japanese, Arabic and Afrikaans speaking audiences. The channels, provided by THEMA company, are available in three new ‘Boosts’ from £10 a month: The Arabic TV Boost offers customers access to a selection of 12 channels from major Arabic Networks…
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Review: BlackBerry Q10
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The BlackBerry Q10 is one of the newest handsets from Blackberry, the company formerly known as RIM. Blackberry has had a troubled time of late – its Playbook tablet tanked, its previous generation handsets failed to excite and a promised operating system update was seriously delayed. Against this backdrop of misery, gloom and poor expectations…
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Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi revealed as 12th Doctor
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Peter Capaldi has been named as the new star of BBC One’s Doctor Who. Capaldi previously appeared in the series in an episode called The Fires of Pompeii opposite David Tennant and Catherine Tate and also played John Frobisher in Doctor Who spin-off, Torchwood. He’s currently filming a new BBC One “contemporary take” on the…
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Ofcom refuses to grant BT access to Sky Sports
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BT’s YouView customers are unlikely to gain access to Sky Sports 1 & 2 for the foreseeable future after Ofcom refused to grant BT an interim order awarding it access to the channels. BT has asked the regulator to investigate Sky for “an abuse of dominance” after the two companies failed to agree a carriage…
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Inbetweeners sequel “DEFINITELY happening”
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A sequel to Film 4’s box office hit The Inbetweeners is heading into production, ready to hit cinemas next August. The 2011 big screen follow-up to Channel 4’s sitcom took more than £57m at the box office, making it one of the UK’s most successful comedies of all time. Posting on Facebook, the producers had…