In part, that is a dig at News 24, a round-the-clock news channel, which is a bugbear of Mr Smith's.

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By 1998, when news moved into new studios in the last part of TV Centre to be completed, bulletins were being broadcast round the clock on News 24, now the News Channel, which launched the previous year.

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Gervais was one of the regular guest commentators on Channel 4's The 11 O'Clock Show, probably best remembered for creating Ali G, for which Gervais did not win particularly fond reviews.

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Three nights a week, Prannoy Roy anchors the main, 9 o'clock news on India's top-rated English-language news channel, NDTV 24x7.

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For channel 4, they built a diorama containing a rain gauge, barometer, thermometer, wind gauge, and clock, pointed a videocamera at it, and launched the first weather channel.

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