Category: DN: ATV Today News Archive 2002 – 2019

  To mark the second season of The Lair coming out on DVD in the UK we take a look back at a few other gay related drama’s from the past few years from Queer as Folk to Will and Grace. By no means is this a complete list but just a few highlights of those shows that appealed firmly […]

Denise Welch has quit the BBC drama series Waterloo Road to concentrate on ITV panel show Loose Women.

Actress Georgia Moffett, best known for her roles in The Bill, Doctor Who and Spooks: Code 9, is joining the cast of BBC One’s medical drama Casualty. Georgia Moffett is joining the cast of Casualty when the long-running medical drama returns in September. The actress will play a junior doctor in the series and will be one of four new […]

  The newly revamped and re-launched The Bill has seemingly lost its appeal to audiences already with ratings dropping below the 4 million mark for last night’s episode. The newly revamped and re-launched The Bill has seemingly lost its appeal to audiences already with ratings dropping below the 4 million mark for last night’s episode. The Bill moved to a […]

  BBC drama series Waterloo Road has been commissioned for a sixth year before the fifth season of the school-based programme has even aired. Filming on the sixth season of Waterloo Road will start as soon as production on its fifth season has completed. It’s been announced that Waterloo Road, the BBC school based-drama, will have a sixth season. The […]

Outgoing ITV executive chairman Michael Grade has slammed Scottish broadcaster STV’s decision to stop showing several key ITV drama’s such as The Bill, Lewis and Kingdom. Michael Grade, the outgoing executive chairman of ITV, has criticised STV’s decision to opt out of certain ITV dramas. The Scottish broadcaster has stopped showing new episodes of shows such as The Bill, Kingdom […]

Struggling broadcaster ITV has sold the social networking site Friends Reunited for £25 million but acquired the internet site four years ago at a cost of £120 million pounds. ITV has been trying to sell of the site for some time after it became obvious that buying it wasn’t as profitable as the company had hoped. The new owners of […]

  As The World Turns facing cancellation while The Young and the Restless given two more years – but at a price. The future of CBS daytime soap As The World Turns is in doubt but fellow soap The Young And The Restless has just been re-commissioned by the broadcaster for a further two years. Declining ratings have been plaguing […]

  To mark the re-commissioning of True Blood for a third season we’ve taken a look at other vampire shows on TV from hits such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer to short-lived shows like Vampire High. Take a trip down memory lane as we look at the Bloodsuckers that have graced our televisions. Vampire High A short-lived Canadian series that […]