Broadcast
For the first time, the BBC broadcast live coverage of the 2011 ceremony, including the "Red carpet" arrivals, awards results, and overreactions. Paul Gambaccini presented a program on BBC Radio 2 with live coverage and interviews. Due to the success of this, BBC once again broadcasted the whole ceremony again in 2012 as well as the performances by the cast of Billy Elliot, Wicked, Les Misérables and Jersey Boys in the Covent Garden piazza.
The 2013 Oliviers ceremony will be broadcast in a highlights version by ITV. The ceremony will be hosted by Sheridan Smith with voice-overs by Julia McKenzie at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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Famous quotes containing the word broadcast:
“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.”
—Monty Python’s Flying Circus. first broadcast Sept. 22, 1970. Michael Palin, in Monty Python’s Flying Circus (BBC TV comedy series)
“Adjoining a refreshment stand ... is a small frame ice house ... with a whitewashed advertisement on its brown front stating, simply, “Ice. Glory to Jesus.” The proprietor of the establishment is a religious man who has seized the opportunity to broadcast his business and his faith at the same time.”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)