Category: DN: ATV Today News Archive 2002 – 2019

  Scottish broadcaster STV is reportedly planning to drop ITV news from its schedules and replace it with a new Scotland-centric news programme which would cover UK and International news stories from Scotland’s perceptive. Scottish broadcaster STV is reportedly planning to drop yet another ITV programme from its schedules only this time it’s the ITV News not another drama. According […]

  The third series of American teen-drama series Gossip Girl will air on ITV2 from this October just weeks after its stateside premier.   The much anticipated third series of Gossip Girl will be premiered in the UK on ITV2 next month, Zai Bennett, ITV’s Director of Channels and Acquisitions announced today.  The international hit series about the social lives […]

  Comedienne Victoria Wood will return to BBC One this Christmas for a new 60 minute special which will see her work once more alongside Julie Walters.   BAFTA award-winning actress and comedienne Victoria Wood is back on telly this Christmas with a 60-minute special for BBC One.  Victoria Wood’s Mid-Life Christmas (working title) features highlights from the mid-life Olympics […]

  BBC One has commissioned two more seasons of its popular sitcom series My Family but has cut the shows budget by 15%. The two seasons will therefore be made back-to-back in order to save costs. The BBC has re-commissioned sitcom My Family for a 10th and 11th series but has cut the shows budget by 15%. Leading stars Zoe […]

  Waking the Dead once again attracted more viewers last night for the fourth episodes of its new season. Meanwhile ITV crime series Blue Murder lost half a million viewers from last week’s opening instalment.   Waking the Dead once again attracted more viewers last night for the fourth episodes of its new season. Meanwhile ITV crime series Blue Murder […]

  Troy Kennedy Martin, the creator of Iconic Police series Z-Cars, has passed away at the age of 77. Aside from writing and creating the iconic BBC cop-series Kennedy also wrote The Italian Job, Edge of Darkness and Reilly, Ace of Spades. Novelist, television and film writer Troy Martin Kennedy has passed away at the age of 77 following a […]

Celebrity chef Keith Floyd has passed away at the age of 65.  Keith Floyd, one of the first celebrity chefs has died aged 65. An ambulance was called to his partner’s home yesterday evening, where it is believed he suffered a heart attack. Floyd had been suffering from bowel cancer, which became public knowledge in July of this year.   […]

  Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze has died at the age of 57 after a battle with cancer. The actor was probably best known for his roles in Dirty Dancing and Ghost. Actor Patrick Swayze died last night following a battle with cancer, he was 57. The actor was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March 2008 and according to some […]

  The second new Marple film, starring Julia McKenzie as Agatha Christie’s famous sleuth, lost half a million viewers last night as BBC One’s cold-case series Waking the Dead increased its ratings.   It was battle of the detective dramas once more last night as ITV’s latest Marple film went against the new series of BBC One’s cold-case series Waking […]