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...appropriately enough, the Middle East Club. The show is sponsored by the Hillel Foundation of Cambridge. Sunday, March 16 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30, $20 students, available at the Middle East Box Office or by phone (617) 931-2000. Middle East Club, 472 Massachussetts Ave. (617) 864-3278. (BBC...
Newspapers and magazines pricked up their ears at Hare’s research. Hare found his name in stories picked up by CNN, the BBC, and The New Yorker. He’s surprised by the rush of publicity, but he explains it by saying that dog owners just love to read about dogs...
...Discovery did go public. They both relish the fact that since they don't have to answer to Wall Street, they can plow earnings back into long-term investments. "When you construct a 10-year deal with them, it's not a ridiculous discussion," says Rupert Gavin, CEO of BBC Worldwide, whose upstart cable channel, BBC America, is distributed by Discovery...
Fifth, you have to be obsessive. Jeff Goldblum played me in a BBC movie, and he was really unpleasant. But people told me, "You were unpleasant." It goes along with obsession, I'm afraid. Finally, both Francis and I knew we would have careers even if we failed, so we weren't desperate. Hence we were willing to trust that an idea that was only 90% certain was worth taking a chance...
...Britain, where reality has ruled Britannia's (air)waves for years, TV writers are starting to learn from reality's success. The sitcom The Office uses reality-TV techniques (jerky, handheld camera work, "confessional" interviews) to explore the petty politics of white-collar workers. Now airing on BBC America, it's the best comedy to debut here this season, because its characters are the kind of hard-to-pigeonhole folks you find in life--or on reality TV. On Survivor and The Amazing Race, the gay men don't drop Judy Garland references in every scene. MTV's Making...