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Anthony McPartlin
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He initially came to prominence in the early-to-mid-1990s in the childrens drama series Byker Grove and as one half of the pop music duo PJ & Duncan. Since the late 1990s, Ant & Dec have had a successful career as TV presenters, fronting programmes such as SMTV Live, Friends Like These, Pop Idol. Ant & Decs Saturday Night Takeaway, Britains Got Talent, PokerFace, Push the Button and they have also returned to acting, starring in a 2002 Tribute to The Likely Lads and the 2006 film Alien Autopsy. Ants first appearance on television was on the childrens workshop programme Why Dont You, but he rose to prominence playing PJ in the Childrens BBC series Byker Grove. It was here that he first met Declan Donnelly, who was cast in the part of Duncan, in the guise of PJ & Duncan AKA, they had a number of hit records, starting with Tonight Im Free, a song that they had performed on the show. The two left the series in 1993, since that time the pair have appeared together in such programmes as SMTV Live, Friends Like These, Pop Idol, Britains Got Talent, Im a Celebrity. Ant & Decs Saturday Night Takeaway, PokerFace and Push the Button and they have also returned to acting, starring in a 2002 Tribute to The Likely Lads and the 2006 film Alien Autopsy. In 2007 it was discovered that two shows, Ant & Decs Gameshow Marathon and Ant & Decs Saturday Night Takeaway, which he co-presented with Donnelly, had defrauded viewers participating in phone-ins, the latter was produced by the pairs own production company. On 22 July 2006 he married longtime girlfriend and make-up artist Lisa Armstrong at Cliveden and they met when they were both performing at a pop concert at Newcastle City Hall in 1994. McPartlin was there as part of PJ & Duncan AKA, whilst Armstrong was in the pop band Deuce, McPartlin was formerly a Labour Party supporter. However at the 2010 election he voted for the Conservatives, in February 2013, he told The Guardian newspaper that he would struggle to justify voting for the Conservatives or the Labour Party at the moment. McPartlin and Donnelly are patrons of the charity Sunshine Fund, when their single Lets Get Ready to Rhumble reached No.1, Ant & Dec donated the singles success to the charity ChildLine. They also support the Text Santa appeal and they opened the W4 Youth Centre in 2013. In 2007, McPartlin with his on-screen presenting partner Donnelly, signed a £30 million two-and-a-half year contract with ITV, McPartlin was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting and entertainment. Ant and Dec have won or been nominated for the awards, In September 2006. An official Saturday Night Takeaway app known as Studio Rush launched on 30 January 2013, the Media Guardian 100–65 Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly. Archived from the original on 15 October 2007, the Media Guardian 100–85 Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly. The Media Guardian 100–35 Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, official Ant & Dec Website Ant McPartlin at the Internet Movie Database
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Declan Donnelly
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Donnelly came to prominence in the childrens drama series Byker Grove and as one half of the pop music duo PJ & Duncan. Since then, Donnelly and McPartlin have had a successful career as television presenters. Since 2002, Ant & Decs Saturday Night Takeaway since 2002, Britains Got Talent since 2007, before then, the duo presented other ITV entertainment series such as PokerFace, Push the Button, Pop Idol and Red or Black. Donnelly is the youngest of seven born to Irish parents Alphonsus. He has three brothers, Martin, Eamonn and Dermott, and three sisters, Patricia, Moyra and Camalia and his parents hailed from Desertmartin, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, but migrated to Newcastle, where they bought a house in 1950s. The family lived in the estate of Cruddas Park for many years. Donnellys future double act partner Anthony McPartlin was raised in an estate but the duo only met in 1986. Donnelly attended St Michaels Roman Catholic Primary School and the all-boys St Cuthberts High School and he considered becoming a Catholic priest but quipped that he changed his mind after seeing the girls from Sacred Heart, the local Catholic girls school. The part of Duncan on Byker Grove was Decs first well-known TV appearance, at the age of 12, he saw an advert in a local newspaper stating that a new childrens TV show would be filmed in Newcastle and was looking for young actors. It was his father who suggested that he audition, at first Dec said he didnt want to, but he later phoned the producer and asked for an audition. He was successful and it was on the Byker Grove set that he first met McPartlin and they also host ITVs reality TV show Im a Celebrity. Get Me Out of Here. In which celebrities are placed in the jungle in Australia and have to compete to win the show, most recently, they hosted Red or Black. A game show which is based on roulette and they also starred in the 2006 film Alien Autopsy. Ant & Dec have their own production company Mitre Television where they produce their shows, Donnelly was the best man at Anthony McPartlins wedding to Lisa Armstrong on 22 July 2006. On 13 November 2014, it was announced that Donnelly had become engaged to their longtime manager Ali Astall, whom he had been dating since 2013. After getting engaged to Ali Astall in November 2014, Donnelly and Alstall were married on 1 August 2015 at St. Michaels Roman Catholic Church, Elswick, Tyne, the ceremony was conducted by his brother Fr Dermott Donnelly, a Catholic priest. Donnelly has stated that he is a practising Roman Catholic but does not publicly discuss religion or his family in depth, Donnelly is a supporter of the Labour Party. Donnelly and McPartlin are patrons of the charity Sunshine Fund, when their single Lets Get Ready to Rhumble reached No.1, Ant & Dec donated the singles success to the charity ChildLine
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Newcastle upon Tyne
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Newcastle is the most populous city in the North East and forms the core of the Tyneside conurbation, the eighth most populous urban area in the United Kingdom. Newcastle is a member of the English Core Cities Group and is a member of the Eurocities network of European cities. Newcastle was part of the county of Northumberland until 1400, when it became a county of itself, the regional nickname and dialect for people from Newcastle and the surrounding area is Geordie. Newcastle also houses Newcastle University, a member of the Russell Group, the city developed around the Roman settlement Pons Aelius and was named after the castle built in 1080 by Robert Curthose, William the Conquerors eldest son. The city grew as an important centre for the trade in the 14th century. The port developed in the 16th century and, along with the lower down the River Tyne, was amongst the worlds largest shipbuilding and ship-repairing centres. Newcastles economy includes corporate headquarters, learning, digital technology, retail, tourism and cultural centres, among its icons are Newcastle United football club and the Tyne Bridge. Since 1981 the city has hosted the Great North Run, a marathon which attracts over 57,000 runners each year. The first recorded settlement in what is now Newcastle was Pons Aelius and it was given the family name of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who founded it in the 2nd century AD. This rare honour suggests Hadrian may have visited the site and instituted the bridge on his tour of Britain, Pons Aelius population at this period was estimated at 2,000. Fragments of Hadrians Wall are visible in parts of Newcastle, particularly along the West Road, the course of the Roman Wall can be traced eastwards to the Segedunum Roman fort in Wallsend—the walls end—and to the supply fort Arbeia in South Shields. After the Roman departure from Britain, completed in 410, Newcastle became part of the powerful Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria, conflicts with the Danes in 876 left the river Tyne and its settlements in ruin. After the conflicts with the Danes, and following the 1088 rebellion against the Normans, Monkchester was all, because of its strategic position, Robert Curthose, son of William the Conqueror, erected a wooden castle there in the year 1080. The town was known as Novum Castellum or New Castle. The wooden structure was replaced by a castle in 1087. The castle was again in 1172 during the reign of Henry II. Much of the keep which can be seen in the city dates from this period. Throughout the Middle Ages, Newcastle was Englands northern fortress, incorporated first by Henry II, the city had a new charter granted by Elizabeth in 1589
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Tyne and Wear
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Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in the North East region of England around the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear. It came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972 and it consists of the five metropolitan boroughs of South Tyneside, North Tyneside, City of Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead and City of Sunderland. It is bounded on the east by the North Sea, and has borders with Northumberland to the north, Tyne and Wear County Council was abolished in 1986, and so its districts are now unitary authorities. However, the county continues to exist in law and as a geographic frame of reference. The Local Government Act 1888 constituted Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, between the county boroughs, various other settlements also formed part of the administrative counties of Durham and of Northumberland. The need to reform local government on Tyneside was recognised by the government as early as 1935, the second-tier units would form by amalgamating the various existing boroughs and districts. The county boroughs in the area would lose their status, within this area, a single municipality would be formed covering the four county boroughs of Newcastle, Gateshead, Tynemouth, South Shields and other urban districts and boroughs. A minority report proposed amalgamation of Newcastle, Gateshead, Wallsend, Jarrow, Felling, Gosforth, the 1937 proposals never came into operation, local authorities could not agree on a scheme and the legislation of the time did not allow central government to compel one. Tyneside was a Special Review Area under the Local Government Act 1958, the Local Government Commission for England came back with a recommendation to create a new county of Tyneside based on the review area, divided into four separate boroughs. The Redcliffe-Maud Report proposed a Tyneside unitary authority, again excluding Sunderland, the Bill as presented in November 1971 pruned back the southern edge of the area, and gave it the name Tyneside. The name Tyneside proved controversial on Wearside, and a government amendment changed the name to Tyne, although the metropolitan county council was abolished in 1986, several joint bodies exist to run certain services on a county-wide basis. Most notable is the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Authority, which co-ordinates transport policy, also through Nexus, the authority subsidises socially necessary transport services and operates a concessionary fares scheme for the elderly and disabled. The Passenger Transport Authority is an authority, raising funds by imposing a levy on the Council Tax of the five constituent authorities of Tyne. In April 2014 Nexus became a body of the new North East Combined Authority. These joint bodies are administered by representatives of all five of the constituent councils, in addition the Northumbria Police force, which covers the whole of Northumberland and Tyne and Wear, is one of several joint forces in England spanning two or more counties. The force was created in 1974, and so is not a by-product of the abolition of the county council, Tyne and Wear either has or closely borders two official Met Office stations, neither located in one of the major urban centres. The locations for those are in marine Tynemouth where Tyne meets the North Sea east of Newcastle, there are some clear differences between the stations temperature and precipitation patterns even though both have a cool-summer and mild-winter oceanic climate. Tyne and Wear is divided into 13 Parliamentary constituencies, at the level of local government, three of the regions five unitary authorities were controlled by Labour in 2005, the exceptions being Newcastle City Council and North Tyneside Council
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Television
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Television or TV is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome, or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a set, a television program. Television is a medium for entertainment, education, news, politics, gossip. Television became available in experimental forms in the late 1920s. After World War II, a form of black-and-white TV broadcasting became popular in the United States and Britain, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses. During the 1950s, television was the medium for influencing public opinion. In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the US, for many reasons, the storage of television and video programming now occurs on the cloud. At the end of the first decade of the 2000s, digital television transmissions greatly increased in popularity, another development was the move from standard-definition television to high-definition television, which provides a resolution that is substantially higher. HDTV may be transmitted in various formats, 1080p, 1080i, in 2013, 79% of the worlds households owned a television set. Most TV sets sold in the 2000s were flat-panel, mainly LEDs, major manufacturers announced the discontinuation of CRT, DLP, plasma, and even fluorescent-backlit LCDs by the mid-2010s. In the near future, LEDs are gradually expected to be replaced by OLEDs, also, major manufacturers have announced that they will increasingly produce smart TVs in the mid-2010s. Smart TVs with integrated Internet and Web 2.0 functions became the dominant form of television by the late 2010s, Television signals were initially distributed only as terrestrial television using high-powered radio-frequency transmitters to broadcast the signal to individual television receivers. Alternatively television signals are distributed by cable or optical fiber, satellite systems and. Until the early 2000s, these were transmitted as analog signals, a standard television set is composed of multiple internal electronic circuits, including a tuner for receiving and decoding broadcast signals. A visual display device which lacks a tuner is correctly called a video monitor rather than a television, the word television comes from Ancient Greek τῆλε, meaning far, and Latin visio, meaning sight. The Anglicised version of the term is first attested in 1907 and it was. formed in English or borrowed from French télévision. In the 19th century and early 20th century, other. proposals for the name of a technology for sending pictures over distance were telephote. The abbreviation TV is from 1948, the use of the term to mean a television set dates from 1941
