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  • Appeal launched for missing Doctor Who “audio treasures”

    Appeal launched for missing Doctor Who “audio treasures”

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    AudioGO, the successors to the BBC Audio label and publishers of Doctor Who audio titles, is seeking any audio treasures fans of the series might have “squirrelled away”. The company are keen to hear from anyone who has off-air recordings of Doctor Who-related items from BBC TV and radio programmes, particularly those recorded in the…

  • Mock The Week returns in June

    Mock The Week returns in June

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    Mock The Week returns with a brand new series on Thursday 14 June. Joining regulars Dara O’Briain, Andy Parsons, Hugh Dennis and Chris Addison in the first show are guests Micky Flanagan, Nathan Caton and Greg Davies. Other performers due to feature include Milton Jones, Carl Donnelly, Zoe Lyons, Gary Delaney, Miles Jupp, Ava Vidal,…

  • BBC One HD launch date confirmed

    BBC One HD launch date confirmed

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    The High Definition version of BBC HD will launch next week (Wednesday 3 November) across all UK digital platforms with a mixture of native HD and upscaled content. The BBC say the channel will launch at 7PM “with a series of programmes made in true HD” including The One Show, Wallace And Gromit’s World Of…

  • BBC One goes HD

    BBC One goes HD

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    The BBC today announced that a new, simulcast high definition (HD) version of BBC One will launch on Freesat, Freeview, Sky and Virgin Media later this year. The existing BBC HD channel will continue to broadcast a selection of content from other BBC channels and will have its hours extended to 12 hours a day.

  • Palin revisits Eighty Days

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    Acclaimed travelogue presenter Michael Palin is to return to the scene of one of the best-remembered sequences of all his travel adventures: the dhow journey from Dubai to Bombay which feature in Around The World In Eighty Days.

  • New Faces Check In At Hotel Babylon

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    There are some new faces at Hotel Babylon when the hotel-based drama returns to our screens next week. Joining the team after Charlie’s (Max Beesley) promotion to General Manager are his deputy Jack Harrison (Lee Williams) and Head of PR Emily James (Alexandra Moen). Charlie’s determined to make his mark but the transition from one…