Music
Timeless Tracks Digitally Remastered
The past 50 years has seen pop culture embrace and celebrate a multitude of iconic artists and seminal tracks. Each generation has been shaped and influenced by key musicians, who have cut through the mould, set standards, captured the spirit of their time and earned their places in history.
Five Life Commissions Gina Ford Documentary
Five Life has commissioned Shine North to produce a one hour documentary on controversial child care guru Gina Ford, which will transmit on Five Life on Sunday March 4th at 9pm.
Nintendo Legends Available On Wii!
Two of Nintendo’s iconic heroes take centre stage on Wii’s innovative Virtual Console this week. Transport back to the early 90’s with the much-loved SNES classic Super Mario World and reacquaint yourself with Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach in what was the biggest Mario game of its time!
Shine On Harvey Moon 25th Anniversary Triple Disc Set
Shine on Harvey Moon was the first great series to be created by the writing partnership of Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran who went on to create such comedy classics as “Birds of A Feather” and “Goodnight Sweetheart”.
New Literature: A River In May by Edward Wilson
We’ve all seen Apocalypse Now. We’ve read the fiction. Yet few films or books identify even a single Vietnamese by name. Three million Vietnamese were killed in the American war half the Jewish Holocaust.
EMI Music Signs Video Streaming Agreement With AOL Europe
EMI Music has signed an advertising-supported music video streaming agreement with leading digital content provider AOL Europe, it was announced today.
Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer On DVD
Discover the true nature of obsession with the dramatic, dark thriller, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. Featuring a stellar ensemble cast including Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood and newcomer Ben Whishaw, under direction of Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run), experience the intoxication of Perfume when it is released to buy and rent on DVD on 30th April 2007 by Pathé Distribution Ltd.
Wedding Belles
From the multi-award-winning Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting) and his writing partner Dean Cavanagh (Sympathy for the Devil), Wedding Belles is a darkly humorous look at the lives and loves of four modern women, each with their own remarkable, intriguing and often tragic stories.
Casper the friendly ghost scares up some fun on the PC
Let the well-known and loved children’s character Casper educate your children in a fun and exciting way with four new PC CD-ROM titles, brought to you by Focus Multimedia, and developed by Compedia.
Julie Andrews An Intimate Biography
Julie Andrews is the last of the great Hollywood musical stars, unequalled by any in her time.
New Literature: The Steep Approach to Garbadale
Almost five years since his last literary novel, Iain Banks returns with his most absorbing story since The Crow Road. The Steep Approach to Garbadale is classic Banks, reinforcing his credentials as one of the most able, energetic and stimulating writers of our generation. His prolific career has been both populist and experimental.
Primeval
Cutter also has to deal with a deeply personal dilemma - he discovers that his wife Helen, missing believed dead for eight years, has actually been travelling in the past; now she is back with possible answers to the riddle of the anomalies, but is it an answer she is willing to share?
New Literature: The Mutiny
2007 will see the 150th anniversary of the single most cataclysmic event to threaten the Victorian British Empire – the Indian Mutiny.
New Literature: The Lost City
Invalided out of the army at barely twenty, Jackson Small returns to England traumatised by the violent death of his fellow soldier and close friend Connolly.
Popworld Promotes Winner: Jo Harrop
Taking her seat on the throne of Popworld Promotes this month, Jo Harrop is crowned the winner of one of the biggest music initiatives ever for unsigned talent and what’s more, she is the first female artist to do so.