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Television presenter
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A presenter is a person who introduces or hosts television programs. Some presenters may double as an actor, model, singer, others may be subject matter experts, such as scientists or politicians, serving as presenters for a programme about their field of expertise. Some are celebrities who have made their name in one area, another example would be American stand-up comedian Joe Rogan, who is a commentator and post-fight interviewer in UFC. The term is used in other countries including Ireland, Australia. In the US, such a person is called a host
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Stand-up comedy
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Stand-up comedy is a comic style in which a comedian performs in front of a live audience, usually speaking directly to them. The performer is known as a comic, stand-up comic, stand-up comedian. In stand-up comedy, the comedian usually recites a grouping of humorous stories, jokes and one-liners typically called a monologue, routine, some stand-up comedians use props, music, or magic tricks to enhance their acts. Stand-up comedy is often performed in clubs, bars and pubs, nightclubs. Outside of live performance, stand-up is often distributed commercially via television, DVD, CD, in stand-up comedy, the feedback of the audience is instant and crucial for the comedians act. Audiences expect a stand-up comic to provide a stream of laughs. Will Ferrell has called stand-up comedy hard, lonely and vicious, a stand-up comedy show may involve only one comedian, or feature a headline or a showcase format. This is followed by one or two middle or featured acts, who perform 15- to 20-minute sets, followed by a headliner who performs for longer, a showcase format may still feature an MC. Bringer shows are another opportunity for amateur performers, the performer must bring a specified number of paying guests in order to get stage time. The guests usually have to pay a charge and there is often a minimum number of drinks that must be ordered. These shows usually have a showcase format and this type of show gives comedians better exposure than open mics because there is usually better audience turnout and industry professionals sometimes go to watch. Different comedy clubs have different requirements for their bringer shows, gotham Comedy Club in New York City, for example, usually has ten-person bringers, while Broadway Comedy Club in New York City usually has six-person bringers. As the name implies, stand-up comedians usually perform their material while standing, stand-up comedy has its origin in classic Parrhesia in 400 BC used for cynics and epicureans in order to tell the reality without censorship. Stand-up comedy in the United Kingdom began in the halls of the 18th and 19th centuries. The heavy censorship regime of the Lord Chamberlains Office required all comedians to submit their acts for censorship, the act would be returned with unacceptable sections underlined in blue pencil. The comedian was then obliged not to deviate from the act in its edited form, the rise of the post-war comedians coincided with the rise of television and radio, and the traditional music hall circuit suffered greatly as a result. By the 1970s, music hall entertainment was virtually dead, alternative circuits had evolved, such as working mens clubs. The alternative comedy scene began to evolve
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Actor
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
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Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
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Ant & Decs Saturday Night Takeaway, often referred to simply as Saturday Night Takeaway or SNT, is a British television variety show presented and executively produced by Ant & Dec. The show was first broadcast on 8 June 2002 on ITV and it was broadcast live from The London Studios on the South Bank from 2002 till 2017. Since its launch in 2002, the show was unbeaten for four series in its timeslot until scheduled against Doctor Who on BBC One in March 2005, on 10 September 2005, ITV aired a programme listing the 50 best shows in ITVs 50 years being on air. Ant & Decs Saturday Night Takeaway came second, being beaten by Coronation Street, the show went on hiatus in 2010 after its ninth series to allow Ant & Dec to launch family game shows Ant & Decs Push the Button and Red or Black. However, in November 2011, it was announced that Saturday Night Takeaway would return in early 2013, after winning the award for Best Presenters at the 18th National Television Awards on 23 January 2013, Ant & Dec announced that the show would return on 23 February 2013. An official Saturday Night Takeaway iOS app for iPod, iPhone, after the fifth episode of series 10, ITV announced that the show would return for an eleventh series in 2014, owing to the popularity of the tenth run. During the final episode of series 11, Dec confirmed that there would be another series in 2015, the twelfth series began airing in 21 February 2015. During the final episode of series 12, Ant confirmed there would be a 13th series in 2016, during episode 6 of Series 13, Ant confirmed there would be a 14th series in 2017, which began on 25 February 2017. In Episode 6 of Series 14, Dec revealed there would be a 15th series in early 2018, on 31 October 2013, it was announced that an arena tour of the show would take place in summer 2014. Takeaway on Tour Live visited 12 UK arenas between 6 August and 10 September 2014, Saturday Night Takeaway won the BAFTA for Entertainment Programme and Ant & Dec won Entertainment Performance for their role in the show in both 2014 and 2015. Saturday Night Takeaway has been filmed at the London Studios in studio 1 since the show launched in 2002. Many of the games that are played during the show have at some point been filmed around the studios, from the roof, car park, other studios and even in the itv studios lifts. When the show returned after its break in 2013 the show returned to the London Studios, Series 14 of Ant and Dec Saturday Night Takeaway would be the last to be filmed at the studios due to ITV closing the studios for building work. On 21 February 2017 ITV announced that The London Studios where Saturday Night Takeaway is filmed is due to be moved from the London studios to another studio in London. The building is due to be bigger and to be the most up to date television studio in the U. K, however this means that Saturday Night Takeaway will be moved to a temporal studio from series 15 onwards in 2018, the studios. The Building work is due to take a number of years, before the titles, a comedy clip is shown, which always climaxes with either Ant or Dec – sometimes both of them or someone else who is there with them – exclaiming Roll the titles. From series 1–4, Dec knocks on Ants door to him it is time for the show to start. They then run through vast amounts of multi-coloured brick walls and they get exhausted, before one more run, from series 5–9, the titles begin with Ant & Dec running down a street at dusk and leaping onto the side of a house
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Britain's Got Talent
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Britains Got Talent is a British television talent show reality TV competition which started in June 2007 and originated from the Got Talent franchise. The show is a Thames production distributed by FremantleMedia and is produced in association with Syco TV, the show is broadcast on ITV and its sister show Britains Got More Talent is broadcast on ITV2. Anyone of any age with some sort of talent can audition for the show, acts compete against each other in order to gain the audience support while trying to win the title of The winner of Britains Got Talent. The original judging panel consisted of the shows creator Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Kelly Brook was brought in briefly as a fourth judge in series 3, but was axed after one audition site. Morgan did not return for series 5 and Cowell was only present during the shows, while David Hasselhoff. Alesha Dixon and David Walliams joined the panel in series 6 as replacements for McIntyre, throughout the show, contestants must perform in front of the judges, and each year initial auditions have been held in front of a live audience. Auditions precede live semi-finals, where the final 45 contestants perform nightly for a week in order to impress the British public, each night, two acts from each semi-final progress to the live final. There have been ten winners to date, Paul Potts, George Sampson, Diversity, Spelbound, Jai McDowall, Ashleigh and Pudsey, Attraction, Collabro, Jules ODwyer & Matisse and Richard Jones. A significant show in British popular culture, Britains Got Talent is the UKs biggest television talent competition, the series 3 live final brought in 17.3 million viewers, a 64. 6% audience share. On 29 February 2016, it was announced that ITV had signed a contract to renew Britains Got Talent until 2019. The shows format was devised by The X Factor creator and Sony Music executive Simon Cowell, a pilot episode was filmed in September 2005, with the judging panel consisting of Cowell, then-This Morning presenter Fern Britton, and tabloid journalist Piers Morgan. It was originally planned that the show would be broadcast in 2006, however, after defection to Channel 4 for The Paul OGrady Show, he refused to appear on another ITV show, so the show was put on hold. The pilot remained unbroadcast on television until it was shown during The Talent Show Story in January 2012, in a 2010 interview, OGrady said, I did the pilot for Britains Got Talent – which was originally going to be called Paul OGradys Got Talent. But I told the producers they were having a joke if they thought I would front a show with that title, the original panel of judges was going to be Simon Cowell, Fern Britton and Piers Morgan. Then when I had the row with ITV I was banned from the studios, I remember I rang Simon and told him he had a huge hit on his hands, but there was no way I could do it. I said, if I am banned I have to be banned from everything, I can’t be a hypocrite and come in and do this. On 12 February 2007, following the success of Americas Got Talent the previous year, it was announced that the show would air in June 2007 with Cowell, Morgan and actress Amanda Holden as judges. Ant & Dec were announced as presenters, with Stephen Mulhern as the presenter of ITV2 spin-off series Britains Got More Talent, the auditions take place in front of the judges and a live audience at different cities across the UK
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Byker Grove
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Byker Grove is a British television series which aired between 1989 and 2006 and was created by Adele Rose. The show was broadcast at 5. 10pm after Newsround on CBBC on BBC One and it was aimed at an older teenager and young adult audience, tackling serious and sometimes controversial storylines. The show ran between 1989 and 2006, and was set in a club in the Byker district of Newcastle upon Tyne. Byker Grove was the idea of the TV executive Andrea Wonfor. In 1987, she approached soap writer Adele Rose, together they created a single pilot episode featuring children aged 8–11 at an out-of-school club. In autumn 1988, Wonfor gained the backing of Anna Home, Home gave the go ahead for a run of a series of six 25-minute episodes to be broadcast by the BBC. The age of the characters was raised to 12-16 after support from first producer-director. The first series therefore centred on young teenagers crossing the bridge from childhood to adulthood, although some of the action took place outside the youth club, the series was unusual among dramas in that the characters were rarely shown in school. One of the settings was the foster home run by the kindly but strict Lou Gallagher. Also appearing in the series was the now glamour model Francoise Boufhal and Charlie Hunnam, founder producer/director was Matthew Robinson who, after Byker Grove, became executive producer of EastEnders, Head of Drama BBC Wales and now runs Khmer Mekong Films in Cambodia. It was also home to such as Catherine Johnson and Matthew Graham. The first writer was Adele Rose - in Series 1 she wrote episodes 1–4 and 6, her daughter, Carrie Rose, the most prolific was Brian B. Thompson, who wrote 50 episodes over 12 series, Byker Grove gave Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper his first break into TV drama when he directed four episodes in 1997. Byker Grove was not filmed in the Byker area of Newcastle, the actual youth club set was in Benwell, which is in the west area of the City, Byker being in the east. Byker Metro station and other landmarks in the real Byker are used for filming backdrops, the youth club building which is what the viewers see on-screen, known as The Mitre used to be a nightclub and a pub. After the success of the 1st series, The Mitre was bought by the BBCs London property department which then granted Zenith Television a permanent licence to film the series there, the building housed the actual set, production offices, make up suite and costume department. Currently the property is semi-vacant, and the Zenith North Television signs have been removed outside the building, the final series started on 7 October 2006 on the CBBC Channel. Richard Deverell, head of CBBC, was interviewed on Newsround about the decision to axe Byker Grove, the eighteenth and last series of Byker Grove was produced by Tim Holloway, who also produced Casualty from 2000 until 2002
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Red or Black?
