Joan Crawford's famous film Mildred Pierce is coming back in the HBO series with Kate Winslet as the ever loving mother of her scornful brat Veda. Mildred bakes pies to keep the roof overhead, Veda in piano lessons, and amasses a fortune. Sort of lik...
AOL announced today two additional acquisitions in the media industry, announcing they had completed negotiations with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and 'Current TV' founder Al Gore to purchase the companies and add them to the Huffington Post Me...
Pressure is continuing to mount on the BBC to conduct yet another investigation into "highly questionable practices" it employed in the making of one of its flagship programmes. Having just recovered from the Blue Peter Gate scandal, when it was p...
The Foreign Office is to carry out an urgent review of export licences after allegations that some jokes and other comedy material devised and created in the U.K. may have been used in some of the most appalling U.S. comedy shows. An unnamed sourc...
PBS stars came out in droves this week to protest calls that the government not fund PBS TV and NPR radio. Nigel Barman-Taff, who played Colonel Lionel Taylor-Winslow in the enormously popular British department store sitcom "Handkerchiefs, Ladie...
HOLLYWOOD - After appearing on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Growing Up Kardashian, teen singing sensation Justin Bieber has agreed to star on an upcoming episode of the popular musical hit show Glee. Glee has already won many awards includin...
TV's soap-land has gone in to a frenzy this week with major stars from all corners of the entertainment universe uniting for one cause, to give equal votes to their characters. Ken Barlow, no relation to Gary, who lives at number 1 Coronation Stre...
HOLLYWOOD - The comedienne who President Gerald Ford once said was his favorite all-time favorite fat humorist will be returning to the small screen (unless of course one happens to own a big screen TV). Barr, who was once married to comedy writer...
A new broadcasting code for TV channels is to come into effect at the end of this month. Announcing sweeping new guidelines covering, amongst other things, product placement and programme quality, an OFCOM spokesman explained "Its clear that , th...
The BBC are pulling out all the stops in their efforts to re-establish their reputation for producing cutting edge product for the TV. The first in a series of thought provoking dramas is coming to the screen later this year in the shape of "The First Lesbian", which tells the story of the openly gay Anne Lister in the 1880's. An unnamed source from the Beeb has revealed that other scheduled...
Strictly Waffle by Rob Barratt It's Saturday night - prime time TV Britain's got strictly no talent X-factory The opiate of the watching masses Tune in to tuneless lads and lasses And get an overdose of the thing we love most Piffle-paffle, wiffle waffle ... waffle Not the waffle from your freezer Not the waffle - belly pleaser But read from monitors and sheets Repeated repeatedly on...
Freeview, the provider of free television in the Digital UK is to overhaul the way that the channels are named. The old terrestrial channels, BBC1, BBC2, ITV1 and Channel 4 have sufficient clout that they will retain their names. Channel 5 is to b...
Wayne Rooney's wonder goal in the Manchester derby on Saturday has been voted the Greatest TV Moment in History, according to a survey of narrow minded, parochial U.K. residents. The overhead kick, which gave the Old Trafford side a late 2-1 victo...
English football authorities will be watching a popular TV show with interest tonight as a team of loveable rogues take a fat cat agent "to the cleaners." BBC's Hustle features a team of grifters who each week punish a greedy crook or unscrupulous...
Repeated viewing of violent scenes in films, television or video games could make teenagers behave more aggressively, US research suggests. Its understood that other research studies also suggested that excessive exposure to content such as Jackas...
Film studio and TV programme makers have admitted using make up to change the appearance of actors and actresses. Some details will be particularly shocking to film aficionados, especially the discovery that thousands of pounds worth of make up w...
LOS ANGELES - Two of Tinsel Towns newest and youngest celebrities have put gigantic smiles on the producers of the Disney Channel's television show Shake It Up. Zendaya Coleman and Bella Thorne are fast becoming fine examples of the new, 'new gene...
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