TV

The rise of The New Middle Class
This summer BBC World News and BBC World Service Radio meet The New Middle Class with a season of short films and debates exploring life for people in the developing economies as they discover their new economic power.

BBC Three announces new series commission of In The Flesh
BBC Three has announced a new series commission for Dominic Mitchell’s drama, In The Flesh, following a successful three-part serial earlier this year.

Frankie Dettori: ‘I feel like Lance Armstrong‘
In his first TV interview since his six-month ban from racing, Frankie Dettori tells Channel 4 News he feels like Lance Armstrong having been drug tested 15 times in the last two months.

BBC Two goes behind the scenes of food business start-ups
BBC Two has commissioned two new programmes looking at the business of food.
Convoy of stars lined up for new BBC One drama, Truckers
Harry Treadaway (Fish Tank, Control), Ashley Walters (Bullet Boy, Inside Men), John Dagleish (Lark Rise To Candleford, Beaver Falls), Sian Breckin (Tyrannosaur, Donkey Punch) and Jenn Murray (The Fades, Dorothy Mills) will star alongside Stephen Tompkinson (Wild At Heart, DCI Banks) in new BBC One Drama, Truckers.

Some Girls return to BBC Three for brand new series
Filming has begun in south London on a second series of the critically acclaimed, vibrant comedy series, Some Girls. Viva, Amber, Saz and Holli are back. Back with all the mayhem and attitude that came with series one for the worst-behaved schoolgirls on television.

BBC Three acquires gripping conspiracy thriller Orphan Black
BBC Three has announced that it has acquired Orphan Black, a suspenseful thriller produced by BBC America, Bell Media and Temple Street Productions.
Tamzin Outhwaite joins BBC One hit drama New Tricks
Tamzin Outhwaite joins Dennis Waterman, Denis Lawson and Nicholas Lyndhurst in BBC One's hit drama New Tricks.

Ragley to star in ITV’s Country House Sunday
Ragley is once again appearing on our screens, this time in a new ITV1 programme presented by Lynda Bellingham entitled “Country House Sunday”.

Channel 4 builds floating home of the future
Channel 4 Factual Entertainment has commissioned inventor Tom Lawton to build a floating home for brand new series Tom and Barney Go Back to the Future.

The Hairy Bikers take on a new kind of journey for BBC Two
The Hairy Bikers take on a journey of discovery through industrial Britain in The Hairy Bikers: Rebuilding Industrial Britain, a new series for BBC Two.

Hearthrob Paul Hollywood cooks up a sales storm
Hit TV show ‘Paul Hollywood’s Bread’ has created an enormous boom in bakery equipment sales, new Debenhams’ figures reveal.
BBC Three challenges 'bunk-up' couples to test drive new homes
BBC Three has commissioned Mentorn Media to make a factual entertainment series, Hotel Of Mum And Dad, about the growing trend of young couples having to move back in with their parents or in-laws.

Britain's Millionaire Criminals: Channel 4 Dispatches
Why are some convicted criminals still enjoying luxury lifestyles funded by their ill-gotten gains?

Channel 4 orders second helping of The Fried Chicken Shop
After the success of one-off Cutting Edge documentary, The Fried Chicken Shop: Life in a Day which aired earlier this year, Channel 4 has commissioned a brand new three-part series set in the same chicken shop in South London.