Category: DN: ATV Today News Archive 2002 – 2019

Iconic 1980s soap Dallas could be returning to television screens as Warner Brothers ponders on bringing back one of soaps most memorable shows.   One of America’s “big soaps” could be about to return to television screens according to news reports. Warner Brothers is seriously considering reviving the 1980s series Dallas – one of the biggest soaps of the 1980s […]

Classic cop drama Hawaii Five-O is all set to make a return to television as American broadcaster CBS orders a pilot episode for a possible new series. However, recent revivals of Knight Rider and Bionic Woman haven’t gone down well with the American market so will Hawaii Five-O join the increasing list of flop revivals? Classic cop drama Hawaii Five-O […]

BBC Director-General Mark Thompson has announced the commissioning of Nature’s Miracle Babies, a new natural history series for BBC One about the emotionally charged attempts to save some of the rarest animals on earth. He made the announcement while visiting Bristol.   Presented by Autumnwatch‘s Martin Hughes-Games, the series explores the ground-breaking work of pioneering programmes to protect some of […]

Caroline Quentin reprises her role as multi-tasking mother Maddy Riley in the return of BBC One sitcom Life Of Riley, co-starring Neil Dudgeon as her bemused husband Jim.   Maddy is still trying to be all things to all people within her complicated, extended family circle of children, step-children, step-siblings and half-siblings – with a few ex-partners and in-laws thrown […]

BBC One Daytime’s critically acclaimed drama Missing, starring Pauline Quirke, as the head of a busy Missing Persons Unit, returns for an extended run in 2010 and is now in production.   Liam Keelan, Controller of BBC Daytime, has commissioned 10 new episodes, doubling the run of the first series.   Mark Wingett returns as Radio DJ Danny Hayworth, Felix […]

Cat Deeley is coming to BBC One to host So You Think You Can Dance this January. Now presenting her fifth season of the hugely successful series in the US, she returns with Nigel Lythgoe to present the award-winning format for the first time in Britain.   Originally known as the host of SMTV: live, double-BAFTA award-winning Cat has since […]

Casualty fans will have a chance to view a unique one-off ‘webisode’ of the medical drama specially-written for the BBC website from Saturday October 31st.  Screened directly after the transmission of Casualty episode nine on BBC One, the 1x8min mini episode will follow the gritty and dramatic storyline of down-and-out Alistair (Joe McFadden) and paramedic Polly (Sophia di Martino) and […]

We do love Five here at ATV News, but in recent times some of their classic revivals have well, to be honest, been as good as the ITVplc share price. It was announced this week that their latest come-back attempt will be the awful 1980s series Name That Tune, in a second attempt by the broadcaster to make the old […]

BBC Two has commissioned a second run of Pointless, the game show where obscure knowledge is the key to success, from leading entertainment producer Endemol UK’s newly launched production arm Remarkable Television.   Hosted by comedian Alexander Armstrong, Pointless launched in August 2009 and quickly proved to be a hit with BBC Two’s daytime audience, peaking at 1.69 million viewers […]