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...music on a bedroom computer (or to make these things oneself for consumption by other people on the same computer), these businesses are frantically scrambling to reinvent themselves. EastEnders must now fight for an audience not just with other terrestrial channels but with cable and satellite stations, while younger Brits spend more and more of their time trawling online sites like YouTube and Facebook. Mark Byford, the BBC's deputy director general and the Corporation's head of journalism, says there's a noticeable "falling away" of large swathes of TV viewers who are "under 35 and especially under...
...These programs have something in common besides the power of their titles to make BBC executives blush: they were all commissioned by the digital TV channel, BBC3. Set up in 2003 to cater to precisely the younger audiences that Byford says are so tricky to retain, BBC3 has scored several successes, including an exuberantly tasteless comedy show called Little Britain. Featuring such popular characters as an incoherent delinquent called Vicky Pollard and a pugnacious, latex-clad homosexual named Dafydd Thomas, who deludedly believes he is "the only gay in the village," Little Britain drew a mass following...
...things that matter to me ... We don't make our programs with 50-year-old viewers in mind." Closing BBC3 would be a false economy, he adds: "Channels don't cost money - content does. You could remove BBC3, but you'd still presumably want to provide programs for younger viewers...
...modern plots, adapting a short story by early 20th century writer Lu Xun. The singing is also faster and the traditionally empty stage is now filled with backdrops and props (classical Kunqu required audiences to simply imagine the scene according to cues in the lyrics). A new breed of younger artists has also been cast in plum roles, which by tradition were always reserved for veteran performers. Prominent among the fresh faces is Zhang himself. The onetime rapper played Emperor Minghuang in Palace of Eternal Youth, opposite Shen Yili, 32, who has won fame for her willowy dance technique...
...America is back”; and to be “as careful getting out [of Iraq] as we were careless getting in.” Samuel B. Novey ’11, who attended the event, praised Obama and Patrick because they came from a younger generation of politicians. “What’s good about both Barack and Deval is that they’re not baby boomers. I’m just sick of Vietnam,” Novey said. “In the last presidential election it was all about who served...