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Was a short-lived British television game show which was broadcast on ITV between 3 September 2011 and 29 September 2012. Presented by Ant & Dec and developed by Simon Cowell, Red or Black, is the most expensive game show in television history, with a £15 million budget. In each round, contestants choose red or black, with those that choose the colour being eliminated. During the first series, four finalists guessed the colour correctly in the final round, over 100,000 members of the public applied to be on the show, with the numbers being reduced down to a different final eight contestants per live show each night for seven nights. Was commissioned for a series, which featured the format having been revamped significantly. Celebrities such as Carol Vorderman, Jonathan Ross and Little Mix were involved in the rounds for this series, the show also featured several Syco-related music acts. Sponsorship for the first series was targeted at National Lottery operator Camelot Group. The second series was sponsored by controversial loans site wonga. com, in the week where the first series of Red or Black. Aired, ITV gained a larger audience share than it had in the week directly previous. The Sun began a campaign calling for Hageman to return the money and it did, however, lead to ITV dropping three other contestants from the show, with at least one withdrawn because of their criminal record. This was also a factor in the pre-recording of series 2. It was presented by Brian Conley, but was not broadcast, rosencrantz spoke of the pilot in 2011, I didnt believe people would like to see someone win a vast sum of money, with no skills at all involved. Second, gambling is not a sport, you get an adrenaline rush from participating in it. Richard Holloway, who worked with FremantleMedia at the time of producing the pilot, said, It was an idea, you could win a million pounds eventually. Rosencrantz left ITV in 2006, and there has been a significant turnover in staff since the pilot was put together. The show was launched by ITV and Syco at the Millennium Hotel Mayfair, the initial recruitment phase for contestants lasted until 13 May. The updated format was conceived by Simon Cowell, who said that it was inspired by roulette and the story of Ashley Revell and it is the most expensive game show in history, costing in the region of £15m, at around £1. 5m per episode. ITVs director of entertainment and comedy, Elaine Bedell, was contacted by Cowell, This being Simon this was at 1. 30am, but even then it was quite a compelling idea
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SMTV Live
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At the height of its popularity, SMTV Live regularly attracted 2.5 million viewers. Ant & Decs former company Gallowgate Holdings Limited currently owns the rights to the show, SMTV Live was originally hosted by Byker Grove stars Ant & Dec alongside former fashion model Cat Deeley. In 2001, Ant & Dec left the show to present Saturday night talent show Pop Idol and were replaced by Hollyoaks star James Redmond, redmonds stint at SMTV Live lasted just three months however, after show bosses decided he had not settled into the role. Deeley left the show in 2002 to focus on presenting BBC talent show Fame Academy, SMTV Live featured many sketches, many of which parodying popular TV shows of the time, some of which became staple to SMTV itself. A short-lived sketch with Farmer Ant presenting a pseudo-preschool show teaching children about the countryside, the sketch would feature a song where Dec would twist the lyrics to lambast the countryside and eventually, be forced by Ant into line with singing threats of calling the Chinese takeaway. Duck was done by having Dec sitting on a stool in a costume, with fake duck legs on a haystack so it would look like Duck was short. Cat the Dog first appeared in the Dec Says/The Secret of My Success run of sketches before starring in her own series of skits upon Ant, each episode would begin & end with Cat writing in her diary. Joined by her bestest ever ever friend pop star Louise Redknapp, Cat the Dog was dressed as a goofy Brummie teenager with huge false teeth & big wild hair, a recurring joke involved Cat mentioning that she had measured herself again and nothing was growing. Towards the end of the series, she said that they were growing, a parody of the American sitcom Friends. Many recurring themes and plot lines appeared in Chums, such as the romance between Dec and Cat and their attempts at kissing being continuously interrupted. Ant and Decs final episode saw Dec pulling out of marrying Cat, the series ended shortly afterwards with a final farewell episode airing during the final show, seeing the trio returning to a deserted flat. Episodes nearly always ended with the freeze-frame, where everyone would freeze exactly where they were, the celebrity guests present always took part in Chums, usually appearing as new flatmates or visitors. Amongst the best remembered episodes were their parodies of Big Brother, episodes usually opened with either a joke based on the line. Is filmed in front of a studio audience such as Chums is filmed in front of a bribed/jive/hive studio audience or a spoof sponsor plug. Chums later spawned a VHS compilation and weekday repeats as part of CITV, a parody of Heartbeat, featuring very little plot and mostly revolving around breaking wind. A parody of Art Attack, presented by Neil Pumpcannon, similar to Fartbeat above, the gags were all based around passing wind. The real Neil Buchanan appeared in the final sketch, Brian Dowling and Tess Daly later took part in a revised series of sketches entitled SMTV2099, The Next Generation. A parody of The Vicar of Dibley, with the based on dribbling water over the characters
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Pop Idol
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Pop Idol is a British television music competition created by Simon Fuller which ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003. The aim of the show was to decide the best new pop singer in the UK based on viewer voting. Two series were broadcast—one in 2001–2002 and a second in 2003, Pop Idol was subsequently put on an indefinite hiatus after series judge Simon Cowell announced the launch of The X Factor in the UK in April 2004. The show has become an international TV franchise since, spawning multiple Idol series worldwide, the final of the first series of Pop Idol in February 2002 received the highest-ever one-night vote for a UK TV show, making the show one of ITVs most profitable. The sister show on ITV2, Pop Idol Extra, hosted by Kate Thornton also made use of mobile phone text messages to raise additional revenue. The first Pop Idol received very high voting figures despite allowing only telephone and Internet voting, the Saturday night primetime show initially followed the audition process, as hopefuls sang before four judges at various locations around the UK. Besides the successful auditionees, the poorest singers were often aired due to their obvious lack of talent or presence, poor singers often faced harsh criticisms from the judges, especially from Simon Cowell. The viewing public quickly fell in love with the format though, the judges policy of speaking candidly would have to be sanitised in series 2, however, as it received condemnation from MPs. Once the first round of auditions were completed, the moved to the Criterion Theatre. Unusually, this was the point at which the judges had direct control over the contestants fates. Stage 3 of the series place in a conventional TV studio. The 50 contestants were split into five groups of ten, each of whom sang one song for the judges, each judge offered their opinion, and at the end of the pre-recorded show phone lines opened for votes. Later the same evening a live show followed in which the results were revealed. In series 2, a round was added, in which the judges selected ten rejected contestants. In this special edition, one contestant, Susanne Manning, was selected by the viewer vote and this meant that the next stage began with twelve contestants, rather than the ten in series 1. For the final stage, the moved to a more lavish TV set. Most editions had a theme, with singing songs from a particular genre or artist. Again, the judges offered comments, but the results were decided by viewer voting, exceptions to the usual format were limited
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Alien Autopsy (film)
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Alien Autopsy is a 2006 British comedy film with elements of science fiction, directed by Jonny Campbell. Written by William Davies, it relates the events surrounding the famous alien autopsy film promoted by Ray Santilli and stars Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, the film was a moderate commercial success domestically, making no.3 on the British box office chart. In 1995, Ray Santilli and his friend Gary Shoefield go to America to find Elvis memorabilia to sell on the market stall Ray runs in London. Harvey, a former US Army cameraman, sells them a silent black and white film of Elvis performing live, Harvey takes Ray to Miami, Florida to see a film from 1947 showing the autopsy of an alien supposedly killed in a UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico. Harvey wants $30,000 for the film, Gary and Ray return to England to look for an investor to give them the money. A Hungarian art dealer, Laszlo Voros, who is obsessed with circles, gives Ray the $30,000 after Ray convinces Voros that he is telling the truth. Harvey gets the money and gives the film to Ray and Gary. However, in the interim, the film has eaten itself and is now completely unwatchable, based on Rays memories of the content of the original, and with the help of some friends, Ray and Gary remake the autopsy film. Once finished, Ray gives a copy of the new film to Voros, but when Voros hears that the film is going on air worldwide, he claims that he never gave his permission for Santilli to distribute the film and demands that they stop the international airings. Good fortune intervenes, however, when Voros is knocked down, amber Fuentes, a newswoman, eventually tracks down Harvey, who demands from Ray and Gary that they help him keep his anonymity. They produce an interview with a man posing as Harvey. The now restored original 1947 film is returned, which Ray had left in the hands of film restoration experts in the hope that the footage could somehow be recovered. Some sections of the film had been repaired and were now watchable, after viewing the film, Ray and Gary bury it, telling each other that they cant go through with it all over again. Ten years later in 2005, Ray and Gary retell this event to a maker named Morgan Banner. The film also contains appearances by Ray Santilli, Todd Sherry and Gary Shoefield. The film received positive reviews earning an 71% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film was released as a Region 2 DVD by Warner Home Video on 3 July 2006, in America, the film was released as a Region 1 DVD by Warner Home Video on 21 September 2010. - Documentary on YouTube Alien Autopsy at the Internet Movie Database Alien Autopsy at Rotten Tomatoes
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Order of the British Empire
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There is also the related British Empire Medal, whose recipients are affiliated with, but not members of, the order. Recommendations for appointments to the Order of the British Empire were at first made on the nomination of the United Kingdom, the self-governing Dominions of the Empire, nominations continue today from Commonwealth countries that participate in recommending British honours. Most members are citizens of the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth realms that use the Imperial system of honours and awards. Honorary knighthoods are appointed to citizens of nations where the Queen is not head of state, occasionally, honorary appointees are, incorrectly, referred to as Sir or Dame – Bill Gates or Bob Geldof, for example. In particular, King George V wished to create an Order to honour many thousands of those who had served in a variety of non-combatant roles during the First World War, when first established, the Order had only one division. However, in 1918, soon after its foundation, it was divided into Military. The Orders motto is For God and the Empire, at the foundation of the Order, the Medal of the Order of the British Empire was instituted, to serve as a lower award granting recipients affiliation but not membership. In 1922, this was renamed the British Empire Medal, in addition, the BEM is awarded by the Cook Islands and by some other Commonwealth nations. The British monarch is Sovereign of the Order, and appoints all members of the Order. The next most senior member is the Grand Master, of whom there have been three, Prince Edward, the Prince of Wales, Queen Mary, and the current Grand Master, the Duke of Edinburgh. The Order is limited to 300 Knights and Dames Grand Cross,845 Knights and Dames Commander, and 8,960 Commanders. There are no limits applied to the number of members of the fourth and fifth classes. Foreign recipients, as members, do not contribute to the numbers restricted to the Order as full members do. Though men can be knighted separately from an order of chivalry, women cannot, and so the rank of Knight/Dame Commander of the Order is the lowest rank of damehood, and second-lowest of knighthood. Because of this, Dame Commander is awarded in circumstances in which a man would be created a Knight Bachelor, for example, by convention, female judges of the High Court of Justice are created Dames Commander after appointment, while male judges become Knights Bachelor. The Order has six officials, the Prelate, the Dean, the Secretary, the Registrar, the King of Arms, the Bishop of London, a senior bishop in the Church of England, serves as the Orders Prelate. The Dean of St Pauls is ex officio the Dean of the Order, the Orders King of Arms is not a member of the College of Arms, as are many other heraldic officers. From time to time, individuals are appointed to a higher grade within the Order, thereby ceasing usage of the junior post-nominal letters
