Category: DN: ATV Today News Archive 2002 – 2019

Reports suggest that viewer favourite Ruth Langsford won’t be taking over from Fern Britton as the main female host of This Morning when she leaves at the end of the current series. Langsford currently co-hosts the lifestyle magazine programme on Fridays with fiance Eamonn Holmes. But it seems that ITV London bosses have decided against giving her the Monday to […]

ITV is to launch a new prank series in which celebrities take time out from fame to play tricks on their fans and famous friends by donning cunning disguises in a one-off special hosted by former CITV presenter Stephen Mulhern. Titled Anonymous, the show features three celebrities who will take part in the wind-ups, and as well as performing an […]

Jonathan Ross welcomes Take That to this week’s Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on BBC One. The group talk about their next album – Gary Barlow says: “we haven’t started yet… we’re really looking forward to trying again.” And Gary also explains how they still can’t believe their renewed success: “We’re genuinely surprised… trying to keep up with it all. […]

Chris Tarrant’s latest quiz-show for ITV1, The Colour of Money, has been axed by the struggling broadcaster after just seven episodes. Struggling broadcaster ITV has wielded its axe once more and this time it has fallen on Chris Tarrant’s new game-show, The Colour of Money. ITV execs had high hopes for the show hoping it would be a huge success […]

Space Hoppers is a brand new seven part series featuring interplanetary adventures featuring physicist Professor Brian Cox and, following the success of the first season of Richard Hammond’s Blast Lab, there will be a further twenty-six new episodes of the popular science-based gameshow. Anne Gilchrist, Controller of CBBC, who commissioned both series, said: “It’s great for CBBC to have two […]

As we reported earlier in the week the BBC is boosting its comedy output from Scotland, and today they announced further programming from the same studios. Three comedy pilots – Burnistoun, Limmy’s Show and Gary: Tank Commander – are to be made into three six-part series later this year. Ewan Angus, Executive Producer for BBC Scotland, said: “This is exciting […]