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<blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 443680" data-attributes="member: 673">There was a similar case of this on UK TV in the 90’s. Back when cable TV was thought to have a fighting chance against satellite, the Mirror Group (responsible for the trashy tabloid Mirror newspapers) launched L!VE TV in a blaze of publicity. At the helm were Janet Street-Porter, left wing arty journalist who’d won acclaim for her work on BBC and Channel 4, and Mirror newspaper editor Kelvin Mackenzie. The two were polar opposites who inevitably fell out, with Street-Porter quitting the job, a few months after the channel’s launch.With Janet gone, Mackenzie was free to do what he wanted with the schedules. This included introducing a topless darts show, a weather forecasting dwarf on a trampoline and a daily soap called Canary Wharf, whose main character (a middle aged woman trying to run a cable channel in London) was a parody of Street-Porter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Carrie Fairchild, post: 443680, member: 673"] There was a similar case of this on UK TV in the 90’s. Back when cable TV was thought to have a fighting chance against satellite, the Mirror Group (responsible for the trashy tabloid Mirror newspapers) launched L!VE TV in a blaze of publicity. At the helm were Janet Street-Porter, left wing arty journalist who’d won acclaim for her work on BBC and Channel 4, and Mirror newspaper editor Kelvin Mackenzie. The two were polar opposites who inevitably fell out, with Street-Porter quitting the job, a few months after the channel’s launch. With Janet gone, Mackenzie was free to do what he wanted with the schedules. This included introducing a topless darts show, a weather forecasting dwarf on a trampoline and a daily soap called [I]Canary Wharf[/I], whose main character (a middle aged woman trying to run a cable channel in London) was a parody of Street-Porter. [/QUOTE]

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