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Sean Hughes to bring his unique comedy show to Exeter

Fresh from performing two critically acclaimed shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Award-winning comedian, Sean Hughes, brings his hilarious comedy to Exeter's Corn Exchange as part of a 34-date national tour.

From the moment the lights come up on Life Becomes Noises , revealing a hospital bed and Sean dressed in a slightly inappropriate costume, it is apparent that this is going to be no ordinary comedy show.

It has been over a year since his father died, and Sean...

Great British Bake Off gets highest ever rating episode on BBC Two

The final episode of series three of Great British Bake Off last night had an average of 6.5 million viewers, 25.3% share, with a peak of 7.2 million viewers seeing law student John Whaite crowned as the Bake Off winner.

Janice Hadlow, Controller of BBC Two, says: “I’m absolutely thrilled by the phenomenal success of Great British Bake Off – all the ingredients of record ratings, a worthy winner, the expertise of Mary and Paul, wonderful presenters Mel and Sue and a brilliant series put together by Love productions plus of course all those irresistible cakes have come together to...

The New Face of TV adverts - Digital Product Placement?

With programme viewers having many more options now to avoid ad breaks on TV, eg recording programmes then skipping through the adverts as well as dashing out to make a cup of tea, one emerging piece of technology recently reported by Michael Millar, BBC News is that TV and film editors are considering post production digital product placement.

Of course product placement isn’t new as any Bond movie goer will have witnessed when Heineken stole a march over vodka martini in Skyfall, but what is new is that editors can drop in whatever they like, as and when they like, in the post...

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