2008-12-12 00:37
The new ITV director of television, Peter Fincham, has made his first commissioning decision since starting his job - ordering another series of ITV1 drama The Fixer. Fincham has given the t… Read More
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2008-12-12 00:37
The Australian Defence Department is investigating allegations that television celebrity Tania Zaetta had sex with special forces soldiers during a recent tour of war-ravaged Afghanistan. Th… Read More
2008-05-26 17:40
Standing beside a swimming pool overlooking the Los Angeles skyline, the British TV mogul Simon Fuller congratulated the latest American Idol at a private party on Wednesday night — bu… Read More
2008-05-26 10:11
Weekend's TV reviewed: Ray Mears Goes Walkabout; Greek; The Inspector Lynley MysteriesRay Mears Goes Walkabout begins with a wonderfully ludicrous title sequence, in which honeyed shots of t… Read More
2008-05-24 09:09
Julie Walters, who plays Mary Whitehouse this week on BBC2, tells Michael Deacon that there was more to the campaigner than angry rants...We can never know what Mary Whitehouse would have ma… Read More
2008-05-23 17:02
A third series of Jimmy McGovern's award-winning drama The Street has been commissioned by BBC Fiction boss Jane Tranter. The new series will air on BBC1 in 2009 and further explore the "dar… Read More
2008-05-23 12:42
The television presenter and gardening writer Monty Don is stepping down from Gardeners' World after suffering a minor stroke, the BBC said yesterday. The 52-year-old has been absent from th… Read More
2008-05-23 12:20
Talks are taking place between ITV News and Sir Trevor McDonald over him stepping down from presenting News at Ten at the end of the year. Sources familiar with the situation said Sir Trevor… Read More
2008-05-23 11:25
Last night's TV reviewed: Hold Me Tight Let Me Go; 13 Kids and Wanting More; Hidden Lives: Wedding Addicts; Midnight ManThe Mulberry Bush school in Oxfordshire is a boarding school where chi… Read More
2008-05-22 23:40
The BBC has landed itself in hot water for another on-air gaffe today after the BBC News channel mistakenly announced that a verdict had been reached in the trial of the men accused of murde… Read More
2008-05-22 23:29
Digital channel CBBC is to make a 13-part food series called Gastronuts that will encourage children to stew worms, catch farts in jars and bake toenail cakes. Fronted by Stefan Gates, the p… Read More
2008-05-22 23:21
The BBC is to broadcast a drama from Hawking writer Peter Moffat, starring Ben Whishaw as a young man imprisoned for murder despite protesting his innnocence. The five-part drama, called Cri… Read More
2008-05-22 23:15
ITV is facing another investigation after it failed to match its quota for programmes to be made outside London for two years running. The network is required by the government to spend half… Read More
2008-05-22 23:03
Margot Boyd, the stage and radio actor who has died aged 94, had the voice of a duchess and a way of delivering every word she spoke as if she were addressing the back row of the gallery. Sh… Read More
2008-05-22 22:56
The after-match interviews with participants in the FA Cup Final were highly revealing: not for anything that the players or coaches said, but for the way in which the questions were put. "H… Read More
2008-05-22 15:41
Last night's TV reviewed: Viagra: Ten Years on the Rise; My New Best Friend; The Apprentice; Desperate Housewives "I can, hand on heart, say I've never had a tofu experience," said a journal… Read More
2008-05-22 08:39
Sam Neill and Sean Bean are to feature in a big-budget production of the Robinson Crusoe story being made by a UK independent producer for US network NBC. Crusoe is to be played by Philip Wi… Read More
2008-05-22 08:31
ITV could make more than £10m in ad revenue from tonight's all-English Champions League final, with major brands flocking to the event - including Ford, which is launching a $60m (&pou&hell…Read More
2008-05-21 15:36
Last night's TV reviewed: The Supersizers Go... Wartime; One Life Special: Mum And MeIn The Supersizers Go… Wartime Sue Perkins and Giles Coren began their new series about six histor… Read More
2008-05-20 22:29
RDF Media, the independent producer behind Wife Swap, has reported a dramatic fall in profits in its first full year set of financial results since the Crowngate affair last summer. Profit b… Read More
2008-05-20 22:25
The ITV News editor-in-chief, David Mannion, has criticised the response of the BBC and Sky News to the two Asian natural disasters, while the BBC has accused Sky News of allegedly "misleadi… Read More
2008-05-20 22:12
Atonement actor Gina McKee and Jeremy Northam, who was last seen in The Tudors, have signed up for BBC1's hard-hitting drama about a family torn apart when the husband downloads child pornog… Read More
2008-05-20 22:04
The White House today accused NBC news of twisting George Bush's remarks on Iran and suggested that the television network had absorbed the bias of two of its star pundits. The rare presiden… Read More
2008-05-20 19:28
Scriptwriter Steven Moffat was today named lead writer and executive producer on hit BBC1 drama Doctor Who.Moffat, who has written a number of episodes of the show - including the acclaimed… Read More
2008-05-20 18:55
Last night's TV reviewed: The Duchess in Hull; Class of '62 – from 16 to 60; WarshipTelling people they should eat healthier food and do more exercise is not all that complicated &ndas&hell…Read More
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