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to Brian Rix, of the Whitehall Theatre farces, to act as spotter-producer-actor, and ITV's back- pedal on its prestige proposal to put out Old Vic productions on STV. 'Lew has categorically said "Don't push me and I'll probably use them next year," is the quote attributed in The Stage to Roy' Rich, Controller of STV, who ruefully admitted that the one Old Vic play already shown was net- worked 'at a poor viewing time coinciding with a hot afternoon' with the result of 'really ghastly ratings.' Here, obviously, might be a full- scale opportunity to ask why these super-shrewd tycoons do not take into consideration that such conditions may produce such ratings, and one might even make a comparison in ,the BBC's favour—were it not for the fact that on the evening of writing this BBC has chosen to resur- rect as ostensibly new a fag-end programme of a series by the long-since-disbanded Burns and Allen team. Indeed, one might even marvel
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