Category: DN: ATV Today News Archive 2002 – 2019

Bi Weekly Extra shows you the Cider Ad you won’t see in the UK because it falls foul of advertising laws. Which is a pity really as it’s full of topless and sexy men.     It’s a real shame that this advert for a Danish Cider can’t be shown in the UK as it would make a nice change […]

Graham Norton is to host a brand new live entertainment show for BBC One on Saturday nights where your belongings become the stars of the show. Totally Saturday turns the tables on members of the audience as it gets hold of their possessions and puts them centre stage – no-one is safe, once you are in that audience your life […]

The Lottery Shows will no longer be produced in London and will instead shift to Scotland and Northern Ireland. Contains the BBC Press Release. Mark Linsey, BBC Controller of Entertainment Commissioning, has announced that production of the BBC National Lottery show formats will shift to Scotland and Northern Ireland as part of the BBC’s Network Supply strategy. The BBC has […]

ITV has announced that it’s commissioned a second season of Piers Morgan’s chat-show, Piers Morgan’s Life Stories. ITV has announced that Piers Morgan will return to ITV1 for another round of his Life Stories chat-shows. The first season, which aired earlier in the year, attracting average audiences of around five million and saw celebrities such as Sharon Osbourne, Katie Price […]

ITV have announced that Aidan Gillen and Keeley Hawes will lead the cast for their brand new drama, Identity. Identity, a new six part ITV drama series starring Aidan Gillen and Keeley Hawes, follows an elite police unit formed to combat the explosion of identity-related crime. Ed Whitmore’s newly created Identity is here to tackle the darker side of reinvention: […]

BBC Wales has announced three key appointments to its flagship production Doctor Who as the new series starring the 11th Doctor, Matt Smith, prepares for shooting. Tracie Simpson (producer of Doctor Who: Planet Of The Dead) and Peter Bennett (producer of the forthcoming Torchwood series) have been appointed as producers on the multi-award winning BBC One show. Beth Willis, producer […]

Legendary Carry On producer Peter Rogers has passed away at the age of 95. Peter Rogers, producer of the Carry On series of films, has passed away at the age of 95. Rogers was one half of the creative duo that brought the Carry On franchise to screens with his partnership with director Gerald Thomas spanning 31 films between 1958 […]

Showtime’s historical drama The Tudors, concentrating on the life and loves of Henry VIII, will end after four seasons. Showtime’s historical romp The Tudors will end after four seasons, it’s been announced. A fourth season of the drama has been commissioned to conclude the story of Henry VIII and his six wives. The third series, due to air soon, tells […]

  After much persuasion we’ve decided to re-launch our gay spy section as a bi-weekly magazine style round up of the latest news from the LGBT world but as you’ve come to expect from us we don’t just report the news, we comment on it as well. So along with news and views we also have a few other features […]

The BBC has reportedly axed its impressionist show Dead Ringers after seven television series’. Tabloid newspaper The Mirror is reporting that the BBC has axed its long-running impressionist series, Dead Ringers. The series originally started on Radio Four before crossing over to television and has so far run for seven series’. Amongst its stars are Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Phil […]