Bradley tries to reason with Nick but is it going to blow up in his face?

It’s going to be a thrilling week as of Monday 1st June in EastEnders as Nick loses the plot when daughter Dotty reveals his dastardly plan to kill off Dot.

This sends Nick into an uncontrolled rage and he ends up taking several café patrons hostage before the place blows up… but will someone die or will they all escape?

Well, we’ll have to wait and see but in the meantime, here’s a sneeky peek at some of the scenes from the explosion at Ian’s caff… Read more & comment »

On Monday, Natasha tells Mark that they need to watch Cain as she reckons he won’t back down easily. Her prediction comes true in the village when Maisie tells Cain that his flirting won’t go “unrewarded”.

Back at Home Farm, Natasha’s interrupted from her preparations by a knock at the door – it’s Faye. After a decidedly awkward conversation about job vacancies, Faye’s horrified to discover what Natasha’s planning and preparing for. Mark’s stunned when he’s told about the unexpected visit from Faye and angrily rips up Faye’s CV in front of a puzzled Natasha. Can Mark hide the real reason behind his anger? Read more & comment »

On Monday at 7:30pm, Chesney’s still missing and Fiz is worried sick, but he hasn’t gone far and when Eddie and Anna find Chesney hiding in their garden shed, he comes clean.

Telling Sophie how Fiz has been visiting John in prison, he refuses to go home but when a relieved Fiz hears he’s safe and tells him Schemichel has been pining for him, he reluctantly agrees to go back… Read more & comment »

On Monday, Billy accidentally bumps into a woman in the café and spills tea all over her before chatting to Phil about Jay. However, despite his best attempts, Jay wants nothing to do with Billy. Later, Shirley points out to Billy that the woman from the café who he’d spilled tea on is giving him ‘the eye’ and it’s not long before she introduces herself as Viv Bates… thug Terry’s wife.

Viv tells Billy that if he turns up in court to testify against her husband, or tells anyone about their conversation, Jay will be the one who suffers the consequences… Read more & comment »

Neil Morrissey has decided to quit TV after 25 years in the business.

The actor, best known for his role in Men Behaving Badly says that the job is “more pain than fun” these days.

“Acting has been good to me,” he told The Mirror. “But a lot of what I do now is nothing more than factory television, more pain than fun.

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Danny Dyer has apologised for his recent rant in which he branded Mathew Horne a rubbish actor.

Last month Dyer blasted: “Mathew Horne is one of the worst actors I’ve ever seen in my life. Corden’s obviously OK but Mathew was terrible in The Catherine Tate Show.

He added: “I’m not trying to do anyone out of a pound note, I just think they’re s**t. Mat is absolute rubbish.”

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In the first visit of the week on Monday at 7:30pm, Paula’s furious to discover Colin’s back on the street and staying with Eileen. She accuses Eileen of being a hypocrite for which Eileen slaps her across the face.

As Colin steps in trying to apologise to her, Paula screams at him, saying what he did was abuse. She leaves but Eileen’s a mess, hating the situation she’s been put in. She tries to be strong but when Paula reappears telling them she’s been to the police, Eileen’s devastated.

Ramsay tells Emily he wants to mend his relationship with Norris before he leaves for Australia but when he tries to apologise to Norris again, asking for his forgiveness, Norris counters that as far as he’s concerned, Ramsay killed his mother… Read more & comment »

On Monday, Nicola faces up to the reality of her pregnancy but still refuses to tell Jimmy. After he’s informed of Nicola’s ‘illness’ by Rodney, Jimmy decides to explain to her that she needs to move on. Nicola’s incredulous at Jimmy’s arrogance and attacks him with her handbag before dissolving into tears.

A fuming Jimmy tells Rodney to control his daughter, arguing that she’s gone mad. Rodney feels he has no choice but to explain that Nicola’s pregnant but he warns Jimmy not to let on that he knows and leaves him in a difficult situation between his joy at potential fatherhood and the prospect of keeping his knowledge of the situation from Nicola. Can Jimmy repair his relationship with Nicola and create a happy home for his unborn child? Read more & comment »

On Monday, Nick and Dotty continue with their attempts to convince Dot she’s going mad by hiding and moving her belongings as well as disrupting her sleep. Later, at The Vic, Nick decides to tell Peggy that Dot wanted to invite her around for tea and when she hears about it, Dot panics that she can’t remember ever inviting Peggy round. However, not wanting to disappoint, she dashes home and puts a chicken in the oven, which Nick subsequently turns off so when Peggy arrives, she’s concerned when she sees Dot taking a raw chicken out of the oven.

Later, Dot’s on edge when she can’t find her cigarettes and so heads to the shop, completely unaware that Dotty’s hidden her cigarettes with her purse. Nick then arrives and tells her that she left them on the sideboard. Meanwhile, he continues to blackmail Billy and feeling the pressure, Billy abuses his new job behind the bar and steals Tracey’s wage packet… Read more & comment »

Evan Williams

In yet another incredibly shocking documentary in the Unreported World series, reporter Evan Williams and his colleague Paul Kittel – director and cameraman – travelled to the Brazilian city of Recife, a beach paradise that’s visited by thousands of British tourists every year.

There, they uncovered allegations that the police are involved in ‘death squads’ which murder thousands of ‘undesirables’, including hundreds of street children, every year.

Within minutes of the programme beginning, Evan and Paul were taken to the scene of the murder of an 18-year-old boy at the side of a street. Police officers told Evan that the murder was “an execution” – a close-range shot to the head, typical of many of the city’s thousands of murders each year… Read more & comment »

Pushing Daisies’ Anna Friel will star as Holly Golightly in a new stage version of Breakfast at Tiffany’s opening in London this September.

I liked Daisies and it’s quirky qualities and I can well imagine Anna Friel in this role. However she may be setting herself up for a fall as who can really compare to the iconic Audrey Hepburn who starred in the screen version back in 1961.

Maybe if the play sticks more to the original Truman Capote novella and less to the lighter, brighter movie version Friel will avoid constant comparisons and make the role her own.

Sir Michael Parkinson has claimed that there is a serious lack of chatshows on TV currently.

Yahoo! News report that the iconic chatshow host said:

“I think it’s sad that there isn’t the kind of chat show I used to do on air at the moment,” he said. “I don’t want to do it, but something different to the comedy chatshow, which has it’s place.”

He added: “As a viewer I like to watch that kind of conversational chatshow. It’s missing now. Maybe it will come back. I don’t know.”

Michael Parkinson says there are no good TV shows for the older generation and that programme bosses focus too heavily on the youngsters.

The 74-year-old tv chat show host says many pensioners feel “disassociated” from cookery programmes and shows for youngsters.

He tells Channel 4’s Paul O’Grady today: “Television is full of chefs rissoling the language, people pretending a well-cooked pork chop is a work of art like the Sistine Chapel. It’s silly.”

Axing Channel 4 dramas such as Endgame and Red Riding is one of the “unpleasant choices” that may arise from the ‘credit crunch’ a channel boss has said.

Luke Johnson, the channel’s chairman, said that is the downturn in advertising revenue continues complex dramas may be a thing of the past.

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Martin Clunes has hit out at John Cleese’s after he claimed that British comedy isn’t as good as it used to be.

Last week the Fawlty Towers actor hit out at TV bosses, saying, “They don’t want to pay good writers.”

But Clunes told The Sun: “John Cleese certainly hasn’t made any good comedy since the 80s!”

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