Month: August 2014

BAFTA-award winning documentary series One Born Every Minute is to return to Channel 4 next year – with the cameras moving to a Liverpool hospital.

Singer-songwriter, model and actress Pixie Lott is the eleventh celebrity confirmed for this year’s Strictly Come Dancing. Pixie’s participation was confirmed via the official @bbcstrictly Twitter account earlier this afternoon, after she had teased her own 1.65m followers on the social media site that she had “something very special to reveal soon”. “I’m so excited to be doing Strictly, it’s going […]

Freeview is expanding its on-screen programme guide which will see a number of channels move to new numbers.

Musician Sting will join a stellar cast, including Ant and Dec, at the Great North Run Million opening ceremony on Thursday 4th September, where he will perform in celebration of the region’s industrial history.

Channel 4 has commissioned Love Productions to make a second series of ‘controversial’ observational documentary Benefits Street, the  series that sparked a national debate around poverty and the welfare state in Britain earlier this year.

The MTV VMAs paid homage to late actor and comedian Robin Williams in a short video tribute last night, however viewers deemed it ‘offensive’ due to the lack of effort made for the segment. Elsewhere Billy Crystal made an emotional speech about his late friend at the Emmy Awards.

Singer Mel B says she isn’t sure her former girl group the Spice Girls would have made it through The X Factor auditions.

Radio 1 presenter Scott Mills is the tenth celebrity confirmed for this year’s Strictly Come Dancing. Scott confirmed his participation live on the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast show this morning with Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood in the studio, surprising fellow presenter Chris Stark with the announcement. “My listeners are so used to me playing pranks that they’re […]

Friends and colleagues including Stephen Spielberg, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Penelope Wilton, Hayley Mills and Sir Kenneth Branagh are to reflect on their memories of working with Lord Attenborough in a More4 special tonight.

The artist formerly known as Cheryl Cole aka Mrs Fernandez-Versini aka lovely hair because she’s worth it is, is one of the 2014 judges on ITV’s singing contest The X Factor. Simon Cowell has been talking about the singer and judge ahead of the shows return at the weekend.