Month: July 2011

The BBC has announced that they will be celebrating one year to go until the London 2012 Olympic games with a selection of special programmes and debates on television, radio and online. Wednesday 27th July will mark one year until the start of the games and BBC One will be live at 7.00pm from Trafalgar Square, where the One Year […]

Last night The Apprentice attracted 8.3million viewers to BBC One, peaking at 9 million. Last night’s The Apprentice attracted 8.3million viewers to BBC One, peaking at 9 million. Fans of the business reality show watched Melody Hossaini become the latest candidate to be fired by Lord Sugar. It easily won its slow over ITV 1’s Lewis, which began an hour […]

Coronation Street actor Charlie Condou has written an article for The Guardian in response to Brian Sewell’s Daily Mail article criticising the number of LGBT characters in the Manchester soap and claiming gay relationships were unsuitable for before the watershed. The actor plays Marcus Dent in Coronation Street – recently reprising his role after quitting the soap in 2008. The […]

Doctor Who is losing another producer as Beth Willis is leaving the BBC to return to Kudos. Broadcast reports the producer is returning to the production company from which she joined the BBC from. Willis will leave the BBC in September to return to Kudos and her departure will come in the same month as that of Piers Wenger who […]

The Daily Telegraph is reporting that families of dead soldiers may have been the victim of phone hacking. The newspaper report claims that Glenn Mulcaire’s notebook had names and contact numbers of families who lost loved ones. Mulcaire was convicted in 2007 along with Clive Goodman for intercepting voicemail messages from the Royal household. Rebekah Brooks, who was editor of […]

Torchwood creator Russell T Davies is developing a new drama series for Showtime. According to The Hollywood Reporter the broadcaster has confirmed the writer is developing a new series for them – with BBC Worldwide Productions along onboard for the new project. The new series is titled Cucumber – names change though – according to the paper. The new series […]

Brian Sewell has complained about the number of LGBT characters in soaps and has questioned whether gay relationships are suitable for young children to view. The art-critic attacked the number of LGBT characters in Coronation Street – and soaps in general – in an article for the Daily Mail. In recent months there has been criticism, from some quarters, over […]

Big Brother fans are once again set to be shafted after it emerged that there will not be a live feed this year. Speaking to New Media Age, Channel 5 digital director James Tatam has said that Facebook will be the home for Big Brother news and video updates, implying there will be no 24/7 live feed which has always been at […]

New figures for the BBC iPlayer service reveal Doctor Who was once again one of the most requested programmes with over 1 million downloads. That’s just for one single episode of Doctor Who alone as only the mid-season finale, A Good Man Goes to War, was broadcast in June. The previous six episodes were broadcast in April and May and […]