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This listing is not rated yet.   Rate it!  |  Report it! Automated Daydream http://automated-daydream.blogspot.com/ A continuously updated repository for the best writing about television and the media from around the world; includes all the latest news, opinions and reviews about life on the small screen. Category: Blog Directory » Arts Blogs » Television Hits: 2 Date added: 2008-03-18 00:34:58 Alexa traffic rank: 8,622,891 Site average load time: 1.718 Second(s) Fast -  Faster than 49% of websites

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The last human being alive
Weekend's TV reviewed: Ray Mears Goes Walkabout; Greek; The Inspector Lynley MysteriesRay Mears Goes Walkabout begins with a wonderfully ludicrous title sequence, in which honeyed shots of the presenter eating bits of bark and setting fire to twigs are decorated with printed imperatives, fading... Read more...
Published 3 months ago

Censor sensibility
Julie Walters, who plays Mary Whitehouse this week on BBC2, tells Michael Deacon that there was more to the campaigner than angry rants...We can never know what Mary Whitehouse would have made of the news that Julie Walters is to play her in a film of her life. But we can take a reasonable guess.... Read more...
Published 4 months ago

British TV mogul Simon Fuller is the real winner of American Idol
Standing beside a swimming pool overlooking the Los Angeles skyline, the British TV mogul Simon Fuller congratulated the latest American Idol at a private party on Wednesday night â€" but the real winner was undoubtedly Mr Fuller who, for seven years, has dominated America's TV ratings and made... Read more...
Published 4 months ago

TV starlet ain't half hot mum
The Australian Defence Department is investigating allegations that television celebrity Tania Zaetta had sex with special forces soldiers during a recent tour of war-ravaged Afghanistan. The high-level document says that Zaetta had relations with troops at the Australian base in Tarin Kowt, the... Read more...
Published 4 months ago

The Street gets third BBC series
A third series of Jimmy McGovern's award-winning drama The Street has been commissioned by BBC Fiction boss Jane Tranter. The new series will air on BBC1 in 2009 and further explore the "darker side of human nature", according to the corporation.Made by ITV Productions, McGovern will once again... Read more...
Published 4 months ago

Monty Don recovers from stroke
The television presenter and gardening writer Monty Don is stepping down from Gardeners' World after suffering a minor stroke, the BBC said yesterday. The 52-year-old has been absent from the screen for the past six weeks following the stroke and now intends to take "gardening leave" over the... Read more...
Published 4 months ago

ITV's Fincham wants more of The Fixer
The new ITV director of television, Peter Fincham, has made his first commissioning decision since starting his job - ordering another series of ITV1 drama The Fixer. Fincham has given the thumbs-up to a second run of the drama, which stars Party Animals actor Andrew Buchan, Tamzin Outhwaite... Read more...
Published 4 months ago

Sir Trevor McDonald may quit News at Ten
Talks are taking place between ITV News and Sir Trevor McDonald over him stepping down from presenting News at Ten at the end of the year. Sources familiar with the situation said Sir Trevor was looking to leave the relaunched ITV bulletin on a high after the US presidential election, which takes... Read more...
Published 4 months ago

Holding tight, letting it go
Last night's TV reviewed: Hold Me Tight Let Me Go; 13 Kids and Wanting More; Hidden Lives: Wedding Addicts; Midnight ManThe Mulberry Bush school in Oxfordshire is a boarding school where children are sent when other institutions have given up hope of being able to contain them or understand their... Read more...
Published 4 months ago

BBC mix-up over verdict in Nisah Patel-Nasri murder trial
The BBC has landed itself in hot water for another on-air gaffe today after the BBC News channel mistakenly announced that a verdict had been reached in the trial of the men accused of murdering special constable Nisah Patel-Nasri. Just after 11am today, the BBC News channel broadcast what it... Read more...
Published 4 months ago

CBBC shows set to get kids wriggling and voting
Digital channel CBBC is to make a 13-part food series called Gastronuts that will encourage children to stew worms, catch farts in jars and bake toenail cakes. Fronted by Stefan Gates, the presenter of BBC2's Cooking in the Danger Zone, the series aims to educate children about the way food is... Read more...
Published 4 months ago

Whishaw to star in BBC thriller
The BBC is to broadcast a drama from Hawking writer Peter Moffat, starring Ben Whishaw as a young man imprisoned for murder despite protesting his innnocence. The five-part drama, called Criminal Justice and due to be shown on BBC1, features Whishaw, star of the recent film Perfume, as Ben... Read more...
Published 4 months ago