November 20th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: BBC, Eastenders
We just laughed our way through the whole of the Eastenders musical special on tonight’s Children In Need show.
I don’t know who was the funniest, afro Lucas, jiggle hips Christian or tuneless Massod. Most awful singer had to be Libby and person who should never dance again was definitely Tamwar. Who did you love? Leave your comments below.
November 20th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Ian Wright
Last night on Live From Studio Five, show host and ex-Arsenal striker, Ian Wright conceded that Thierry Henry had moved his hand to the ball in yesterday’s World Cup qualifier between France and Ireland. The blast will come as a shock to Arsenal fans as not only did the two both play for legendary London club but were Arsenal’s all time top goal scorers.
This year’s BBC Children in Need is to feature an exclusive preview of the forthcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special.
The clip, from The End Of Time: Part One, is never-seen-before footage and will keep fans all over the globe wondering what’s in store for the Doctor as David Tennant departs and Matt Smith becomes the 11th Doctor.
What a sad but ultimately revealing and enlightening film this was. As part of the BBC’s Wonderland series of documentaries, this one followed Emma Bishop and Ben Marshall as they deliberated the pros and cons of getting married.
But what sets Emma and Ben apart from other couples in their twenties who are contemplating the same thing is that they both have Down’s Syndrome, therefore their lives are not truly their own because they must be, in many ways, reliant on others to sanction or veto various aspects of their lives.
Because of the propensity for Down’s sufferers to be subject to what many consider vulnerability and an inability to make life changing decisions, there was to be no rushing into anything for this couple. Despite the fact they’re clearly devoted to each other, and I can think of few young people better suited to making a real go of a marriage than these two based on what we saw last night, there are hurdles for them at every step. Read more & comment »
I don’t think I’ve ever felt so ashamed to be British as I did while watching this documentary by Olly Lambert.
It primarily followed a gentle, kind and intelligent man who was embarking on a career as a traffic warden, and from the abuse he and his colleagues got, you might have assumed they were in fact murderers or something equally as heinous. But no, they were just traffic wardens doing a job.
Durga Pokrehl from Nepal left behind his wife and child to try to build a life for his family here in the UK, and despite having two masters degrees, being multi-lingual and having an inexhaustible knowledge of the works of Shakespeare, the best he could find here was a job as Public Enemy Number One – a traffic warden. Read more & comment »
BBC Two is “terrified” to announce that Psychoville, written by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, will return for a one-off special programme to be shown next year, and a new, six-part second series.
The dark comedy thriller was centred on very different characters, who each received an anonymous mysterious letter claiming: “I know what you did…” The last series episode concluded the story at Ravenhill Hospital, for the completely insane, with a huge explosion. In the new series, all will be revealed as to who managed to survive the blast.
Eastenders actress Lacey Turner has revealed that she doesn’t want to take part in February’s live episode of the soap.
Bosses are planning to air a live episode as part of the show’s 25th birthday celebrations. However when asked if she would be taking part, Lacey who plays Stacey Slater told MSN:
This is the moment when Tony Gordon admits to police that he murdered Liam Connor last year. He walks from the canal bank to admit to police that he murdered Liam and pushed Roy into the canal.
In the dramatic scenes, his fiancee Maria Connor storms into the police station shouting and demanding an explanation for why he did it.
Ohhh tonight’s installment is a Corrie episode not to be missed!
November 19th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Current TV
Launched five years ago this November, World of Warcraft is a cultural gaming phenomenon that has taken the world by storm. Now attracting 50 million players across every continent, this massively multiplayer game has not only revolutionised virtual role-playing online, it has become a hugely influential part of its players’ lives.
Forty years since the release of the Carpenters debut LP this musical spectacular will celebrate the sounds and successes of the influential duo with some of the greatest pop stars of today.
Hosted by Amanda Holden and Ronan Keating and made in collaboration with Richard Carpenter, Celebrating the Carpenters, sees the following artists take to the stage to perform their own unique versions of some of the Carpenters best loved songs :
Coronation Street’s Rosie Webster is set to get a boob job in 2010, as part of a bid to become a glamour model.
The decision shocks her mum sally Webster, who is trying to work up the courage to tell her family that she has breast cancer and needs a lumpectomy.
Rosie plans to sell her beloved sports car to pay for the operation, however she is spared having to part with her motor after her agency boss agrees to ‘invest in her future.’
This is a film that’s going to haunt me for a long time. There’s only ever been one other film that had such a profound effect on me and that was Sophie’s Choice. And like Sophie in that film, the parents of children trying to escape the lives they were born into know that when they say goodbye to their kids, it literally could mean they’ll never see them again, nor ever learn of their fate.
Then there were the many, many children who didn’t have parents, or if they did, were horribly abused by them. But all those young, naïve and innocent kids were trying to get across the border to the US, and filmmaker/director Rebecca Camisa followed just a handful of them on their journey.
And it was one fraught with dangers that most adults wouldn’t make it alive through, never mind waif like, poverty stricken children. Clinging desperately to the tops of freight trains, these children are full of dreams of what cities like Manhattan can offer them, and of course, most often, they don’t even make it across the border.