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...fraternizing. DIED. JOHN WALTERS, 63, witty bbc radio and TV personality with cutting-edge musical tastes who produced the influential John Peel radio show Top Gear in the 1960s and '70s, which gave debuts to Jethro Tull, King Crimson and Tyrannosaurus Rex; in Oxted, U.K. Prior to joining the Beeb he played trumpet with the Alan Price Set, founded by the former Animals keyboardist. DIED. FANNY BRENNAN, 80, French-born American surrealist painter whose childhood was spent among the international artistic circles of 1920s Paris; in New York City. As a young artist she had her portrait drawn by Alberto...
GETTIN' ZIGGY If the Napster brouhaha has proved anything, it's that we love music--especially when it's free. David Bowie apparently agrees. He's offering an unreleased live version of the song Ziggy Stardust gratis to anyone who buys his latest album, Bowie at the Beeb. How will he know that you bought the CD? When you play it in your computer with MusicMatch Jukebox 6.0, you're automatically asked if you'd like to download the free track. See, Bowie's looking...
Someone, however, is doing something to counter this starchy BBC stereotype--the BBC. Through its American cable channel, BBC America, founded two years ago and now in about 12 million homes, the Beeb is recolonizing American tellies with a slate heavy on newer dramas and "Britcoms." These raw, rude, thoroughly unpolite shows open a window on a brand new England, from the gritty Bosnian-war drama Peacekeepers to the Lynchian small-town comic horrors of The League of Gentlemen...
...after leaving London Weekend Television, where he was group chief executive from 1990 to 1994--and is, according to Jonathan Davis, media expert at the London Economics consultancy, "the hardest-nosed businessman in the British-TV industry." Dyke prefers to stress his high aspirations for the Beeb, telling his staff last month, "Our aim is to be a place where people work collaboratively, enjoy their job and are inspired and united behind a common purpose--to create great television and radio programs...
...competition has taken a toll. Gone are the days when there were only four broadcast TV channels on offer in Britain, two of which belonged to the Beeb. Audiences with digital services can now choose from as many as 200 channels. The BBC, which always has to juggle the need for ratings with its public-service role, has found it hugely expensive to launch digital channels, start Internet sites and cope with the spiraling costs of technology, talent and rights to broadcast such things as sporting events. Although sport is one of Dyke's priorities, he has already ruled...