Music
Stephen Fry Is Holding The Baby In Series Two Of Kingdom
Stephen Fry is left holding the baby as he starts filming the new series of ITV1’s ratings winning drama Kingdom. Stephen (Tom Brown’s Schooldays, Absolute Power, Wilde) plays affable country solicitor Peter Kingdom, whose compassion and humility has won him huge respect in the small Norfolk town of Market Shipborough.
18 Year-Old Charlie Bell Wins A Seat On Question Time Panel
Eighteen-year-old Charlie Bell from Haywards Heath, West Sussex will go head to head with politicians and public figures as he joins the BBC Question Time panel for a special edition of the programme on BBC One. Charlie has won a place on the Schools Question Time panel following a national competition to find the best candidate.
Jonathan Ross Meets JK Rowling
The current season of the award-winning show Friday Night With Jonathan Ross ends tonight on BBC One with a rare and exclusive interview with JK Rowling, publishing phenomenon and author of the Harry Potter books. In a revealing conversation she talks about her feelings about finally finishing the series.
Channel 4 To Launch 3 National Digital Radio Stations
Channel 4 has today (Friday) confirmed plans to proceed with the launch of three new 4-branded national digital radio stations. The group’s radio division, Channel 4 Radio, is the leading shareholder in 4 Digital Group, which learned today (Friday) from Ofcom that it has been awarded the licence to operate the UK’s second national commercial DAB multiplex.
Families Say Big Brother Twins Samanda Are Double Trouble
Big Brother's Samanda have re-ignited a debate over twins being treated as individuals, says a UK charity for families with multiple birth children. The identical 19-year-olds from Stoke say they have never spent more than a week apart and reportedly have a 'secret pact' that they'll leave the house together.
CBBC Launches Accessible Online Games
CBBC has relaunched six of its online games with Switch technology – making them accessible to children with motor and cognitive disabilities.
Catherine Tate Confirmed As New Companion For Dr Who
Hot on the heels of the critically-acclaimed season three finale of Doctor Who, the BBC has announced that Catherine Tate is set to return to the Tardis for the complete 13-week run of the new BBC One series.
Channel 4 Launches Search For UK’s Hottest Unsigned Band
This Autumn Channel 4 starts a nationwide search to unearth the best musical raw talent across the UK. In a collaboration with Sony Ericsson and Orange, “mobileAct unsigned” will search for young, cool and credible bands that write and perform their own original music. Representing all music genres from hip hop to rock, bands will need to prove they have what it takes to be the next big thing.
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
One million children in the UK never see their real dads. With ASBOS on the rise and traditional respect for elders apparently in meltdown, could this absence of so many dads be a factor in the increasingly uncivilised behaviour of the nation’s boys? Against this background, Channel 4’s ‘Wait Till Your Father Gets Home’ programme reunites two sets of estranged fathers and sons.
Skins Comes To Channel 4
After a hugely successful premier run on E4, Skins comes to Channel 4 for a summer of teen humour and heartbreak in Bristol. Skins follows a group of teenagers living on the bright side – who get high, get drunk, get laid and get up for their A levels. These kids really grab life by the balls and then give it a twirl.
The Bill Takes It Up A Beat
The cops of Sun Hill are tested to their limits in a two-part, highly-charged special culminating in a dramatic helicopter chase across the London skyline, ITV1, Wednesday 18th (Death of Innocence) and Thursday 19th July (Salvation) 8 - 9pm.
Keeley Hawes Joins Cast Of Ashes To Ashes
Keeley Hawes (Spooks) has beaten hundreds of hopefuls to don her leg warmers and play ambitious, psychological profiler, DI Alex Drake who, when finding herself stuck in 1981, takes on the infamous DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister) in Ashes To Ashes, the eagerly-anticipated sequel to Life On Mars, it was announced today.
Channel 4 Investigates The Cult Of The Suicide Bomber
In the third instalment of this award-winning documentary series, ex-CIA agent Robert Baer concludes his odyssey investigating the rise of the cult of the suicide bomber and finds out how the West can seek to counter this threat.
You Don't Have To Sing It Well, You Just Have To Sing It Right
A trio of top radio presenters are on board for Sing it Back: Lyric Champion 2007 - a new entertainment series on ITV1. Paul Gambaccini will be joined by JK and Joel in a search for the person who knows song lyrics backwards, forwards and any other way you choose.
Billi Evicted From The Big Brother House
Since last Tuesday, the public have been voting to decide whether Billi, Carole or Tracey should be the third housemate to be publicly evicted from the Big Brother house. During Friday night’s 8.30pm show, Davina McCall announced live to the house that the next person to be evicted would be Billi, who received 55.1% of the total votes cast.