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Kirsty Bromley

Edit Skiddle 06 Jun 2016
Green Note in London. Monday 6th June 2016. 7.00pm til 11.00pm. No age restrictions. “Kirsty Bromley is a singer of songs of social justice, traditional songs and songs from the heart. Event Info. Venue.   ... Musical and beguiling.” Nancy Kerr – BBC2 Folk Singer of the Year 2015 ... Musical and beguiling.” Nancy Kerr – BBC2 Folk Singer of the Year 2015 ... Music Genres.  ... ....

Top Gear: BBC defend Chris Evans's show after 'fake' audience laughter claims

Edit The Independent 05 Jun 2016
Audience data allegedly showed the programme had an appreciation index of 60, considered poor as the average for BBC2 programmes over the same weekend was 82 ... One audience member told the tabloid ... 7 show all ....

Sunday's best TV: Wallander; Top Gear; Soccer Aid

Edit The Guardian 05 Jun 2016
It’s farewell to Kenneth Branagh’s downbeat detective, the petrolhead juggernaut trundles on and Jose takes on Claudio in the celeb football match. Wallander. 9pm, BBC1. And so it’s time to say farewell to the Kenneth Branagh iteration of Henning Mankell’s downbeat detective ... Jonathan Wright Penelope Keith At Her Majesty’s Service. 8pm, Channel 4 ... Jolly extravagant stuff made fabulous by Keith’s almost-regal charm ... 8pm, BBC2 ... 9pm, BBC2 ... PH ... ....

Mike Bartlett: ‘The world didn’t know if Snowden was a hero or traitor’

Edit The Guardian 05 Jun 2016
The playwright on his new play, Wild, inspired by the whistleblower, and his forthcoming series Press, about the aftermath of phone hacking ... His hugely popular BBC1 series Doctor Foster, starring Suranne Jones as a betrayed GP, returns next year ... The moment when I thought ... What’s the core issue? ... I send a lot of email ... Um. No ... I’m adapting Charles III for BBC2 with Rupert Goold [the show’s original director]; we start shooting in November ... ....

Media Monkey: Radio Times’s Euro 2016 dilemma and BBC’s raunchy Versailles

Edit The Guardian 05 Jun 2016
Jonathan Edwards gets in a sporting spin, Ilie Nastase plays it cool, and Daily Mail astrologer Oscar Cainer’s debut ... • Is BBC2 desperate to show that its raunchy Gallic acquisition Versailles is serious history rather than just a series of pretexts for sex scenes? Monkey only asks because one historian fronting a single complementary factual programme is usually deemed sufficient for historical dramas ... Evert volleyed back ... ....

The week in TV: Versailles; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle; Jeremy Corbyn: The Outsider

Edit The Guardian 05 Jun 2016
There were schemes and swoons aplenty with the BBC’s Louis XIV, while Russell T Davies got stuck in to Shakespeare and Vice News took on Corbyn. Versailles (BBC2) . iPlayer. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BBC1) . iPlayer. Alan Patridge’s Scissored Isle (Sky Atlantic) . Available on Now TV. Jeremy Corbyn. The Outsider (Vice News). Sometimes I even stopped laughing at the script for whole seconds at a time. This was hard, though ... Twitter ... ....

How Peaky Blinders orgy scenes made Versailles look tame

Edit The Daily Mail 04 Jun 2016
As controversy engulfs the BBC2 drama Versailles, gangland drama Peaky Blinders, sent pulses racing even faster with an orgy scene featuring gangsters, ‘whores’ and Russian Cossacks ... ....

BBC defends Top Gear amid audience complaints

Edit The Guardian 04 Jun 2016
New format fronted by Chris Evans scores low on corporation’s appreciation index and is criticised over canned laughter. The BBC has defended the new version of Top Gear after leaked audience data suggested 370 people had complained about the programme. Related ... Programmes on BBC2 averaged a score of 82 making Top Gear the worst rated programme of the week, the Telegraph reported ... — Jason Linsel (@JasonLinsel) May 29, 2016 ... OFFICIALLY ... ....

Viewers switch OFF during sauciest scenes in Versailles drama

Edit The Daily Mail 03 Jun 2016
The new BBC2 drama Versailles about King Louis XIV aired on Wednesday to mixed reviews - and now viewing figures show that prudish Brits actually switched off during the raciest scenes ... ....

Peaky Blinders actor Cillian Murphy did a screen test to play Batman in the Batsuit

Edit The Independent 03 Jun 2016
Cillian Murphy, who is currently wreaking havoc as Tommy Shelby in BBC2 drama Peaky Blinders, is an actor who has proved he can ......

Friday’s best TV: Deepcut: The Army’s Shame; Fraud – How They Steal Your ID

Edit The Guardian 03 Jun 2016
A damning doc about the death of a young female soldier, police officers on the trail of a fraudster, and Rhod Gilbert’s music show with a difference. Deepcut. The Army’s Shame. 9pm, BBC2 ... 9pm, ITV ... 11.35pm BBC2 ... This edition of BBC2’s arts and culture strand comes from the Hay festival, where Mason will be talking to writers including Simon Sebag Montefiore, Margaret Boden, Gaia Vince and Richard Shirreff about the day’s burning issues ... ....

BBC says Sun's claim that 'Auntie is anti-white' is 'utterly ridiculous'

Edit The Guardian 03 Jun 2016
Paper suggested BBC was ‘racist’ because two Holby City scriptwriting roles were open only to people from ethnic minorities. @johnplunkett149 ... Related. BBC says Sun attacks on Top Gear's Chris Evans are 'unfounded nonsense' ... pic.twitter.com/ALyvMXQg0P ... Last month it criticised the paper for printing “unfounded nonsense” after a string of stories about Radio 2 breakfast DJ Chris Evans’ behaviour after he took over at BBC2’s Top Gear. ....

Too hot for TV: how BBC censorship went into hyperdrive

Edit The Guardian 03 Jun 2016
As Auntie snips a line from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, on top of prudish tweaks to other recent dramas, it seems the right time to ask. is the corporation falling prey to our oversensitive age? ... Twitter ... While broadcasting has clearly loosened its sexual corsets (as proved by the three types of sexual activity merely in the pre-credits sequence of BBC2’s Versailles this week), other kinds of prudishness have replaced them ... ....
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