19 Dec 2002
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is investigating 16 complaints that an ad for alcohol-free lager brand Kaliber condones dangerous behaviour. The Trigger Happy TV-style ad through Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO shows a bus driver drinking a bottle of Kaliber while his passengers refuse to board...
19 Dec 2002
The latest, and what was widely expected to be the last, series of Friends due to air on Channel 4 and E4 in the New Year, may not be the last series after all (Media, page 6). Warner Bros is due to announce on January 12 whether the Friends stars have agreed to appear in another series.
19 Dec 2002
Camelot has signed letters of intent with French and Spanish lottery operators to launch a weekly Lotto-type game with a Friday night draw featuring a jackpot of around 15m euros (£9.7m). In the UK and France the provisional name for the game is Euromillions and it will be called Euromilliones in Spain.
19 Dec 2002
is for Heroes, has been enhanced to enable viewers to press the red button to access exclusive band material.
19 Dec 2002
| by POPPY BRECH
Taking the Friends logo, C4's in-house creative department 4creative, has devised a simple strapline 'Ends' to convey the fact that the series will be the last one to be broadcast.
The concept will be used across six-sheet posters, Tube card panels, weekly magazines and in national and regional press ...
19 Dec 2002
| by POPPY BRECH
under wraps after receiving a battering from the press for falling figures for the existing show ...
17 Dec 2002
With no winner announced as Campaign was going to press, ratings were expected to get even higher for the grand finale. Everyone is glued to their screens, except the big bosses at TV2 who are too busy working out their bonuses: Big Brother achieved 3.4 times the average rating for TV2.
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17 Dec 2002
of the American Dream. True as in completely phoney, but it presses all the right buttons: small town, mid ...
13 Dec 2002
| by JEREMY LEE
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The second broadcast director added that the stand-off could be good news for other media, such as press ...
13 Dec 2002
| by ALASDAIR REID
viewers - it broke last weekend in Christmas TV listing magazines and there will be TV, posters, press ...