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BAFTA is
extremely grateful
to all its corporate members who have generously supported the Academy and its work of promoting the best in Film, Television and Interactive Entertainment in 2003.
• American Airlines
• AVID Technology
Europe Limited
• Baker Tilly
• BARCO Limited
• Barcud Derwin
• BBC Cymru
• BBC Scotland
• Bermans Solicitors
• Border Television
• British Broadcasting Corporation
• BSkyB
• BT
• Buena Vista International UK
• Helkon SK
• HTV Group Plc
• Icon Film Distribution Ltd
• Invicta Capital
• KPMG
• Kodak
Entertainment Imaging Ltd
• Macromedia Europe • Orange Plc
• Pathé Entertainment • Radio Times
• Royal Mail Group
• S4C
• Scottish Media Group
• Scottish Screen
• Silicon Media
• Twentieth Century Fox
• United International Pictures UK
• University of Salford
• UBS Limited
• Warner Bros Distributors Ltd
• Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television
• California Office of Tourism
• Carlton Broadcasting
• Carlton Screen Advertising
• Carlton Television
• Channel Four
• Columbia TriStar Films (UK)
• Deloitte & Touche
• Dolby Laboratories Inc
• Entertainment Film Distributors Ltd
• Film Council
• Granada Media Group
The Academy will be launching a new Corporate Partnership scheme in 2004.
For more information please contact:
Simon Farley
Head of Development and Corporate Relations BAFTA
195 Piccadilly
London W1J 9LN
tel: 0207 292 5809 email: simonf@bafta.org
same faces. We’ve got to take some risks but it’s a brave presen- ter who will take on that Saturday night challenge at an early stage in their career.”
One who did was former foot- baller Ian Wright, the host of Friends Like These and the Lottery show, Wright Around The World. “Ian’s a confident presenter and genuinely thinks that Saturday night is his place in the schedule,” says Garvie.
The BBC hopes its new signing from Channel 4, the saucy Graham Norton, can make it on Saturday night. “It’s no secret why we’ve brought in Graham,” says Lush. “We think he can bring something special to Saturday evening. What’s possibly missing on a Saturday evening is enter- tainment with a big E, which is
going to make more of Eurovision this time around.
“We’re doing a special ‘mak- ing your mind up’ to choose Britain’s entry. Saturday night can be a place in which the nation can come together. Hopefully they’ll come together to put behind us the shame of last year and select a decent entry this year,” he says.
New to ITV1 this year is a Davina McCall-hosted dating show, Love On A Saturday Night, and Hell’s Kitchen, an entertain- ment reality show with top chef, Gordon Ramsay. “I haven’t got much new stuff on Saturday nights because so much has worked,” says Rosencrantz. “We have Pop Idol, Takeaway, Popstars and Stars in their Eye; shows that are such huge successes and they just run
your Morecambe and Wise type of show. Graham is special – he’s an entertainer.”
Norton’s Saturday night debut is still some way off, but in the meantime the BBC is offering some new formats. Upcoming are a Johnny Vaughan and Denise Van Outen-presented entertain- ment show, Saturday Night Get- Out, and an interactive quiz, with the working title Don’t Get Mad Get Even where the cameras go into the contestants’ homes. Also promised is a show that pairs celebrities with professional dancers on the ballroom floor.
The BBC is also serving up another dollop of Eurovision. After Britain’s performance last year when its entry, Jemini, scored nil points, Garvie says the BBC is
throughout the year. We keep them coming.”
“Memory is a wonderful thing,” she adds. “The brain is programmed to make you remember the good times and forget the bad. I remember a load of old cack on when I was a kid, sitting speechless at some of the stuff, like David Nixon’s Magic Box, which was a massively suc- cessful show – but it was hardly the golden age of telly.
“I think there’s some fantastic television on nowadays and peo- ple have enormous choice. They can watch niche programming and they can still watch as a family. That’s what our job is – to provide family programming.”
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