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Gary Barlow to return to The X Factor

Gary Barlow to return to The X Factor

ITV and the producers of The X Factor, Thames and Syco, today announced that Gary Barlow is returning to the Judging panel for the 2012 series of the country’s number one show. One of Britain’s most successful singer songwriters and a member of one of the biggest pop groups of all time, Take That, Gary [...]

After Benidorm part 1

After Benidorm part 1

Filming is underway at Crom Castle in Northern Ireland, set to air on BBC One this Autumn, for Blandings, based on the stories of PG Wodehouse, Blandings, the series is set in 1929 in the fictional Blandings Castle, home to a chaotic family struggling to keep itself in order. The six self-contained episodes centre around [...]

Have I Got New Hosts For You

Have I Got New Hosts For You

Brand new guest hosts will be joining regulars Paul Merton and Ian Hislop on BBC One’s Have I Got News For You when it returns on Friday nights at 9pm from 13 April. The first of nine guest hosts for the perennially popular series, the 43rd, is Episodes and Dirk Gently star Stephen Mangan, in [...]

Dara O Briain to present BAFTA's TV Awards

Dara O Briain to present BAFTA’s TV Awards

Comedian Dara O Briain has been lined up to present this year’s British Academy Television Awards. The annual ceremony, honouring the very best television seen in Britain over the past year, will be held on Sunday 27 May at London’s Royal Festival Hall and broadcast on BBC One. Dara, who will step into Graham Norton’s [...]

Morph returns to CBBC

Morph returns to CBBC

Iconic animated duo Morph and Chas are heading back to our screens for a very special one-off programme, made by Aardman for CBBC. Ricky’s Radical Reinventions is a brand new show in which animator and reinventor Ricky Martin shows CBBC viewers how to make stuff they take for granted, using everyday objects from around the [...]

BBC to name wing of new Broadcasting House after J…

BBC to name wing of new Broadcasting House after John Peel

The BBC is to name part of the newly refurbished Broadcasting House after the late Radio 1 DJ John Peel. The section of the new building currently known as the Egton wing will be renamed the ‘John Peel Wing’. The wing was built on the site of the former Egton House, from which BBC Radio [...]