Halloween is just around the corner and so our TV picks wouldn’t be complete without a few obligatory scare fest choice picks.
Some of them are scary for obvious reasons and the others, well, they’re maybe a bit scary for all the wrong reasons.
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It’s the one genre of television that the UK trumps all over the USA on. The sitcom.
Since Friends, the Americans just can’t get it right anymore and they’re obsessed with them too so instead of thinking up new ideas they’ve taken to regenerating our tried and tested formula and come up with American versions.
The latest recipient of the US remake is Gavin and Stacey.
Fox has ordered a script for a US remake of the show and creators and stars James Corden and Ruth Jones will take their place as executive producers on the American project. Continue reading »
If you’re like me and you spend the summer months whiling away the evenings with nothing to watch on TV then you’ll be pleased for October television because it seems like everything I watch is back on TV right now.
Now, I’m not saying it’s the return of good TV but it’s the return of trashy and american drama TV nonetheless. Continue reading »
Fresh One, the television firm owned by Jamie Oliver will produce an entire YouTube channel built around his output
With the news that YouTube is making waves to launch 60 new channels featuring programmes made by some of the UK’s most respected production companies, their chief has claimed that mobile phones will soon be the way forward with regards to watching TV.
Today, we ask you, will mobile phones ever usurp television to become the first place viewers go to watch content? Continue reading »
Well it’s been a couple of days now and the furore has died down a little bit but the outrage still remains that accuses The X Factor of yet again being a fixed TV show.
Thousands of fans have stated on their social network pages and lobbied for more viewers to join them in boycotting the show.
Our question to you is should we boycott the show?
It’s October, it’s Autumn, it’s cold and it’s rainy so what better way to spend your weekend than curling up in front of the telly with our top picks.
The new series for Made in Chelsea may be about to start on E4 but the cast have some other exciting news.
The show is being taken to the US next month.
The Style Network will start showing the E4 reality show from its very first episode on November 12. Cast member Cheska Hull said of the news that it was a “surreal” development.
She said, ”We’ve also just been bought by the Style Network in the US so Made in Chelsea is going to be shown in America. It’s so surreal, we couldn’t have predicted this success.”
She’s getting a little bit ahead of herself don’t you think? While it is successful in that they’ve landed a deal to air in the States, it doesn’t mean that they’re going to be successful with their audience does it? Continue reading »
This weekend’s X Factor will see 12 acts through to the live shows, however in a bid to entice viewers back to the show, ITV bosses have employed the use of wild cards – the reappearance of acts previously cut by the judges.
The four judges, Gary Barlow, Nicole Scherzinger, Tulisa Contostavlos and Louis Walsh, will be seen on Sunday night picking their final contestants to go through to the live shows however they have also been asked to pick one wildcard act each.
The four wild cards will then battle it out head to head in a public vote with the winner joining the other 12 finalists in the main show.
The four wildcards are currently living with the other contestants at the five-star Corinthia Hotel in central London. Continue reading »
We may have just over a week to go before the launch of Homeland Season 2 but when Showtime uploaded the first twenty minutes of the first episode, we couldn’t help ourselves to take a sneak peak. We have missed Homeland since the series finished in May and with the weather turning, it’s just what we need to cosy up in front of on a Sunday night.
Here’s what we learned but beware of the spoilers
So now that the Olympics and Paralympics are well and truly over, summer is long gone and autumn crisp and chilly days and nights are here, what is there to watch on TV this weekend?
Here’s our top round-up of the weekend’s viewing.
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