Dinosaur, season 2. A review. Dinosaur, the award-winning Scottish sitcom, is back on UK TV screens after two years. Since season 1, it has won a Scottish BAFTA and other awards. However, it was not shown on BBC's main channel during prime time; instead, it aired on BBC3 at 10pm on Sunday nights. This acclaimed …
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Media Watch First the bad news: A story has hit the media in the last few weeks which is bad news for autistic people. Tony Hickmott The BBC has been able to overturn a reporting ban on reporting that an autistic man, Tony Hickmott, has been kept in an institution without anything to stimulate him …
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TVs The Governess from the quiz show The Chase, Anne Hegarty, has spoken of her autism this week on the show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here. The response has been great. Immediately after Anne spoke the National Autistic Society website went down, due to heavy internet traffic. The response in Twitter, so …
This week's episode. Series 3 episode 5 I watched it last night on i>player Wow. Christianity and situation comedy collide, but it nothing like The Vicar of Dibley. Tom Hollander's Rev, Adam Smallbone, is something darker. The church is a large building in East London in danger of closure. And it is real, too real …
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