Sentence examples for sorts of programmes from inspiring English sources

Is Ofcom telling us that it is in the business of ordering what sorts of programmes broadcasters ought to make?

I think that there won't be any successor to David because those sorts of programmes are going to be increasingly difficult to make.

Yet his years of surprising rectitude are still lodged in the public mind; and in Al Gore's mind, with his instinctive resistance to the sorts of programmes that would have made Democrats salivate in the past.

"I guarantee that their ability to sell stuff that has a marketable side will make the BBC more likely to commission those sorts of programmes," says a rival in the business.

"There are very few places in television, I think, where you will be offered the opportunity to make as many eclectic, different sorts of programmes as you can still make on BBC2".

Commercial rivals say this claim to be above commercial motivation is preposterous: "I guarantee that their ability to sell marketable stuff makes them more likely to commission those sorts of programmes," says one executive at Viacom's Nickelodeon.Mr Gavin insists that the tension between the commercial and public-service impulses has not led to editorial compromise.

Each vote costs the viewer 25 pence (36 cents).Many other sorts of programme will entice more viewers to spend money while they watch television.

DM: Have you seen the sort of programmes Michael Portillo makes?

The government has introduced some new funding streams to help schools fund these sort of programmes.

Here, he can make the sort of programmes that have been his trademark for 40 years – arty, quirky, unpredictable, informative.

And that includes the sort of programmes that don't have global commercial appeal as well as those that do.