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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Monkey

Will Fincham have a theatrical curtain-raiser to his ITV career?

With just over a month until Peter Fincham starts as director of television at ITV, Monkey wonders what programmes he has up his sleeve. As controller of BBC1 he revolutionised the channel with magazine show The One Show and dramas such as Robin Hood and Doctor Who. One thing that ITV doesn't have is theatre shows in the vein of Kevin Spacey's bete noire, BBC1's hit talent search I'd Do Anything. But should Pete need advice on that front he could always call on his chum, Andrew Lloyd-Webber's right hand man Andre Ptaszynski. Monkey hears they're such close pals that they're even godfather to each other's children. How really useful Andre's advice might be.

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