Tara Conlan
Media Reporter and Column Writer at The Guardian
Journalist writing about media for The Guardian & others since all this was just Gracie Fields. Ex-Daily Mail TV Editor.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Tara Conlan
A team of independent TV producers who spent their life savings developing a documentary about the UK debt crisis, which they had pitched to the actor Michael Sheen, have questioned the originality of a separate project the Welsh star later made with Channel 4 on the same issue.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Tara Conlan
A new TV show based on the children’s party game musical chairs is set to hit screens, tapping into viewers’ cravings for nostalgia and happy childhood memories. The company behind Big Brother, Masterchef and Peaky Blinders is launching the elimination gameshow Game of Chairs – a series in which 10 contestants move around a circle of nine coloured chairs and aim to land on a seat when the music stops.
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Tara Conlan
The producers behind a show about immigration have denied accusations it platforms racists, saying the “voices you hear within the series are the voices we were hearing up and down the country as we were casting”. Channel 4’s immigration series Go Back to Where You Came From features six participants, some of whom hold anti-immigration views, following in the footsteps of refugees making the journey from Syria and Somalia to the UK.
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Tara Conlan
The head of Channel 4 has called on the television industry to unite to battle the “wanton abandonment of the pursuit of truth” by “tech titans” seeking profits. Alex Mahon said tech giants are so “hellbent” on making money from “what they deem to be free speech that they are perfectly happy to eradicate truth and facts along the way”.
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Sep 27, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Tara Conlan
Despite the fiasco of the Detroit Bridgerton-themed ball and last year’s infamous Willy Wonka experience in Glasgow, the demand for real-life experiences based on TV programmes is seemingly unabated, with The Traitors launching an immersive live event and the Teletubbies an art gallery show. After the Wonka and Bridgerton debacles, consumers have been being advised to check if events are authorised by brands’ owners before they book to ensure the occasion meets expectations.
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Bravo Racing Post actually giving us news about Broadway Boy straight. This story highlights flaws of Google & state of regional news’ dependency on it that it’s more lucrative to entice via “update” headlines than give news. Fuels people getting news from socials https://t.co/GODWcy1YQ9
👏 Great news 👏 Broadway Boy is heading back to Nigel Twiston-Davies's yard after he was kept at Aintree for assessment overnight following his fall in the Randox Grand National https://t.co/bMNaviC85P
BBC Board has appointed the person who should’ve been the corporation’s first female director-general back in the day, Caroline Thomson, as a non-executive director. A very good brain for the BBC to have on its board for next four years
Amid all the grim news here’s something fun: new TV show based on Musical Chairs coming from producers Banijay. Game of Chairs part of a trend for entertainment TV series based on children’s party games and ‘cosy content’ https://t.co/bJ5v538aB7