I’d Do Anything judge, Denise Van Outen, is rumoured to be in talks with BBC bosses about a possible appearance in Eastenders.
A source told New: “Quite a few of the top brass came out to meet her and then she had a quiet meeting with them. It’s no secret they see her as ratings gold after her stints on Any Dream Will Do and I’d Do Anything.”
Yesterday Sky One announced that Denise would front a new musical show that they are making. Read More »
Life On Mars has become the latest in a line of British TV shows to get an American makeover.
A pilot episode was recently written by Ally McBeal creator David E Kelley, who had bought the rights to the show.
The Hollywood Reporter said ABC had now ordered an extended run, with Irish actor Jason O’Mara in the lead role. Read More »
Britney’s recent appearance on US sitcom, ‘How I Met Your Mother’ brought her the first positive press attention that she has had in years, so its no surprise that she signed up for a second episode.
Catch the clip of Britney’s second appearance below. It seems as though Brit was a big hit on the show and the word is that she may even come back for a third appearance.
‘She was better than the first time, and I think fans will enjoy it because her return answers a mystery set up earlier in the series,’ said the show’s co-creator Craig Thomas.
James Van Der Beek is also set to make a guest appearance on the show.
Whether or not to have an abortion might be the biggest decision a woman will ever make, and it’s one they will live with for the rest of their lives. In the UK, more than 200,000 women every year choose to go ahead with the procedure but, 40 years after it was legalised in this country, it is a subject that continues to divide people.
For some, it’s a liberator, an essential human right; for others, an act of murder. Emotional, upsetting and divisive, it remains one of the most hotly debated issues of our time, but the voices of those who actually go through the procedure often get lost in the debate. This sensitively filmed documentary gives a voice to some of those women. Read More »
In a world where the lottery of nature defines your height, size and features, individuals can become celebrities based simply on how they look. Broadcaster Mark Dolan immerses himself in the remarkable worlds of some incredible people in this new series exploring what it means to be anything but “average”. Read More »
Sound of Music star Connie Fisher makes her television drama debut in a brand new film for ITV1, Caught in a Trap.
In her first television role after her success as Maria in the critically acclaimed stage musical, Connie plays Gemma Perkins, a young woman who is obsessed by Elvis Presley.
Filming has just begun on locations in London on this drama being produced by Greenlit Rights.
Connie says: “I am thrilled to have been cast in my first television drama and I am very excited to be in front of the camera.” Read More »
Channel 4’s documentary on Half Ton Mum Renee Williams revealed the scale of the American obesity crisis. Inspired by Renee’s story, the hidden population of super morbidly obese people cried out for help.
Forty-year-old father of four Kenneth Brumley weighed 73 stone when he was cut free from his house. Unable to walk, and trapped in his bed for four years, Kenneth was even bigger than Renee and so the risks to his life were even higher. His last chance to live was the very same weight-loss surgery, provided by the specialist team who treated Renee.
Wednesday 14 May 2008
9:00pm, Channel 4
In May 1977, a young woman called Colleen Stan was hitchhiking through Red Bluff, a small town in northern California. An experienced hitchhiker and safety-conscious, she’d already turned down two lifts, but she was about to accept a ride that would change her life for ever.
Colleen was abducted and held captive for seven years, during which she suffered an unimaginable fate. Forced to live in a coffin-like box under his bed for up to 22 hours a day and repeatedly tortured, Colleen became a slave. Her captor’s terrible psychological hold was so strong that she went out to work and even visited her family during this time, before she was eventually able to break free. Read More »
ITV3 today announces a six-week Crime Thriller Season, leading up to the first ever televised ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards, which promises to be a glamorous star studded occasion, celebrating crime and thriller fiction from film, TV and books. Cactus Television has secured the full support of major publishers and retailers to ensure this initiative starts as a big event, with posters and stickered books in shops and supermarkets, and adverts for the nominated works in the press.
The ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards will be a glittering event at London’s Grosvenor Hotel. The awards ceremony will celebrate the crème de la crème of crime fiction with awards focusing on the best of British and International crime thriller novels. Other awards will include the Breakthrough Award for a new author of note. Read More »
A major two-part documentary series offers a unique and personal insight into the life and work of The Duke of Edinburgh.
Over the past six decades as consort to the Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh has been a constant figure in the lives of the British people, a fixed point in a changing landscape. But he still remains something of an enigma.
Bombastic and autocratic say his critics. Colourful and stimulating say his admirers. Famous for his so-called gaffes, while some of his initiatives have shown him to be a man ahead of his time, such as The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, which has been an outstanding success and imitated around the world. Read More »
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