Ripper Street, a new drama for BBC One
Tiger Aspect Productions and co-producer Lookout Point have been commissioned by Danny Cohen, Controller BBC One and Ben Stephenson, Controller Drama Commissioning, to make 8-part drama series, Ripper Street More...
John Sergeant presents Britain’s First Photo Album
BBC Two Daytime has commissioned Reef Television to produce Britain’s First Photo Album (w/t), a 10×30-minute series on the extraordinary achievement of Francis Frith, the pioneer Victorian photographer More...
Around The World Today 05 May
Today is Coronation Day in Thailand, Indian Heritage Day in Guyana, International Midwives Day, Senior Citizen’s Day in Palau and, in Hispanic history, it is the Cinco de Mayo Day. On May 5, 1862, the Mexican More...
China to ban time travel
TV shows featuring time travel could be banned by the Chinese government under a fresh censorship crackdown. Regulators have imposed tough new conditions on television production arguing such plots More...
Corrie Spoiler: Where is Sean going to for Easter?
Coronation Street’s gooey-eyed captain of camp Sean Tully is making the trip south to warm your cockney cockles-up for a one-off Easter special. The half-hour episode will see Sean (Anthony More...
Rihanna makes history in UK chart
Rihanna has set a new record as the first female solo artist in UK chart history to achieve number one singles in five consecutive years. The Official Charts Company announced her record after What’s My Name? More...
Primeval – Episode 3
Saturday, 8 January 2011, 7:00PM – 8:00PM A mysterious group come through an anomaly in a theatre, unknowingly followed by deadly tree creatures. In a frantic chase through the city, the creature is tracked More...
Shaun Ryder dismisses EMI snub myth
Shaun Ryder has exploded the myth he once walked out on a massive record deal to buy drugs – insisting the snub was deliberate. Ryder’s band, Happy Mondays, fell apart shortly after record giant EMI More...
Primeval – Episode 2
Sunday, 2 January 2011, 7:00PM - 8:00PM Reunited with an old friend, Connor comes across a deadly Kaprosuchus terrorizing the docks. Working with new ARC leader Matt, they manage to stop the creature, but will More...
Pompeii
Tuesday 14 December – 9.00-10.00pm BBC TWO Pompeii: the most famous volcanic eruption in history. We may know how its victims died but now, a landmark BBC Two film sets out to answer a much more interesting More...
Chernobyl will open its doors to tourists, 24 years after the nuclear explosion
Since January, the Chernobyl nuclear plant will open its doors to tourists, with visits to the plant that failed and caused the most important civil nuclear disaster in history. Viktor Baloga, the Ukrainian Emergencies More...
Bouquet of Barbed Wire – Final Episode
Monday, 20 September 2010, 9:00PM – 10:00PM In the final episode Cassie tries all she can to keep the family together, but she beings to fall under Gavin’s spell, intrigued by his knowledge of Peter’s More...
Sacha Baron Cohen to play Freddie Mercury
Ali G and Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen is to play Freddie Mercury in a film about Queen, the rock band’s guitarist Brian May has confirmed to the BBC. “We have Sacha Baron Cohen, which will probably More...
Bouquet of Barbed Wire – Ep 2
Monday, 13 September 2010, 9:00PM – 10:00PM Bouquet of Barbed Wire explores the consequences of a father’s obsessive love for his daughter and how secrets once buried in the past return to haunt their lives. More...
The Unforgettable… Mollie Sugden
Wednesday, 8 September 2010, 7:30PM – 8:00PM Mollie Sugden was one of the nation’s best loved stars, whose extensive career will be showcased in this 30 minute long documentary. The show will feature archive More...
NEW – Bouquet of Barbed Wire
Monday, 6 September 2010, 9:00PM – 10:00PM A modern reworking of Andrea Newman’s taboo-busting 1970s psychological drama, Bouquet of Barbed Wire. TREVOR EVE (Waking the Dead, Framed) leads the cast as More...
Britain’s biggest ever Roman coin hoards
In a new, landmark history series for BBC Two, Digging For Britain unearths the biggest Roman coin hoard in a single container ever found in Britain. Metal detectorist Dave Crisp made the discovery of a lifetime More...
All star cast announced for telling how Coronation Street was born
An all star cast including Jane Horrocks (Little Voice, The Street), Jessie Wallace (Eastenders, Marie Lloyd), Celia Imrie (After You’ve Gone, Kingdom), Lynda Baron (Open All Hours, Fat Friends) and Christian More...
Ian Hislop to celebrate “do-gooders” in new BBC Two series
Ian Hislop is to examine the dramatic cultural revolution that Britain underwent in the 19th Century in The Do-Gooders (working title), a new series for BBC Two focusing on influential Victorian reformers. Wingspan More...
Japanese Professor offers free sex to Chinese students
According ‘The Korea Times’, Anri Suzuki received her Ph.D. in one of the most prestigious universities in Japan with a thesis focused on the Chinese-Japanese war in 1937, which killed about 300 thousand Chinese, More...