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For the usual meaning of this term, see body. Bodies is a 2004 medical drama from BBC3 based on the book Bodies by Jed Mercurio. The series is the channel's attempt to break into hour long dramas, with its most successful shows to date being half-hour comedies (Little Britain, etc.). The series was also broadcast to American audiences on digital channel BBC America during the late Summer, early Fall of 2005. The drama has been described as a "dark, sometimes funny" take on the favourite genre made popular through shows s ...

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EastEnders - Background. EastEnders was launched at a critical moment in the BBC’s history and was intended to demonstrate the BBC’s ability to produce popular programming. It started airing on the night after a major ident change for the channel, with the show representing the "new face" of the BBC. Critics first derided the new offering, as it was clear that BBC wished to bridge the gap between the network and its competitor, ITV. One news source went as far as to accuse the channel of only having the guts to air the soap after Patricia Phoenix, arguably Britai ...

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EastEnders, EastEnders - Setting and characters, EastEnders - Setting, EastEnders - Characters, EastEnders - Social realism, EastEnders - History and popularity, EastEnders - Background, EastEnders - History, EastEnders - Popularity, EastEnders - Viewership, EastEnders - Scheduling, EastEnders - International screenings, EastEnders - Critique, EastEnders - Trivia

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While he is known to many as a friend of Ricky Gervais, featuring heavily on his Politics DVD release and as failed interviewee Stuart Foot in The Office, Ince is also a highly regarded live performer and writer. For all his comedy work, however, he is probably most widely known as a talking head on Channel 4 clip shows on British television, where he (and other talking heads) are shown a clip of something and then asked to pretend they remember it. In 2005 he stopped accepting invitations to appear in these type of shows, as he felt they wer ...

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Robin Ince, Robin Ince - Career, Robin Ince - Live credits, Robin Ince - TV credits, Robin Ince - Radio credits, Robin Ince - Film credits

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The show pairs a number of celebrities with professional ballroom dancers who each week compete against each other in a competition to impress a panel of judges and the viewing public in order to survive potential elimination. Through a telephone poll, viewers vote who should stay and who should go, the results of the poll being combined with the ranking of the panel of judges. (The profits from the telephone lines were donated to Sports Relief in seri ...

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Strictly Come Dancing, Strictly Come Dancing - Format, Strictly Come Dancing - Dances, Strictly Come Dancing - Series 1, Strictly Come Dancing - Series 2, Strictly Come Dancing - Series 3, Strictly Come Dancing - Special Shows, Strictly Come Dancing - Christmas Champion of Champions, Strictly Come Dancing - Strictly Ice Dancing, Strictly Come Dancing - 2005 Christmas Special, Strictly Come Dancing - Note

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The programme features mainly following fictitious networks: Aronovitz Business News. This business and financial news station station features onscreen graphics similar in style to Bloomberg Television. Most of the screen is taken up by graphs and stock-tickers with only a small window where Gary Mills and Mitchell Oatis tend to argue with rather 'colourful' similes ("Well, Marks and Spencer are leading investors up the garden path yet again. Why do we have to say 'Yes, we love the underwear and the food'? ...

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Broken News, Broken News - The featured networks, Broken News - Episodes, Broken News - Similarities to The Day Today

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Vic Reeves' comedy career began in The Goldsmiths Tavern in New Cross, London, in the mid-1980s. Having tried out various stage names, he settled on Vic Reeves and began a show called Vic Reeves' Big Night Out at the Goldsmiths Tavern. It was here that he met and began working with Bob Mortimer, and the show then moved to a bigger venue, the Deptford Albany, in 1989. The show began to attract various well-known audience members, such as Charlie Higson, ...

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Vic and Bob, Vic and Bob - The early years, Vic and Bob - Sketch shows, Vic and Bob - Quiz shows, Vic and Bob - Sitcom and drama, Vic and Bob - Other work, Vic and Bob - Music

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EastEnders - Background. EastEnders was launched at a critical moment in the BBC’s history and was intended to demonstrate the BBC’s ability to produce popular programming. It started airing on the night after a major ident change for the channel, with the show representing the "new face" of the BBC. Critics first derided the new offering, as it was clear that BBC wished to bridge the gap between the network and its competitor, ITV. One news source went as far as to accuse the channel of only having the guts to air the soap after Patricia Phoenix, arguably Englan ...

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EastEnders, EastEnders - Setting and characters, EastEnders - Setting, EastEnders - Characters, EastEnders - Social realism, EastEnders - History and popularity, EastEnders - Background, EastEnders - History, EastEnders - Popularity, EastEnders - Viewership, EastEnders - Scheduling, EastEnders - International screenings, EastEnders - Critique, EastEnders - Trivia

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EastEnders - Setting. EastEnders is set in the fictional London Borough of Walford, however the central focus of the show is that of the equally fictional Victorian square named Albert Square. The show's creators were both Londoners, but when they researched Victorian Squares they found massive changes in areas they thought they knew well. However, delving further into the East End, they found exactly what they had been searching for. A real East End spirit — an inward looking quality, a distrust ...

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EastEnders, EastEnders - Setting and characters, EastEnders - Setting, EastEnders - Characters, EastEnders - Social realism, EastEnders - History and popularity, EastEnders - Background, EastEnders - History, EastEnders - Popularity, EastEnders - Viewership, EastEnders - Scheduling, EastEnders - International screenings, EastEnders - Critique, EastEnders - Trivia

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The following dances are performed in Strictly Come Dancing: Ballroom Waltz Quickstep Ballroom Tango Foxtrot Viennese Waltz Latin American Cha Cha Cha Rumba Jive Paso Doble Samba There have been a number of new dances added in series three, some as group dances. These are Argentine Tango, ...

