June 16th, 2013 by Lisa McGarry.
Black Sabbath are sure to be celebrating this evening after scoring their first Number 1 UK album in nearly 43 years and setting a new Official Chart record with 13!
After a closely fought battle, the heavy metal legends – frontman Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler, along with Rage Against The Machine drummer Brad Wilk – finished the week a rather apt 13,000 copies ahead of BE by Liam Gallagher’s Beady Eye (Number 2).
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June 16th, 2013 by Anna Howell. Tags: anna passey, anna savage, bianca hendrickse-spendlove, Danny Mac, dodger savage, Hollyoaks, James Atherton, Jeremy Sheffield, jessica forrest, leanne holiday, patrick blake, Saskia Wickham, sienna blake, texas longford, who killed texas longford, will savage
We thought it had gone a bit quiet on the ‘who killed Texas’ front in Hollyoaks recently, but grab your ear defenders as it is about to get MUCH louder next week!
Fans of the award-winning Channel 4 soap will know the person who killed Texas Longford on her wedding day last month was none other than her (not so) wheelchair bound husband Will Savage (James Atherton).
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June 6th, 2013 by Anna Howell. Tags: alfie browne-sykes, ayden callaghan, charlie clapham, charlie wernham, fabrizio santino, freddie roscoe, Gillian Taylforth, jason roscoe, joe roscoe, lindsey butterfield, robbie roscoe, sandy roscoe, sophie austin, ziggy roscoe
With any new soap family there are many skeletons unpacked with the good china when moving into town, and the Roscoe’s are apparently no exception!
Fans of the award-winning Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks will know how the Roscoe’s – mum Sandy (Gillian Taylforth) and sons Joe (Ayden Callaghan), Ziggy (Fabrizio Santino), Freddie (Charlie Clapham) and twins Robbie (Charlie Wernham) and Jason (Alfie Browne-Sykes), arrived in the fateful village of Hollyoaks last month, and it wasn’t long before at least half of them were up to no good!
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June 6th, 2013 by TV Writer Lynn. Tags: Coronation Street, Coronation Street Spoilers, Kevin Webster, Michael Le Vell
Fans of Coronation Street star Michael Le Vell – who plays the role of mechanic Kevin Webster – will know that yet again, he’s enduring an annus horribilis as he awaits trial over allegations that he raped and sexually abused an under-age girl…
And though the case was originally dropped by the CPS last year, it was reopened following a review and after there was considered to be “sufficient evidence” to warrant seeking a prosecution.
Since the ugly matter first came to light in 2011, Michael and his wife Jeanette separated – though it’s understood it was nothing to do with the allegations made against him – and he was suspended from Coronation Street pending the outcome of the trial. Read more & comment »
June 5th, 2013 by Lisa McGarry.
Some interesting potential candidates have entered the frame for who will be the next Doctor Who, with Colin Morgan (of Merlin fame) perhaps the most interesting and he has been cut to 20/1 from an original 33/1 after a number of bets were placed.
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May 31st, 2013 by Anna Howell.
Sherlock creator and Doctor Who writer Mark Gatiss must have thought that all of his Christmas and birthdays had come at once, when a random tweet he sent got him an offer of a lifetime from one of this country’s most famous exports, Roger Moore.
Gatiss took to social networking site, Twitter, to praise 85-year-old Sir Roger’s performance after watching the 1970 thriller The Man Who Haunted Himself.
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May 30th, 2013 by Anna Howell. Tags: Hollyoaks, mandip gill, phoebe jackson
Now that her Hollyoaks character’s foster mum, Jacqui McQueen, has left the village for good, Mandip Gill has revealed that she would like to see Phoebe Jackson’s real family introduced in the show.
Fans of the award-winning Channel 4 soap will know how Phoebe (Mandip Gill) was first introduced to us last year as the homeless companion of George Smith (Stephen Roberts).
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May 21st, 2013 by Lisa McGarry.
The 2013 CMT MUSIC AWARDS is turning up the volume as Carrie Underwood, Darius Rucker, Florida Georgia Line, George Strait, Jason Aldean, Keith Urban and Lady Antebellum will perform during this year’s live show on Wednesday, June 5 at 8:00 p.m., ET/PT on CMT and CMT.com. They will join country superstars Hunter Hayes, Little Big Town, Luke Bryan, Pistol Annies and Taylor Swift, who were announced as performers last week. Presenters will be announced soon.
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May 20th, 2013 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Channel 4, Trojan Donkey
Trojan Donkey is a new hidden camera comedy that takes all that’s good in ‘old style’ covert filming to show us how funny life can be when we think no one is watching. With a cast of strange but lovable characters, Trojan Donkey seeks out situations to confuse and engage the public as they go about their everyday lives.
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May 19th, 2013 by Matt D.
Simon Reeve returns to BBC2 to embark on another epic adventure, following the success of his Indian Ocean series. This time Simon takes a riveting journey across Australia and on his way encounters an extraordinary array of people and exotic wildlife.
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May 17th, 2013 by TV Writer Lynn. Tags: Eastenders, Eastenders Spoilers, Ronnie Branning, Samantha Womack
When Samantha Womack left EastEnders two years ago – at the climax of the cot death and baby swap storyline which saw her character Ronnie Branning imprisoned – it was under something of a cloud given that Samantha had found the plotline “stressful and emotional.”
Poor Samantha was even harangued in the street while out with her husband and children by fans who evidently can’t tell the difference between reality and fantasy, and all in all, after quitting the show to star in a musical, Samantha said she had no regrets about leaving the BBC soap.
However, it’s been revealed today that Samantha is in fact coming back to the show to reprise her role as Ronnie, who, as viewers will know, has recently been freed from prison. Read more & comment »
May 13th, 2013 by Nick Barnes. Tags: american idol, Fringe, Glee, New Girl, The Following, The Mindy Project, The X-Factor
FOX has revealed, ahead of its upfronts event this week, that it’s A-listers, Glee, New Girl and The Following have all been renewed for the 2013-14 season.
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May 7th, 2013 by TV Writer Lynn.
Young Faye Windass (Ellie Leach) is of course currently living with her dad in his flat over the shop, which, though it’s a situation her mum Anna (Debbie Rush) isn’t happy with, Faye is very happy with, which is of course why Anna agreed to it in the first place…
However, the novelty of having his daughter living with him has rapidly worn off for Tim (Joe Duttine) and he’s finding it expensive, time consuming and frankly, a tedious tie.
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May 7th, 2013 by TV Writer Lynn.
Fans of Corrie will of course know that David Platt (Jack P Shepherd) recently suffered another epileptic fit, and though they are few and far between thanks to his medications, next week, we’ll see he’s worried that his baby may have inherited the disease from him…
And as we’ll see on Monday, May 13, a concerned David tells his wife Kylie (Paula Lane) that he thinks they should have the baby genetically screened, which of course, given that David may not be the baby’s dad – his brother Nick may be – Kylie panics.
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May 7th, 2013 by TV Writer Lynn.
In next week’s episodes of EastEnders, things seem to be finally going Ian Beale’s way as not only is work progressing rapidly on his new restaurant, but his love life is on the up too as his girlfriend Denise Fox (Diane Parish) makes it clear she finds the ruthless businessman in Ian rather sexy…
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