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CBBC
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CBBC is a BBC childrens television strand aimed for older children aged from 6 to 12. BBC programming aimed at under six year old children is broadcast on the CBeebies channel, CBBC broadcasts from 7 am to 9 pm on the digital CBBC Channel, available on most UK digital platforms. CBBC programmes were also broadcast in high definition alongside other BBC content on BBC HD, generally at afternoons on weekends and this ended when BBC HD closed on 26 March 2013, but CBBC HD launched on 10 December 2013. BBC-produced childrens programming, in languages of Scotland and Wales, also airs on BBC Alba. The BBC has produced and broadcast television programmes for children since the 1930s, the first children-specific strand on BBC television was For the Children, first broadcast on what was then the single BBC Television Service on Saturday 24 April 1937, it was only ten minutes long. It lasted for two years before being taken off air when the service closed due to the Second World War in September 1939, the 1964 launch of BBC Two allowed additional room for childrens programming with an edition of Play School technically being the first official programme. On 1 October 1980, Watch with Mother was replaced by See-Saw, meanwhile, weekday afternoon childrens programmes on BBC One were introduced by the usually off-screen continuity announcer, though often specially-designed menus and captions would be used. On 9 September 1985, this block of childrens programming was rebranded as Childrens BBC, and for the first time the childrens block had dedicated idents. Previously the BBC had broadcast childrens programming using BBC1s team of regular duty announcers, the launch presenter for this block, and thus the first Childrens BBC presenter of the current format, was Phillip Schofield. During the 1990s, Childrens BBC began to be referred to informally on-air as CBBC, the official billing name of Childrens BBC remained in place, however, until the BBCs network-wide branding refresh of October 1997, when the official on-air branding changed to CBBC. From 1996 to 1999, CBBC programmes were shown on the channel Nickelodeon, in 2002, the launch of the CBBC Channel and the CBeebies Channel saw a wide variety of programmes, both new and archive, being shown again on the new channels from 6/7 am until 7pm. Ms Jowell responded that it was the Governments job to develop a charter for the BBC, and then the BBCs job to determine standards of taste, decency and appropriateness. In 2009, a report published by the BBC Trust found that changes which took place in February 2008. It was found that the majority of viewers watched the programmes on these channels already. Childrens programming on BBC One ended on 21 December 2012 with the CBeebies morning strand on BBC Two ending on 4 January 2013, the two new hours are aimed towards an older youth audience. On 14 March 2016, CBBC unveiled a new logo and on-air presentation, featuring an abstract, CBBC controller Cheryl Taylo stated that the new brand was designed to be fun and unpredictable and would appeal to both ends of our broad age spectrum. The logo was meant to be suitable for use across digital platforms. On 11 April 2016, CBBC officially extended its broadcast day to be from 7,00 a. m. to 9,00 p. m. CBBC is operated by the BBC Childrens division, part of BBC North
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Friends Like These
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Friends Like These was a British game show that was broadcast on BBC One first as a pilot on 6 November 1999 and then as a full series from 12 February 2000 until 20 September 2003. It was presented by Ant & Dec from 1999 to 2001, the game show involved two teams, one male and one female, both made up of five individuals. Each team then had to compete in 4 challenges, picking one person from their team for each challenge, each challenge would win the team a point, which would go forward to the final round, also known as The Decider. When each team was left with one contestant a piece, they would go forward to play the deciding challenge. The team with the most points at the end would be the winners, the winning team would then taken to the face to face round, where each member of the team was asked a question to see how much they know about them. If the person correctly guesses their friends answer, their chair stays white, however, if the person incorrectly guesses their friends answer, their chair goes red. After all of these questions had been asked, the team could leave, with only those in white winning the prize. They also had the option to gamble, in which everyone in the red and white would be asked a question about all 5. However, if they got it wrong, none of the team would receive the prize, friends Like These at the Internet Movie Database
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PokerFace
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This article is about the British game show. For the Indian version, see PokerFace, Dil Sachcha Chehra Jhootha, for other versions, see list of international versions below. PokerFace is a British game show broadcast on ITV, where one person is guaranteed to win £1 million, the show was created by Ant & Dec, who also host it. As implied by the title, PokerFace, is based on the aspect of poker games. The contestants do not necessarily need to get the right in order to win. The show was going to be called The Con Test. However, the Australian version is called The Con Test, series 1 of the show was aired nightly for seven consecutive days, whilst series 2 saw the show moved to a Saturday prime-time slot, lasted for seven weeks. On each show,6 contestants compete for a prize of £50,000, the show opens with The Grilling. This is where the 6 contestants are introduced, and tell the contestants about themselves. The viewers can see whether a person is telling the truth or not by the TRUE, after all 6 contestants have been introduced and grilled, the game begins. Each contestant sits in front of a screen, and they can see their own score. In Round 1, there are 8 multiple choice questions with three possible answers, one of them being the answer, worth £500 each. Every contestant will have 5 seconds to lock in their answer, after the answer to each question is revealed, viewers at home can see which contestants got it right or wrong by a series of gold ticks and red crosses appearing on the pictures of each contestant. At the end of round, viewers at home see the leaderboard. Ant & Dec then ask the contestants in turn how they think they did in that round, after the round has finished, the face-off begins. The contestants stand in front of red buttons that rise from the floor, there are 2 possible outcomes, A contestant folds by pressing the button. Theyll lose their place in the game, but take home with them their winnings, the player with the least money will be removed from the game and theyll leave with nothing. If there is a tie at the bottom, then the person who answered their questions the slowest is out, in either case, the losing contestant is briefly interviewed and asked to justify their decision
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Ant & Dec's Push the Button
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Ant & Decs Push the Button is a game show which first aired on ITV from 27 February 2010 until 2 April 2011. The show is hosted by Ant & Dec, during the show the contestants compete to win a jackpot of £100,000. The family who have banked the most cash go through to the final to face DAVE, the game show is voiced over by Matt Berry, replacing Ronnie Corbett. In series 2, the changed to being broadcast live. It featured a round called The Accumulator, which gave the families a chance to increase their cash prize. Also, the family had a chance to play in the next game the following week to increase their money. Ant & Decs Push the Button at the Internet Movie Database Ant & Decs Push the Button at itv. com Ant & Decs Push the Button at UKGameshows. com
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Text Santa
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Text Santa was a charity initiative set up in 2011 by ITV to support UK-based charities during the Christmas period. The appeal to the public is to donate money mainly via text donation, the telethons have been hosted by popular ITV presenters including Phillip Schofield, Christine Bleakley and Ant & Dec. The 2015 appeal show was the last after ITV decided to axe the show to make way for an all-year appeal, the Text Santa 2015 appeal theme music was created by London based music production company A-MNEMONIC Music Official Website. C. Leigh Haggerwood is proud of the association with the Text Santa campaign and has pledged to support it each year. My Favourite Time of Year was not used for the 2015 appeal, in 2013, the cast of The Big Reunion released a cover of I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday, with all proceeds going to the Text Santa charities. The single peaked at 21 in the UK singles charts, all of the money raised gets split between the charities supported by the appeal. In 2011, there were nine chosen charities, in 2012,2013 and 2014, there were six and in 2015, the 2011 appeal aired in two parts. The launch show aired on 11 December 2011 and was hosted by Phillip Schofield, the main show aired on Christmas Eve with Ant & Dec and Holly Willoughby as presenters. Events On 27 November 2011, at The Kia Oval Cricket Ground, Stephen Mulhern and Diversity entertained the participants. However, not enough people turned out for the attempt of 13,200 Santas. The 2012 telethon aired live on 21 December 2012, the first hour of the telethon was hosted by Ant & Dec, the second by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, and the third by Christine Bleakley and Paddy McGuinness, all from The London Studios. Kyle treated these people with special trips and featured a guest appearance from Only Boys Aloud, a special edition of Dickinsons Real Deal from Ilford aired at 15,00 for Text Santa. A celebrity special of The Chase aired at 17,00 on 21 December for Text Santa, featuring Bradley Walsh as host with contestants Lorraine Kelly, Craig Charles, Jamelia, together they raised £22,000 for the Text Santa charities. A special edition of Celebrity Juice aired on ITV & UTV at 23, Laura Hamilton and Jeff Brazier presented a special 45-minute CITV programme at 16,00 on 21 December called Text Santa, CITV Special. On 6 December 2012, the Biggest Bag Pack Ever took place in 200 Asda stores nationwide, celebrities including Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford helped out in the Watford branch. EBay auctions took place to raise money for Text Santa, items sold included This Mornings sofa which sold for £1,200, the 2013 telethon aired live on 20 December 2013. Morrisons, Santander and Vodafone were Text Santas official partners for the 2013 appeal, an official charity single by the cast of The Big Reunion, performing a cover of I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday was released in December 2013 to raise money for Text Santa. Within other shows 15p from each vote on the entertainment show Stepping Out and this Mornings Take a Moment campaign raised £250,000 for the Text Santa appeal
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180-degree rule
