Most popular and commented – Page 1960
-
News
Turner classic movies plans crime wave
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has put together a Crime Wave Season from 14 to 20 July which will feature classic crime films and some original material. The season, which ties in with TCM's sponsorship of the National Film Theatre's annual festival of crime films between 10 and 12 July, will ...
-
News
UK Style sends out design ambulance
UK Style head of lifestyle Nick Thorogood has commissioned indie MadMac Productions to make a second series of interior makeover programme Design+ER. Each of the 15 x 23-minute episodes will see a team of experts arrive at a viewer's home in a design 'ambulance' to ...
-
News
Edinburgh to host MTV Europe music awards
This year's MTV Europe Music Awards will be broadcast live from Edinburgh on 6 November, the first time the ceremony has been held in Scotland in its 10-year history. The event, held in Barcelona last year, will take place at a specially built 6,000-capacity venue in Leith and will be ...
-
News
Five commissions El Greco documentary
Michael Attwell, former senior programme controller at Five, is making a 60-minute film on the forthcoming El Greco exhibition at the National Gallery for his old employer. Hanging El Grecowill follow curators and staff at the National Gallery as they choose and negotiate the loan ...
-
NewsITV pushes on with back-room merger
The back-room merger of Carlton and Granada continued this week as the pair announced that all planning and scheduling operations will be moved to centres in London and the north from next month, writes Paul Revoir
-
NewsBig Brother house stays open till 2008
Big Brother is set to stay on British screens until at least 2008, even if ratings fall for the main Channel 4 show, according to the C4 executive in charge of it, write Leigh Holmwood and Paul Revoir
-
NewsNTL to be bought out of ITV News
Carlton and Granada are to take full control of the ITV News Channel by buying out NTL Europe's 35% stake, writes Paul Revoir
-
NewsC4 sets up 4 Broadband channel
Channel 4 is launching a factual and entertainment broadband channel, 4 Broadband, to showcase programmes and clips from the broadcaster's back-catalogue, writes Penny Hughes
-
NewsLive TV to make its comeback on Sky
Live TV, the infamous cable television channel that gave the world News Bunny and Topless Darts, is set to return, writes Rosemary Gallagher
-
News
TV executive dies from DVT after skiing accident
A Young TV executive collapsed and died from deep vein thrombosis after flying home from a skiing accident in Canad...
-
News
The Explainer - Radio advertising
The rajar results for the first three months of the year were not good news for the commercial radio industry. ...
-
News
Revolutionary deal as TV adaption of Dr Zhivago is sold...to Russia
In the televisual equivalent of selling coals to Newcastle, Granada has persuaded a Russian TV channel to buy its l...
-
News
Naked ambition of TV wannabes
Desperate Big Brother 4 hopefuls have been proving they will do just about anything to get on the programme. ...
-
News
This was your life!
This Is Your Life is facing the axe after a 48-year run - because young stars think it is naff. ...
-
News
Puttnam in bid to block changes on cross-media ownership
Lord Puttnam yesterday insisted that he would press on with the so-called 'Murdoch Ammendment' to the Communication...
-
News
BBC to spend millions on leadership training for 5,000
The BBC is to send more than 5,000 staff on an eight-day resedential management training course in a multi-million-...
-
News
The celebrity fix
They appeared an isolated group in the thick of the of the Australian jungle battling with torrebtial downpours, po...
-
News
Truth stranger than fiction
A scientific review of Eastenders has found that the infidelity, prostitution and illegitimacy portrayed in the soa...
-
News
NTL ends its viewers exodus
Cable TV company NTL reported a return to customer growth yesterday after more than a year of defections as it batt...
-
News
Who is the best bruv?
Telly bosses are planning the ultimate Big Brother special to find the fly-on-the-wall series' Champion of Champion...