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On-demand TV is hit with Virgin viewers
From Financial Times. Posted September 26 2008, 1.22pm
Television audiences are rapidly adopting on-demand technology as it moves from the PC to the living room, according to figures released by Virgin Media (more)

On-demand TV is hit with viewers
From Financial Times. Posted September 26 2008, 3.00am
Television audiences are rapidly adopting on-demand technology as it moves from the PC to the living room, according to figures released by Virgin Media today. More... (more)

Living's 'Lipstick' draws just 200,000
From Digital Spy. Posted September 23 2008, 12.45pm
Living's new US acquisition Lipstick Jungle makes a slow start in the ratings. (more)

Levi's to premiere European ad campaign online
From Media Guardian. Posted September 15 2008, 6.38am
Levi's 'living life unbuttoned' global TV campaign, in which attractive young people take off their jeans, is to get an online debut. By Mark Sweney (more)

BSkyB shelves plans for paid Freeview launch
From Financial Times. Posted September 12 2008, 3.00am
At the end of one of the wettest summers in living memory, British Sky Broadcastingis to pack up its Picnic. The satellite broadcaster has shelved plans to launch... (more)

Boy George to feature in Living TV fly-on-the-wall show
From Media Guardian. Posted September 4 2008, 6.18am
Living TV is to go behind the scenes of Boy George's life for the first time as part of its LivingWith ... strand. By Tara Conlan (more)

Glossy launch for Candace Bushnell's Lipstick Jungle on Living TV
From Media Guardian. Posted August 29 2008, 1.59pm
Virgin Media TV is promote Candace Bushnell's new show with a campaign including selling 'Lipstick lattés' in coffee shops. By Mark Sweney (more)

James Whale and Ken Livingstone join LBC
From Press Gazette. Posted July 30 2008, 12.00am
James Whale, the veteran radio presenter who was sacked from TalkSport in the run-up to the London mayoral election, has been signed by London radio station LBC. (more)

Living obituaries for journalists?
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 23 2008, 2.44pm
The Columbia Journalism Review is asking for contributions to its Parting Thoughts series - a chance for journalists on their way out of the business to share their thoughts on why and what next for the industry. In one 'letter' in the series, Jim Spencer, who was 'involuntarily separated' from the Denver Post, recalls his reaction [...] (more)

Government to unveil Olympic health push backed by ad and TV industries
From Media Guardian. Posted July 23 2008, 9.28am
The government is to outline details of a multimillion-pound healthy living campaign supported by a coalition of advertisers, media companies, health charities and community groups. By Mark Sweney (more)

Goody signs up for 'Living With...' series
From Digital Spy. Posted July 11 2008, 4.04pm
Jade Goody will be the subject of a new reality series on digital-only channel Living. (more)

'Apprentice' Raef to star on 'Underdog'
From Digital Spy. Posted July 11 2008, 11.54am
Apprentice contestant Raef Bjayou will compete in Living's reality series The Underdog Show. (more)

Cable girl: Lucy Mangan on Living Lohan
From Media Guardian. Posted July 7 2008, 11.55pm
Lucy Mangan on Living Lohan (more)

Living confirms 'Underdog' series two
From Digital Spy. Posted July 7 2008, 12.36pm
Living confirms it will be showing the second series of The Underdog Show. (more)

Ken Livingstone bounces back on radio
From The Independent. Posted June 30 2008, 12.00am
Ken Livingstone admitted losing the mayoralty of London was like a "bereavement" yesterday, as he prepared to start his new job – as a radio talk-show host. (more)

Teaching Ken Livingstone a lesson when it comes to kids' education
From Press Gazette. Posted June 26 2008, 12.00am
?Kevin Quinn, editor of the Southwark News, recounts the origins of a newspaper campaign that helped secure a new secondary school for fed-up youngsters living in east London (more)

Business gazetteer
From The Scotsman. Posted June 10 2008, 12.00am
A PRIME parking space is often seen as one of the perks of being a top executive … but not at BSkyB's bases in Dunfermline and Livingston. (more)

Ken Livingstone documentary cleared by Ofcom
From Press Gazette. Posted June 9 2008, 12.00am
A Channel 4 investigation examining Ken Livingstone's eight-year tenure as London mayor has been cleared by the broadcasting watchdog. (more)

Livingstone joins LBC
From Radio Today. Posted May 20 2008, 10.12am
LBC 97.3 has signed Ken Livingstone, the former Mayor of London, to present his own afternoon phone-in show. (more)

Living TV plans Jade Goody return?
From Digital Spy. Posted May 20 2008, 9.36am
Living TV is planning new projects for Big Brother star Jade Goody, say reports. (more)

Ken Livingstone to host LBC 97.3 radio talkshow
From Media Guardian. Posted May 20 2008, 9.30am
Former London mayor Ken Livingstone is to present his own show on talk radio station LBC 97.3. By John Plunkett (more)

Kelly Brook joins Living as judge on Dirty Dancing-inspired reality show
From Media Guardian. Posted May 14 2008, 3.24pm
Former Big Breakfast presenter Kelly Brook has been signed up by digital channel Living to become a judge on its Dirty Dancing inspired reality series. By Leigh Holmwood (more)

BBC London uses YouTube for mayoral questions
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted April 22 2008, 2.35pm
Another news organisation getting in on the online act for next month's London mayoral elections is the BBC with their BBC London election channel on YouTube. London residents were asked to post video questions to candidates Boris Johnson, Brian Paddick and Ken Livingstone (not sure why the other parties aren't included). A selection of these will [...] (more)

Polish TV channel to show Big Brother 3 featuring Jade Goody to teach English
From Media Guardian. Posted April 11 2008, 2.01pm
A Polish TV channel is airing old series of Channel 4's Big Brother to help viewers learn English as a 'living language'. By Hilary Davies and Leigh Holmwood (more)

Living to air 'Make Me A Supermodel US'
From Digital Spy. Posted April 10 2008, 1.40pm
Living is bringing the US version of Make Me A Supermodel to Britain. (more)

Ian Livingston needs all the flair of his teacher at Dixons
From The Times. Posted April 9 2008, 12.00am
Haven’t Stanley’s boys done well? Eight years ago Ian Livingston, then the youthful finance director of Stanley Kalms’s Dixons group, hired fresh-faced Jeremy Darroch as his assitant. Yesterday Mr Livingston was appointed chief executive of BT where one of his toughest competitors will be BSkyB, whose newly installed chief executive is the same Jeremy Darroch. (more)