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In film making, the 180-degree rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene. The camera passing over the axis is called jumping the line or crossing the line, the 180-degree rule enables the audience to visually connect with unseen movement happening around and behind the immediate subject and is important in the narration of battle scenes. In a dialogue scene between two characters, a line can be imagined running between the two characters, and extending to infinity. If the camera remains on one side of line, the spatial relationship between the two characters will be consistent from shot to shot, even if one of the characters is not on screen. Shifting to the side of the characters on a cut will reverse the order of the characters from left to right. The rule also applies to the movement of a character as the created by the path of the character. For example, if a character is walking in a direction and is to be picked up by another camera. A jump cut can be used to denote time, If a character leaves the frame on the left side and enters the frame on the left in a different location, it can give the illusion of an extended amount of time passing. Another example could be a car chase, If a vehicle leaves the side of the frame in one shot. Leaving from the right and entering from the right creates a sense of disorientation as in the dialogue example. The imaginary line allows viewers to orient themselves with the position and direction of action in a scene, If a shot following an earlier shot in a sequence is located on the opposite side of the 180-degree line, then it is called a reverse cut. The movement in the scene can be altered, or cameras set up on one side of the scene so that all the shots reflect the view from that side of the 180-degree line. Another way to allow for crossing the line is to have several shots with the camera arching from one side of the line to the other during the scene. That shot can be used to orient the audience to the fact that they are looking at the scene from another angle. To minimize the jolt between shots in a sequence on either sides of the 180-degree line, a shot can be included along the 180-degree line separating each side. This lets the viewer visually comprehend the change in viewpoint expressed in the sequence, in professional productions, the applied 180-degree rule is an essential element for a style of film editing called continuity editing. The rule is not always obeyed, sometimes a filmmaker purposely breaks the line of action to create disorientation. Dreyer did this in The Passion of Joan of Arc, Stanley Kubrick also did this—for example, the Wachowskis and directors Jacques Demy, Tinto Brass, Yasujirō Ozu, Wong Kar-wai, and Jacques Tati sometimes ignored this rule also, as has Lars von Trier in Antichrist
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Brit Awards
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The Brit Awards are the British Phonographic Industrys annual pop music awards. The name was originally a form of British, Britain or Britannia. In addition, an equivalent awards ceremony for music, called the Classic Brit Awards, is held each May. Robbie Williams holds the record for the most Brit Awards,13 as a solo artist, the awards originated as an annual event in 1982 under the auspices of the British record industrys trade association, the BPI. In 1989 they were renamed the Brit Awards, masterCard has been the long-term sponsor of the event. The Brit Awards were broadcast live until 1989, when Samantha Fox, in subsequent years, the event was recorded and broadcast the following night. From 2007, the Brit Awards reverted to a live broadcast on British television, on 14 February on ITV. In that year, comedian Russell Brand was presenter and three awards were dropped from the ceremony, Best British Rock Act, Best British Urban Act, on 18 February 2009, the venue for the BRITs was once again the Earls Court, London. The Brit Awards were held at The O2 in London for the first time in 2011, the Brit Award statuette given to the winners features Britannia, the female personification of Britain. The first awards ceremony was in 1977, as The BRITish Record Industry BRITannia Awards, there have been 36 editions to date. The 2016 Brit Awards was held on 24 February 2016, the 1988 BPI Awards was the first of the ceremonies to be broadcast on live television. The BBC had previously broadcast the ceremony from 1985, with the shows from 1982 to 1984 not broadcast on television, the BBC continued to broadcast the renamed BRIT Awards, live in 1989 and pre-recorded from 1990 to 1992. ITV have broadcast the awards since 1993, pre-recorded until 2006, BBC Radio 1 has provided backstage radio coverage since 2008. In 1987 the BPI Awards ceremony was held in the Great Room at the Grosvenor House Hotel, at the time there was a BBC electricians strike in effect, and the organisers decided to use a non-TV events production company, called Upfront, to manage the show. Despite the show being picketed, the event was transmitted as intended, for a while the outdoor broadcast scanner was rocked on its wheels by the protesters and they managed to shut off the power to one of the big GE video screen projectors. In 1989, the ceremony was broadcast live and presented by Fleetwood Macs Mick Fleetwood, the inexperience of the hosts, an ineffective autocue and little preparation combined to create an unprofessional show that was poorly received. The 1990 awards ceremony saw the last public appearance of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, Queen appeared at the ceremony to receive the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. Mercury did not make a speech, as Brian May did the talking on behalf of the other members, in 1992, dance/art band The KLF were awarded Best British Group and were booked to open the show
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2015 Brit Awards
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The 2015 Brit Awards were held on 25 February 2015. This was the 35th edition of the British Phonographic Industrys annual pop music awards, the awards ceremony was held at The O2 in London, presented by Ant & Dec. This was their second time hosting, and their first since 2001, award nominations were revealed on 15 January 2015. Tracey Emin became the fifth artist to style the BRITs statue, the first three performers were announced for the 2015 Brit Awards on 16 December 2014. Reggie Yates hosted the show inside the ITV Studios in London on Thursday 15th January. Kanye West was confirmed to perform just the day before the awards took place and he performed his song All Day amongst a large entourage including grime musicians Skepta, Stormzy, Krept and Konan, Jammer and Novelist. The entourage held flamethrowers and wore all black, madonna was the last to perform on the night, singing a version of her song Living for Love to close the show and mark her first Brits performance in 20 years. Shortly into her performance, a problem with her caused her to be pulled down a flight of stairs that made up part of the stage. She later took to Instagram to confirm that she was uninjured and it was later revealed that her cape was tied too tightly when her dancers attempted to remove it from her neck, causing her to crash to the floor and leaving the audience in shock. After several seconds, she continued the performance as planned
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2016 Brit Awards
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The 2016 Brit Awards were held on 24 February 2016 and was the 36th edition of the British Phonographic Industrys annual pop music awards. The awards ceremony was held at The O2 in London and were presented by Ant & Dec. Award nominations were revealed on 14 January 2016, British fashion designer Pam Hogg has designed the trophies for this years ceremony, styling the BRIT statue. Laura Whitmore hosted the launch at the ITV Studios in London on Thursday 14 January, the nominations were revealed on 14 January 2016
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BBC
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The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. It is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, the BBC is the worlds oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. It employs over 20,950 staff in total,16,672 of whom are in public sector broadcasting, the total number of staff is 35,402 when part-time, flexible, and fixed contract staff are included. The BBC is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its Agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament, and used to fund the BBCs radio, TV, britains first live public broadcast from the Marconi factory in Chelmsford took place in June 1920. It was sponsored by the Daily Mails Lord Northcliffe and featured the famous Australian Soprano Dame Nellie Melba, the Melba broadcast caught the peoples imagination and marked a turning point in the British publics attitude to radio. However, this public enthusiasm was not shared in official circles where such broadcasts were held to interfere with important military and civil communications. By late 1920, pressure from these quarters and uneasiness among the staff of the licensing authority, the General Post Office, was sufficient to lead to a ban on further Chelmsford broadcasts. But by 1922, the GPO had received nearly 100 broadcast licence requests, John Reith, a Scottish Calvinist, was appointed its General Manager in December 1922 a few weeks after the company made its first official broadcast. The company was to be financed by a royalty on the sale of BBC wireless receiving sets from approved manufacturers, to this day, the BBC aims to follow the Reithian directive to inform, educate and entertain. The financial arrangements soon proved inadequate, set sales were disappointing as amateurs made their own receivers and listeners bought rival unlicensed sets. By mid-1923, discussions between the GPO and the BBC had become deadlocked and the Postmaster-General commissioned a review of broadcasting by the Sykes Committee and this was to be followed by a simple 10 shillings licence fee with no royalty once the wireless manufactures protection expired. The BBCs broadcasting monopoly was made explicit for the duration of its current broadcast licence, the BBC was also banned from presenting news bulletins before 19.00, and required to source all news from external wire services. Mid-1925 found the future of broadcasting under further consideration, this time by the Crawford committee, by now the BBC under Reiths leadership had forged a consensus favouring a continuation of the unified broadcasting service, but more money was still required to finance rapid expansion. Wireless manufacturers were anxious to exit the loss making consortium with Reith keen that the BBC be seen as a service rather than a commercial enterprise. The recommendations of the Crawford Committee were published in March the following year and were still under consideration by the GPO when the 1926 general strike broke out in May. The strike temporarily interrupted newspaper production and with restrictions on news bulletins waived the BBC suddenly became the source of news for the duration of the crisis. The crisis placed the BBC in a delicate position, the Government was divided on how to handle the BBC but ended up trusting Reith, whose opposition to the strike mirrored the PMs own
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Culture of the United Kingdom
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The wider culture of Europe has also influenced British culture, and Humanism, Protestantism and representative democracy developed from broader Western culture. British literature, music, cinema, art, theatre, comedy, media, television, philosophy, architecture, the United Kingdom is also prominent in science and technology, producing world-leading scientists and inventions. Sport is an important part of British culture, numerous sports originated in the country, the UK has been described as a cultural superpower, and London has been described as a world cultural capital. The Industrial Revolution, which started in the UK, had an effect on the socio-economic. These states are collectively known as the Anglosphere, and are among Britains closest allies. In turn the empire also influenced British culture, particularly British cuisine, the cultures of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are diverse and have varying degrees of overlap and distinctiveness. First spoken in early medieval England, the English language is the de facto language of the UK. Individual countries within the UK have frameworks for the promotion of their indigenous languages, Irish and Ulster Scots enjoy limited use alongside English in Northern Ireland, mainly in publicly commissioned translations. There is also a campaign under way to recognise Scots as a language in Scotland, the Cornish language enjoys neither official recognition nor promotion by the state in Cornwall. Under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, the UK Government has committed to the promotion of linguistic traditions. The United Kingdom has ratified the charter for, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Scots, Cornish, British Sign Language is also a recognised language. Owing to its history, dialects and regional accents vary amongst the four countries of the United Kingdom. Some cities in close proximity have a different dialect and accent, such as Scousers from Liverpool, notable Scouse speakers include John Lennon and Paul McCartney from The Beatles while Mancunians include Liam and Noel Gallagher from Oasis. Received Pronunciation is the accent of standard English in the UK, brummie is the dialect of natives of Birmingham in the west midlands of England – notable Brummies include rock musicians Ozzy Osbourne, Jeff Lynne, and Rob Halford. Geordie is the dialect of people from Tyneside in northeast England – musicians Brian Johnson, Mark Knopfler, notable exponents of the Scottish accent include Sean Connery, comedian Billy Connolly, and The Proclaimers. The West Country accent from southwest England is identified in film as pirate speech – cartoon-like Ooh arr, talk is very similar, while famous pirates hailed from this region, including Blackbeard, West Country native Robert Newtons performance as Long John Silver in films standardised the pirate voice. The Northern Irish accent includes golfer Rory McIlroy and actor Liam Neeson, the early 18th century is known as the Augustan Age of English literature. From the late 18th century, the Romantic period showed a flowering of poetry comparable with the Renaissance 200 years earlier, in Scotland the poetry of Robert Burns revived interest in Scots literature, and the Weaver Poets of Ulster were influenced by literature from Scotland
