The 55-year-old comedienne became a household name with her BBC sketch show Victoria Wood As Seen On TV and has gone on to create sitcom Dinner Ladies and West End Musical Acorn Antiques.

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He brought Warner Bros. in as a distributor and helped the movie get seen in more theaters and on TV networks such as ESPN Classic.

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In what must be unbearable for the desperately ambitious, the human drama of the reshuffle is played out in public as journalists discuss the fate of politicians who may not be seen on TV screens again until the next reshuffle.

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It has also increased its focus on children's programming in a move seen as taking a different tack than traditional premium pay TV channels such as HBO, Starz and Showtime, whose original shows are tailored more to adults.

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"It was getting out of its religious context it was seen as a show of force, " said Daoud Sultanzoi, a commentator on Afghanistan's Tolo TV and a Sunni Pashtun who lost his parliament seat to a Hazara last year in the ethnically mixed Ghazni province.

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The model was already well known in South Africa but was seen as being on the verge of a new career, with her appearance in a pre-recorded reality TV show set to start on Saturday.

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