Category: DN: ATV Today News Archive 2002 – 2019

Filming is commencing on BBC One’s Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Chips (working title), the new comedy drama which focuses on the early years of South London’s most famous family, The Trotters, with Nicholas Lyndhurst returning to Peckham to play “art connoisseur” Freddie “The Frog” Robdal and Inbetweeners star James Buckley stepping into the teenage shoes (Sixties winkle-pickers) of the […]

Channel Television, who as well as the British Comedy Awards air The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent on the ITV Network responded to the Ofcom ruling today. Read the full statement which CTV confirms they are to bring in the police to investigate the award scam.     Full Channel Television statement to Ofcom’s Findings   Today the communications […]

Channel Television has asked Ofcom, the television industry regulator, to call in the UK police to investigate criminal fraud in relation to the production of the 2005 British Comedy Awards. Ofcom has today announced it is fining Channel Television £80,000 in relation to the British Comedy Awards. Channel has a separate compliance business in London which ensures that independent productions […]

As we reported on August 26 this year, Richard and Judy will return to ITV as part of This Morning’s 21st anniversary celebrations this year. You can read our original report here. Friday hosts Emmon Holmes and Ruth Langsford confirmed on the programme today that the original hosts would be part of Monday’s programme to wallow in nostalga at 21 […]

ITV has recommissioned its new hit gameshow format The Cube for a second series. The programme, made by Objective Productions,  will be broadcast on the channel in 2010.   Since its debut in summer 2009, The Cube has proven a popular format with viewers attracting audience figures of up to 5.6 million viewers.  Hosted by Phillip Schofield, the show sees […]

The BBC, Hat Trick Productions and Showtime announced today the commission of Episodes, a six-part series from the highly acclaimed writing partnership of David Crane (Friends) and Jeffrey Klarik (Mad About You), for transmission next year on BBC Two.   Episodes is the story of a British couple who try to recreate their UK comedy hit for American TV with […]

Former Coronation Street actress Angela Griffin is to host her own Sky One chat show which will air live in the daytime schedules. The series is to be called Angela and Friends  Sky today confirmed.     Joining Angela each day will be her three co-presenting friends, on a rotating cycle. Confirmed names so far include Sara Cox, Duncan James, Lisa […]

The start of new American drama FlashForward, hailed as the new Lost by some critics, proved to be a hit for Five last night as over 3 million viewers tuned in. Meanwhile Waking the Dead ended its current run with well over 6 million viewers meaning it once again beat ITV’s Blue Murder.   FlashForward got off to a strong […]

Former Doctor Who actress Billie Piper is amongst the cast of a new Kay Mellor drama for BBC One. A Passionate Woman is set in the 1950s during the heightened paranoid stages of the Cold War when the Western World was convinced Soviet spies had infiltrated most walks of life. A Passionate Woman tells the story of a young wife […]