Video: Who will win 'Next Top Model'?
From Digital Spy. Posted April 7 2008, 11.15am
Living launches its campaign to find Britain's Next Top Model. (more)

Iran?s TV adds entertainment to propaganda
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 6 2008, 12.02pm
An Iranian teacher living in the US has written an in interesting article for the San Francisco Chronicle detailing the changes that have been made to Iranian State TV programming in an attempt to lure viewers aways from the satellite stations beaming into the country from Iranian dissident groups. Elham Gheytanchi says there are more than [...] (more)

Video: Models get on their marks
From Media Guardian. Posted April 4 2008, 2.20pm
A trailer for season 4 of Britain's Next Top Model on Living TV in which the hopefuls race each other on the catwalk (more)

Living picks up 'Grey's Anatomy' spinoff
From Digital Spy. Posted March 27 2008, 9.20am
Grey's spinoff Private Practice will air on Living from the summer. (more)

Living bags Grey's Anatomy spin-off Private Practice
From Media Guardian. Posted March 27 2008, 7.19am
The Living channel has acquired exclusive UK rights to US medical drama Private Practice, the spin-off from hit ABC series Grey's Anatomy. By Leigh Holmwood (more)

Sport on TV: Rohit teaches Ishwar a lesson in the school of hard knocks
From The Independent. Posted March 23 2008, 12.00am
After his outburst at referee Mike Riley in midweek, Radio Five Live described Ashley Cole as "divorced from reality" (as opposed to divorced from Cheryl). He is living up to the image of Premier League players as spoilt brats whose salaries somehow put them beyond the law as well as beyond the pale. It's a foul reflection of our culture. You can only hope that the kids watching don't copy him. It's just not cricket. (more)

Official cost of living figures are undervalued
From Daily Telegraph. Posted March 20 2008, 12.01am
The prices of essential household goods and bills are rising at double the rate they were six months ago, according to analysis for The Daily Telegraph. (more)

New ghost series on the way to Living
From Digital Spy. Posted March 6 2008, 12.52pm
Living will attempt to rid people of their unwanted ghosts in Living with the Dead. (more)

Livingstone unveils road safety advert
From Media Guardian. Posted March 5 2008, 4.27pm
London mayor Ken Livingstone has unveiled the first in a series of TV ad campaigns that aim to cut accidents on the capital's roads. By Mark Sweney (more)

Livingstone aide quits after Evening Standard investigation
From Press Gazette. Posted March 5 2008, 12.00am
One of London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s closest advisors has quit following a three-month investigation by the London Evening Standard in which the paper has made a string of allegations of financial impropriety. (more)

Virgin review may lead to sale of channels
From Financial Times. Posted March 3 2008, 2.00am
Virgin Media is believed to be reviewing Living TV, Bravo, Sit Up and its half-share of UKTV, setting the stage for the UK's largest auction of channels since the... (more)

Virgin reviews channels
From Financial Times. Posted March 2 2008, 9.25pm
Virgin Media is believed to be reviewing Living TV, Bravo, Sit Up and its half-share of UKTV, setting the stage for an auction of channels (more)

Living confirms new 'Top Model' series
From Digital Spy. Posted January 31 2008, 12.44pm
Living confirms there will be a fourth series of Britain's Next Top Model. (more)

Bright defends Livingstone doc after ‘hatchet job’ claim
From Press Gazette. Posted January 29 2008, 12.00am
New Statesman political editor Martin Bright has called for official watchdogs to take action against Ken Livingstone, following his highly critical Channel 4 Dispatches investigation into the office of the mayor of London. (more)

Smitty’s living the high life
From The Independent. Posted January 28 2008, 12.00am
When Mike Smith and his girlfriend Sarah Greene, television presenters both, were seriously injured after the helicopter he was piloting crashed in a Gloucestershire field in 1988, the story was big, big news. (more)

Five complaints over Channel 4's Ken claims
From Media Guardian. Posted January 22 2008, 4.20pm
Five people have complained to Ofcom over Channel 4's Dispatches programme about the mayor of London - but Ken Livingstone is not among them. By Stephen Brook (more)

Livingstone claims C4 Dispatches documentary was "hatchet job"
From Press Gazette. Posted January 22 2008, 12.00am
London Mayor Ken Livingstone claims he was the victim of a "hatchet job" by a Channel 4 documentary aired last night (more)

Livingstone: C4 Dispatches was a 'hatchet job'
From Press Gazette. Posted January 22 2008, 12.00am
London Mayor Ken Livingstone claims he was the victim of a "hatchet job" by a Channel 4 documentary aired last night (more)

Livingstone: Channel 4 Dispatches was a 'hatchet job'
From Press Gazette. Posted January 22 2008, 12.00am
London Mayor Ken Livingstone claims he was the victim of a "hatchet job" by a Channel 4 documentary aired last night (more)

Livingstone hits back at Channel 4 film-maker
From Media Guardian. Posted January 21 2008, 6.15pm
London mayor Ken Livingstone has urged Channel 4 to drop its Dispatches investigation into his administration. By Stephen Brook (more)

Livingstone scorns documentary 'smear'
From Media Guardian. Posted January 21 2008, 12.14pm
London's mayor, Ken Livingstone, today claimed he had been the victim of a "hatchet job" by a Channel 4 documentary to be aired tonight. (more)

C4 documentary puts Livingstone on rack
From Media Guardian. Posted January 13 2008, 12.00am
Ken Livingstone was under pressure last night to answer a series of incendiary claims that put the Mayor of London's personal and public life under intense scrutiny (more)

Young, SQUA.RE and Stylish
From Press Release, via webitpr. Posted January 7 2008, 2.30pm
New and exclusive Internet TV channel launches Beta test today January 7th, 2008: Square Media Ltd, a new London based media company, today announces the Beta launch of SQUA.RE, a community-generated TV, by invitation only, targeted at the 18-35 year olds interested in Luxury. The site features four main Internet TV channels focusing on Nightlife, Style, High Living and Luxury Travel, SQUA.RE also its gives members the ability to create their own personal TV channel,... (more)

