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Nintendo To Launch
Coronation Street Game
Coronation Street fans will be able to get a step closer to
the cobbles when the soap is turned into a computer game.
Nintendo is developing a game set in the fictional street for its DS console
as part of the show's 50th anniversary celebrations this year.
It is just one of several products licensed for the anniversary of
Coronation Street's first episode, broadcast on December 9, 1960.
The soap is also endorsing a bunch of "Best of British" brands, which will
see the Street logo carried on products such as Warburtons bread, Imperial
Leather soap and Typhoo tea.
Holland's Pies and Manchester brewery JW Lees, which produces Coronation
Street ale, are also getting in on the action.
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February 25
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Award For Sky News
Sky News has been named by the Royal Television Society news
channel of the year.
Sky's Alex Crawford was honoured as TV journalist of the year for her work
on Afghanistan and the Mumbai attacks.
For the second year in a row, BBC's News at Ten was named news programme of
the year, while ITV's Julie Etchingham was named presenter of the year.
BBC took seven awards in total, including a special accolade for Panorama
journalist Paul Kenyon who was cited for his "dogged coverage of African
migration".
Panorama's, Tamanna Rahman was named young journalist of the year and the
show also picked up the domestic current affairs award for the
"agenda-setting" What Happened to Baby P?
Sky's special news report Pakistan: Terrror's Frontline won the
international news coverage award.
Its Fallen Heroes programme won the innovative news award as "a model for
the future" of news.
Channel 4 won three awards, including one for domestic news coverage for ITN
coverage of the G20 Policing.
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BBC One
Marks The Sixties
BBC One Daytime will be marking the 50th anniversary of the
beginning of the Swinging Sixties with an original new drama, and a
week-long series of special factual programmes looking back at the decade.
The Indian Doctor (working title), a new drama series starring Sanjeev
Bhaskar, tells the story of Dr Prem Patel, one of the thousands of doctors
who – encouraged by Enoch Powell – moved from the Indian Sub-Continent to
the UK to begin new lives.
Rewind The 60s (working title) explores the social changes and major news
events that took place in the decade.
Both programmes have been commissioned by BBC Daytime Controller, Liam
Keelan.
Talking about the commissions, Keelan said: "The story of the doctors who
came to the UK from the Indian Sub-Continent is one that hasn't been widely
told, so it's really exciting to be able to commission The Indian Doctor,
this new original drama, for BBC One Daytime.
"This commission builds on the number of dramas that BBC One Daytime has
already commissioned and shown over the last 18 months – Land Girls,
Missing, and Moving On – in addition to the continuing drama Doctors which
this March celebrates its 10th anniversary.
"Rewind The 60s will be an entertaining look back at the decade, while also
examining the key stories and looking at the huge social change that took
place, ensuring that the programme will be a popular watch for our viewers."
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