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Question Time or PMQs: an audience debate is different from a Commons proceeding
BBC Question Time and Prime Minister’s Questions are different viewing requests.
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The viewing journal — page 120
Practical reading about screens, players, Canadian viewing and the decisions behind a better setup.
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Panorama and the news bulletin: identify the investigation, not just its subject
A Panorama investigation and a daily BBC news report can address the same event without being the same programme.
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Dispatches and Channel 4 News: an investigation and its news coverage are separate items
Channel 4 identifies Dispatches as an investigative strand and Channel 4 News as a separately supplied bulletin programme.
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FRONTLINE and PBS NewsHour: film, extended interview and daily programme differ
FRONTLINE is a long-form documentary and investigative-journalism organisation; PBS NewsHour is a separately named news programme.
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American Experience or American Masters? A biography alone does not identify the strand
American Experience and American Masters are separate PBS documentary series, but their subjects can overlap.
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NATURE and The Nature of Things: similar words, different programme references
PBS NATURE and CBC’s The Nature of Things are separate documentary series.
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