Newsreaders reunited in documentary
From Media Guardian. Posted January 3 2008, 7.12am
The former ITN newsreader who ended up living rough has been interviewed by his former colleague Carol Barnes for an ITV1 documentary. By Leigh Holmwood (more)

Homeless newsreader in documentary
From Media Guardian. Posted January 3 2008, 7.12am
The former ITN newsreader who ended up living rough has been interviewed by his former colleague Carol Barnes for an ITV1 documentary. By Leigh Holmwood (more)

Living with sheep and satellite TV
From Financial Times. Posted December 29 2007, 2.00am
For more than 4,000 years the people of Cappadocia, central Turkey, have lived in caves. The soft volcanic tufa was first excavated by the Hattis, who made homes in... (more)

Former BBC & ITN Newsreader Living on Streets
From Merry Media. Posted December 15 2007, 12.40am
Former BBC, Sky News, CNBC and ITN newsreader Ed Mitchell is sleeping on the streets after spending using credit cards spiralled out of control resulting in debts of £250,000. . (more)

Asylum awards presented by London Mayor Ken Livingstone
From Hold the Front Page. Posted December 14 2007, 12.00am
Plus: Women in Journalism confidence seminar - and more regional press news in brief (more)

Livingstone reignites feud with Standard
From Media Guardian. Posted December 13 2007, 5.13pm
London mayor Ken Livingstone has demanded that the Evening Standard sack reporter Andrew Gilligan. By Stephen Brook (more)

Smriti Irani producing comedy for ZEE TV
From Biz Asia. Posted December 8 2007, 10.29am
Smriti Irani is surely branching out. After moving away from STAR's 'Kyunki Saans Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi', the actress-producer has been busy with work on other channels including Sony Entertainment Television Asia, 9X and NDTV Imagine. Moreover, earlier this week, Smriti revealed that she was to make her debut in ZEE TV's popular soap 'Teen Bahuraniyaan'. Now, sources at Mumbai Mirror have reported that Smriti is set to make her first comedy show for the number two channel. The programme has been tentatively titled 'Bai Bole Toh Gangubai'. It will revolve around Gangubai’s life and how she tries to solve the problems of various families living in the society. The half hour weekend primetime show is likely to go on air in December-end (in India) and the shooting will begin in the next two weeks. Says a source, "The show will revolve around the life of a maid and how she plays an important role in our day to day lives; how she solves small problems of the various families in the society and how, her absence affects our daily lives. The show has largely been inspired by Bawarchi and Hero No 1. It will have different flavors of emotions that make people laugh and cry. It is a very relatable family-oriented story. Gangubai will be a typical Maharashtrian wearing nauvari sari in the show." Related links: Smriti Irani enters ZEE TV 'Bahuraaniyan' soap Sony TV rubbishes 'Viruddh' axe rumours Ekta soap to replace Smriti's 'Viruddh'? New Balaji soap comes early on Sony TV Balaji Telefilms to produce three soaps for Sony Sony's latest weapon 'Viruddh' in ratings war Smriti Z Irani "quits" STAR Plus' 'Kyunki Saans...' (more)

Elisabeth Mahoney on Sunday Feature - Liquid Living
From Media Guardian. Posted December 3 2007, 7.03am
Elisabeth Mahoneyon Sunday Feature - Liquid Living (more)

No escape for Sky: The curse of The Prisoner
From The Independent. Posted September 25 2007, 12.30pm
"I am not a number, I am a free man": Patrick McGoohan's famous cri de coeur from the Sixties television drama The Prisoner possibly affords the 79-year-old actor a bitter chuckle these days. I have no idea how McGoohan, living in retirement in Los Angeles, privately views his career since he last uttered the line, but I hope it's with a sense of irony, because for millions of TV viewers across the globe McGoohan will forever be a number. Number Six, of course. The American-born Irish actor has been imprisoned by the role as subtly and as surely as his renegade government agent was held captive in The Village. (more)

Live gameshow to launch on ZEE Music
From Biz Asia. Posted August 31 2007, 9.18pm
ZEE Music will be launching its first live weekly gameshow. The programme titled 'Quiz Master' will be a fun filled game of luck and intelligence that involves the entire family. Participating in the show is stated to be simple and if the six questions are correctly answered, one can win the jackpot amount of £250. A participant will have to answer five questions correctly to be eligible for the sixth question for jackpot. 'Quiz Master' will broadcast live from its Play TV channel studios in India. As well as ZEE Music UK, 'Quiz Master' will also simulcast on Play TV. The show introduces a unique concept of using a Randomizer to select the live caller. Viewers will have a play-along round where in if the caller is unable to answer the question the same is open for viewers to answer and a cash prize at the comfort of their living room. Speaking on the launch of Quizmaster, Play TV MD Amit Goenka said, "Play TV has a loyal set of young viewers who enjoy this new genre of entertainment where interactivity is an integral part of television viewing. Quizmaster is a show that will appeal to viewers across age groups. It is a family activity that everyone can sit together, watch and participate in." 'Quiz Master' will air every week at 21:00 from Saturday 8th September. (more)

Rubbish on TV
From Brand Republic. Posted August 30 2007, 2.33pm
Mischief PR is to promote Channel 4 reality TV show Dumped, where 11 mem­bers of the public will spend five days living on a rubbish tip. (more)

Channel 4's 'rubbish' reality to air
From Media Guardian. Posted August 29 2007, 1.00am
Think reality TV is rubbish? From Sunday, Channel 4's Dumped will see contestants living on an actual rubbish tip. By Leigh Holmwood. (more)

Acorah pleased with new Living show
From Digital Spy. Posted August 27 2007, 10.22pm
Derek Acorah is thrilled by the success of his new show Paranormal Egypt. (more)

Connie Huq agent says sorry to BBC
From Media Guardian. Posted August 15 2007, 1.00am
10.45am: Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq's agent has apologised to the BBC after she joined London mayor Ken Livingstone at a 'political' event. By Leigh Holmwood. (more)

