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Martin Clunes Unsure About Doc Martin
Martin Clunes says the highly anticipated sixth series of Doc
Martin is up in the air.
The award-winning actor, who plays the title role in the ITV
drama, said the fifth series is being written, but the sixth season has not
yet been confirmed.
"We've talked about a sixth series - they talk quite firmly
about it but we'll see," he said.
"It'd be awful if it just got bad because we're flogging it out and churning
things, but we do it every other year because it takes so long to get
written so we can keep it fresh."
Clunes would not like a happy ending for the grumpy Doc and Louisa, who's
expecting his child.
"I'd like to see him being a father - I think he would be
awful and there might be some fun there," he said. "I think we're going to
experiment with them cohabiting with an infant in tow, which is going to be
disastrous."
He added: "I like to see him fail and be punished. If things are going too
well, I'll walk him into a door frame or something just to punish him."
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March 03
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Sir Michael Parkinson Accepts Damages
Sir Michael Parkinson has accepted £25,000 libel damages from
the Daily Mail following an article claiming he had lied about his family
background.
The article - Who's Telling Parkies, printed in May last year, suggested he
had behaved in a grossly insensitive way towards his elderly uncle.
The 74-year-old, who was at London's High Court for the settlement, has
agreed to donate his payout to charity.
The Daily Mail has now accepted the allegations were "entirely false".
In a statement, Sir Michael said: "As a journalist myself, I have been
reluctant to take legal action against any newspaper.
"Where defamatory allegations have been published about me, I have always,
until now, turned a blind eye."
He went on to say that he thought the paper had "crossed a line",
particularly as it had been serialising his autobiography called Parky, My
Autobiography.
"During my nearly 60 years as a journalist, I have always believed it was
standard journalistic practice, as well as a matter of common decency, for a
newspaper to apologise publicly and promptly when they have made a mistake.
"In this case, it should not have taken nine months nor been
so difficult for the editor to apologise promptly.
"Moreover, I believe that the persistent delaying tactics of the Daily Mail
were both unattractive and unworthy of a national newspaper.
"At a time when the media is seeking greater freedom, I think it is
counterproductive for a newspaper to behave in this way."
Sir Michael will be giving the cash to charity.
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March 03
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Profit For ITV
ITV reported a return to annual profit last year after
massive losses in 2008, thanks to reduced costs and an increasing its share
of a shrinking advertising market.
The broadcaster made a slim pre-tax profit of £25m in 2009, compared with
losses of £2.7bn in 2008.
ITV said that it had cut costs by £169m over the year by streamlining
operations. This included £50m in efficiency savings and £110m in schedule
costs.
Its advertising revenues for 2009 were down 9 per cent, but this
outperformed the wider television market, in which advertising fell by 11
per cent.
Archie Norman, the ITV chairman, announced that Adam Crozier, the Royal Mail
chief executive and former Football Association head, will take over as
chief executive of ITV on 26 April.
Norman said: "Under Adam Crozier's leadership, ITV will set out on the
journey to become a very different business over the next five years.
"ITV's challenge is to reduce its dependence on a free-to-air model
threatened by digital media and besieged by legacy regulation."
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Simon Cowell
The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent judge Simon Cowell
decided to evaluate his life when he realise how much his work commitments
were taking over.
He said: “I came close to giving up work last year when I looked at about
June/July and my PA showed me I had an 18 month schedule which took me all
the way up to December of this year and every single day was practically
planned and that really depressed me.”
The 50-year-old music mogul also admitted he often feels “appalled” with
himself when he realises how nasty he has been to contestants.
Speaking on ITV's Piers Morgan’s Life Stories he said: "There's many, many
times where I've watched the show back and I'm absolutely appalled - you do
the show, you're not aware of what's happening in the room outside.
"You know, somebody just said 'My dog Lassie died yesterday', I'm in a bad
mood and, you know, awful, and you see it in that context, it's very, very
difficult to watch.
You become part of a mob and when you watch the show back you realise that
you've gone too far.”
Cowell also revealed he did not think Britain’s Got Talent contestant Susan
Boyle was given enough support when she began to struggle with her fame.
He said: "I don't think that for one second when I saw that audition tape
that any of us suddenly went 'What are the repercussions for her?'.
"That's when you suddenly realise, 'I haven't thought about this person as a
human being,' And it was a real wake up call I've got to tell you."
Piers Morgan’s Life Stories will air on ITV on Saturday.
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BBC Rethink On
Cutbacks
Sir Michael Lyons, BBC Trust chairman, said today "public
concern" might mean the corporation will have to "rethink" plans to axe two
radio stations.
There has been growing opposition to the announcement by director general
Mark Thompson on Tuesday, earmarking 6 Music and Asian Network for closure.
The proposals will go through a public consultation before being approved.
Broadcasting union Bectu and the National Union of Journalists have already
warned there could be staff strikes to fight any compulsory redundancies.
More than 100,000 people have already joined a group set up
on social networking site Facebook to save 6 Music.
The strategy review has also proposed that half of the BBC
websites would close by 2013, along with teen services Switch and Blast.
But, Sir Michael said that nothing has been decided for definite yet.
"If we find that there's massive public concern that we need to take account
of, then we will go back to the director general to rethink the strategy
before it's approved."
He added: "There will always be people who are disappointed when you take
something away from them - that's the history of the BBC and the history of
public services.
"One strong message that the Trust is putting out is that the BBC simply
cannot continue to grow forever. The impact that then places on both the
licence fee and on competitors has to be more measured."
The review has also pledged that more money would be ploughed into
international news and the BBC must put a higher proportion of the licence
fee into quality programmes to make "fewer things better".
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