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Pound Shop Wars
''Pound Shop Wars'' is a British factual television series that was first broadcast on BBC One from 7 November 2012 until 30 September 2015. Narrated by Caroline Aherne, the series shows the competition between rival pound shops, focusing on Poundworld. The second series, comprising eight episodes, began on 12 August 2015. Episode list Pilot (2012) Series 1 (2014) Series 2 (2015) Reception Ratings The first one-off hour-long special episode had a 19.8% audience share. According to overnight figures, "The Battle of the Bra" had a viewing audience of 5.42 million, with 23.7% watching it. The third and fourth episodes had viewing audiences of 19.4% and 16.7% respectively. Critical reception Tim Dowling of ''The Guardian'' said the series "was not enhanced by Caroline Aherne's jokey narration, and it had more than its fair share of isn't-he-a-character type characters, but it was saved for me by a surprising discovery: the pound shop business is actually pretty interestin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Aherne
Caroline Mary Aherne (24 December 1963 – 2 July 2016) was an English actress, comedian, writer and director. She was best known for performing as the acerbic chat show host '' Mrs Merton'', in various roles in '' The Fast Show'', and as Denise in '' The Royle Family'' (1998–2012), a series which she co-wrote. She won BAFTA awards for her work on ''The Mrs Merton Show'' and ''The Royle Family''. Aherne narrated the Channel 4 reality television series '' Gogglebox'' from its inception in 2013 until 8 April 2016. She died of cancer at the age of 52. Early life Aherne was born in Ealing, London, on 24 December 1963, the second child of Irish parents Bartholomew Edmond "Bert" Aherne, a railwayman with London Transport, and Mary Frances "Maureen" Aherne (''née'' Regan). From the age of two, Aherne was brought up in Wythenshawe, Manchester.Rinaldi, Graham.Aherne, Caroline (1963–). screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved on 25 August 2007. Like her brother Patrick, Aherne had retinoblast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Dowling
Robert Timothy Dowling (; born June 1963) is an American journalist and author who writes a weekly column in ''The Guardian'' about his life with his family in London. Career Dowling worked in data entry for a films database before he became a freelance journalist, first working for '' GQ'', then women's magazines and the '' Independent on Sunday''. He is a columnist for ''The Guardian'' and has a weekly column in the paper's Saturday magazine, ''Weekend''. His column replaced Jon Ronson's in 2007. He writes observational columns, often about his wife. Sam Leith of ''The Guardian'' noted that "Dowling's a very fresh and smart writer, as he needs to be. Stories about machete massacres or ebola pandemics pretty much write themselves: writing about nothing much, week in, week out, is the real test." Dowling also worked as a cartoonist for a short time. Dowling's books include a 2001 book about the inventor of the disposable razor, King Camp Gillette, ''Suspicious Packages and Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British English-language Television Shows
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BBC Television Documentaries
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public broadcasting, public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927. The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,200 are in public-sector broadcasting. The BBC was established under a Royal charter#United Kingdom, royal charter, and operates under an agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual Television licensing in the United Kingdom, television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts or to use the BBC's streaming service, BBC iPlayer, iPla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 British Television Series Endings
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2012 British Television Series Debuts
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The Sunday Times
''The Sunday Times'' is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News UK (formerly News International), which is owned by News Corp. Times Newspapers also publishes ''The Times''. The two papers, founded separately and independently, have been under the same ownership since 1966. They were bought by News International in 1981. In March 2020, ''The Sunday Times'' had a circulation of 647,622, exceeding that of its main rivals, '' The Sunday Telegraph'' and '' The Observer'', combined. While some other national newspapers moved to a tabloid format in the early 2000s, ''The Sunday Times'' retained the larger broadsheet format and has said that it intends to continue to do so. As of December 2019, it sold 75% more copies than its sister paper, ''The Times'', which is published from Monday to Saturday. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821), are published by Times Media, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' were founded independently and have had common ownership only since 1966. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. ''The Times'' was the first newspaper to bear that name, inspiring numerous other papers around the world. In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as or , although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution. ''The Times'' had an average daily circulation of 365,880 in March 2020; in the same period, ''The Sunday Times'' had an average weekly circulation of 647,622. The two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Billen
Andrew William Scott Billen (born 30 December 1957) is a British journalist, children's author, and staff feature writer on ''The Times'' newspaper. Early life Andrew Billen was born in London on 30 December 1957 and brought up in Brentwood, Essex. He attended Brentwood School from 1965 to 1977, which at the time was still a direct grant grammar school. He gained a BA in English from Christ Church, Oxford in 1980. Career Billen started on newspapers at the ''Sheffield Star'', a daily newspaper across South Yorkshire. From 1984 he was a writer on the Times Diary for ''The Times'' and became the paper's arts correspondent in 1988. In 1989 he moved to ''The Observer''. In 1997 he joined the London ''Evening Standard'' as chief interviewer. He returned to ''The Times'' in 2002, where he wrote the weekly "The Andrew Billen Interview" for five years. He was the paper's main television reviewer from 2007 to 2017. For ten years up to 2007 he worked in a freelance capacity as the ''N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bath Chronicle
The ''Bath Chronicle'' is a weekly newspaper, first published under various titles before 1760 in Bath, England. Prior to September 2007, it was published daily. The ''Bath Chronicle'' serves Bath, northern Somerset and west Wiltshire. History Name changes The ''Bath Journal'' was published in 1743, and was renamed ''Boddely's Bath Journal''. It was renamed ''Keene's Bath Journal'' in January 1822, and was eventually taken over by the ''Bath Herald'' in March 1916. The newspaper also originated from the ''Bath Chronicle and Universal Register'' taking over from the ''Bath Advertiser'' which was published from 1755. By 1919 it had changed its name to the ''Bath and Wilts Chronicle'' as a result of a merger with another paper. The ''Bath Herald'' was merged with the ''Bath Chronicle'' in 1925 to become the ''Bath Chronicle and Herald'', amended in 1936 to ''Bath Weekly Chronicle and Herald''. The early 1960s was a time for another minor name change to ''Bath and Wilts Evening Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro (British Newspaper)
''Metro'' is a British freesheet tabloid newspaper published by DMG Media. The newspaper is distributed from Monday to Friday mornings on public places in areas of England, Wales and Scotland (excluding public holidays and the period between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day inclusive). Copies are also handed out to pedestrians. In 2018, Metro overtook ''The Sun'' to become the most circulated newspaper in the United Kingdom. ''Metro'' is owned by Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT), part of the same media group as the ''Daily Mail'' and ''The Mail on Sunday'', but in some areas ''Metro'' operates as a franchise with a local newspaper publisher, rather than as a wholly owned concern. While being a sister paper to the conservative ''Daily Mail'', the newspaper has never endorsed any political party or candidate, and says it takes a neutral political stance in its reporting. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