Online portal launches for Indian TV channels
From Biz Asia. Posted August 3 2007, 10.15pm
A new online portal has launched offering some of the best TV channels live from India. Narrowstep, the company behind the 'Watch India' website has had huge success in its first month alone receiving 100,000 unique viewers, with over 33,000 coming from the UK alone. Watch India allows Indian expatriates living across the world to access popular Indian programming in TV-like quality over the Internet. This new channel features an assortment of video content powered by Narrowstep’s Internet TV platform, telvOS™. Narrowstep’s state-of-the-art technology allows viewers to enjoy a rich video experience unlike any other found on the Internet. "Internet TV offers the ideal platform for ethnic programming like Watch India. By removing the geographic limitations of traditional broadcasting, Watch India can offer content to large audiences, around the world," said Todd Narwid, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Narrowstep. "Furthermore, the tremendous demand for culture specific programming, provides advertisers with a cost effective medium to reach very specific, targeted audiences." Broadcasters who have made their channels available on Watch India are ZEE Network's ZEE TV, ZEE Cinema and ZEE Sports. Additionally, other premium channels exclusive to Watch India include Times Now News, which features live, breaking-news 24/7, Zoom, the number one music and entertainment channel in India, and Aastha TV, India’s leading spiritual and religious channel. "We have amassed a truly outstanding collection of programming representing the best of Indian TV, and we continue to add even more premium channels, expanding our already phenomenal selection of content," said Watch India Spokesperson, Tripti Singh. "This is the first time Indian TV channels are available live over the Internet, to the Indian diaspora in the UK." "For the millions of people in the Indian community living in the U.K., Watch India offers a way to not only get the latest news, but also stay up to date with culture, entertainment, music and sports — keeping them involved with life back home," added Singh. Watch India is available at watchindia.com. (more)

Take That star pens comedy drama
From Digital Spy. Posted July 23 2007, 9.53pm
Take That star Jason Orange pens a comedy drama about a group of thirty-somethings living in London. (more)

Sharpton Says Don Imus "...Has as Right to Make a Living"
From radio.about.com. Posted July 20 2007, 2.39am
That's a quote as reported by Hollywood.com. In addition, it reports: "Rev. Al Sharpton has made a controversial u-turn...Imus should be allowed to make a return to radio--on the condition... (more)

Plans on for UK launch of new NDTV channel
From Biz Asia. Posted June 18 2007, 9.32am
NDTV is set to unleash the first of three new channels in India next month. 'NDTV Life!' is the working title the channel has been given. It will be India's version to Discovery Travel and Living. The lifestyle channel will broadcast in English, which aims to be aspirational, shall encompass everything an ideal lifestyle channel should possess – travel, leisure, luxury, adventure, partying, cuisine, health and wellness. As per programmes and shows on travel and leisure, the channel promises to bring in stories from across the world, which could be of India’s interest. Besides, the channel will also cover the essence of India through reality shows, and big weddings, and emerging women power. The channel also promises to have fine dining shows on dishes and drinks from across the globe. The presenters, as the channel promises, will not just be pretty faces, but will make way for quirky, funny spontaneous journeys, and discover life along with viewers. According to an insider at NDTV, the new channel will launch in the UK early next year, "Our travel and lifestyle channel, NDTV Life! (that's the working title for the channel) is launching in India in July... Will keep you posted on the date once we've sorted it out internally... The plans are to get the channel to the UK by early next year depending upon how good the platforms are to us..." Extracts from AgencyFAQs Related links: NDTV looking to dislodge STAR Plus from top Confirmed: STAR's Sameer Nair to join NDTV It's official! Top bosses quit STAR India 'KBC' and 'Koffee With Karan' to move to NDTV? UK set up for new NDTV Entertainment channel Dharma Productions buys stake in NDTV channel (more)

Channel 4 buys Warner Bros' Big Bang Theory
From Media Guardian. Posted June 13 2007, 1.00am
11.30am: Channel 4 has bought Big Bang Theory, a US comedy about two 'geeks' living next to a sexy female neighbour. By Ben Dowell. (more)

'Antakshari' host Himani Kapoor in accident
From Biz Asia. Posted June 1 2007, 9.01am
Himani Kapoor, the hostess of ZEE TV's music show 'Antakshari' lost consciousness when a bus hit her parked car. She's fine now after the accident Wednesday afternoon. Reliving the nightmare, Himani told IANS: "I had parked the car on the side of the road... I was asking somebody the way to Kandivali (a Mumbai suburb) when a BEST bus came from the back. While taking a right turn it hit the car from the side I was sitting on. "I fell unconscious for a brief while. By god's grace I'm okay. But my almost-new car suffered damage worth Rs.35,000." The cops have urged Himani to file an FIR against the bus driver, but she refused as she considers it a waste of time. "What's the use? It wasn't done deliberately. And I don't want to waste my time running around suing for damages when I can use that time for more creative things." Article from NowRunning (more)

Livingstone responds to Gilligan's environment claims
From Press Gazette. Posted May 17 2007, 12.08pm
Ken Livingstone has hit back at Evening Standard journalist Andrew Gilligan after a stinging criticism of his environmental policies. (more)

TV ratings: February 14 - multichannel
From Media Guardian. Posted May 15 2007, 1.00am
TV overnights: Ian Hislop's scouting documentary on BBC4 surprisingly drew more viewers than the catwalk models on Living TV. By John Plunkett. (more)

Tamil Tigers TV still active on Intelsat
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 28 2007, 4.09pm
Despite the widely-reported statement by Intelsat that it has switched off National Television of Tamil Eelam from its satellite, we received a report stating that the channel was, in fact, still being seen on the Intelsat12 satellite (45°E) as of 26 April. Update 29 April: D Prabakaran in India says “Since, I am living in India, I checked Indian beam [...] (more)

Country Living feels bloggers' wrath after changing competition rules
From Press Gazette. Posted April 25 2007, 9.51pm
The usually tranquil world of Country Living magazine has been hit by an online furore over its handling of a competition to find a new columnist. (more)

Discovery channel snaps up Abhi-Ash wedding?
From Biz Asia. Posted April 24 2007, 1.55pm
Discovery Network's digital TV channel Travel and Living looks as if it has snapped up the UK TV rights for the much publicised Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai wedding. (more)

Ken Livingstone urges Alan Johnston's release
From Media Guardian. Posted April 24 2007, 1.00am
Ken Livingstone has told an Arab TV station that the kidnap of Alan Johnston was a 'catastrophic miscalculation'. By Jemima Kiss. (more)

