By Staff on April 23, 2013
So it’s a whopper but this prison break themed opus from Ogilvy does the job – counting down the days of a prison break timed for an India-Pakistan cricket match when the would-be escapees think the guards will all be watching the match. But they’re not of course, so justice wins out. Does it work? [...]
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By Stephen Foster on May 2, 2012
Why should we, you ask, when it’s so much fun? It is indeed fun to observe the over-mighty Murdochs, paterfamilias Rupert and once super-cocky son James suffering the slings and arrows of the commentariat, various MPs and, rather more worryingly from their point of view, legislators on either side of the Atlantic and, possibly, Australia [...]
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By Stephen Foster on May 1, 2011
Everybody knew that ITV faced a hard summer after last year’s recovery – no World Cup and a UK advertising market being buffeted by little or no growth with the prospect of worse to come as coalition government public sector cutbacks and higher taxes start to bite. But the biggest UK commercial broadcaster’s prospects look [...]
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By Angie Dean on April 20, 2011
Star TV is News Corporation’s biggest international TV business, broadcasting to India, China and the Middle East although its activities attract much less attention than other parts of the empire like Sky in the UK, Germany and Italy. But the channel is also performing strongly in the UK, reflecting the large South Asian population in [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged bollywood, Channel 4, dave, David Abraham, itv, news corporation, sky, star gold, star parivaar awards, star plus, star tv, uktv
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