Word: stuarts
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...breakfast TV company GM.TV. In September, the regulator imposed a penalty of some $4 million on GM.TV for encouraging viewers to dial premium-rate phone lines to enter competitions after winners had already been picked. ITV has admitted to similar practices. "Television is at a low point," says Graham Stuart, director of independent production company So Television...
...scandals over rigged competitions reflect the industry's search for new sources of income as its traditional wellsprings - subsidies and advertising revenues - threaten to run dry. There's another reason for falling standards, says Stuart: the huge popularity of reality TV - cheap to produce and capable of provoking the kind of controversy that still hooks big audiences. Controversy is, of course, hard to control. Channel 4's last run of Celebrity Big Brother sparked riots in India after Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty was subjected to racial abuse from fellow contestants. Earlier this year, The Verdict, a BBC reality show, brought...
...Graham Stuart avers that broadcasters do need stars. He co-founded So Television with Graham Norton, an Irish-born comedian who fronts BBC chat shows and game shows. Norton "is paid a lot of money by the BBC," says Stuart, but "what we're doing here is show business and everything relies on a small number of talented people who are stars. They're the reason people will switch on." He adds: "If Lord Reith, a cranky old Presbyterian, could use the entertainment word, then other people should be able...
...committee is made up of recent Radcliffe fellows and professors from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education, and Harvard Law School. Of the 12, three committee members have a background in the natural sciences—Naomi E. Pierce, the Hessel professor of biology; Stuart M. Shieber ’81, the Welch professor of computer science; and Hyman, a professor of neurobiology. The other committee members include Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History Vincent Brown, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature Julie A. Buckler, choreographer Ann Carlson, Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor...
...think he laid out some intriguing proposals, although I wish he had given a fuller description of the system of social enterprise he proposed,” said Guy Stuart, an associate professor of public policy who specializes in microfinance at the Kennedy School of Government...