Livingstone to make TV appeal for kidnapped reporter
From Press Gazette. Posted April 23 2007, 1.36pm
London Mayor Ken Livingstone is to make a public appeal on Arab TV for information on kidnapped journalist Alan Johnston. (more)

Livingstone makes TV appeal for kidnapped reporter
From Press Gazette. Posted April 23 2007, 1.36pm
The kidnap and capture of journalist Alan Johnston was a 'catastrophic miscalculation', London Mayor Ken Livingstone has told Arab TV viewers. (more)

Ken Livingstone's complaint to PCC rejected
From Media Guardian. Posted April 17 2007, 1.00am
8am: A complaint by Ken Livingstone against the London Evening Standard has been rejected by the press watchdog. By Tara Conlan. (more)

Improving BBC reception Across South & West Dorset
From Merry Media. Posted April 3 2007, 1.14pm
To help viewers across South and West Dorset get the most from their BBC, the Corporation has launched the findings of a comprehensive survey looking at the service received by people living in and around Weymouth and Dorchester.. (more)

Virgin Media Launches New DTT Service
From Merry Media. Posted April 2 2007, 2.00pm
Virgin Media has today launched a digital TV service to consumers living in non-cabled areas - expanding availability of its quadplay of broadband, phone, mobile and TV services beyond its cable franchise network.. (more)

Inside Out: Living With Global Warming
From Merry Media. Posted March 27 2007, 10.37pm
BBC findings suggest best and worst locations to live and people's attitudes to climate change.. (more)

Channel 4 Rubbish Show
From Merry Media. Posted March 8 2007, 1.46am
Channel 4 are to broadcast a documentary reality series which will see 10 people living in a rubbish tip.. (more)

Virgin Media threatens legal action in BSkyB row
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 5 2007, 4.23pm
Virgin Media said today it would pursue legal action against British pay-TV firm BSkyB if a programming carriage row is not resolved in 30 days. Legal remedies sought will include supply of Sky’s basic channels at a reasonable commercial rate and fair payment for BSkyB’s carriage of Virgin Media TV channels, such as Living and Bravo, [...] (more)

New-look TVs fail the screen test
From Media Guardian. Posted February 17 2007, 12.00am
For some, they are the latest 'must-have' living room accessory, but are flat screen sets all they are cracked up to be? Miles Brignall looks at some of the drawbacks. (more)

Living rebrands and ditches pink
From Digital Spy. Posted February 15 2007, 12.22pm
Living TV is ditching its famous pink channel ident in a bid to attract more male viewers. (more)

Community Channel Broadcast Series for Wellcome Trust
From Merry Media. Posted February 14 2007, 5.14pm
Digital TV station Community Channel is to broadcast 'My Illness' (working title), a 5 x 30-minute series of films for the Wellcome Trust that explores the impact of living with chronic conditions such as asthma, bipolar disorder, cystic fibrosis, dibetes and multiple sclerosis.. (more)

Dr Rami Ranger MBE joins Venus TV
From Biz Asia. Posted January 25 2007, 1.43pm
Dr Rami Ranger MBE has joined Venus TV. He will front his own chat show, simply titled 'Lets Talk'. In this show he will talk about the history of successful people living in the UK. Rami has become a role model and a source of inspiration to not only his fellow Asians but also for the British public as a whole. He started as a chef in a fast food chain and quickly progressed to Assistant Manager, Manager and then District Manager. Rami’s achievements are not limited to business alone. He takes an active part in Society and is a Member of many organizations. He is the Chairman of the India Pakistan Friendship Forum UK. Rami has involved myriad of important public figures in this worthy and important initiative to lend credence to the Forum which also aims to improve race relations in Britain. He is also actively involved in the Conservative Party where he is the General Secretary of the British Asian Conservative Link. Rami encourages Asians to become more public and politically spirited and take part in this great country where we live. He is changing the Conservative Party by lobbying hard so that it reflects the make up of modern day British Society. The new series of 'Lets Talk' will go live next month. (more)

Living TV appoints Barham as head of acquisitions
From Brand Republic. Posted January 11 2007, 11.01am
LONDON - Living TV has promoted Amy Barham, previously senior acquisitions executive, to head of acquisitions for Living TV, Living TV 2 and FTN. (more)

Attenborough tops living icon list
From Digital Spy. Posted December 18 2006, 12.20pm
David Attenborough is crowned Britain's greatest living icon on BBC show. (more)

Britain's Top 3 Living Icons
From Merry Media. Posted December 2 2006, 5.18pm
Two legendary pop stars and a TV giant are battling it out to see who will get the public's vote as the nation's greatest Living Icon.. (more)

Introducing the Radio 1 living room tour
From thenoise.co.uk. Posted November 26 2006, 10.31am
The Hunstanton roadshow it ain't. Jo Whiley's Radio 1 show will be broadcasting from stars' living rooms next week.Monday: Lily AllenTuesday: The KooksWednesday: Ordinary BoysThursday: Lost ProphetsBut wait, there's more."The grand finale of Radio 1's Live Lounge Tour [on Friday 1 December] sees Noel Gallagher coming round one lucky listener's house to perform a live set in their living room."My Week: Jo Whiley (The Observer) (more)

Has the prime-time advertisement had its day?
From The Scotsman. Posted November 23 2006, 1.51am
THE personal computer is steadily muscling its way out of the study and into the living room to challenge the traditional domination of the TV set, according to new research. (more)

Jonathan Webb: My Life In Media
From The Independent. Posted November 20 2006, 12.00am
Jonathan Webb, 38, was this month made managing director of Flextech Television, the broadcasting company that owns the LIVINGtv, Bravo and Challenge channels. Webb, who began his career as a marketer at Unilever before entering the television industry, is a big jazz fan who once set up a Soho club called Red Johnny's. He lives in Brighton with his wife Linda and their two children. (more)

Ben Brown: 'I am lucky to be alive'
From The Independent. Posted November 6 2006, 12.00am
Just how many close shaves can a foreign correspondent expect to get away with? The evidence from last month's inquest into the death in Iraq of ITV News correspondent Terry Lloyd threw into stark relief the dangers faced by that special minority of British journalists who make their living by heading off to perilous, faraway places and reporting back on what they have seen. (more)

