Category: DN: ATV Today News Archive 2002 – 2019

Following the axe of Angus Deayton earlier in the year, ITV have announced a new presenter for their unspectacular culinary reality TV series Hell’s Kitchen. Read on to find out who it is in the full ITV Press Release… Claudia Winkleman will host her first prime time ITV1 series when she takes over the reins at Hell’s Kitchen. The presenter […]

Ray Quinn has predictably been crowned the winner of the fourth series of ITV’s Strictly Come Dancing rip-off Dancing On Ice. Read on for the full ITV Press Release… Ray Quinn has been crowned the Dancing On Ice champion 2009 beating Donal Macintyre to the title. Ray Quinn said: “I am absolutely speechless I have been dreaming of this moment […]

Ratings for Channel Four quiz-show Countdown have plunged below the one million mark. Long-running Channel Four quiz-show Countdown has seen its ratings plunge below the million mark this week. Ratings for the quiz-show have been declining since hosts Carol Voderman and Des O’Connor were replaced in January by new team Jeff Stelling and Rachel Riley. Despite Channel Four initially reporting […]

As an extra special treat we’re giving you two helpings of TV File in one week. In this extra special file Fiona Phillips once again proves just how grateful she is for any exposure on television [yes we’re being sarcastic] while James Corden is savaged by the critics who have been circling round for some time like sharks waiting for […]

  The Apprentice returns to BBC One this Wednesday for its fifth season so we decided to give you a sneak peak at the male talent competing in this year’s quest to be Sir Alan Sugar’s apprentice.           Multi-award-winning business reality-show The Apprentice returns for a fifth series in what promises to be the toughest yet. […]

Fellow Star Trek writer David Gerrold has spoken out in support of Harlan Ellison over the writers lawusuit against CBC Paramount following internet speculation surrounding the lawsuit. Writer David Gerrold has given his support to fellow Star Trek writer Harlan Ellison who earlier this week launched a lawsuit against CBS Paramount for “merchandise, publishing” and other “exploitations” regarding his Star […]

BBC Three charity series Celebrity Scissorhands has been axed leaving the BBC looking for a new “channel-defining” programme. BBC Three has axed its reality television series Celebrity Scissorhands. The series, which raised money for Children In Need, saw a group of celebrities work in saloon and ran from 2006 to 2008 but the axe has now fallen on the series. […]

The BBC has commissioned a behind-the-scenes documentary on Being Human, its supernatural drama series starring Russell Tovey. The BBC has commissioned a one-hour documentary taking a look at the BBC Three supernatural series, Being Human. The first series of the supernatural drama recently draw to a close and attract impressive, and steady, audiences for BBC Three despite airing opposite Lost […]

Welcome to the first TV File of 2009, the new name for TV Weekly. It’s also the last in our regular series, but we’ll be back in May with a new monthly file wrapping up entertainment and TV stories in bite-size nibbles. In this issue Michael Grade wants an apology, STV continue their dropping of ITV programming and Moving Wallpaper […]

The BBC has revealed the identity of two new Dragon Den panellists who will reign over an internet only version of the hit BBC Two series. Contains the BBC Press Release. The BBC announced today the identities of two new Dragons who will preside over an online-only version of BBC Two’s Dragons’ Den. Shaf Rasul and Julie Meyer, two highly […]