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Kris Marshall Dropped From BT
Ads
Kris Marshall has been axed from the BT adverts after playing
family man Adam for seven years.
Marshall, 38, and co-star Esther Hall, who plays Adam’s partner Jane,
starred in 40 commercials featuring the couple’s ups and downs.
But six months after viewers saw them get married, bosses have decided the
campaign has run its course and a spokeswoman confirmed the My Family star
was leaving.
The telecoms firm’s adverts will move on from the family
theme but will still occasionally feature Esther Hall.
Marshall, who also starred in hit film Love Actually, will make his final
appearance as Adam next month.
The spokeswoman added: “Kris has been an integral part of the extremely
successful and much-loved BT Family adverts.”
December
24
2011 - waveguide.co.uk
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Anita Dobson Tempted By
EastEnders Return
Anita Dobson has admitted there have been two occasions when
she was ''seriously tempted'' to return to EastEnders.
The 62-year-old actress departed her iconic role of pub
landlady Angie Watts in 1988 - with the character dying off screen in 2002 -
and though she had several offers to return to the show, she did not think
it would have been a good idea.
Asked why she never reprised the role, she said: "Why tarnish the gorgeous
creation that was Angie Watts? I was seriously tempted to go back twice but
once you make a decision as big as that to leave, I think it's very rare
that you go back.
"She was flawed but fabulous - and the combination was magical. What a
wonderfully complicated, completely joyful, screwed-up, mad kind of creature
she was!
"When my agent rang me and told me they were going to kill Angie off, I
said, 'Good'. It was time. They had asked me so many times if I'd go back
and I'd always said 'Never say never', but realistically it was never going
to happen."
EastEnders recorded the highest-ever audience for a drama in 1986, when 30
million people tuned in on Christmas Day to see Angie's husband Den Watts
serve her with divorce papers and Anita admits she is still "proud" of the
scene.
December
24
2011 - waveguide.co.uk
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Channel 4 Takes Over The Underground
Channel 4 is to kick off a marketing push for its key early
2012 shows, on New Year's Eve - with a London Underground takeover wishing
both daytime shoppers and evening revellers a very happy new year.
The major campaign extends across over 1000 digital poster
screens, over the entire tube network as well as across digital screens in
rail stations around the country.
The creative for the New Year's Eve campaign was conceived and produced by
Channel 4's in-house creative agency, 4Creative.
Featuring a host of famous Channel 4 faces, including stars from four of
Channel 4's biggest forthcoming programme launches - The Bank Job, New Girl,
The Mash Up and Alan Carr's New Year's Eve Specstacular - the 40 second
‘Party Carriage' digital posters will be live from 6am on New Year's Eve
through until early morning on January 1st, with three different executions
playing through the day.
The ‘Party Carriage' concept, filmed with all the talent across a number of
shoot days in December, shows a host of Channel 4 names travelling on the
tube on New Year's Eve. As shoppers on rail and London Underground networks
go about their journeys on Dec 31st, digital screens on platforms and
stations will show our stars doing the same - with Derren Brown, Gordon
Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Heston Blumenthal, Rachel
Riley, Alan Carr, George Lamb (host of The Bank Job) Kirstie Allsopp, Phil
Spencer, Jon Snow, Cathy Newman, Krishnan Guru Murphy and New Girl Star
Zooey Deschanel becoming unlikely tube fellows, as they make their way to
and from their respective New Year's Eve party destinations.
As tube goers travel up and down the escalators on New Year's Eve, every
single escalator panel across the London underground network will see our C4
stars doing the same, with Rick Edwards, George Lamb, Jameela Jamil, Derren
Brown, and Jon Snow's heads bobbing through shot.
December
24
2011 - waveguide.co.uk
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