TV ratings: October 31 - multichannel
From Media Guardian. Posted November 1 2006, 12.00am
TV overnights: Plenty of things were going bump in the night on Halloween multichannel TV, with Living TV's Most Haunted Live and BBC4's The Haunted Airman among the most watched offerings. By Jason Deans. (more)

Sky boost Livingston with 255 new jobs
From The Scotsman. Posted October 25 2006, 12.29am
SATELLITE broadcaster BSkyB is creating a new administrative centre in Livingston, bringing up to 255 new jobs. (more)

Castaway Returns to BBC One
From Merry Media. Posted October 24 2006, 11.31pm
Reality TV series Castaway will be returning to BBC One next year for a second series with contestants living in the sticks of New Zealand.. (more)

Secret Millionaire - New Reality Series
From Merry Media. Posted October 23 2006, 11.57pm
Channel 4 have commissioned a new reality tv series which will see rich contestants living in poorer ways. Secret Millionaire will begin at the end of November.. (more)

Livingstone judgment reveals victory in Standard Nazi jibe row
From Press Gazette. Posted October 19 2006, 10.22am
High Court releases its judgment into Ken Livingstone's appeal against a finding that he brought his office into disrepute. (more)

Radio Netherlands Worldwide and NOS ?living together? in Brussels
From Media Network Weblog. Posted October 13 2006, 9.17am
The editorial teams of Dutch domestic public broadcaster NOS and Radio Netherlands Worldwide are working closer together after the opening of a new Brussels office where both broadcasters share the editorial space and studio. NOS has five full-time staff in Brussels, and Radio Netherlands Worldwide has two. Although the two broadcasters have coooperated closely for the past 10 [...] (more)

Livingstone suspension quashed
From Press Gazette. Posted October 5 2006, 4.29pm
Ken Livingstone's suspension for likening a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard has been quashed. (more)

Emap launch new consumer electronics title
From Press Gazette. Posted September 20 2006, 10.01am
Emap Active are to launch new quarterly magazine Digital Living, aimed at 30 plus men who buy consumer electronics on October 5, including mp3 players, tvs, hi-fis and cameras. (more)

Emap launches new consumer electronics title
From Press Gazette. Posted September 20 2006, 10.01am
Emap Active are to launch new quarterly magazine Digital Living, aimed at 30 plus men who buy consumer electronics on October 5, including mp3 players, tvs, hi-fis and cameras. (more)

New antenna expands free TV in Tahiti
From Media Network Weblog. Posted September 12 2006, 2.42pm
An estimated 170,000 people living on the island of Tahiti and its peninsula can now receive free Tahiti Nui Television (TNTV) programming, thanks to the installation of a new relay antenna on the Taravao plateau. French Polynesia Vice President/Communications Minister Jacqui Drollet inaugurated the new antenna Saturday on Tahiti’s peninsula, allowing an estimated 4,000 additional [...] (more)

Not Going Out - New Series For BBC One
From Merry Media. Posted August 28 2006, 8.55pm
Not Going Out is a brand new BBC One sitcom co-written by Bafta winning comic Lee Mack and Sony Award winning writer and broadcaster Andrew Collins. It about 2 flatmates Lee and Kate (played by Lee Mack and Megan Dodds), who have a problem. Their easy going, comfortable friendship is steadily moving into uncharted waters - a situation complicated by the fact that Lee's best mate, Tim (played by fellow Bafta winner and stand-up, Tim Vine), is Kate's ex-boyfriend. Unburdened by ambition or drive, Lee drifts from one ill-advised job to another, living off the goodwill and generosity of his landlady, Kate, a clean living Californian.. (more)

Allen attacks "banal" Channel 4
From Digital Spy. Posted August 25 2006, 7.20pm
Charles Allen accuses Channel 4 of having no public service remit, comparing the broadcaster to a "25-year-old still living at home". (more)

Try guessing what John Peel's son does for a living
From The Independent. Posted August 21 2006, 12.00am
When the White Stripes have played your sitting-room - when you've seen Nirvana rock the Reading Festival at the age of 11; when your house is filled with more records than can feasibly be counted; when your Dad was the late, great John Peel - you might consider yourself well placed to front a new music radio show. And so it has come to pass that, from Thursday, Tom Ravenscroft, the 26-year-old scion of the Peel dynasty, will lend his refined ear and laconic tongue to SlashMusic, a new show on the fledgling internet radio outlet Channel 4 Radio. (more)

Flextech set for sale if private equity players capture NTL
From The Times. Posted August 18 2006, 12.00am
THE private equity consortium stalking NTL is expected to sell Flextech, the £1 billion broadcaster behind Living TV, it emerged yesterday as the cable group dug in its heels over its sale price.... (more)

Dragon nets fitness chain
From The Times. Posted August 10 2006, 12.00am
DUNCAN BANNATYNE, a judge on the BBC television series Dragons' Den , has won the auction of the Living- Well health and fitness club chain with a bid of about £90 million.... (more)

All the web's a stage as BBC drama goes interactive
From The Independent. Posted July 24 2006, 12.00am
Filming has just begun for a new BBC drama with a difference. Wannabes follows a group of twentysomething would-be writers, pop stars and celebrities living in Brighton. A familiar recipe for a teen audience, perhaps, but this is no Hollyoaks-on-sea. Instead, the producers are trying to create an interactive TV drama for the internet. (more)

BBC Two Autumn Season
From Merry Media. Posted July 20 2006, 3.04pm
A drama about the 2004 Asian Tsunami disaster is one of the main highlights of the BBC Two Autumn season.'Tsunami - The Aftermath' is set in Thailand and will star Tim Roth, Toni Collette, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Okonedo and Hugh Bonneville. Other highlights on BBC Two this Autumn include 2 films about the reality of living with manic depression hosted by Stephen Fry, who suffered from the illness. He will chat with others who have had the illness in 'The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive'.. (more)

Leo Hickman: Is it OK ... to buy an HDTV?
From Media Guardian. Posted July 18 2006, 10.31am
Leo Hickman: Resistance is futile, it seems: we all need to buy, if we haven't done so already, some new kit for our living rooms; either a digital set-top box or a new digital television. (more)

