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According to opinion polls, the public delighted in the spectacle last November of DPJ officials hauling civil servants into a Tokyo gym to justify, under the glare of TV spotlights, their requests for budget allocations.Earlier this month Mr Hatoyama appointed Yukio Edano, who helped lead these waste-busting efforts, as his new administrative-reform chief.
He polished the lobby's marble floors and set up five vintage TV spotlights and a simple stage.
When reality TV spotlights deeply flawed (read awful) people all day and night, rather than relentlessly wholesome 2-D characters like Ozzie and Harriet, the Brady Bunch or the Cosbys, are we always better off?
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Page Hall is due its 15 minutes in the TV spotlight in documentary series Police Under Pressure (Monday, 9pm, BBC2).
The Stoke manager, Tony Pulis, was in the opposite corner, using the TV spotlight to cite previous matches where he felt his players were the victims of unpunished violence.
Let John F. Kerry roll out John Edwards as his running mate, and Tom Ridge rushes to grab back the TV spotlight by predicting that Al Qaeda will "disrupt our democratic process".
ITV's real-time popularity check during the prime ministerial debate showed a negative reaction to Nick Clegg's attack on the child trust fund (Clegg the outsider seizes his moment in the TV spotlight, 16 April).
Cast in the hit-of-the-moment mould of The Great British Bake-Off, it's a show in which amateur artists seek to prolong their stay in the TV spotlight by demonstrating their skills in portraiture, still life and landscapes.
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