Andrew Lloyd Webber has today made an impassioned plea to the British nation, asking someone to come forward and sing his new song for next years Eurovision Song Contest.
October 17th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: The Monkees
Simon Fuller, the man behind The Spice Girls and S Club 7 wants to remake the popular 1960’s TV show, The Monkees.
The talent serach has already kicked off in the States and the producers are holding auditions in California in a bid to find four ’surfer type dudes’ to become the new Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork, according to reports in The Sun.
A show source said: “This will be The Monkees for the Gossip Girl generation and a lot more raunchy.
“We are looking for some charismatic lads who are up for a bit of mischief. The show will be much grittier than the original with more sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.”
Here’s a look at The Monkees most famous song, ‘Daydream Believer’ and you know what, after listening to this feel good number maybe Simon has hit on a good idea after all! He may need to update the dance moves though.
Following a massive nationwide search across Britain for unsigned talent who write and perform their own material, Channel 4’s Orange unsignedAct with Sony Ericsson is set to return for its second series, premiering on 30th October on the new 4Music channel and 2nd November on Channel 4’s youth and music zone, T4. In addition to featuring bands, the competition has been opened up to include singer-songwriters. The show will go out weekly and run into January 2009 with a total of 12 x 60 minute shows that have been produced by Princess Productions.
October 10th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Jonathan-Ross
This week Jonathan Ross welcomes Colin Farrell to his BBC One show, Friday Night With Jonathan Ross.
Colin Farrell says he was serious about seducing Dame Eileen Atkins: “The one that got away! I gave it all that I was worth. She’s an incredibly attractive woman, wicked.
“I fell at the first hurdle, my ego couldn’t take any more refusals.
“I saw her in New York and said our time will come… it’s unfinished business!”
Tonight the absolutely brilliant show, ‘To Catch a Predator’ is on FX at 10pm. American TV presenter Chris Hansen, along with local police and a team of researchers, set up ‘sting’ operations to catch sex offenders. In collaboration with the watchdog group ‘Perverted Justice’, Chris lures potential – and often convicted – paedophiles who believe they are meeting an underage teen with whom they’ve been chatting online. Instead, they are confronted by Hansen, a camera team and a police squad. Epic telly.
Again this week there’s a veritable cornucopia of weirdness on TV such as, How Not to Become Shark Bait on Animal Planet, Thursday 2nd October, 3:00am. The blurb says,
‘Documentary in which a team of amateur shark enthusiasts swim with sharks in the Bahamas to test how readily sharks attack humans.’
My advice for how not to become shark bait? Don’t swim where sharks hang out and try not to smell like fish.
Then I saw European Drag Racing and images of drag queens from around Europe called Lavernon or something all running in high heels and sequined frocks, but no, it’s something to do with cars so I moved on… Read more & comment »
September 30th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Lorraine Kelly
GMTV presenter, Lorraine Kelly, has named and shamed Harrison Ford as her worst ever guest. Lorraine is convinced that the Hollywood hottie must have been in a bad mood the day he met her.
“I felt disappointed because I loved Blade Runner and was really looking forward to meeting him,” she told Star.
“It wasn’t so much that he was rude, but he was a bit grumpy. I think he was bored and made it very clear that he did not want to be there.” Read more & comment »
The BBC Electric Proms today announced Oasis as the final headliner to complete this year’s festival bill.
The world-renowned band will draw the event to a close when they take to the stage at the Roundhouse in London on Sunday 26 October following five days of music in both London and Liverpool.
Oasis are set to treat music fans to a very special performance at the festival and will be accompanied by the Crouch End Festival Chorus. Read more & comment »
As is the way of Saturday’s, there’s a lot of reality TV on tonight but we’ve picked out a few little gems for you to watch if you aren’t a fan of people fame hunting on national TV! There are some really good films on too so you might want Sky+ at the ready…
Merlin, BBC1, 6pm ~ Knight Valiant arrives in Camelot to compete in the annual sword-fighting tournament and faces Arthur in the final. Merlin realises the combatant has a cunning plan to beat his opponents that could mean death for the prince but King Uther doesn’t believe him. Read more & comment »
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