Category: DN: ATV Today News Archive 2002 – 2019

    New CSI: Miami Characters: A new character, a medical examiner, will appear in the popular forensic detective series CSI: Miami. Megalyn Echikunwoke, best known for her role of Isabelle Taylor in the Sci Fi series The 4400, will join the cast of CSI: Miami on a recurring basis. Echikunwoke, will play a medical examiner who makes a good […]

    Nip/Tuck to close: Cosmetic surgery drama series Nip/Tuck will get one final season before drawing to a close. American channel FX has confirmed its ordered 19 more episodes of Nip/Tuck that will make up the final season of the drama. At the moment a 22 episode season is currently airing in America but the additionally 19 episodes, which […]

    Ofcom V ITV Ofcom has yet again been ticking off troubled broadcaster ITV for breaching broadcasting rules over unfair treatment and infringement of privacy as seemingly screened in the ITV2 ITV2 series Katie and Peter: The Baby Diaries. The documentary followed ex-model Katie Price and her hubby Peter Andre for a period of time around the birth of […]

“Fern is having some time off and we are hoping to see her back at work very soon.” Welcome to another TV Weekly, a mini version of our ‘Friday Soap File’ – only for TV news. This week we were told Fern Britton was to have time off This Morning, only to return the next day, MTV are hiring the […]

Current Who writer Steven Moffat is to replace Doctor Who exec Russell T Davis the BBC confirmed today. Moffat, who is credited by some fans as writing some of the best Who episodes in the re-vamped series, will take over in 2010, after Davies rounds up his run in charge with a number of special episodes in 2009. Davies has […]

Popular crime drama’s Waking The Dead and Silent Witness will return for a new run next year on BBC1, it’s been confirmed today. Waking The Dead stars Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson and Felicity De Ju and will finish its current run – it’s seventh season – next week. Filming will begin on the eighth season, believed […]

Sunday night favorite, The Royal, has been given a further episode order by ITV. The medical drama, set in the 1960s, has had 12 more episodes commissioned by ITV. Two of these episodes will see filming shift to Ireland. The Royal has become a firm favourite with Sunday night audiences since its launch several years ago, along with parent show […]

Television Centre to be sold off, 2,500 jobs to go, more repeats, less original programming and budgets for vital programming cut. Is this really the future for the BBC that we want? It was a very dark day indeed when Greg Dyke left the BBC in the wake of the Whitewash, sorry Hutton, report. The BBC was weakened by Dyke’s […]

There will be a new addition to the cast of ‘Holby Blue’ for the forthcoming second series… Oliver Milburn who has starred in shows such as ‘The Forsythe Saga’ and ‘Born and Bred’ has joined the cast to play DCI Scott Vaughan. The show’s Executive producer, Karen Wilson said: “Scott certainly creates a stir and is sure to perpetuate some […]

ATV Today’s Doug Lambert reviews the latest television offerings.