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Strictly Come Dancing, Strictly Come Dancing - Format, Strictly Come Dancing - Dances, Strictly Come Dancing - Series 1, Strictly Come Dancing - Series 2, Strictly Come Dancing - Series 3, Strictly Come Dancing - Special Shows, Strictly Come Dancing - Christmas Champion of Champions, Strictly Come Dancing - Strictly Ice Dancing, Strictly Come Dancing - 2005 Christmas Special, Strictly Come Dancing - Note

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Strictly Come Dancing - Christmas Champion of Champions. 22nd December 2004, in order of elimination Strictly Come Dancing - Strictly Ice Dancing. 26th December 2004, in order of elimination Strictly Come Dancing - 2005 Christmas Special. The Christmas special in 2005 featured the top four couples (Gough/Kopylova, Jackson/Boag, Ball/Waite, Martin/Dallerup) from the 2005 series competing against two competitors from the US version, Dancing ...

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Strictly Come Dancing, Strictly Come Dancing - Format, Strictly Come Dancing - Dances, Strictly Come Dancing - Series 1, Strictly Come Dancing - Series 2, Strictly Come Dancing - Series 3, Strictly Come Dancing - Special Shows, Strictly Come Dancing - Christmas Champion of Champions, Strictly Come Dancing - Strictly Ice Dancing, Strictly Come Dancing - 2005 Christmas Special, Strictly Come Dancing - Note

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Created in Thatcherite Britain during the worst economic recession in Britain since the 1930s combined with high unemployment and rocketing crime rates, EastEnders tried to represent this in the social realist tradition. In the eighties, EastEnders featured gritty storylines involving drugs and crime, representing the issues faced by working-class Britain much as Coronation Street did in the 1960 ...

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EastEnders, EastEnders - Setting and characters, EastEnders - Setting, EastEnders - Characters, EastEnders - Social realism, EastEnders - History and popularity, EastEnders - Background, EastEnders - History, EastEnders - Popularity, EastEnders - Viewership, EastEnders - Scheduling, EastEnders - International screenings, EastEnders - Critique, EastEnders - Trivia

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In 1992, Reeves and Mortimer made their first brief detour into sitcoms by writing and recording a pilot episode of The Weekenders, a one-off pilot for Channel 4's Bunch Of Five season. Human League vocalist Phil Oakey, and the future Fast Show trio of Paul Whitehouse, John Thomson and Simon Day, all starred. The Weekenders is also notable as the one programme where Vic is intentiona ...

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Vic and Bob, Vic and Bob - The early years, Vic and Bob - Sketch shows, Vic and Bob - Quiz shows, Vic and Bob - Sitcom and drama, Vic and Bob - Other work, Vic and Bob - Music

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In 1993 Reeves and Mortimer transferred from Channel 4 to BBC 2, writing and appearing in The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, indicating the rise in Mortimer's standing from sidekick to Reeves' equal. These programmes were more slick and scripted than their Channel 4 predecessors. Two series of six episodes each were made, and most of the original Big Night Out format was abandoned, although various actors returned in new roles, including Caroline Aherne and Charlie Higson (The Fast Show) and Matt Lucas (Little B ...

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Vic and Bob, Vic and Bob - The early years, Vic and Bob - Sketch shows, Vic and Bob - Quiz shows, Vic and Bob - Sitcom and drama, Vic and Bob - Other work, Vic and Bob - Music

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In 1993 a pilot episode of Shooting Stars was screened on BBC 2 as part of the At Home with Vic and Bob evening of programming. It began running as a regular series in 1995. Maintaining their bizarre and irreverent style, the pair played host to two teams of celebrity guests (captained each week by Mark Lamarr and Ulrika Jonsson, and later Will Self) answering what can be loosely described as general knowledge questions. They were also accompanied by regular appearances from Lucas as drumming baby George Dawes (Lucas is now kno ...

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Vic and Bob, Vic and Bob - The early years, Vic and Bob - Sketch shows, Vic and Bob - Quiz shows, Vic and Bob - Sitcom and drama, Vic and Bob - Other work, Vic and Bob - Music

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Based on market research by BBC commissioning in 2003, EastEnders is most watched by 16 - 24 year olds, closely followed by 25 - 34 year olds. An average EastEnders episode attracts a total audience share between 45% and 50%. Aside from that, the 10pm repeat showing on BBC Three attracts an average of 500,000 viewers, whilst the Sunday omnibus attracts a further 3 million. Ever since EastEnders began on the mainstream BBC One, it has achieved some of the highest ...

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EastEnders, EastEnders - Setting and characters, EastEnders - Setting, EastEnders - Characters, EastEnders - Social realism, EastEnders - History and popularity, EastEnders - Background, EastEnders - History, EastEnders - Popularity, EastEnders - Viewership, EastEnders - Scheduling, EastEnders - International screenings, EastEnders - Critique, EastEnders - Trivia

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On 27 December 1993, Vic and Bob chose sitcoms, sketch shows and films an entire night on BBC2, which was dubbed At Home With Vic & Bob. Programming included an episode of Eric Idle's BBC television series Rutland Weekend Television, the original pilot of Shooting Stars, and Mike Leigh's film Nuts in May. In 2000, Vic appeared solo in UK Play series Vic Reeves Examines, which featured celebrities such as Johnny Vegas, Lauren Laverne and Emma K ...

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Vic and Bob, Vic and Bob - The early years, Vic and Bob - Sketch shows, Vic and Bob - Quiz shows, Vic and Bob - Sitcom and drama, Vic and Bob - Other work, Vic and Bob - Music

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