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BFI - HERITAGE 22
02 Jan. 2024 The BFI new major digitisation project called Heritage 2022 is part of BFI Replay free-to-access digital archive being made exclusively available in UK public lending libraries. |
BRIAN GODDING 1945-2023
05 Dec.2023 A guitarist with a long and remarkable career in music, Brian excelled in improvisation. Self-taught, he performed in genres as diverse as rock, jazz, folk, and dance. |
MEDIA NATIONS 2023
03 Aug. 2023 Media Nations 2023 finds that the proportion of viewers who tune in to traditional broadcast TV each week has seen the sharpest ever annual fall – from 83% in 2021 to 79% in 2022. |
ARCHIVE TELEVISION?
09 June 2023 As the television industry adapts to an era of rapid change, a remarkable opportunity is opening up for archive TV to be seen and enjoyed by a wider audience than ever before. |
CHANNEL 4 ARCHIVE
14 April 2023 When Channel 4 hit British television screens, it was a truly ground breaking enterprise. The brief was to serve audiences that had felt neglected by the BBC-ITV duopoly. |
JAZZ SCREENING
12 Mar. 2023 Cafe OTO, in association with the BFI, presents a day-long immersion in another era: We bring together four extremely rare programmes, scarcely seen at the time and never repeated. |
MAX MILLER
20 Nov. 2022 The first entertainment commission made for Channel 4 was a televised version of John Bardon's successful stage show about the legendary music hall comedian Max Miler. |
JAZZ NEWS
04 Nov. 2022 Neil Anthony, one of the original producers of the "Jazz on Four" strand, is intending to re-release some of these shows, made during the midst of the 1980s jazz revival. |
THE BIG CHANNEL 4-0
27 Oct. 2022 Neil Anthony was in at the start of the UK’s first new television channel for 18 years and recalls the heady and hectic times of producing new programmes. (Best of British, Nov.22) |
MONOLOGUES
08 July 2022 Looking at an early Channel 4 comedy that united comic artists from three generations of performers, and is now seeking support for being rescued from TV archives. |
TOP C'S TRADEMARK
24 June 2022 Having been so popular and memorable, it seemed an obvious step to build and develop the brand and part of that process would be applying for trademark registration. |
Bright Thoughts Postbag |
Since the relaunch of Bright Thoughts we continue to receive a steady stream of requests and feedback regarding our earlier shows and especially asking for remakes to be done as well as remastering of some of the originals.
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