Month: September 2011

Nigel Robbins has joined UTV Media plc as ‘Commercial Director Ireland’ and is to be based in Belfast. Robbins is charged with further developing UTV’s commercial interests across TV, Radio and New Media. Nigel Robbins says: “This is a very exciting time to be joining UTV Media, which has gone from strength to strength in recent years and is now […]

‘Red Or Black?‘ music and media mogul Simon Cowell’s latest series for ITV has failed to remain ‘in the black’ as viewers turn off the Ant and Dec fronted show. On the game show’s first outing on Saturday night it hit an average of 6.1 million viewers. However since then, the prorgramme, which is airing nightly, has seen ratings drop […]

UTV, the ITV network company for Northern Ireland, has invested £1.5 million in a new state-of-the-art HD television production facility, which will take all programmes made by UTV into fulll HD.   UTV, the ITV network company for Northern Ireland, has invested £1.5 million in a new state-of-the-art HD television production facility, which will take all programmes made by UTV […]

The cases are real, the people are real and the court is real. For fifteen series Judge Judy has been presiding over legal proceedings ranging from the stupid to the outrageous. But, she wonders, has she become softer as the show has progressed? Judy Sheindlin has seen a number of copycat series launch in the time she’s been on air, […]

Chief Foreign Affairs reporter for NBC Andrea Mitchell announced to American viewers live on her TV show that she has discovered she has Breast Cancer.   She made the on-air announcement to highlight early detection of the disease for other women telling viewers, “Screening matters. Do it,” adding “I had planned to be hiking in Wyoming last week, but instead […]

OFCOM have outlined proposals which could potentially see the Border TV Region split up with the Scottish part being taken over by STV in 2014. The Border region which covers most of Cumbria in Northern England along with Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders in Southern Scotland merged with Tyne Tees in February 2009.  Many Southern Scottish viewers have […]

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It has become a pop culture phenomenon around the world, however in the UK it’s a new era as Glee moves from Channel 4 to Sky 1.   Sky today released details of the third series which will air later this month. Glee is set at the McKinley High School and  follows teacher Will Schuester – actor  Matthew Morrison – […]