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"Talking Movies"
Some five years ago, BBC Television said goodbye to Barry Norman
and a vacancy arose for a film review programme on the BBC.
This gap was sorely missed by BBC World, the BBC's 24
hours news and information channel. Tom Brook, who had been
reporting movie news for many years for the BBC, and I proposed
a replacement movie show for an international audience. The
current format with its stylish graphics and unique signature
track was developed by myself and "Talking Movies"
has grown to become one of the channel's flagship lifestyle
feature programmes, maintaining a rigorous editorial impartiality
in its reporting and an up-to-the-minute presentation of the
latest films to emerge from the Hollywood studios. In recent
years it has attracted a number of sponsors winning significant
advertising revenues to BBC World.
From it's New York base and presented by Tom Brook,
Talking Movies tracks the latest Hollywood releases in a mixture
of reviews, in-depth interviews, movie news, features on trends
and behind the scenes reports, a world leader in its presentation
of on-the-spot analysis of the most recent news to come out
of the film industry.
With reporters Laura Metzger and Manoush Zomorodi,
the programme regularly reports from film festivals such as
Sundance, Toronto, New York and Cannes and the team have a
well respected presence at the Oscars. Last year they also
added Robert de Niro's Tribeca to the portfolio of festival
coverage.
Whether astutely positioned to question the A-list stars
heading along the red carpet at their premieres; on location
to watch and talk with the industry's top directors at work
or interviewing the leading performers on their roles and characterisations,
Talking Movies can be relied on to give viewers the inside
track on what's good and what's not so good on the big screen.
"Talking Movies" is now broadcast 52 weeks of the
year on BBC News 24, BBC World and BBC America. Last year it
earned a place in BBC 2's programme schedule. The programmes
are also to be found on a number of airlines including British
Airways and United Airlines. The audience for Talking Movies
is potentially the largest in the world - over 254 million
homes in over 200 countries on BBC World; 11% share of multi-channel
homes in the UK on BBC 2; numerous US channels that subscribe
to BBC America and on trans-Atlantic, South Pacific and US
domestic air routes. And so, it must rank as one of the world's
most widely accessible programmes.
I am proud to have been the programmes creator and wish it
continuing success all around the world.
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