Month: November 2010

Bobby Hain, pictured left, Managing Director of Broadcasting and Regulatory Affairs at STV speaks to ATV Today.   Bobby Hain, pictured above, Managing Director of Broadcasting and Regulatory Affairs at STV speaks to ATV Today. The decision to opt-out of some ITV network programmes has paid off? “Well we set ourselves an objective to run our schedule with more Scottish […]

Aiden Grimshaw is the latest contestant to be eliminated from The X Factor. Aiden Grimshaw and last week’s survivor Katie Waissel faced each other in the bottom two after failing to gain enough votes for their Elton John covers from last night. Cheryl Cole and Dannii Minogue both save their own acts, with Simon Cowell saving Katie and Louis Walsh […]

The BBC has explained its reasons for the delay in reporting the Chandler release story. It has come to light that an injunction was in place for the media to stop them reporting on the release of the Chandlers’ until they were taken to a safe place away from Somalia, where they had been held hostage for over a year. […]

Katie Waissel is favourite once again to be eliminated from The X Factor tonight. Last night the contestants sang the hits of Elton John as they battled for the public votes once more. Katie, who was controversially saved last week, sang ‘Saturday Night’.Wagner is second favourite to be eliminated although he has never been in the bottom two so far. […]

This year’s I’m A Celebrity contestants have been thrown in the deep end by taking part in their first Bush Tucker trial. The contestants were split into two teams, boys and girls, and for the first trial will go head to head. The reward for the winning team will be one more night in luxury with the losing team heading […]

ATV Today understands that on Matchday 5 of the Champions League, STV will produce their own coverage of the big British clash between Rangers and Manchester United on Wednesday 24th November.     In the past STV have covered the Scottish teams in the competition. On nights where they had the rights they showed the Celtic or Rangers match differing […]

STV has told ATV Today that they will “never say never” in regards to screening Downton Abbey. Bobby Hain, Managing Director of Broadcasting and Regulatory Affairs at STV has spoken to ATV Today about their decision not to screen the ITV 1 hit period drama Downton Abbey, which ended last Sunday with over 10 million viewers.   Bobby Hain said […]

The second series of the BAFTA award winning drama Misfits returned to E4 last night with a big following. Misfits attracted 1.1million viewers to digital channel E4 last night after a year away. The first series followed the main teenage characters as each one discovered they had special super powers. The return of the second series, which has been heavily […]

Latino singer Ricky Martin has said he will only marry his partner when Puerto Rico, his home country, legalises gay marriage.     Latino singer Ricky Martin has said he will only marry his partner when Puerto Rico, his home country, legalises gay marriage. Martin came out as gay earlier this year ending years of speculation concerning his sexuality though […]