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Cable girl: Lucy Mangan on Remington Steele
From Media Guardian. Posted August 11 2008, 11.39pm
Pierce Brosnan has grown into his twinkle. This is not a euphemism. As the 30-year-old eponymous stripling in Remington Steele, he has the roguish sparkle of a man twice his age. Add to this a head of hair that promises never to thin or lose its lustre, a body that will forever show a well-cut suit to its best advantage and the effect is quite overwhelming. This is a man whose every fibre cries out to womankind: "You think this is good? Wait until you see me at 50!" (more)

UTV sees lacklustre response to rights issue
From Financial Times. Posted July 15 2008, 10.51am
The Belfast-based radio and television broadcaster announced a disappointing response to its £49.9m rights issue, with a take-up of only 41.5 per cent (more)

Every Penny Counts
From allmediascotland - Spike. Posted July 15 2008, 8.11am
Good to see the BBC Scotland news team being careful with its budget, as its reporting of a couple of stories last week illustrated. Not only did its flagship, Reporting Scotland, manage to show footage that appeared to be shot from within the BBC Scotland headquarters, it also choose to use... (more)

TV ratings - June 7: disappointing audiences for UK-free Euro 2008
From Media Guardian. Posted June 9 2008, 11.13am
The opening weekend of a home nations-free Euro 2008 delivered lacklustre ratings - with audiences failing to reach 2004 levels even for non-England games. By Caitlin Fitzsimmons (more)

FT publisher 'lacklustre' last year, says chairman Glen Moreno
From Media Guardian. Posted April 25 2008, 4.27pm
Glen Moreno, chairman of Financial Times publisher Pearson, today admitted to shareholders their returns last year had been 'lacklustre'. By Chris Tryhorn (more)

Kluster to launch crowdsourced newspaper and newsroom
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted April 17 2008, 11.00pm
Content on The Knewsroom will be decided on by users, who will earn from the stories they back (more)

Showbusiness survivor Grade is getting it right
From Daily Telegraph. Posted March 5 2008, 2.30pm
A week is a long time in television. Last Monday the sound of knives being sharpened was deafening as the city lost patience with Michael Grade. Months of downwards pressure on the shares had been followed by a lacklustre revamp of ITV1's schedule. (more)

The Palace continues to lose its shine
From Media Guardian. Posted January 29 2008, 12.54pm
ITV1's royal drama The Palace was watched by 2.6 million viewers in an evening of lacklustre ratings for all the main terrestrial channels. By Maria Esposito (more)

Managment led buy-out of Illustrated London News
From Press Gazette. Posted January 18 2008, 12.00am
The Illustrated London News Group has been bought out by a new company backed its managing director and other private investors. (more)

Management led buy-out of Illustrated London News
From Press Gazette. Posted January 18 2008, 12.00am
The Illustrated London News Group has been bought out by a new company backed its managing director and other private investors. (more)

A night of a thousand absent stars as Golden Globes lose their lustre
From The Independent. Posted January 15 2008, 12.00am
In any other year, it would have been a glittering night for British talent at Hollywood's Golden Globes: acting prizes for Julie Christie and Daniel Day-Lewis, Ricky Gervais's Extras named the best comedy on television, and the biggest recognition of all, the award for best dramatic picture, going to Atonement, Joe Wright's adaptation of an Ian McEwan novel. (more)

New picture for Illustrated London News
From Daily Telegraph. Posted January 14 2008, 12.01am
The historic Illustrated London News could be relaunched as a magazine after the company that owns the rights was bought out by its managing director and some of the City’s leading communications chiefs. (more)

Picture agency buys London Illustrated News archive
From Press Gazette. Posted January 4 2008, 12.00am
The historical picture agency Mary Evans Picture Library has acquired the archive of The Illustrated London News, the world’s first illustrated newspaper and an “unequalled” source for 19th and early 20th century journalism. (more)

Picture agency to represent Illustrated London News archive
From Press Gazette. Posted January 4 2008, 12.00am
The historical picture agency Mary Evans Picture Library is to manage the archive of The Illustrated London News, the world’s first illustrated newspaper and an “unequalled” source for 19th and early 20th century journalism. (more)

ClusterSeven Joins Google Enterprise Professional Program
From Press Release, via webitpr. Posted December 10 2007, 9.00am
New York/London, December 10, 2007 ? ClusterSeven today announced it has joined the Google Enterprise? Professional program, which extends the power of Google across the enterprise and helps customers get more value out of their Google enterprise deployments. ClusterSeven software monitors the activity and changes in business-critical spreadsheets with no impact on the user. Acting much like a closed circuit television set (CCTV), the Enterprise Management Software records spreadsheet activity over time, building the 'movie'... (more)

Switzerland launches HDTV service
From Media Network Weblog. Posted December 5 2007, 11.54am
The SRG High Definition broadcasting service launched in Switzerland on Monday. Three language services are provided by SRG on consecutive days in the evenings, and in the day-time there are ‘mountain views’ of Switzerland, which well illustrate the potential of HDTV.  The SRG broadcasts use a format called 720p/50, which EBU-led tests have shown provides the highest HDTV [...] (more)

