Music
Final Whistle For Sky One's Dream Team
Sky One’s Dream Team, the longest-running drama on multi-channel television comes to an end this Sunday 3rd June, with a show-stopping, explosive finale. Following the ups and down of a fictional premiership club, Harchester United, Dream Team was a trailblazing football drama, with a bevy of stars, glamour and scandal to boot.
Money Programme First BBC Show To Broadcast In Second Life
The Money Programme will be the first BBC Television programme broadcast in virtual online world Second Life. Reporter Max Flint and his spiky-haired alter-ego, MP Masala, travel deep into cyberspace to meet its virtual entrepreneurs, and find out how real fortunes are made. The programme will explore two different examples of these virtual worlds.
You're Not Joseph! Craig Chalmers Is Voted Off
On Saturday night, the public decided live on BBC One's Any Dream Will Do that Craig Chalmers will not be Joseph. After some excellent performances last week, the five remaining Josephs had to show the five traits of Joseph which are arrogance, courage, vulnerability, betrayal and being a dreamer.
Big Brother 8: The Countdown Begins
The countdown begins to a new summer series of Big Brother, starting 30 May on Channel 4 & E4, and this summer, Big Brother returns with an even bigger eighth series. On Wednesday 30 May, a brand new gaggle of housemates will move into a transformed Big Brother house and viewers will be able to watch their every move on both Channel 4, E4 and online.
Filming Underway On Series 2 Of The Street
The second six-part series of The Street, penned by one of British television's most prolific and influential writers, Jimmy McGovern, made for BBC One by ITV Productions has started filming in the North West and completes shooting this August.
Grease Isn’t The Word - Joseph Sales Outstrip By 9 To 1
Any Dream Will Do is not only pipping Grease is the Word in the ratings war – Joseph CDs and DVDs have also been flying off the virtual shelves of Amazon.co.uk, giving a clear indication as to where the public’s support lies, with sales of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat products up to 9 times greater than those related to Grease.
BBC Drama Develops Outcasts
BBC Drama today announces that Outcasts – a brand new high concept series from Kudos Film and Television and Ben Richards (Spooks, Party Animals) – is in development by BBC Wales for BBC One. Set in space with the future of earth looking increasingly precarious, the race is on in Outcasts to find an alternative home in the universe.
Get The Best Of Van Morrison
EMI Catalogue Marketing are honoured to release The Best of Van Morrison Volume 3 on 11th June 2007, preceded by a new single on 4th June. A 2 CD collection featuring 31 tracks, The Best of Van Morrison is a comprehensive collection of Van’s later material and includes two previously unreleased tracks and duets with Tom Jones, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King and Ray Charles among others. It is a must for fans old and new.
Neighbours Moves To Five
Five has secured the rights to hit Australian drama Neighbours, it was announced on Friday. Five’s deal with the show’s producers FremantleMedia will see Neighbours joining Five’s main channel and digital offering Five Life in 2008.
The British Soap Awards 2007
The British Soap Awards 2007 is gearing up to celebrate another year of tears, trials, tribulations and tantrums from the nation’s biggest TV shows and will be broadcast on ITV1 on Wednesday 30 May 2007 between 8.00pm and 10.00pm.
Mumbai Calling
Mumbai may not be on your doorstep, but it’s certainly on the end of a phone line. Baskhar’s hilarious one-off comedy lifts the lid on a call centre a mere eleven taps on your phone keypad and a short 4,500 mile flight away from Blighty’s cool shores. For that overdraft extension, insurance quote or fuzzy TV screen complaint, Mumbai will certainly be called.
New Documentary Follows East 17 Reunion
At the height of boy band hysteria in the pop fuelled 1990’s, ‘bad boys of pop’, east London’s East 17 gained instant success as an anecdote their clean-cut nemesis, Take That.
New Drama Marks Decriminalisation Of Homosexuality
Clapham Junction is a powerful new single drama for Channel 4 Television to be broadcast as part of a season to mark the 40th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales. Clapham Junction is to be broadcast in July 2007.
Sarah Parish Returns To Small Screen In Mistresses
Sarah Parish, Orla Brady, Sharon Small and Shelley Conn; four of the UK’s leading actresses are set to star in the much anticipated drama from Ecosse Films for BBC ONE. Mistresses is a refreshingly sexy, sophisticated and modern take on the lives of four women and their involvement in an array of illicit and complex relationships.
American Idol - The Grand Finale
Almost a year ago preparations were being made to scour every corner of America in search of the raw talent that could be prepared, polished and perfected to have a chance to be celebrated as the sixth American Idol. Months later and that time has now come.