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The Sarah
Jane Adventures
Alien investigator Sarah Jane Smith is back on BBC One with a
fifth and final series of the award-winning The Sarah Jane Adventures,
starring the late Elisabeth Sladen.
Created by Russell T Davies, the hugely successful Doctor Who spin-off
returns for new, six-part series, featuring three stories, each told over
two episodes.
The first story starts on Monday, October 3.
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Channel 4 To Show Graphic Surgery
Channel 4 is to screen 'graphic' footage of sex-change
surgery in a new documentary series about the lives of transgender people.
Girls Will Be Boys And Boys Will Be Girls will follow seven people in their
everyday lives and also as they gather at a rural retreat to talk through
the problems they face.
Among the stars of the four-part series are a 52-year-old former police
officer called Karen who is about to undergo surgery, and Max, from north
London, who wants to become the first transgender rabbi.
They are followed by the cameras as they meet other people who have had
surgery and go out together to pubs and shops and deal with people's
reactions.
Programme maker Sam Whittaker said: "We've asked people to go down to the
local pub and meet with Middle England and say, 'Hi, how are you?'"
Speaking about the show at an event for journalists, Channel 4 News
presenter Cathy Newman said: "Some of it's quite graphic, there is footage
of a man in genital surgery."
Max said he hoped the documentary would show people there was more to the
issue than surgery.
He said: "Something that came through from all the people in the house is
that surgery is something that you might choose, you might not choose, but
that emotional journey is a lot more important about how you feel and how
you relate to your body."
In another new programme, called Mummify Me, a team of top scientists will
try to mummify a corpse in a bid to solve the centuries-old mystery of how
the ancient Egyptians managed to preserve the bodies of their pharaohs.
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BBC
Senior Pay To Keep Falling
Lord Patten, Chairman of the BBC Trust, said today future
leaders of the BBC will not be paid as much as current Director General Mark
Thompson.
Thompson, who took up his post in 2004, earned £779,000 last year and
£838,000 the year before.
"If there is another director general during my time as chairman of the
Trust, he or she won't be paid that," Lord Patten told a BBC programme.
"The basic proposal is you cap the average of senior executive pay to the
median pay in the organisation," he said.
Asked whether he thought BBC executives were paid too much, Lord Patten
said: "I'm sure they're worth every penny of it but they're not going to be
paid as much in the future."
During the interview, Hardtalk presenter Stephen Sackur asked Lord Patten
whether BBC services would suffer once the budget cuts were in place.
Lord Patten said there are no plans to scale back the BBC' coverage of
Wimbledon "I hope it's not going to do serious damage," Lord Patten said.
He admitted the Trust were in talks with senior executives about how they
can "accommodate the BBC" to the new budget.
"But, for heaven's sake, we're talking about the BBC running for the next
five years on three and a half billion pounds a year. Plus the income it can
raise from its commercial activities. Now we should be able to run a damn
good public broadcaster on three and a half billion a year."
He said the BBC would focus on its "core and most valuable services" such as
children, drama, news and factual programmes.
"Those are the things we'll have to spend more money on, we won't be able to
spend as much money on sport. I suspect we won't be able to spend as much
money on entertainment," he added.
The BBC has reduced its Formula One coverage, which Lord Patten said was a
"painful choice".
"Everybody who loves motor racing is really cross with us because we did
motor racing really well - and we will still be doing motor racing but not
exclusively."
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Red and
Black - Question Mark
Ant and Dec have admitted they are unsure if controversial
game show Red or Black will return for a second series.
The presenters believe Simon Cowell's new ITV1 game show - where contestants
battle for chance to win £1 million - needs improvements if it is to return
for a second series and they are still waiting on programme bosses to make a
decision.
Dec said: "It was our first series and we all learned a lot from it. I think
we can improve the show.
"We'll just see what ITV says - they're the ones who sign the cheques."
Despite controversy when it was revealed that the first millionaire winner
of the show, Nathan Hageman, had previously served two-and-half years in
prison for assault, Ant is adamant it didn't affect the atmosphere on the
series.
He said: "The scandal around Nathan didn't put a damper on the series for
me. We made four millionaires which we set out to do, so we were pleased in
that way."
Dec added that Simon - who is currently in the US working on the American
version of The X Factor - was happy with viewing figures for Red or Black,
and thrilled it had finished "on a high" last weekend.
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