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Charming Lucy Worsley will make a big impression in new Antiques Uncovered series
by Jane Simon, 2 May 2012, Mirror
BBC
LUCY Worsley’s new series is utterly charming as it explains the history of antiques, BEFORE they were antiques and were still wonderfully modern.
She and co-presenter Mark Hill look like gorgeous little figures in a dolls’ house as they take tea in Woburn Abbey.
In the first show tonight we learn about porcelain and the origin of the debate about whether it’s milk or tea first.
We also discover how lead crystal was made and hear all about a racy new invention called the sofa.
Worsley with her soft Rs makes a bigger impression than the story of soft furnishings.
Hidden Talent
Hidden Talent reveals the pure joy of watching people be good at things
By Zoe Williams, The Guardian, 24 April 2012
Preternaturally good at weird things … Maggie Reenan goes rock climbing in Hidden Talent.
I think Hidden Talent (Channel 4) may turn out to be a rare – possibly unique – instance in which a programme started out as a high concept in a meeting room, and then ended up being much much better than the idea. Enter (presenter)Richard Bacon, who is quietly charismatic, with his solemn manners, salt-and-pepper hair and whatever the opposite is of a poker face There is in human nature this unshakeable joy in watching other people be good at things…
Elizabeth Taylor: The Auction of a Lifetime
The story of Elizabeth Taylor’s jewellery was disgustingly decadent, absurd – and thrilling.
By Lucy Mangan, Guardian 18 April 1012
I couldn’t have been happier last night, luxuriating in Elizabeth Taylor: The Auction of a Lifetime. The programme, the jewels, the story were altogether – as Richard Burton, notoriously Taylor’s fifth and sixth husband, once said of his ungovernable inamorata – too bloody much, which was just as it should be. The collection sold for $135m in the end. It was all disgustingly decadent, entirely morally unconscionable and the most fun I’ve had in ages.
Sony snaps up Silver River and eyes more UK indies
BROADCAST 1st March 2012, by Chris Curtis
Sony Pictures Television is planning an indie spending spree after agreeing to buy Daisy Goodwin’s Silver River Productions. SPT president of international production Andrea Wong is spearheading the strategy after sealing the deal for a majority stake in the Supersizers producer. Wong said Silver River’s Silver River chief executive Daisy Goodwin was a “unique creative talent”.
Goodwin said that although Silver River would continue to make distinctive British ideas like BBC2’s Off By Heart Shakespeare, it was “time to scale up”.“When you’re a medium-sized indie, you think about how to move forward, and creativity is my primary motivation,” she said.
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