Every Christmas season the various television networks dish out their banquet of Christmas-themed specials. Some of the all-time favorite annual Christmas shows of years gone by included those by Andy Williams, Perry Como, Bob Hope, and The Three Stooges. Back in the 60s and 70s most of the television holiday sets consisted of some Christmas trees, some lights, Christmas ornaments, tons of...
"CONTROL CHALLENGE" That is the name of the quiz show that is destined to sweep America and its franchise is likely to stretch all over the world. The brain behind it is Arnold Webstein who used to work as a secretary in the White House, and he takes up the story. While I was there I was astonished just how much in the dark we were kept about who really was making decisions at the top, what...
Television retailers from all over Britain have been reporting heavy customer demand today for this year's new Christmas 'must have' accessory - 3D TV screen protectors. 'We had 2000 of them in stock when we closed the shop on Saturday evening and...
With just four more days left of ITV's 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!', TV cook Rosemary Shrager has been told to get the cook off the show by it's viewers. Rotund Rosemary, previously best known for her role on ITV's 'Ladette to Lady' when...
LOS ANGELES - In a move that can only be described as indescribable, Angus T. Jones, who has portrayed Jake Harper on the sit-com Two and A Half Men for 10 years, has just bitten the hand that feeds him and feeds him well. The 19-year-old made a v...
ATLANTA, Georgia (ABSNN) - The ever smiling Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel's long-running "Dirty Jobs" announced the show would not continue after this year. However, Rowe is not out of a job at the Discovery Channel; he will host a new sh...
The latest head of the BBC News operation has begun her new regime by attempting to stop the flow of leaks in the new building. Fran Tick, acting director, pleaded with colleagues not to contribute to the wave which is threatening to engulf the or...
LOS ANGELES - Joan Rivers, star of two cable television shows The Fashion Police and Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best, has just been offered a third TV show. According to Epitome Network spokesperson, Tansinella "Tansi" Wickovich, Rivers, 79, w...
London - Rum goings-on behind the Berryfields potting shed have been blamed for a vile rumour about Monty Don's golden retriever Nigel. Absent for several weeks during an outbreak of Badger's Disease on local allotments the five year-old pooch's s...
A top television weatherman has sensationally blown the lid on the secrets behind the industry, to the shock of executives and colleagues alike. The weatherman, who wishes to remain anonymous, so in keeping with his wishes we'll give him the rando...
Simon Cowell's X-Factor television show is back on ITV for a ninth year running. The singing contest should probably have been cancelled about seven years ago. The launch of the new series went largely unnoticed, and it has now reached the live shows stage, pulling in over nine viewers a week. The list of talentless, non-celebrity, instant-celebrity egotists and wasters has not diminished. S...
LOS ANGELES - In an astounding announcement a spokesperson for Danny DeVito has stated that he and his wife Rhea Perlman will be heading for the big "D" (divorce). DeVito, 67, who became popular for his role of Louie De Palma on the sit-com Taxi a...
HOLLYWOOD - Reports are that AMC has received tons of letters, emails, text messages, tweets, and phone calls asking what in the world the writers of the hit western Hell On Wheels were thinking when they killed off one of the shows most well-liked a...
The traditional Christmas Day speech broadcast to the nation each year by the Queen is to be performed this year by ... Helen Mirren! Helen approached the BBC to suggest she replace the Queen this year after hearing that BBC chiefs had told the Qu...
High-brow BBC documentary channel BBC 4 is now almost two years through its research into the discovery of murders, kidnappings, and car thefts in Northern Europe. Given the lack of evidence of such occurrences prior to the first screening of Wallend...
Council estate gardens in Oldham, Moston and Stalybridge to be picked. The hit TV show American Pickers is filming a new series in the UK, and this reporter has been given access to the filming of one of the episodes. The series will be filmed in some of Manchester, Oldham and Tameside's famous grot spots, and will involve the stars of the show Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz trawling through rubb...
The scourge of empty seats which are somewhat tarnishing the Olympics came into sharp focus again today. An Olympic watchdog has said too many settees are still far too empty. Lord Coe vented his frustrations at the eyesore he encounters when snoo...
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