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Let's Get Ready to Rhumble
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Lets Get Ready to Rhumble is a 1994 song by British duo Ant & Dec, who at the time were known as PJ & Duncan. The song was released in the United Kingdom on 11 July 1994 as the single from their debut studio album Psyche. The song was written by Nicky Graham, Deni Lew and Mike Olton and it peaked at number 9 in the UK Singles Chart in 1994, and was later #1 almost two decades after its original chart appearance. The song includes a sample of Michael Buffer saying his trademark catchphrase. The single was re-released in March 2013, with royalties from sales donated to the charity ChildLine, the song peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart in its first week of new release, becoming their first ever single to reach that spot. The song was performed on Ant & Decs Saturday Night Takeaway, the single was re-released in February 2014. Reaching the 2013 Football League Cup Final, Bantams Banter released a song and video entitled Lets get ready for Wembley, the song also featured twice in the 2015 BBC Two comedy-drama A Gert Lush Christmas. Lets Get Ready to Rhumble was performed on BBC Ones Top of the Pops, Ant & Dec celebrated the 100th episode of CD, UK in 2000 by performing the song once again, years after retiring from the music industry, after a viewer vote where 83% requested it. In the segment, Blue, Atomic Kitten and Five also performed
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Tina Turner
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Tina Turner, is an American-born Swiss recording artist, dancer, actress, and author, whose career has spanned more than half a century, earning her widespread recognition and numerous awards. Born and raised in the Southeastern United States, Turner obtained Swiss citizenship in 2013 and she began her musical career in the mid-1950s as a featured singer with Ike Turners Kings of Rhythm, first recording in 1958 under the name Little Ann. Her introduction to the public as Tina Turner began in 1960 as a member of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Success followed with a string of notable hits credited to the duo, including A Fool in Love, River Deep – Mountain High, Proud Mary, and Nutbush City Limits, a song which she herself wrote. In her autobiography, I, Tina, she revealed several instances of domestic abuse against her by Ike Turner prior to their 1976 split. After her divorce from Ike Turner, she rebuilt her career through live performances, Whats Love Got to Do with It, the lead single won three Grammy Awards including Record of the Year. Whats Love Got to Do with It was later used as the title of a loosely based biographical film adapted from her autobiography, One of the worlds best-selling artists of all time, she has also been referred to as The Queen of Rock n Roll. Turner has been termed the most successful female Rock n Roll artist, receiving eleven Grammy Awards, including eight competitive awards, Turner has also sold more concert tickets than any other solo performer in history. Her combined album and single sales total approximately 180 million copies worldwide and she is noted for her energetic stage presence, powerful vocals, and career longevity. In 2008, Turner returned from semi-retirement to embark on her Tina, Turners tour became one of the highest selling ticketed shows of 2008–09. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Turner no.63 on their list of 100 greatest artists of all time, in 1991, Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Turner announced in December 2016 that she has been working on Tina, Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26,1939, in Nutbush, an unincorporated area in Haywood County, Tennessee. Her parents were Zelma Priscilla and Floyd Richard Bullock, Anna Mae was born at Poindexter Farm on Highway 180, where her father worked as an overseer of the sharecroppers. She is of African-American descent, with approximately 33% European and 1% Native American ancestry, Anna Mae had an older sister, Ruby Aillene. As young children, Anna Mae and Aillene were separated when their parents relocated to Knoxville, Tennessee, after the war, the sisters reunited with their parents and moved with them to Knoxville. Two years later, the returned to Nutbush to live in the Flagg Grove community. In 1889, her uncle had sold the land on which the school was built to the school trustees. As a youngster, Anna Mae sang in the choir at Nutbushs Spring Hill Baptist Church
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Peter Andre
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Peter Andre is an English-born Australian singer, songwriter, businessman, presenter and television personality. He gained popularity as a singer, best known for his successful singles Mysterious Girl and he is also known for appearing on the third series of Im a Celebrity. Get Me Out of Here. And the thirteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, in which he was partnered with Janette Manrara, during his time on Im A Celebrity, Andre developed an on-screen romantic relationship with fellow contestant Katie Price. Andre and Price got married two years after the finale, they had two children, and released the 2006 album A Whole New World together, before divorcing in 2009. In 2009, Andre released the album Revelation with the single Behind Closed Doors and he followed it up with his sixth studio album Accelerate in 2010. Peter Andre was born on 27 February 1973 in Harrow, London and is of Greek Cypriot descent, in 1979, as a six-year-old, Andre and his family relocated to Sydney before settling on Australias Gold Coast at nine years old. In 1989, 16-year-old Andre became a contestant on Australian talent show New Faces, during this time, Andre lived in a beachside apartment in Surfers Paradise and attended Benowa State High School on the Gold Coast. In the early 90s, Andre established himself on the Australian music scene, in 1992, Andre released his debut single, Drive Me Crazy, which peaked at #72 on the Australian singles chart. However, his musical breakthrough occurred with his single, Gimme Little Sign. In 1993, he received an ARIA Award for highest-selling Australian single of the year, Andres second studio album, was released on 30 September 1996, peaking to number 1 on the UK Albums Chart. The album included the hit single Mysterious Girl, which peaked at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart, as a result, he returned to the UK in the mid 90s. He was raised as a Jehovahs Witness, but is now lapsed, during their marriage, Andre and Katie Price launched the Katie & Peter franchise on ITV2 which documented their life together. Their 2009 separation resulted in their shows being recorded, Peter Andre, The Next Chapter continued on ITV2 until 2011, followed by Peter Andre, Here 2 Help and Peter Andre. In July 2010, Andre and Jason Manford were team captains on the ITV series Odd One In, in 2013, Andre was a guest judge on the ITV entertainment series Your Face Sounds Familiar. In 2013, he guest-presented five episodes of Sunday Scoop on ITV, since 11 November 2013, Andre has presented 60 Minute Makeover, which has been re-branded as Peter Andres 60 Minute Makeover. In 2014, Andre released the song Kid for the film Mr. Peabody & Sherman which is the single from his album Big Night. On 8 October 2014, Andre co-hosted the ITVBe opener with Jamelia, in 2014, Andre became the new face to feature in supermarket Icelands television commercials. Andre starred in the ITV weekly show Give a Pet a Home which works alongside the RSPCA in Birmingham, in August 2015, he was announced as a contestant for the thirteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing which began in September 2015 in which he was partnered with Janette Manrara
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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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2002 FIFA World Cup
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The 2002 FIFA World Cup was the 17th staging of the FIFA World Cup which took place from 31 May to 30 June 2002 in South Korea and Japan. Brazil won the tournament for a fifth time, winning the final against Germany 2–0. The victory meant Brazil qualified for the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup for the fifth time, in the third place play-off match against South Korea, Turkey won 3–2 taking third place in only their second ever FIFA World Cup finals. China PR, Ecuador, Senegal and Slovenia made their first appearances at the finals with Turkey making its first appearance since 1954, additionally, Turkey took third place and South Korea managed to reach the semi-finals, beating Spain, Italy and Portugal en route. South Korea in particular, faced scrutiny and allegations of corruption due to their victories over Italy. However, the most potent team at the tournament, Brazil, prevailed, South Korea and Japan were selected as hosts by FIFA on 31 May 1996. Initially, South Korea, Japan, and Mexico presented three rival bids, however, the two Asian countries agreed to unite their bids shortly before the decision was made, and they were chosen unanimously in preference to Mexico. This was the first World Cup to be hosted by two countries, at the time the decision was made, Japan had never qualified for a World Cup finals. The only other countries to have awarded a World Cup without previously having competed in a final tournament are Italy in 1934. The unusual choice of host proved an issue for fans in Europe. With games taking place in the European morning, some schools, a total of 199 teams attempted to qualify for the 2002 World Cup which qualification process began with the preliminary draw held in Tokyo on 7 December 1999. Defending champions France and co-hosts South Korea and Japan qualified automatically and this was the final World Cup in which the defending champions qualified automatically. 14 places were contested by UEFA teams, five by CAF teams, four by CONMEBOL teams, four by AFC teams, the remaining two places were decided by playoffs between AFC and UEFA and between CONMEBOL and OFC. Four nations qualified for the finals for the first time, China, Ecuador, Senegal, as of 2014, this was the last time Turkey, China, Republic of Ireland and Senegal qualified for a FIFA World Cup finals. Turkey qualified for the first time since 1954, and both Poland and Portugal for the first time since 1986, all seven previous World Cup-winning nations qualified, the first time so many previous champions had been present at a finals tournament. The following 32 teams, shown with final pre-tournament rankings, qualified for the final tournament, the seeds comprised Pot A in the draw. Pot B contained the remaining 11 European sides, Pot C contained five unseeded qualifiers from CONMEBOL, Pot D contained unseeded sides from the CONCACAF region and Africa. This was the last FIFA World Cup with the champion in Group A
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Will Young