5 New Housemates Arrive in Second House
From Merry Media. Posted July 1 2006, 1.08pm
5 new housemates have moved into the second Big Brother house last night. Aisleyne was in the secret house on her own when one by one the new housemates arrived with her unsure of what was going on. 24 year old Jonathan from Cumbria was the first new housemate, followed by Spiral, a 22 year old rapper from Dublin. 18 year old Jennie originally from Liverpool but living in Crewe was the next in with the fourth housemate being 23 year old gay student from Oldham. 37 year old Jayne is a recruitment consultant from Slough and was the fifth and final housemate.. (more)

TV station for Romanian expats starts broadcasting for US and Canada
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 1 2006, 12.37pm
Starting today, Romanians living abroad will be able to receive news from back home via a new television channel of Impact media group. At first, those living in the United States and Canada will receive Antena International 24×7; it becomes the fourth channel of the Impact group, along Antena 1, Antena 3 and Antena 4. [...] (more)

New commissioning head for Living TV
From Digital Spy. Posted June 23 2006, 3.22am
Clare Hollywood is promoted to head of commissioning at Living TV. (more)

How to get to the heart of Britain's ethnic diversity
From The Independent. Posted June 12 2006, 12.00am
t was 1981 and Coventry was enjoying, or rather enduring, an unaccustomed prominence in the national news agenda. The former boom town was experiencing mass unemployment for the first time in living memory and industrial correspondents and television reporters were queuing up to deliver the obituaries. On a brighter note, local band The Specials were still riding high in the charts. But the racism that they had set out to confront turned nastier than ever when two separate street attacks led to the deaths of a student and a GP. Both were Asian. (more)

Flextech launches broadband on-demand service
From Brand Republic. Posted June 7 2006, 2.06pm
LONDON - Flextech Television is to launch a broadband service giving viewers access to its programming from Living TV and Bravo, such as 'Extreme Makeover' and spy drama 'Alias'. (more)

Burda suspends Living & Gardens magazine
From Press Gazette. Posted June 2 2006, 12.10pm
Burda has suspended Living & Gardens magazine, just four months since the German company launched the title in Britain. (more)

Woolfe brings in old colleagues to Sky One
From Digital Spy. Posted May 25 2006, 11.52pm
Sky One controller Richard Woolfe poaches two former colleagues from Living TV. (more)

Livingstone slams Times over Chavez coverage
From Press Gazette. Posted May 19 2006, 11.22am
London Mayor Ken Livingstone has attacked The Times’s coverage of the visit of Venezuelan president Hugh Chavez to London this week. Referring to reports in The Times on 16 May, Livingstone said: “Far from Chavez’s opponents being repressed, as you suggest, they control the vast majority of the media, including 95 per cent of the country’s 180 newspapers,a nd five out five private TV stations, which pump out anti-Chyavez propaganda around the clock.” In a letter to the paper today, Livingstone said: “You claim that poverty [in Venezuela] has increased when in reality is has decreased, with massive increases in spending on education and health case, in particular.” He said: “That is why, despite an overwhelmingly hostile media, Chavez stand at more than 70 per cent in opinion polls and his supporters have won ten elections over the past seven years, all judged free and fair by international observers.” (more)

Style: Living goes solo
From Brand Republic. Posted May 19 2006, 10.05am
MediaCorp Publishing has launched Style: Living as a quarterly standalone title, and also revealed that the publication will also collaborate with Channel News Asia (CNA) on a weekly PrimeTime Morning segment. Style: Living, previously distributed with Style Weddings, will focus on home design, targeting upmarket home-owners. The CNA segment, meanwhile, will feature stories from the magazine, along with additional interviews and lifestyle content. The new magazine is priced at S$3.50, and available in March, June, September and December. (more)

Gerbil takes starring role in DfES healthy eating ads
From Brand Republic. Posted May 15 2006, 8.05am
LONDON - The Department for Education and Skills has launched a television ad campaign, based on a cartoon by a 13-year-old competition winner, which stars a gerbil desperate to stop living on a diet of chips to promote healthy eating to children. (more)

IPC appoints Garrick as new style director of Livingetc
From Brand Republic. Posted April 28 2006, 11.04am
LONDON - IPC South Bank's modern homes title Livingetc has appointed Karina Garrick as its new style director. (more)

After 48 years of Bing, Bough and the Boat Race, time for a 'Grandstand' finish
From The Independent. Posted April 26 2006, 12.00am
The news that the BBC plans to ditch Grandstand, which first went out on 11 October, 1958, will fill many viewers of a certain age with a sense of gloom. It is like hearing of the imminent death of an old acquaintance. A generation has grown up with Grandstand in its living room, as much a part of Saturday afternoons as tea and toast. The mesmeric chatter of the teleprinter has imparted news of triumph or disaster to a legion of armchair football followers. And as the once mighty flagship hangs briefly before us before slipping into the deep, it is a timely moment to recall its many virtues. (more)

Beijing residents evicted to make way for new CCTV building
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 25 2006, 2.32pm
Dozens of Beijing residents are being intimidated into leaving their homes to make way for state broadcaster China Central Television's 600-million-dollar headquarters, locals said today. A handful of the residents living on the edge of the vast building site in central Beijing's business district were dragged out of their homes early today by armed police and beaten by security guards, witnesses (more)

Vahid Azerbaijan TV channel starts broadcast via Internet
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 11 2006, 2.59pm
Vahid Azerbaijan TV channel (VA TV) has started broadcasting through the Internet from today. At present the TV channel broadcasts one program a week via information site www.azadtribun.net. It will have its own independent Internet site in the future. The goal of VA TV is to inform Azerbaijanis living in different parts of the world and the world community on national problems. The TV channel (more)

Rosencrantz to head up Living TV
From Digital Spy. Posted April 7 2006, 7.39pm
Former ITV entertainment controller Claudia Rosencrantz takes the reins of Living TV. (more)

Rosencrantz takes charge at Living TV
From The Stage. Posted April 6 2006, 4.25pm
Former ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz has been confirmed as the new head of Living TV. (more)

ITV's entertainment controller Rosencrantz quits for Living TV
From Brand Republic. Posted April 6 2006, 11.04am
LONDON – Flextech has poached Claudia Rosencrantz, ITV's entertainment controller, to become director of programmes for its Living TV and Living TV2 channels. (more)

Rosencrantz joins Living TV
From Media Guardian. Posted April 6 2006, 10.40am
Former ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz has been confirmed as the new head of pay-TV entertainment channel Living TV. By Jason Deans. (more)

