Sunday 10 May 2009

Melvyn Bragg is being pushed off the screen after 30 years











Mr Bragg has been telling us about 'the arts' on terrestrial TV for about thirty years. ITV has decided this week to axe the show, something to do with being hundreds of millions of pounds in debt . . . Bragg's show only pulls in one million viewers, whereas Mr Simon Cowell's (Britain's Got Talent) gets ten million. Different time slot, different promotional efforts, I think it's a shame, but . . . fnd out the whole picture, by Rosie Millard, in the Sunday Times on-line at

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6255799.ece

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