The delectable Jonathan Rhys Meyers has defended the huge amount of sex scenes in BBC Two newest drama, The Tudors.

Jonathan told The Sun newspaper:

“People had an awful lot of sex at that time,” he laughs.

“Remember: there was no TV and sex was very, very important. It’s what you did when the sun went down.”

BBC Drama, HBO and Company Pictures have announced that they will be launching Einstein And Eddington, a film which takes a closer look at the story behind the creation of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity and the personal lives of the men behind it.

The film will be broadcast later this year on BBC Two. Read more & comment »

Three years after Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman circumnavigated the globe on their motorcycles in Long Way Round, the long time friends are ready to get on their bikes again – in Long Way Down, a new six-part documentary series, this time for BBC Two.
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The BAFTA and VLV award-winning series Coast, co-produced by The Open University, returns to BBC Two for the third time with eight brand-new episodes which will take in even more wonderful sights and stories from the length and breadth of the UK, Ireland and islands. Read more & comment »

A village on the brink fights back in this new, three-part series.

Tim Samuels joins an entire Cornish village as they pack up the sheep, travel en masse to London and seize the Frappuccino-swilling New Labour heartland of Islington.

The village of Lanreath is on the brink of extinction: they’ve lost their post office, shop, pub, bus service, farms – and now their beloved primary school is under threat. Pushed to breaking point, the countryside comes to town to get its voice heard – and annexes Islington. Read more & comment »

The epic story of our planet Earth is to be told in a new landmark series for BBC Two.

Earth: The Biography will use spectacular images, strong science content and compelling narration to tell the story of our planet from its birth 4.6 billion years ago. The series highlights the major events which have shaped the Earth’s history and allowed life to flourish.

Presented by Dr Iain Stewart (Journeys From The Centre Of The Earth and Journeys Into The Ring Of Fire), each episode will reveal a different force critical to the development of Earth including volcanoes, the ocean, the atmosphere and ice.

The series follows Dr Stewart’s personal journey to some of the most remote places on the planet. Read more & comment »

Gordon Kaye is set to make a comeback as French cafe owner, Rene, in a one off Allo Allo special for BBC Two.

Also returning will be waitress Yvette (Vicki Michelle) and pretend cop Officer Crabtree (Arthur Bostrom) — a British agent..

The show airs BBC2 on April 28.

In town halls and exhibition centres across the country, competitive hairdressers are regularly going head to head in pursuit of trophies and diplomas. The most successful of these dream of being selected to represent the UK at the World Hairdressing Championships. Held every two years, the biggest and most prestigious of all hairdressing competitions attracts the best competitive cutters from 49 countries for a showdown in a frenzy of hairspray and scissors.

Competition hairdressers don’t tend to work at the famous West End salons. Many of the fancy stylists from those establishments would turn up their noses at the idea of competing. Instead, competitive cutters often come from your average local salon. But they are still a different breed from most hairdressers. Something inside drives them to seek perfection and glory on the competition floor. Read more & comment »