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His double A-sided debut single Anything Is Possible / Evergreen was released two weeks after the shows finale and became the fastest-selling debut single in the UK. Young also came in place in World Idol performing his single Light My Fire. As a teenager, Young studied politics at the University of Exeter before moving to London, Young put his studies on hold in late 2001 to become a contestant on Pop Idol. After winning the competition the year, he released his debut album From Now On which went straight to number one. Fridays Child followed and enjoyed success, eventually going platinum five times in the UK. His following albums Keep On and Let It Go and Echoes also went multi-platinum and his albums have spawned many songs that have accomplished top ten positions in the UK, four of which went to the number one spot. Young has also undertaken numerous concert tours and he has also accumulated multiple honours, including two BRIT Awards from 12 nominations, and the estimated worldwide sale of over eight million albums. Youngs net worth was estimated at £13.5 million in April 2012, alongside his music career, Young has acted in film, on stage and in television. For his performance in the 2013 London revival of the musical Cabaret and he has also participated in philanthropy and released books Anything is Possible, On Camera, Off Duty and his autobiography Funny Peculiar. Will Young was born on 20 January 1979 in Wokingham, and is the second-oldest child of Robin Young, a director of an engineering firm, and Annabel Young. Born six weeks prematurely, he is ten minutes older than his twin brother and he also has an older sister, Emma. Young was born into an affluent, middle-class family, whose ancestry has strong ties to the British government. Aretas was later stationed in Trinidad and eventually took charge of the Trinidadian government, aretas became the sixth Governor of Prince Edward Island in 1831, and three years later was knighted by King William IV. His first appearance on stage was at the age of four when he played a fir tree in a production and had one line to speak. At Horris Hill, Young was head chorister in the school choir, at thirteen, Young and his brother were enrolled in Wellington College, Crowthorne, a public boarding school. Young appeared in school productions and often gave speeches in assembly. He became captain of the basketball and athletics teams, and also represented the school in the triple jump, long jump, football. The only sport he says he felt uncomfortable playing was cricket, Young left school with ten GCSEs, but achieved disappointing A-Level results and had to enroll in DOverbroecks College, Oxford, to re-sit his exams
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ITunes
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ITunes is a media player, media library, online radio broadcaster, and mobile device management application developed by Apple Inc. It is used to play, download, and organize digital downloads of music and video on personal computers running the macOS, the iTunes Store is also available on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Application software for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch can be downloaded from the App Store. ITunes 12.5 is the most recent major version of iTunes, available for Mac OS X v10.9.5 or later and Windows 7 or later, it was released on September 13,2016. ITunes 12.2 added Apple Music to the application, along with the Beats 1 radio station, soundJam MP, developed by Bill Kincaid and released by Casady & Greene in 1998, was renamed iTunes when Apple purchased it in 2000. Jeff Robbin, Kincaid, and Dave Heller moved to Apple as part of the acquisition and they simplified SoundJams user interface, added the ability to burn CDs, and removed its recording feature and skin support. On January 9,2001, iTunes 1.0 was released at Macworld San Francisco, originally a Mac OS 9-only application, iTunes began to support Mac OS X when version 2.0 was released nine months later, which also added support for the original iPod. Version 3 dropped Mac OS9 support but added smart playlists, in April 2003, version 4.0 introduced the iTunes Store, in October, version 4.1 added support for Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Introduced at Macworld 2005 with the new iPod Shuffle, Version 4.7, Version 7.0 introduced gapless playback and Cover Flow in September 2006. In March 2007, iTunes 7.1 added support for Windows Vista, iTunes lacked support for 64-bit versions of Windows until the 7.6 update on January 16,2008. ITunes is supported under any 64-bit version of Windows Vista, although the iTunes executable is still 32-bit, the 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are not supported by Apple, but a workaround has been devised for both operating systems. Version 8.0 added Genius playlists, grid view, iTunes 9 added Homeshare, enabling automatic updating of purchased items across other computers on the same subnet and offers a new iTunes Store UI. Genius Mixes were added, as well as improved app synchronization abilities and it also adds iTunes LPs to the store, which provides additional media with an album. Apple added iTunes Extras as well to the store, which adds content usually reserved for films on DVD, both iTunes LPs and Extras use web-standards HTML, JavaScript and CSS. iTunes acts as a front end for Apples QuickTime media framework. Officially, it is required in order to manage the data of an iPod, iPhone, or iPad. In addition, users are able to add PDF files to their library, the PDFs can be synchronized with and read on several devices except the regular iPod. iTunes 8.0 saw the removal of several options in the Preferences window. For example, iTunes once gave users the option to display arrows beside the selected songs title, artist, album and these arrows are no longer removable, except through the direct editing of a preferences file. ITunes keeps track of songs by creating a library, allowing users to access
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The Official Chart
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The Official Chart is a long-running United Kingdom music chart programme, airing each Friday afternoon on BBC Radio 1. It airs the UK Singles Chart compiled by the Official Charts Company, in March 2015 it was announced that The Official Chart would move from its traditional Sunday slot to Friday afternoons from July 2015. This was to coincide with the change in new music release dates from Sundays to Fridays. The current chart airs between 16,00 and 17,45, pick of the Pops, as the chart was originally known, transferred to Radio One from the BBC Light Programme in October 1967, along with host Alan Freeman. Tom Browne took over in 1972 with Solid Gold Sixty before Simon Bates started the show in its current form as a countdown of the top 40 singles, since then the show has had a variety of different names and presenters in guest and permanent roles. The programme has run every week, with the exception of 31 August 1997. The show has also been shortened during coverage of BBC Radio 1s Big Weekend, due to coverage of Gregathlon for Sport Relief 2016, the show on 12 February 2016 was presented by Scott Mills at the earlier time of 2pm to 4pm. In recent years the show has reflected changes in the music industry, in 2005 downloads began to be included as part of the top 40, and from July 2014 the show has also included audio streaming alongside physical sales. Between February 2012 and August 2014 the show began to stream visually with music videos of the top 10 singles aired simultaneously on the Radio 1 website. The move is due to an agreement by the music industry to release all new albums. The new chart played the top 25 in full rather than the top 40 that had previously been broadcast and it also means that Clara Amfo has become the shortest-serving permanent host of the show. As of 19 February 2017, the top 40 are played, however only the new entries and highest climbers, the Sunday night slot has been replaced with a new show hosted by Cel Spellman. Beginning on 10 March 2010, The Official Chart Update brand was launched giving an insight into the Official Singles Chart as it stands during the week and it originally aired on BBC Radio 1 on Wednesday afternoons, with a television version aired on MTV Music and MTV Hits. The Radio 1 show is hosted by Greg James. Previous hosts include Scott Mills, Clara Amfo and Jameela Jamil, James previously hosted the show from 2010-2012. When the Official Chart moved to Fridays in July 2015, The Official Chart Update moved from Wednesdays to Mondays at 17,30, the Official Chart at BBC Programmes
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CITV
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CITV is a British childrens television channel from ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It broadcasts content from the CITV archive and acquisitions, every day from 6am to 9pm which was previously 6am to 6pm until 21 February 2016 in an attempt to compete with CBBC and it is also the title of a programming block on the ITV network at weekends. Childrens ITV launched on 3 January 1983, as an afternoon programming block on the ITV network. It replaced the earlier Watch It, branding and introduced networked in-vision continuity links between programmes. These links were originally pre-recorded from a small London studio, up until 1987 when Central won the contract to produce live links from their Birmingham studios, in 2004, presentation of CITV was relocated to Granada Television in Manchester, which saw the demise of in-vision continuity. Nine years later, operations moved to ITV Granadas MediaCityUK studios in Salford, in 2006, CITV launched as a channel in its own right. The CITV channel averages around 100,000 viewers between 4pm-6pm every day, the CITV strand on the ITV network airs on weekend mornings from 6am to 9, 25am, as part of the ITV Breakfast time slot. Before being known as Childrens ITV, the timeslot for childrens programmes on the ITV Network was briefly branded as Watch It, brand started on 29 December 1980 and was presented live by the duty continuity announcer in each ITV region. On many occasions, the ITV regions were able to broadcast whatever programmes they wished, many non-childrens programmes appeared, ATV provide different animations each season, to freshen up what was available to each company. Most regions, including Southern/TVS and Granada, would use their own station announcers during Watch It, shortly after the start of new franchises in 1982, some ITV stations raised concerns that Watch It. had not gone far enough to address previous concerns. Centrals Controller of Childrens Programmes, Lewis Rudd, suggested a different approach to the presentation method, as a result, the Central promotions department came up with the initial concept for Childrens ITV. The new look was devised, and links between programmes were pre-recorded using presenters drawn from the constituent programmes, initially featuring a different presenter each month, the links were pre-recorded in advance in a small studio at a London facility called Molinare, using a single locked-off camera. The first set design was a ship and was used for the first few months. The concept was retired, and the set and style of presentation used began to reflect the artist presenting that month or the programme that he/she fronted. By 1984, the links were still being recorded, but using a common, the exterior of this fictitious location also featured in the animations and stings. Technical considerations often left the system flawed, with each programme coming from a different playout source, and each link being pre-recorded, things often went wrong on air, programmes would be rolled early and the links would be cut short. Programmes would also fail to appear and the presenter would be left on screen, pre-recording the links also meant that late schedule changes could not be easily referenced. In September 1985, the BBC revamped their own childrens presentation with the introduction of Childrens BBC, using the BBC1 announcer booth at BBC Television Centre, later dubbed The Broom Cupboard, Phillip Schofield provided links between the programmes
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British Academy of Film and Television Arts
