Month: March 2012

American sportswear brand Abercrombie & Fitch have launched a new promotional campaign by Bruce Weber which contains mild male erotica. The brand, often shortened to A&F, appears to aim at the ‘Preppy’ market with a fashion range that wouldn’t look out of place on the ‘geeks’ in the movie Grease. However to inject some heat into a geek-fest the company […]

There are an estimated one million Gypsies and Travellers throughout the USA and now the company behind the UK’s Big Fat Gypsy Wedding series are venturing over to America to see how the Gypsy Brides do it yankee style. Gypsy Brides follows the same format as the UK show and goes inside the homes and attend the gypsy parties to […]

Channel 4’s flagship investigative documentary strand Dispatches has hired former Tyne Tees News presenter and reporter Morland Sanders. In his new regular role with the production Sanders will present topical high profile investigations across a wide range of subjects. He will report to the recently appointed Channel 4 Dispatches Editor, Daniel Pearl. Morland Sanders, says: “This is an amazing opportunity […]

Crime drama NCIS continued its dominance of Tuesday evenings but spin-off NCIS: Los Angeles was beaten by Dancing with the Stars. NCIS continued its ratings dominance of Tuesday evenings for CBS last night withy 18.2 million viewers tuning in for the latest episode of the crime drama. NCIS won the hour comfortably in terms of total viewers and 18-49 viewers […]

Joe McElderry has signed up to appear in the Coronation Street musical Street of Dreams. The singer will make a guest appearance in the musical based on the ITV soap when it arrives at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle in May. The musical will tour the country appearing in locations such as Belfast and Manchester. The musical stars Julie […]

Dr Rowan Williams, the soon to depart Archbishop of Canterbury, has warned that a fixation with equal rights threatens to ‘fragment’ society. Dr Williams announced he was stepping down as Archbishop of Canterbury earlier this month. In an address to teenagers at the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff the Archbishop warned that fixating on equal rights of gays, ethnic minorities  and […]

Al Jazeera has confirmed it will not be showing the video it obtained of the shootings which took place in France earlier this month. The news channel announced yesterday that it received a USB memory stick at its Paris office on Monday before sending it their headquarters in Qatar. The network later said after viewing the footage that it did […]

Former Big Brother winner Brian Belo is to sue the makers of The Only Way Is Essex.

BBC One’s new drama The Syndicate, about shop workers who win the lottery, got off to a decent start last night with over 5 million viewers. The Syndicate stars Timothy Spall and Joanna Page and tells the story of winning the lottery changes the lives of several supermarket workers – and not necessarily for the better. The drama, written by […]

TV Cameras are to be allowed in court according to several newspaper reports this morning. Currently led by Sky News, there had been a campaign for cameras to be allowed in courts to show proceedings. Sky have reported this morning that new legislation will be included in the Queen’s Speech on 9th May. There had been opposition over the years […]