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  • September 5, 2009

    Showbiz moguls target the world of style

    ...who created the Spice Girls and the American Idol format, launched his new venture, Fashionair...her reported £3m signing to TV show American Idol as judge. Now Fuller hopes Fashionair...As Nina Ferguson, director of Inca Productions, an agency that connects brands with... By Lucie Greene
  • March 9, 2007

    RTL rules out bid for Endemol

    ...handed back some of its spare cash as a special dividend. The group, whose FremantleMedia content division produces American Idol and competes with Endemol and ITV Productions, would not participate in the auction started by Telefónica, Endemol's majority owner, said Gerhard Zeiler... By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in London
  • July 27, 2007

    Spotlight: Edinburgh Festival - Fringe cuts to heart of the matter

    ...Theatre Company), Jihad: The Musical (Silk Circle Productions) and Asbo: The Musical (Z Theatre Company). Jon...the Soweto Gospel Choir return as do the recent stars of American Idol, the African Children’s Choir. The power of sexuality...Onomatopoeia Society III and Spinistry of Moonerism (Fat Cat Productions) will share simultaneous stage time and casts. The Fringe... By Andrew Bolger
  • October 31, 2006

    Annual Wincott Foundation lecture

    ...developments have also helped to change the American news media. In 1987, the Federal Communications...young people, in the 2003 final of American Idol, the reality talent show. It...the lofty sense of purpose of their American counterparts, and nor have British...believe that by definition all BBC productions come into this category. ·As the... Lecture given by Richard Lambert
  • November 13, 2006

    Starring role for product placement

    ...viewers in the UK regularly watch programmes such as American Idol, with its Coca-Cola cups, or 24, the action...has touched on perceived differences between European and American attitudes towards television. Some in Europe fear it would trigger...new Bond, will feature far fewer brands according to Eon Productions, the production company behind the James Bond franchise... By Emiko Terazono, Sarah Laitner and Victoria Burnett
  • May 26, 2006

    Berlin leads resistance to TV product placement

    ...European broadcasters may screen US-made material featuring brand promotion but in most cases cannot show European productions that do the same. Examples of product placement include the prominence of Ford cars in the show 24 and Coca-Cola drinks in American Idol. Viviane Reding, the EU media commissioner, wants the practice to be allowed in all fictitious shows, except those... By Sarah Laitner in Brussels
  • May 25, 2006

    Berlin leads resistance to TV product placement

    ...European broadcasters may screen US-made material featuring brand promotion but in most cases cannot show European productions that do the same. Examples of product placement include the prominence of Ford cars in the show 24 and Coca-Cola drinks in American Idol. Viviane Reding, the EU media commissioner, wants the practice to be allowed in all fictitious shows, except those... By Sarah Laitner in Brussels
  • August 21, 2009

    Mitch Miller’s part in pop history

    ...cemented his status as a teen idol by presenting each...tailored for the African-American jukebox market. And the Texan...understood for years: that studio productions need not have the same limitations...increasingly favoured studio productions that could not be replicated...s term for its African-American record chart... By Elijah Wald
  • January 3, 2008

    UK remake should be arresting viewing

    ...University Challenge, which was based on an American format, College Bowl; Blind Date...All in the Family, which topped the American ratings chart for a considerable time...The Office, and reality formats Pop Idol, Strictly Come Dancing, and Hell's Kitchen...basic scenarios and situations but with American characters and a new script as US audiences...Another expanding area is the big joint productions, such as Rome, a coproduction between... By Emiko Terazono and Ben Fenton
  • December 27, 2007

    The hype and the high notes

    ...20th-century opera’s most impressive tenor role”. It will be undertaken by Anthony Dean Griffey, a gentle American giant most celebrated, perhaps, as Lennie in Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men. He replaces Neil Shicoff, a more...Sequi. Never mind. It was the incipient tenorissimo who magnetised attention, and instantly changed the course of idol worship, as he nonchalantly soared through a volley of high Cs – nine, count ’em, nine – in...s ultra-complex, percussive score requires an orchestra of 110 plus 40 singers, actors and dancers. Previous productions in the US – well-meaning simplifications, actually – emerged at the Opera Company of Boston (1982) and the... By Martin Bernheimer
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