We Are Lady Parts is a comedy following the members of a all girl Muslim punk band in London. Channel 4 Beth Johnson, University of Leeds What makes a TV show British? Former media minister John Whittingdale had some ideas when he recently announced government plans to require UK public service broadcasters to produce “distinctly British” programmes. Speaking at the …
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Launching a new broadcast news network is fraught with difficulty. Kirsty O’Connor/PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo Matt Walsh, Cardiff University Launch night on the UK’s latest broadcast news network, GB News, was a rough night to be a sound operator. The much-trailed channel went on-air at 8pm on Sunday June 13 with a mission statement delivered by its company …
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Still fit for purpose? seeshooteatrepeat via Shutterstock Jamie Medhurst, Aberystwyth University The future of UK public broadcasting is in play. On November 10 the culture minister Oliver Dowden announced that he was establishing a panel to advise his department as part of the government’s strategic review of public service broadcasting. Ominously he wrote, in an article in The Daily Telegraph …
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