''Liquid News'' was a daily round up of entertainment news for

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(and before that

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) running from 30 May 2000 to 1 April 2004. The show was also broadcast weekly on

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and internationally on

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and

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. The programme originally evolved from ''Zero 30'', the previous entertainment programme on

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. Once this was dropped from the 24-hour news channel, controller of the then

Stuart Murphy Stuart Neil Luke Murphy (born 6 November 1971 in Leeds), is the Chief Executive of the English National Opera. He was educated at St Mary's School, Menston and Clare College, Cambridge. From 2012 - 2015, he was Director, Entertainment Channels a ...

, took the format and brought it to the channel where it soon became the flagship programme.

Format

Each show started with a rundown of the headlines that featured in that edition of Liquid News after the main titles and the host introducing themselves. The show featured celebrity news from around the world (though mainly the UK, live reports from staff in

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and

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during the

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. Every edition had guests in the studio with the host to provide their opinions on the news featured, offer their views and to reflect with the host on those stories and to plug their own shows or records that they were promoting at the time. The show would divide itself into sections of discussion which usually fell into the categories of

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, Film,

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and sometimes

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which featured a main story of a pre-recorded or insert live from the regular roster of Liquid News reporters. A number of special editions of ''Liquid News'' were made to celebrate major events in the celebrity world, which left the usual confines of the studio. One such edition took place at a rooftop pool in which Christopher Price was behind a small tiki bar with the guests sitting on bar stools.

Cancellation

In April 2004 the show was cancelled. Murphy, who also went on to be controller of BBC Three, stated that the show would end as a way to "refresh the channel's output to best serve the audience". The news element of the channel was unaffected by the ending of the programme with ''

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'' and ''

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'' already in existence serving as the replacement. ''The 7 O'Clock News'' was later axed in 2005, while ''60 Seconds'' departed screens alongside

in February 2016.

Presenters

''Liquid News'' was originally a vehicle for presenter Christopher Price. Following his death on 21 April 2002, the show continued with a variety of presenters including

Colin Paterson Colin Paterson (born 1974) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster who is an Arts and Entertainment correspondent for the BBC and has been a presenter and reporter on BBC Three's ''Liquid News''. Early life He attended the independent Hutcheson ...

Claudia Winkleman Claudia Anne Irena Winkleman (born 15 January 1972) is an English television presenter, radio personality, film critic and journalist. Between 2004 and 2010, she presented '' Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two'' on weeknights on BBC Two. Since ...

Julia Morris Julia Carolyn Margaret Morris (born 20 April 1968) is an Australian comedian, television presenter and actress who has worked extensively in Australian television and radio, touring the country with her solo comedy shows. She relocated to the Un ...

Iain Lee Iain Lee (born Iain Lee Rougvie; 9 June 1973) is an English broadcaster, writer, and former television presenter and stand-up comedian who hosts the phone-in talk show '' The Late Night Alternative'' on "pay to view" Patreon. Lee's career bega ...

Jasmine Lowson Jasmine Lowson (born 1972) is a British actress, journalist and presenter of Singaporean descent. Early life Lowson was born in Chatham, Kent, South East England to an English father and a Singaporean mother (''née'' Yam Kheng Chan). She moved t ...

Paddy O'Connell Guy Patrick O'Connell (born 11 March 1966 in Guildford, Surrey) is an English television and radio presenter, working mainly for the BBC. He presents BBC Radio 4's '' Broadcasting House'' programme each Sunday morning. He is also an occasion ...

Jo Whiley Johanne Whiley-Morton (born 4 July 1965), better known by her professional name Jo Whiley, is an English radio DJ and television presenter. She was the host of the long-running weekday later weekend '' Jo Whiley Show'' on BBC Radio 1. She curre ...

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and

Amanda Byram Amanda Byram (born 16 June 1973) is an Irish television presenter and former model, best known for co-presenting BBC One game show '' Total Wipeout'' with Richard Hammond, the Irish version of '' Dancing with the Stars'' on RTÉ1 and for host ...

Reporters

The lineup of reporting staff included

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, Vanessa Langford,

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and Ruth Liptrot.

Theme music

Both versions of the theme tune have been composed by

Moby Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965), known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter, singer, producer, and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "among the ...

, the first of which being an original composition that had not been included on the ''

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'' album titled "Bedhead". The second was a

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remix of "

We Are All Made of Stars "We Are All Made of Stars" is a song by American electronica musician Moby. It was released as the first single from his sixth studio album, '' 18'' (2002), on April 1, 2002. It reached number 11 on the UK Singles Chart and became a top-10 hit i ...

", which featured on the single release.

References

External links

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