After seeing her work on the TV show, Abbey and Janice - Beauty and the Beast, the TV channel Living have reportedly asked WAG, Abbey Clancy to be the new face of Living.

Abbey, girlfriend of Liverpool player Peter Crouch, will be replacing disgraced Jade Goody and will appear on Living’s reality TV programmes for the foreseeable future.

A source told the Daily Star Sunday: “Jade had several shows on the channel which were all quietly dropped after her race row blew up on Celebrity Big Brother.

“The bosses have been struggling to replace her but after seeing Abbey it was clear straight away she was going to be a huge star. They are now creating more shows for her.”

The BBC has today been given approval by the BBC Trust to launch a nationally available free-to-view satellite proposition as a joint venture with ITV.

“Freesat”, as it is currently known, will provide a Standard and High Definition (SD and HD) enabled digital satellite proposition with launch anticipated for Spring 2008.

Consumers will be offered up to 200 channels plus full digital satellite interactivity and high definition capability, without the need to pay a subscription.

Consumers will also have a choice of equipment (including both SD and HD receivers, an HD personal video recorder and an integrated digital television), together with a range of installation options. Read more & comment »

Five whole viewers complained to the Advertising Standards Authority about the new Daz advertisement featuring Right Said Fred singing “I’m too sexy for my whites.”

Some parents felt it was an unsuitable ad for children to watch, due to the use of the word sexy.

However the ASA have responded by saying that they will not uphold the complaints and will be placing no restrictions on the ad.

They stated that: “Young children who saw the ad were likely to respond to the humour, rather than viewing it in a sexual context.”

And it added, “We understood that some parents may have felt uncomfortable explaining what ’sexy’ meant, but we nevertheless concluded that the ad was suitable to be shown without a scheduling restriction.”

ITV and entertainment stars Ant and Dec, have agreed a new deal to keep them exclusively at ITV until at the end of 2009.

Ant and Dec, two of Britain’s most popular television presenters, have been exclusively signed to ITV since 2000. During that time they have presented a number of hit shows for the network including five series of smash hit reality show I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! Ant and Dec’s Gameshow Marathon and two series of the highest rating talent show of recent years, Pop Idol.

In 2002 Ant and Dec, with Granada, developed and launched their own primetime format, Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, the series continues to go from strength to strength with more than 8 million viewers tuning into the last series. And last month over 7.5 million viewers tuned in to see one lucky contestant win £1 million in the second series of Ant and Dec’s latest project Pokerface. Read more & comment »

In this brand new series Derren Brown is at his most devilish, having persuaded members of the public to sign a Faustian pact with him and participate in a macabre game of Trick or Treat . In this week’s opening episode, Richard, having chosen a “Trick” card, is put to sleep in a photo booth in London only to awake again in Marrakech.

Derren attempts to plant a word in the brain of an unsuspecting American and back in the UK he plays a game of fate with The League of Gentlemen involving chocolate mini-rolls…

NOOOO!! Just when you thought the Eurovision couldn’t get any cheesier, they go and create a Eurovision DANCE Contest.

This new Europe wide cheese fest won’t be hosted by the wrinkly Terry Wogan, no, the camper than camp Graham Norton will be taking his place.

Does anyone remember when Graham Norton was actually funny? I look fondly back to his days on Channel 4 and his shows that had my sides splitting with laughter. I wonder what ever happened to that old granny he used to pull out of the audience week after week? In comparison, his recent move to light TV shows seems a bit lame.

Someone needs to tell Graham that he may be making buckets of money, but he is really wasting his talent…..unless of course he actually wants to become the next Vernon Kay?

The BBC Reoprts:

Shows such as Doctor Who and Dancing on Ice helped British TV programmes earn £593m abroad in 2006, up 20% from 2005.

A quarter of the increase came from selling formats like the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, which became Dancing with the Stars in the US.

Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and Shaun The Sheep were also among the top-selling shows, said the Producers’ Alliance for Cinema and TV (Pact).

Celebrity Big Brother housemate, Jermaine jackson and his sister, LaToya, are rumoured to have joined forces with American TV network, CBS to look for the next Jackson 5.

The pair will act as judges on the new reality TV show, Pop Dynasty, which will seek to find find the next big musical family.

Tim Kash, UK MTV presenter, has become the first non-American to present on the US MTV channel.

The 25-year-old is joining the channel’s team in New York.

He landed the gig after impressing bosses when he hosted some of his UK-screened shows from America. Tim said: “It’s a dream come true.”