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Last week, in a preview of its most ambitious venture yet, STAR began offering hourly news reports from the BBC. In November those newscasts will become the centerpiece for a 24-hour news channel, run by the BBC World Service. STAR's all-news service, like its other channels, will be available free (in contrast to CNN, its chief rival); the operation is trying to support itself entirely from advertising...
...nothing sacred? The BBC has thrown in the towel on the Queen's English. Hello, a new English-language instructional series being prepared for BBC television, will feature an American among its three hosts. Seems that citizens of the global village, whose idea of proper English was once the measured tones of the BBC, are now more familiar with Yankee accents, thanks to CNN's worldwide reach. Explains Peter Walton, executive producer of the program: "We realized what people want is American English. People were asking, 'Haven't you got anything in American?' " Other BBC broadcasters are doing their best...
...have strongly recommended that the deal for the release of all hostages should be comprehensive and complete and should not take place in stages, for fear some unexpected obstacles crop up," Shamseddine told the BBC...
Hooray for Hollywood. And at least a couple of cheers for Naked Hollywood, a probing, cynical, sometimes annoying but always fascinating documentary about the movie business, produced for the BBC and making its U.S. debut next week on cable. Producer Nicolas Kent got extraordinary access to a host of Hollywood bigwigs, from stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger to studio executives & and other behind-the-scenes brokers. The resulting six-part series has been described by Kent as "a study of a tribe in its native habitat...
...approaching 70 at the time she tells her story; her reminiscences are set off after seeing an obituary of Julia Wilberforce, who was nearly 80. Both women had achieved a certain fame when young, Julia as a sophisticated cabaret performer and Fay as a singer of ballads on the BBC. Their friendship did not begin then or, in truth, ever. They were thrown together because both married men who belonged to the same law firm and were forced to socialize. "I never liked her," Fay muses about Julia, "nor did she like...