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Freesat announces new catch-up TV service
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Freesat has unveiled the next generation of its subscription free satellite TV service. New Freesat boxes will include a backwards EPG plus catch-up content from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. iPlayer and ITV Player will be available at launch with 4oD and Demand Five promised by Christmas. Viewers will also have access…
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How Sky and Virgin Media responded to the launch of YouView
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How have the UK’s pay TV giants responded to the launch the free TV & catch-up service?
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That’s My Boy – clip
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Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg play father and son in That’s My Boy. Teenage Donny Berger meets the girl of his dreams. Only trouble is she’s his smoking hot teacher, Mary McGarricle and this is one schoolboy crush that goes a little too far. Ms. McGarricle is only too happy to add a few lessons…
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Anna Karenina
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Tom Stoppard and Joe Wright’s adaptation of Tolstoy’s epic novel arrives in cinemas this week.
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Foyles to host HJ Lim
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London bookstore Foyles is hosting HJ Lim later this month for a one-off event at which the Korean pianist will introduce her Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas. Few classical artists launch their recording careers as audaciously as Lim. On signing exclusively to EMI Classics at the age of 25, she immediately set out to record a…
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BBC denies ‘Matt Smith quits Doctor Who’ story
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The BBC has tonight denied reports that Matt Smith has quit Doctor Who. Saturday’s Daily Mirror claims ‘Matt calls time on Time Lord’. The paper goes on sale just hours before Smith returns to BBC One to take on an army of Daleks. However on Twitter members of the BBC comms team denied the story,…