Category: DN: ATV Today News Archive 2002 – 2019

Continuing the story told in HBO’s Emmy® winner The Gathering Storm, BBC Two airs on November 2nd the follow-up drama Into The Storm. The drama is set against the backdrop of World War II and offers an intimate look at the making of a nation’s hero, whose prowess as a great wartime leader ultimately undermined his political career and threatened […]

Their paths crossed on Strictly Come Dancing. The Friday Night Project star hosted BBC Three spin-off Strictly Come Dancing: On Three in 2004. “He’s horrible! I had to interview Bruce three times. He was not pleasant and I didn’t like his tone or demeanour,” Lee-Collins told Love It mag.  “I was terrified before our first live interview, then during it, […]

Former Casualty actress Brenda Fricker will once again reprise her role of Megan Roach for several episodes next year. Irish actress Brenda Fricker has revealed to Ireland’s Evening Herald newspaper that she is returning to BBC One’s Casualty. The actress played the fan favourite Megan Roach in the medical drama from 1986 to 1989 and has since reprised the role […]

Just days after NBC axed its gritty cop-drama Southland, before any episodes of its second season even aired, reports emerge that TNT are in talks to acquire the series.   It’s been a matter of days since NBC announced that it was cancelling gritty cop-series Southland even though no episodes of the drama’s second series have yet aired. In fact […]

The critically acclaimed and award-winning drama series Upstairs, Downstairs is to be revived by the BBC. The period drama originally ran on ITV between 1970 and 1975 and was produced for the network by the LWT franchise. The drama told the story of the Bellamy family and their servants who lived at 165 Eaton Place and covered the late Edwardian period, […]

Simon Amstell is to make his writing and acting debut for Grandma’s House, a new sitcom for BBC Two, it was announced today.   Simon has penned the series with Dan Swimer who he previously worked with on PopWorld and Never Mind The Buzzcocks.   The six x 30-minute series commissioned from Tiger Aspect will start filming in Feburary and […]

Emily Symons is to reprise her Home And Away alter ego more than a decade after quitting Summer Bay. Symons is back in Sydney and returns to the soap as the iconic Marilyn Chambers, the character she left in 1997 to pursue work in Britain. “I’ve been back since last October, reacquainting myself with family and friends and this beautiful […]

Singer Stephen Gately (pictured far left above) has been found dead according to reports aged just 33. The Boyzone singer and occasional television presenter, most recently on the Film24 channel, was found dead while on holiday in Majorca.

Stephen Fry drama Kingdom as been axed by ITV as the broadcaster continues its attempts to cut costs.   Actor Stephen Fry has revealed his Norfolk based drama Kingdom has not been renewed by ITV. The actor and writer revealed the drama’s axe on his blog. Kingdom had run for three seasons on ITV1 and was a ratings winner for […]