Brian Conley hosts this new game of deception in which contestants answer questions in a bid to win a cash prize. However, this is a quiz show with a difference, as one of the contestants is a dirty rotten cheater and is secretly shown the answers to the questions. The players must work out who the cheater is and try to expose them, in order to win the prize.
Strategies and tactics are the order of the day as each show climaxes in a showdown between the final two contestants.
Dirty Rotten Cheater is on weekdays for four weeks.
Monday 15 to Friday 19 October
2.35-3.05pm BBC ONE
BBC Drama has commissioned a new adaptation of The Diary Of Anne Frank, which will be shown in five episodes on consecutive nights early in 2008 on BBC One.
The drama is being made by Darlow Smithson Productions, whose previous work includes the highly acclaimed and award-winning drama documentary Touching The Void.
The adaptation is by Deborah Moggach, whose screenplay for the recent film version of Pride And Prejudice was nominated for a BAFTA.
The rights to The Diary Of Anne Frank rarely become available. Darlow Smithson Productions and the BBC have worked closely with the Anne Frank-Fonds, the charitable foundation promoting social and cultural projects in the spirit of Anne Frank, to ensure complete authenticity for the drama. Read more & comment »
October 14th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: BBC, Eastenders
Eastenders landlady Peggy Mitchell lands herself in some seriously hot water later this month, as she tries to pull off an insurance scam in the Queen Vic.
Peggy has been sinking deeper and deeper into debt after plunging all her money into a failed revamp of the Vic, Phil and Stella’s disastrous wedding and a cruise. But instead of asking her family for help, Peggy ius determined to save face and get the money she needs another way.
Next week we will see her ask Sean Slater to smash up the pub, but she soon gets rumbled as she stupidly phones the insurance man before calling the police.
An EastEnders source told The Daily Star: “She isn’t a natural crook – it’s the rest of the family who are.
“But because she doesn’t want to worry them she decides to have a go herself. Unfortunately, things don’t go to plan and the insurance man is suspicious when he arrives and she hasn’t got a crime number off the police. Read more & comment »
BBC newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky is leaving the BBC and moving to commercial TV channel, Five.
Natasha who has been presenting BBC Breakfast since 2002, is actually better known for her torrid affair with dancer Brendan Cole while taking part in reality TV show, Strictly Come Dancing.
“After five incredibly rewarding years at the BBC, I found the chance to work with the Read more & comment »
After her huge success in ITV2’s Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, Billie Piper is said to be in talks with Doctor Who producers about rejoining the cast next year.
In probably the best casting decision Doctor Who bosses have made in two years, Billie is said to have been offered £20,000 to star in the three final episodes of next years series.
A source told Britain’s News of the World newspaper: “Billie was a huge hit and bosses know her comeback would thrill audiences.” Read more & comment »
October 4th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: BBC, Robin-Hood
After seeing pictures of himself looking “too thin” during the last series of BBC drama, Robin Hood, hunky Jonas Armstrong went training and increased his muscle mass!
Jonas, 26,told The Sun: “I saw a picture of myself last year and I looked a bit thin. So I made a decision to get a personal trainer. And I’ve put on 21lbs in muscle. Read more & comment »
Hiro tries to stop time so that he and Ando can escape a parking fine, but fails. He feels that the samurai sword is the key to his powers and will help him focus them. On the way to pick up the car, he and Ando discover they are being chased by men in a van.
They hide under a car, but it is driven off, exposing them to the men. As they run away, Ando gets caught and Hiro is forced to return. They’re bundled into the van - Ando says “You came back for me”, to which Hiro replies “That’s how we roll!”
David Walliams is making the leap from comedy to psychological drama with his new role in BBC drama, Capturing Mary.
David plays the part of Greville White, a man trying to get lucky with a emerging columnist called Mary. When she rejects his advances he sets out to destroy her life.
But David wasn’t handed the role on a plate, he was made to audition twice for the part.
He told The Sun: “It was a very thorough process.
“I had two two-hour auditions which really gave me the chance to give a half-decent performance. Read more & comment »
Moira Stuart is to leave the staff of BBC News to work on a wider range of projects.
Moira was most recently a regular newsreader on BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show, the Breakfast News, and her 34-year career at BBC News has included stints presenting all of the corporation’s television news programmes. Read more & comment »
George Michael is due to poke fun at himself by playing the part of a sex crazed stoner and will be seen cruising for sex in London while smoking a ‘dodgy’ cigarette and scoffing a kebab.
Coronation Street bosses have shortened the length of Helen Flanagan’s skirt in her latest Coronation Street seduction scenes.
Helen’s character Rosie Webster is set to seduce her teacher and Fizz’s boyfriend, John Stape. But when she appeared on set in her gold seductress attire, bosses sent her off to have her hem highered! Read more & comment »
September 30th, 2007 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: BBC, Stephen Fry
Following on from his widely acclaimed series The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive, Stephen Fry tackles the world of HIV and Aids in this two-part documentary.
In the early Eighties, little was known about Aids or how to treat it but, in the UK, people were warned of its dangers via the “Don’t Die of Ignorance” campaigns. Twenty years later, however, we are told that we’re “losing the fight against Aids”. Infections are rising, particularly amongst three groups: the young; black African communities; and heterosexuals. The number of new infections amongst straight people now outweighs those in the gay world.
Illustrating the changing face of the virus, Stephen meets a range of people one wouldn’t expect to be affected, including a positive grandmother, a 16-year-old schoolgirl who was born with the virus and HIV-positive couples who set out to have HIV-free children. Read more & comment »
Lesbian Gossip lead singer Beth Ditto reveals she fancies Hugh Grant when she visits the sofa for tonight’s edition of the award-winning Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on BBC One.
She also gives her opinionated views on her favourite kind of women: “‘I like ladies who look like boys.”
Beth reveals she can’t marry her long-standing girlfriend: “‘We’ve just moved in together [after six years], that kind of marriage isn’t legal where I live.”
On her weight: “I’m over it. I could have spent a lot of time trying to change myself, I’d rather just be in the band and do my thing and do it well. Beauty is relative.” Read more & comment »
Episode opens in the hospital where Nathan and his mother are attending comatose Peter Petrelli. Simone visits and Nathan lies that Peter said he felt he was absorbing too many powers. He insists that Simone takes him to Isaac to “see the person who’s responsible for all of this”.
They arrive in Isaac’s apartment to discover he’s returned and is clean. He tells Simone that he was in a clinic and that he is only alive because of her. Nathan admits that Peter feels responsible for the bomb.
Claire’s school is about to reopen and she admits to Noah that she’s concerned about being asked questions. She pretends that she has no memory of the events that night.
After her huge success in ITV2’s Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, Billie Piper is said to be in talks with Doctor Who producers about rejoining the cast next year.
After seeing pictures of himself looking “too thin” during the last series of BBC drama, 
Coronation Street bosses have shortened the length of Helen Flanagan’s skirt in her latest Coronation Street seduction scenes.
Following on from his widely acclaimed series The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive, Stephen Fry tackles the world of HIV and Aids in this two-part documentary.