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom. David Lean was the founding Chairman of the Academy, the first Film Awards ceremony took place in May 1949 and honouring the films The Best Years of Our Lives, Odd Man Out and The World Is Rich. In 2005, it placed a cap on worldwide voting membership which now stands at approximately 6,500. BAFTA has offices in Scotland and Wales in the UK, in Los Angeles and New York in the United States and runs events in Hong Kong, amanda Berry OBE has been chief executive of the organisation since December 2000. Many of these events are free to online at BAFTA Guru. BAFTA runs a number of programmes across the UK, US. Launched in 2012, the UK programme enables talented British citizens who are in need of support to take an industry-recognised course in film. Each BAFTA Scholar receives up to £12,000 towards their annual course fees, since 2013, three students every year have received one of the Prince William Scholarships in Film, Television and Games, supported by BAFTA and Warner Bros. These scholarships are awarded in the name of in his role as President of BAFTA, since 2015, BAFTA has been offering scholarships for British citizens to study in China, vice versa. BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los Angeles. The BAFTA award trophy is a mask, designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe. Todays BAFTA award – including the mask and marble base – weighs 3.7 kg and measures 27 cm x 14 cm x 8 cm. BAFTAs annual film awards ceremony is known as the British Academy Film Awards, or the BAFTAs, in 1949 the British Film Academy, as it was then known, presented the first awards for films made in 1947 and 1948. Since 2008 the ceremony has held at the Royal Opera House in Londons Covent Garden. It had been held in the Odeon cinema on Leicester Square since 2000, the ceremony had been performed during April or May of each year, but since 2002 it has been held in February to precede the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Awards, or Oscars. They have been awarded annually since 1954, the first ever ceremony consisted of six categories. Until 1958, they were awarded by the Guild of Television Producers and Directors, from 1968 until 1997, BAFTAs Film and Television Awards were presented together, but from 1998 onwards they were presented at two separate ceremonies. The Television Craft Awards celebrate the talent behind the programmes, such as working in visual effects, production
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Channel 4
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Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982. With the conversion of the Wenvoe transmitter group in Wales to digital on 31 March 2010, before Channel 4 and S4C, Britain had three terrestrial television services, BBC1, BBC2, and ITV. The Broadcasting Act 1980 began the process of adding a fourth, after some months of test broadcasts, it began scheduled transmissions on 2 November 1982. Indeed, television sets throughout the 1970s and early 1980s had a spare channel called ITV/IBA2. It was most likely politics which had the biggest impact in leading to a delay of almost three decades before the commercial channel became a reality. The campaign was taken so seriously by Gwynfor Evans, former president of Plaid Cymru, the result was that Channel 4 as seen by the rest of the United Kingdom would be replaced in Wales by Sianel Pedwar Cymru. Operated by a specially created authority, S4C would air programmes in Welsh made by HTV, since then, carriage on digital cable, satellite and digital terrestrial has introduced Channel 4 to Welsh homes where it is now universally available. The first programme to air on the channel was the game show Countdown. The first person to be seen on Channel 4 was Richard Whiteley with Ted Moult being the second, the first woman on the channel, contrary to popular belief, was not Carol Vorderman and was a lexicographer only ever identified as Mary. Whiteley opened the show with the words, On its first day, Channel 4 also broadcast controversial soap opera Brookside, which ran until 2003. On its launch, Channel 4 committed itself to providing an alternative to the existing channels, Channel 4 co-commissioned Robert Ashleys ground-breaking television opera Perfect Lives, which it premiered over several episodes in 1984. The channel often did not receive mass audiences for much of period, however. Channel 4 for many years had a poorer quality signal compared to other channels, Channel 4 also began the funding of independent films, such as the Merchant-Ivory docudrama The Courtesans of Bombay, during this time. In 1992, Channel 4 also faced its first libel case by Jani Allan, a South African journalist, who objected to her representation in the documentary The Leader, His Driver and the Drivers Wife. After control of the station passed from the Channel Four Television Company to the Channel Four Television Corporation in 1993, instead of aiming for the fringes of society, it began to focus on the edges of the mainstream, and the centre of the mass market itself. It began to show many US programmes in peak viewing time and it gave such shows as Friends and ER their UK premières. In the early 2000s, Channel 4 began broadcasting reality formats such as Big Brother and obtained the rights to broadcast mass appeal sporting events like cricket and this new direction increased ratings and revenues. In addition, the corporation launched a number of new channels through its new 4Ventures offshoot, including Film4, At the Races, E4
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ITV (TV network)
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ITV is a commercial TV network in the United Kingdom. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990 its legal name has been Channel 3, to distinguish it from the analogue channels at the time, namely BBC1, BBC2. ITV is a network of channels that operate regional television services as well as sharing programmes between each other to be displayed on the entire network. In recent years, several of companies have merged so currently the fifteen franchises are in the hands of two companies. With the exception of Northern Ireland, the ITV brand is the used by ITV plc for the Channel 3 service in these areas. In Northern Ireland, ITV plc uses the brand name UTV, STV Group plc, uses the STV brand for its two franchises of central and northern Scotland. The origins of ITV lie in the passing of the Television Act 1954, the act created the Independent Television Authority to heavily regulate the industry and to award franchises. The first six franchises were awarded in 1954 for London, the Midlands, the first ITV network to launch was Londons Associated-Rediffusion on 22 September 1955, with the Midlands and North services launching in February 1956 and May 1956 respectively. Following these launches, the ITA awarded more franchises until the country was covered by fourteen regional stations. Following the 1993 changes, ITV as a network began to consolidate with several companies doing so to save money by ceasing the duplication of services present when they were all separate companies. The ITV Network is not owned or operated by one company, since 2016 the fifteen licences are held by two companies, with the majority held by ITV Broadcasting Limited, part of ITV plc. The network is regulated by the media regulator Ofcom who is responsible for awarding the broadcast licences, the last major review of the Channel 3 franchises was in 1991, with all operators licences having been renewed between 1999 and 2002 and again from 2014 without a further contest. However, due to amalgamation of several of companies since the creation of ITV Network Limited. Approved by Ofcom, this results in ITV plc commissioning and funding the network schedule, all licensees have the right to opt out of network programming, however many do not due to pressures from the parent company or because of limited resources. The network also needs to produce accessible output containing subtitles, signing, in exchange for this programming, the ITV network is available on all platforms free to air and can be found at the top of the EPG of all providers. Since the launch of the platform in 1998, all of the ITV licensees have received gifted capacity on the terrestrial television platform. At present, the companies are able to broadcast additional channels and all choose to broadcast the ITV plc owned ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and CITV in their region. UTV and STV previously broadcast their own services – UTV2 in Northern Ireland and S2 in central and northern Scotland – until 2002, the broadcasters all make use of the Digital 3&4 multiplex, shared with Channel 4
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ITV (TV channel)
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ITV is a commercial television channel in the United Kingdom. Previously a network of regional television channels, ITV currently operates in England, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man. From 2001 until 2013, the channel was called ITV1, in 2004, Granada Television acquired Carlton Communications to form ITV plc. ITV is the biggest and most popular television channel in the United Kingdom. ITV and its channels have contended with BBC One for the status of the UKs most watched television channel since the 1950s. However, in line with other channels, ITVs audience share has fallen in the era of multi-channel television. Following the creation of the Television Act 1954, the establishment of a television service in the UK began. The Independent Television service, or ITV, was made up of regions, the three largest regions were subdivided into weekday and weekend services, with a different company running each. ITV existed in a form from its inception to the 2000s. ITV1 became the generic brand name used by the twelve franchises of the ITV Network in the United Kingdom. The brand was introduced in 2001 by Carlton- and Granada-owned franchises, however, it became the sole on-air identity in 2002 when the two companies decided to create a single unified playout of the channel, with regional references only used prior to regional programming. Carlton and Granada went on to merge in 2004, creating ITV plc which now owns thirteen of the fifteen regional ITV licences. The ITV1 name was used in England, Wales, Southern Scotland and Isle of Man until Channel Television adopted the name in January 2006. It should be noted, however, that as national continuity is used on Channel Television. ITV Wales & West was the exception, using the name ITV1 Wales at all times for the Welsh part of its broadcast area as it has a higher regional commitment. Latterly the ITV1 Wales name was used on breakbumpers and regionally advertised programmes till 2013. Non ITV plc-owned licencees on the network generally did not refer to the ITV name, the network production arms of the ITV-plc owned licencees have been gradually combined since 1993 to eventually form ITV Studios. ITV was formed by the unification of eleven of the ITV licences, the Broadcasting Act 1990 changed many of the rules regulating the ITV Network, which most notably relaxed franchise ownership and hours of production
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Cat Deeley
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Catherine Elizabeth Cat Deeley is an English television presenter, actress, singer and model, based in the UK and the United States. From 1998 to 2002, she hosted the childrens programme SMTV Live and its spin-off chart show CD, in 2001, she won a childrens BAFTA. She has also hosted Fame Academy on the BBC, and the 2004 Brit Awards, Cat became the presenter of Stars In Their Eyes from 2003 to 2006, taking over from Matthew Kelly. Since 2003, Deeley has been a patron of Londons Great Ormond Street Hospital for sick children, in December 2009, she was made a UNICEF UK ambassador. She is married to Northern Irish comedian and television personality Patrick Kielty, Deeley was born at Sandwell General Hospital, West Bromwich, England and grew up in Sutton Coldfield and Great Barr. She attended Grove Vale Junior School followed by Dartmouth High School in Great Barr and she then joined the sixth form at Bishop Veseys Grammar School in Sutton Coldfield. At age 14, Deeley entered a regional edition of a BBC competition for The Clothes Show, spotted by an agent for Storm modeling agency at age 16, she was quickly signed as a model under her nickname of Cat to make it easier for clients to re-book her. Deeley became a fashion model. She left full-time modelling in 1997, following changes in her contract with Storm and she moved on to co-present the MTV chart show, Hitlist UK, with close friend Edith Bowman. From 1998 until 2002, she was co-host with Ant & Dec on the Saturday morning childrens programme SMTV Live and hosted its spin-off programmes CD, UK and CD, in 2001, she won a Childrens BAFTA award and appeared in an episode of the BBCs Happiness. In 2002, Deeley appeared in an advert for Marks. In 2005 she played herself in an episode of Little Britain and provided the voice of Loretta Geargrinder in the UK version of the film Robots, replacing Natasha Lyonne. In 2006, she began hosting the season of American reality show So You Think You Can Dance, replacing Lauren Sánchez. Deeley was a guest reporter on NBCs The Tonight Show and she presented Foxs New Years Eve special from Times Square in 2006 and 2007. The event, watched by an estimated 500 million people, was at the new Wembley Stadium. In September 2007, Deeley presented Soundtrack to My Life, a series produced by Hamma & Glamma Productions for ITV London that looks at the work. In January 2006, a new season of So You Think You Can Dance started its auditions and she has been the host of the show ever since. In 2011, Deeley was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Programme, other projects of Deeleys include presenting the third season of Soundtrack to My Life, playing herself as host of Peter Kays Peter Kays Britains Got the Pop Factor