Five set to launch women's lifestyle channel in August
From Brand Republic. Posted March 24 2006, 9.03am
LONDON - Five looks set to launch a women's lifestyle channel this August, which would see it go up against Living TV, making it the final UK terrestrial broadcaster to expand into the multichannel market. (more)

Rosencrantz tipped to head Living TV
From Digital Spy. Posted March 22 2006, 12.27am
Claudia Rosencrantz emerges as the favourite to head up Living TV. (more)

Rosencrantz in the running for Living TV
From Media Guardian. Posted March 21 2006, 11.49am
11.45am: Former ITV entertainment chief Claudia Rosencrantz is understood to be a serious contender for the top job at Living TV. By Jason Deans. (more)

British journalists' union says BBC Thai must return as protests continue
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 20 2006, 1.34pm
Britain's National Union of Journalists (NUJ) is calling for the immediate reinstatement of the BBC Thai service after a Thai senator reported that people living in Bankok were having to listen to (illegal) pirate radio stations to find out what was going on at the current huge anti-Thaksin protests in the city. The senator, Somkiat Onwimon, said that previously they would have been tuned into (more)

Living TV backs Friday night crime strand with £1m push
From Brand Republic. Posted March 17 2006, 10.03am
LONDON - Living TV is unleashing a £1m ad campaign to push its new Friday night crime schedule featuring two primetime US dramas. (more)

Major ad spend for Living's Friday crime
From Digital Spy. Posted March 17 2006, 12.16am
Living TV is spending £1 million on pushing its new Friday night crime block. (more)

Lithuania: Foreign affairs committee approves satellite TV for emigres
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 15 2006, 1.33pm
The Lithuanian Parliament's foreign affairs committee has given the green light to a satellite TV project that will air both original and secondary programmes for Lithuanians living abroad, particularly in the United States. The channel is to be set up on the basis of LTV2, or the Second Lithuanian Television Channel. (Source: Baltic Times) (more)

Livingstone welcomes new daily newspaper for London
From Press Gazette. Posted March 2 2006, 2.58pm
London Mayor Ken Livingstone has welcomed news that the Capital is to get a new daily newspaper some time this summer. (more)

Livingstone's defence: Blunkett, Profumo, Clinton and Voltaire
From Media Guardian. Posted February 24 2006, 7.15am
Ken Livingstone yesterday referred to political scandals from the past 40 years in an attempt to escape censure for likening a Jewish newspaper reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard. (more)

Coronation Street cleared of racist 'white trash' comment
From Brand Republic. Posted February 21 2006, 11.02am
LONDON – ITV's 'Coronation Street' escaped the wrath of TV regulators despite 502 viewers complaining about a scene where an Asian character suggested living in the UK would be equivalent to living like 'poor white trash'. (more)

Living TV talent show to feature wannabe actresses vying for star status
From Brand Republic. Posted February 17 2006, 9.02am
LONDON - Ten aspiring actresses are set to battle it out for the chance to be a TV star as part of Living TV's latest reality talent show 'The Starlet', which features Faye Dunaway as a judge. (more)

Burda set to launch Living & Gardens into Britain
From Press Gazette. Posted February 9 2006, 12.00am
As new title aims to compete with Inside Out, Hachette relaunches Real Homes in crowded market (more)

Berber TV set to begin broadcasting from Netherlands
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 31 2006, 8.50am
Text of report by Algerian newspaper Liberte website on 31 January Amazigh TV is a private channel set up by a group of [Moroccan] Rif region natives living in Tilburg, in the Netherlands, from which location it will broadcast its programmes starting in January 2007. The goal of this new channel, which is of an informational and educational nature, is to promote exchanges and the promotion of (more)

Ashley Highfield: My Life In Media
From The Independent. Posted January 23 2006, 12.00am
Ashley Highfield, 40, is the BBC's director of new media & technology. After holding key posts with PWC Consultancy and NBC, he went to work for pay-TV operator Flextech (owner of UKGold and LivingTV) becoming MD of all their Interactive businesses, before moving to the BBC. He is responsible for the corporation's entire web presence. Although a string of BBC websites were axed in 2004 following the Graf report, new media is expected to be one of the beneficiaries of Mark Thompson's extensive cost-cutting programme. (more)

Five's Frow rumoured for Living chief
From Digital Spy. Posted January 12 2006, 3.24pm
Five's controller of features and entertainment Ben Frow is rumoured to be in the running for the position of Living TV controller. (more)

Woolfe accepts 'ultimate challenge' as new Sky One controller
From The Stage. Posted January 5 2006, 12.15pm
Living TV controller Richard Woolfe has been named the new controller of Sky One, taking over the post from James Baker, who now heads the broadcaster's interactive division. (more)

BSkyB raids Flextech for new Sky One controller
From Brand Republic. Posted January 5 2006, 9.01am
LONDON – LivingTV's director of television Richard Woolfe is quitting Flextech to take control of BSkyB's three entertainment channels Sky One, Two and Three in April. (more)

Richard Woolfe named controller of Sky One
From Digital Spy. Posted January 4 2006, 5.53pm
Living TV head Richard Woolfe is named as the new controller of Sky One. (more)

Living's Woolfe to run Sky One
From Media Guardian. Posted January 4 2006, 4.44pm
4.30pm: Living TV controller Richard Woolfe, the man who brought Queer Eye for the Straight Guy to the UK, has been appointed head of Sky One. By John Plunkett. (more)

Country Living's Hyman scoops top food award
From Press Gazette. Posted May 17 2002, 12.00am
Clarissa Hyman of Country Living magazine has been named food writer of the year in the 2002 Glenfiddich Awards. (more)

CSI: The cop show that conquered the world
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
I've had this conversation, or one like it, so many times this year that I've lost count. Other person (on learning that I write about television for a living): "So, is there anything good on TV now?" (more)

BBC apologises as Huq attends campaign launch with Livingstone
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
The BBC has written to Conservative Party activists in London to apologise for the attendance of the Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq at a media event hosted by Mayor Ken Livingstone. (more)

Virgin TV: How Claudia is making a good Living
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
Remember, I'm deaf as a post," barks out Claudia Rosencrantz, as the voice recorder is switched on. It's just as well, then, that she knows a hit television show when she sees one. (more)