Older viewers feel left behind by today's TV according to a recent report and despite being the generation who watch it most. However, their love of classic TV is going global.
News from Bright Thoughts
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RXTV INFO REPORT 04 Nov. 2025
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ALEXANDER STREET 09 Sept. 2025 
We are pleased to announce that our 1983 production, Macready! - Frank Barrie's acclaimed one man show - has been licensed to the Alexander Street video streaming platform. |
FRANK BARRIE 1936-2025 11 Jul. 2025 
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of dear Frank at the age of 88. His one-man show Macready! played in 65 countries. Bright Thoughts televised the show. |
DOES TV NEED FIXING? 22 March 2025 
A 'perfect storm' according to recent articles, but we believe that British talent is the solution not the problem as the prolonged crisis continues to sweep through the TV world. |
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NEW RIGHTS AGREEMENT 20 Feb. 2025 
Bright Thoughts has now come to a comprehensive agreement with Channel 4 so that, as content providers, we are able to market our entire back catalogue of programming. |
DIANE LANGTON 16 Jan. 2025 
Diane Langton has died at the age of 77. We will miss Diane, she was fun to work with and a trouper. We had hoped for her to be involved in the monologues remake, but sadly not now. |
Digital Cinema Package 02 Sept. 2024 
It's fantastic news and a great break-through that our Editor who currently is responsible for the upscaling and remastering our shows in HD now also has the capability to offer DCP. |
BEN LUXON 1937-2024 30 Jul. 2024 
Benjamin Luxon CBE died at the age of 87. Ben was one of the nation's greatest opera singers who performed in as many of our "Top C's & Tiaras" as his busy schedule would allow. |
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REMASTERED IN HD 07 May 2024 
Our first restoration project to be completed is "Here's A Funny Thing," John Bardon's wonderful recreation of the life and career of the great music hall comedian Max Miller. |
BFI - HERITAGE 22 02 Jan. 2024 
The BFI new major digitisation project called Heritage 2022 is part of BFI Replay free-to-access digital archive being made exclusively available in UK public lending libraries. |
BRIAN GODDING 1945-2023 05 Dec.2023 
A guitarist with a long and remarkable career in music, Brian excelled in improvisation. Self-taught, he performed in genres as diverse as rock, jazz, folk, and dance. |
MEDIA NATIONS 2023 03 Aug. 2023 
Media Nations 2023 finds that the proportion of viewers who tune in to traditional broadcast TV each week has seen the sharpest ever annual fall – from 83% in 2021 to 79% in 2022. |
