Channel 4 has appointmented their first Games Commissioning Editor. Colin Macdonald will be based in Glasgow and report into Convergent Formats Commissioner Anna Cronin. Macdonald is a respected and pioneering figure in the gaming industry and has worked on some of the most innovative titles of all time including Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto and Crackdown the broadcaster states. Colin Macdonald […]
Read moreThe BBC has confirmed that children’s magazine programme Blue Peter will air once a week from January. The world’s longest running children’s television show will now only air once a week. The episode will get its first outing on the BBC’s children’s channel CBBC and then air the next day on BBC One. Currently Blue Peter airs twice a week […]
Read moreOutspoken radio DJ Howard Stern will appear on the judging panel for America’s Got Talent. Stern is replacing Piers Morgan who currently hosts his own prime-time talk show on cable news channel CNN. He will join fellow judges Sharon Osbourne and Howie Mandel. The radio DJ currently has a successful radio show on Sirius XM to which NBC are expected to […]
Read moreDoctor Who show-runner Steven Moffat has confirmed the next series of the popular BBC sci-fi will see the departures of actors Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill. Moffat made the announcement during a screening of this year’s Christmas Special, The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe, at Television Centre. Moffat told the audience that ‘The final days of the Ponds are […]
Read moreIt’s a problem in the UK, which the regulator appears to ignore, however in America the days of the adverts being greatly louder than the programmes is coming to an end. The Federal Communications Commission is enforcing new rules which bans commercials from being at a different level to the programmes. Earlier this week the regulator passed a set of […]
Read moreStrictly Come Dancing judge, and endorser of Avon cosmetics, Alesha Dixon has also revealed another talent. She’s a self-proclaimed ‘bum expert’.
Read moreThe USA’s first openly gay Episcopal bishop, Gene Robinson, has responded to presidential hopeful Rick Perry’s anti-gay TV promotion suggesting that “it must break God’s heart to see religion used in a political campaign like this.” Bishop Robinson of the Episcopal Church showed his distaste in a TV interview with MSNBC and also by writing an opinion piece in the […]
Read moreRoache, who has played Coronation Street’s Ken Barlow since 1960, has spoken about his spiritual beliefs and how humans will shortly be communicating telepathically. The 79-year-old, currently one of the worlds longest running television actors, gave his predictions in an interview for Sky Television. These glimpses into the future include a host of earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and tsunamis to cleanse […]
Read moreComedian Ricky Gervais has spoken out in support of the BUAV’s campaign to stop plans for a dog breeding farm. The farm, BUAV state, would supply beagles for experiments and be based at a site in Grimston, Yorkshire. The dogs would be bread in their thousands to provide laboratories with test subjects for painful and invasive experiments. Ricky told the […]
Read moreThe lesbian actress has said that staying in the closet for Hollywood actors leads to a “detrimental lie.” The 25-year-old told Women’s Health magazine “You can’t respect yourself if you’re afraid to be who you are. It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing. “But the risk was outweighed by the possibility of playing into […]
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