Category: DN: ATV Today News Archive 2002 – 2019

BBC Two is looking for new regular drama shows as it plans to launch regular 30 minute dramas in the 10pm slot. The corporation is hoping to find successful returning drama’s on BBC Two to bolster its drama output on the channel and more away from one-off and ‘event’ drama’s that tend to air on the channel.   BBC Two […]

  Channel Four has decided to axe Wife Swap and How Clean Is Your House?. Both shows are being axed by the broadcaster to make way for new shows over the next 18 months.   Channel Four has decided to axe popular reality shows Wife Swap and How Clean Is Your House? The broadcaster has decided not to renew either series […]

The celebrity contestants for this years I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! have been revealed. Amongst those part-taking this year are; Sam Fox, Stuart Manning, Lucy Benjamin and Kim Woodburn. The new series of the popular reality television show starts this Sunday on ITV1.

Filming has started this week on ITV’s remake of the controversial drama, and book, A Bouquet of Barbed Wire. Joining Trevor Eve in the drama will be Hermione Norris, Jemima Rooper, Tom Riley and Imogen Poots.   ITV and Mammoth Screen announces the cast and start of principal photography for A Bouquet of Barbed Wire a 3 x 60 min […]

Russell T. Davies, out-going executive producer of Doctor Who, has stated in an interview that the spin-off series Torchwood is likely to be renewed for a fourth series. A five-part third season aired on BBC One in the summer, titled Children Of Earth, and was a ratings and critical success. However, despite the show’s success the corporation has yet to […]

Reports from America suggest that Fox has cancelled Joss Whedon’s ratings challenged series Dollhouse. The broadcaster had taken the series off-air for November due to low ratings.   Reports from America seem to confirm Fox’s cancellation of Dollhouse, the Joss Whedon series. The series is currently off-air as Fox removed it from the November schedules due to the November sweeps […]

Broadcast is reporting that Camilla Campbell has been named as the new head of drama at Channel Four replacing Liza Marshall who confirmed her departure from the broadcaster last week.   Broadcast is reporting that Camilla Campbell has been named as the new head of drama at Channel Four replacing Liza Marshall who confirmed her departure from the broadcaster last […]

Maggie Friedman, executive producer of Eastwick, has spoken out about the supernatural drama’s cancellation by broadcaster ABC. Friedman said she was ‘furious’ the plug had been pulled on the series.  Earlier this week ABC announced it was not planning to order any further episodes of Eastwick, its new supernatural series based on the book and popular film of the same […]