ZEE signs up Brian Lara for cricket league
From Biz Asia. Posted July 23 2007, 9.51pm
Legendry cricket batsman Brian Lara has been selected for ZEE Network's Indian Cricket League (ICL), which kicks off later this year. Lara is the first major signing for the league after the earlier announcement that Kapid Dev will become its Chairman. "It gives me great pleasure to join the Indian Cricket League. You can`t keep me too far from cricket and hence I return to the game in this exciting new avatar that the Essel Group has launched," Lara said in a statement issued by the Essel Group. "I look forward to playing with promising youngsters from India and elsewhere along with some of my illustrious international counterparts who I`ve shared many an exciting moment with on the field. "I feel honored to captain one of the ICL`s city teams, and hope to use my experience in taking that team to victory in the inaugural ICL Trophy." Announcing the signings, Himanshu Mody, Project Head for the ICL said, "we are extremely honored to welcome Brian Lara to the ICL family. "Undoubtedly one of the greatest ever batsmen that the world has seen, he brings his immense talent and experience to the ICL. "I think the youngsters we are grooming for India`s future will benefit immensely from playing alongside him in the ICL." On Lal`s and Sandhu`s role, Mody said, "Lal brings with him years of experience ... I am sure that under his tutelage, the Delhi team will produce future stars that will shine bright in Indian cricket. "Sandhu with his wealth of coaching youngsters at every level will ensure the right talent gets channelled into the system and is then given the right coaching and training." Lal was excited about his appointment. "I am extremely happy to become a part of the ICL. In the past I have played under Kapil Dev in the team of 1983 which had passion and pride. "In the role of a coach in the ICL, I propose to inculcate character in the team and create a brand of cricket which possesses killer instinct." Sandhu said, "I endorse the structure and the system of the ICL. In the past I have been the head coach at the NCA and have been the coach for the U-19 team, both of which will stand me in good stead in performing my duties." The league has also contracted former Indian allrounder Madan Lal to coach its Delhi team and Balwinder Singh Sandhu as director of academies. (more)

May ABCs: Lacklustre sales for quality dailies
From Media Guardian. Posted June 8 2007, 1.00am
May ABCs: The FT reaped the benefits of its relaunch with a year-on-year circulation rise - but by a mere 1,500 copies. By Stephen Brook. (more)

'Nehle Pe Dehla' to premiere on ZEE Cinema
From Biz Asia. Posted March 28 2007, 1.19am
Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt and Neha Dhupia's lackluster movie 'Nehle Pe Dehla' will be getting its premiere on ZEE Cinema UK in April. The movie had been in the making for over five years before it was released worldwide last month. It proved a box office dud. The film is marked as April's 'Movie of the Month' and will be shown on Saturday 28th April at 20:00. Other films also premiering on ZEE Cinema next month are 'Risk' starring Vinod Khanna on Saturday 6th April and classics like 'Khal Nayak' (Sunday 1st April), 'Pardes' (Sunday 8th April), 'Taal' (Sunday 15th April), 'Yaadein' (Sunday 22nd April) and 'Ek Phool Do Maali' (Sunday 8th April). (more)

Russian Business Channel signs contract with Eutelsat
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 26 2007, 2.57pm
Eutelsat Communications and RBC-TV, the Russian business television channel, today announced the signature of a five year contract for lease of capacity on the Hot Bird™ 6 television satellite for free-to-air broadcasting over Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. This new agreement illustrates RBC-TV’s objective to initiate international expansion beyond its core markets of Russia [...] (more)

BBC lags behind at Royal Television Society Journalism Awards
From Media Guardian. Posted February 21 2007, 12.00am
9am: It was a lacklustre night for the BBC at the Royal Television Society Journalism Awards. By Steve Busfield. (more)

David Gest Joins Royal Variety Line-Up
From Merry Media. Posted December 2 2006, 5.41pm
TV's newest reality star David Gest is the latest addition to the illustrious line-up for this year's Royal Variety Performance at the London Coliseum on Monday 4 December hosted by Jonathan Ross.. (more)

Unsavoury truth about Nigella's family is revealed
From The Independent. Posted September 27 2006, 12.00am
As the "domestic goddess" Nigella Lawson is among the select few television chefs to have influenced the nation's eating habits. Now the daughter of the former chancellor has come across an aspect of her otherwise illustrious family's past that may prove difficult to digest. (more)

Rest in peace, Top of The Pops: 42 years on, BBC announces the demise of an institution
From The Independent. Posted June 21 2006, 12.03am
It has entertained generations of young pop fans with performances from such illustrious acts as the Rolling Stones, The Who, Nirvana and Oasis, but last night the BBC confirmed that after 42 years Top of the Pops will finally be laid to rest. (more)

Sky announces lacklustre quarterly results
From Digital Spy. Posted May 3 2006, 8.36am
As expected, BSkyB announces a distinctly lacklustre set of quarterly results. (more)

Niger withdraws permission for BBC to report on hunger
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 4 2006, 10.51am
The BBC can no longer make TV reports on hunger in Niger, after the country withdrew permission for it to report on the humanitarian situation in the country. The decision is thought to be in response to a recent news report which graphically illustrated the extent of the hunger crisis in Niger. The BBC and humanitarian organisations say that Niger doesn't want the outside world to be aware of the (more)

School drama wins second term
From Media Guardian. Posted April 3 2006, 10.35am
9.30am: BBC1's Waterloo Road has been recommissioned despite lacklustre ratings. By Ben Dowell. (more)

Should journalists be seen as heroes?
From The Independent. Posted March 6 2006, 12.00am
The meanest comment you will probably hear about George Clooney's film Good Night, and Good Luck is that it relies excessively on one rather small episode - the dismissal and reinstatement of a junior air force officer, thanks to the legendary CBS television presenter Ed Murrow - to illustrate a very big theme: the iniquities of the McCarthy hearings. (more)

Alan Sugar is no shareholder idol
From The Times. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
Sir Alan Sugar’s consumer electronics group Amstrad is finally disappearing from the public markets, being sold to BSkyB (which is 39.1 per cent owned by News Corp, owner of The Times). Sir Alan’s business talents have been trumpeted by no less illustrious bodies than the BBC, where he fronts the popular television series The Apprentice, and National Savings & Investments, for which he advertises Premium Bonds. (more)