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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedTV unleashes its showcase season: the autumn TV schedules provide an array of music slots for acts. And they are the ideal opportunity for music companies to boost their Christmas sales
Music Week, October, 2004 by Adam Woods
Rotten weather apart, TV pluggers rode out along, barren summer in 2004. But since the season has turned to autumn, TV opportunities have been raining out of the sky--at least in comparison.
The arrival of Parkinson at ITV and the return of Jonathan Ross to BBC1 in recent weeks, as well as imminent comebacks for ITV's Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and the Frank Skinner Show--which will have its first music slot this season--are the headline features of the autumn schedule.
Elsewhere, the beginning of new runs for BBC2's Later ... with Jools Holland and ITV1's National Lottery Live and Today with Des and Mel in mid-October, along with a run of music--based one-off specials in the run-up to Christmas, will soon see terrestrial television's capacity for...
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