BBC Four
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TV: best comedy...actually get quite moving - which is a lot more than you might expect from a movie about a giant man-eating newt. best drama PART of BBC Four's series of dramas about British female icons, this bio-pic about 30s starlet Gracie Fields stars... In this article: Jane Horrocks, Gracie Fields, Gavin & Stacey, God, BBC Four, BBC One Wales, Cancer, Fix You, and St Martin's College |
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Daily Mail | 1 day ago
Were Margot Fonteyn and Nureyev really lovers? A riveting TV drama brings ballet's most passionate pairing back to life
...National Ballet. Stellar performance: Anne-Marie Duff and Michel Huisman play Margot Fonteyn and Rudi Nureyev in Margot on BBC Four 'Actually, I love it when people ask if there were doubles - because it shows we've done a pretty good...
In this article: Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Anne-Marie Duff, The Virgin Queen, Paris, and Swan Lake
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Telegraph.co.uk - Books | 2 days ago
Enid BBC Four review
John Preston reviews Helena Bonham-Carter in BBC Four's biopic of children's author Enid Blyton. Published: 6:21PM GMT 20 Nov 2009 Enid (Monday, BBC Four), a dramatised biography of Enid Blyton starring Helena Bonham Carter. Having...
In this article: Enid Blyton and Helena Bonham-Carter
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Wales Online | 3 days ago
TV: Living with Gracie Fields
...rose to fame in the 1930s and went on to become the highest paid film actress in the world. The new TV drama Gracie! is part of BBC Four's series of dramas about British female icons and written by Horrocks's real-life partner Nick...
In this article: Gracie Fields, Jane Horrocks, Monty Banks, Michael Sheen, Little Voice, Lancashire, World War Two, and Cervical cancer
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The Stranger - Line Out | 5 days ago
Prog Rock Britannia
Posted by Christopher DeLaurenti on Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:45 AM Yesterday I stumbled upon a rather good BBC Four documentary about British progressive rock on Vimeo. Watch or grab it before it's gone. Aside from the groups most everyone...
In this article: Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman, Vimeo, Concerto for Group and Orchestra, King Crimson, and Marillion
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Telegraph.co.uk - Politics | 5 days ago
Unlike some BBC channels Jeremy Hunt is worth watching. . .
...dozens of BBC executives who earn more than the Prime Minister to justify not only their salaries, but also the cost of BBC Three and BBC Four, channels that too few people watch. Now, this could be the kiss of death, but I'd say Hunt is a...
In this article: Jeremy Hunt, Enid Blyton, BBC, Labour, Cinderella, David Cameron, Ben Bradshaw, Britain, and BBC Three
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BBC News | 6 days ago
Feminist icon?
...and William Shakespeare. The writer is now being brought to the small screen courtesy of actress Helena Bonham Carter in a BBC Four biopic simply titled Enid. So why was Bonham Carter attracted to a low-budget, tightly-scheduled drama...
In this article: Enid Blyton, Helena Bonham Carter, Ramona Marquez, World War II, William Shakespeare, Harry Potter, and Jane Austen
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Times Online | 6 days ago
Virgin Media hits pause button on sale of channels
...the two together would help Virgin Media to generate more cash; otherwise, the stake in UKTV had been expected to be sold in parts to the BBC and Channel 4, both of which lack the resources for a highly priced bid. Virgin Media had...
In this article: Virgin Media, UKTV, Channel 4, Viacom, Time Warner, Joint venture, Dave, Bravo, BBC 4, and Trouble
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Independent.co.uk - UK | 6 days ago
Tories target newest BBC channels for spending cuts
...also raised doubts over the viability of licence-fee cash going towards TV channels with low viewing figures, including BBC Three and BBC Four, as well as radio stations such as 6 Music and Radio 7. He said it was not for politicians to order...
In this article: BBC Three, Sky News, BBC, 6 Music, and Labour
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BBC News | 7 days ago
Enid Blyton considered too small beer for BBC
...corporation eventually decided her material was fit for broadcast and she appeared on Woman's Hour in 1963. A new drama telling the life story of the author, starring Helena Bonham Carter, is to be broadcast on BBC Four at 2100 GMT on Monday.
In this article: Enid Blyton, BBC, Helena Bonham Carter, and Famous Five
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | November 11, 2009
BBC enters bedroom to portray the 'dreadful' Enid Blyton
...to see in the bedroom, the pyjamas," says Sally Woodward Gentle, the executive producer, breathlessly. "It creates an intimacy that BBC Four is very good at." Bonham Carter admits that the programme pulls no punches in its portrayal of...
In this article: Enid Blyton, Helena Bonham Carter, BBC, and Famous Five
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BBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital television (Freeview, IPTV, satellite and cable) viewers in the UK. The part successor (with CBeebies) to BBC Knowledge, it launched on 2 March 2002.
It shows a wide variety of programmes including drama, documentaries, music, international film, comedy and current affairs ... an alternative to programmes on the mainstream TV channels.
BBC Four has an annual budget of £67m (£49.8m on content, £2m distribution, £15.2 infrastructure) which is only 4.7% of that of BBC One (but 1.8% of the audience) and consequentially has a schedule dominated by repeats.
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