Today the BBC announced that ITV was on the brink of financial meltdown. News presenters were told to forget about any other news story and just keep reminding viewers that ITV was going down the pan. Head of BBC news, Billy Liar said "This is tr...
ITV bosses have spotted an area of crime drama that they have yet to cover, and are moving quickly to fill the gap. With the rest fo the British Isles covered, from PC Plum in the Shetlands, to Bergerac in the Channel Islands, there is not an area...
The Worldwide hit television show Heroes has run into financial difficulties during filming of the fifth series. Previous series have cost nearly a million dollars an episode, but with the worldwide financial crisis deepening, bosses on the show a...
A children's TV channel came in for criticism last night when complaints were made about its new presenter Simon Churchill who some parents claimed "scared their kids". Churchill, 26, whose grandfather was from Jamaica and settled in the the UK in...
FunkyTV and Kate Thornton join forces in a new Docusoap which charts the lives of family and friends as they say goodbye to their loved ones. The show entitled "Goodbye Goodbye" is set to the backdrop of James Blunts back catalogue and will featur...
JOPLIN, Missouri - A 70-year-old man has been arrested and charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm after he shot his television. His wife, who was shaking like a leaf in the wind, said that her husband became upset because he could not get hi...
The Bank of England has signed a £3 million TV deal for exclusive rights for its monetary policy committee (MPC) interest rate decisions. A revamp of the monthly rate decision will see announcements switched from the first Thursday of the month to...
Call him A-Roid or A-Fraud but Yankee Alex Rodriguez who has been outed as a hormone juicer has been the first NY yankee to get involved with the ghetto neighborhood where the billion dollar stadiums are located. Millionaire ball players are chauffer...
Official figures released today show that crime detection rates in Britain are at an all-time high due mainly to the number of police crime dramas on TV at the moment. Shows such as CSI, NCIS, Law & Order and The Bill are all thought to have c...
British broadcaster ITV today announced plans to launch a new station, "ITV2 -1". The station will show many popular ITV shows such as the 6 o'clock news, but at the more convenient time of 5 o'clock. Director general Michael Grade said in a stat...
If you were considering updating your DVD player to one of the new Blu-Ray High Definition players, you may want to hold off for a few months. A new format system is just about to be launched which makes Blu-Ray look positively old hat. Ultomat...
Credit crunch job losers could find employment through a new TV series. Simon Cowell, the Marquis of Granby, George Osborne and Les Dennis are to be judges in the new series of Britain's Got A Job. "We are looking for real victims of the credit...
BURBANK, California - Kevin Costner, actor, director, and producer will be one of the hosts of a new dance show on the Fox Network. The show is basically a spin-off on ABC's "Dancing With The Stars" and is titled, "Dancing With The Wolves." Co...
The hit TV show 'Treasure Hunt' was revived in Israel today, but with Anneka Rice presenting a slightly different version of the programme. 'We have a couple here, Mr and Mrs Levin from Jerusalem, and they have one hour to find democracy in Israel...
Hollywood, California - Made deaf, dumb and apparently blind by the ticking away of their biological clocks, women bent on waiting so long for Mr. Right to come along that they let all the sand in their egg timer run out have once again allowed produ...
A woman from Arbroath, Mrs Betty McStupid, has today complained to the BBC's Watchdog programme that there's nothing on her TV. In a tersely written letter to the shows presenters, one of whom she thinks is a long-legged sexpot and the other a ple...
A major British broadcaster has announced that it will be airing a new race based drama serial called Sooty, Paki and Golliwog. In a Masterpiece Theatre style format Carol Thatcher, recently unemployed race relations counselor and half-daughter o...
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