Category: DN: ATV Today News Archive 2002 – 2019

  Following the surprising news that John Sergeant has decided to withdraw from BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing we’d like to hear your opinion on his decision and time on the show. Were you a supporter of Sergeant? Did you vote to keep him in the competition week after week? Or did you feel the competition was turning into a […]

  ITV has confirmed that its “glossy” medical drama, Harley Street, will not return for a second series.     ITV has finally confirmed that it has dropped its “glossy” medical series Harley Street and the series will not be returning for a second series. Harley Street aired on the channel during the summer but despite much hype from ITV […]

  The BBC has axed its Friday night family comedy series, After You’ve Gone, despite already commissioning more episodes of the series starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and Celia Imrie. BBC Insiders blame ITV’s placing of Coronation Street against the comedy series.     The BBC has decided to drop its family comedy series After You’ve Gone even though they had already […]

John Sergeant has decided to quit BBC One’s dancing contest Strictly Come Dancing; Despite being a shit dancer and flop with the show’s judges, the former political correspondent has consistently been saved by the voting public. On Saturday night’s show Sergeant was again was in the bottom two but the public voted to boot actress Cheryl Lunghi from the contest instead of […]

  BBC One has commissioned four more episodes of its 1950s detective drama George Gently which stars Martin Shaw. Contains the full BBC Press Release.     Martin Shaw returns to Sixties Northumberland as George Gently in four feature length films written by Peter Flannery (The Devil’s Whore, Our Friends In The North) and Mick Ford (William And Mary), to […]

Channel Four has ordered another series of its latest fly-on-the-wall documentary series, The Family. The Family ran in September and followed the ups and downs of a family over a period of six months. The series will return next September with a new family, currently being sought by producers, and will once again be produced by Firefly. The first series […]

  BBC3 has announced its axed Phoo Action, its proposed forthcoming series, because of creative problems with the drama . Last year BBC3 aired six pilot episodes for possible new shows for the channel and of the six pilots two were granted full series orders, Phoo Action and Being Human. Both of these were popular with audiences for being their […]

  The Daleks are still regularly menacing the Doctor, Survivors is about to return to screens in an updated 21st century form and Sky are currently developing a new series of Blakes 7. What do all these have in common? They were created by one man – Terry Nation.   In just two weeks time a new version of Survivors […]