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Phil and Kirstie, them two with The Lifestyle, are teaming up again for a holiday show - Kirstie And Phil: Holidays Uncovered.

In the show, they'll look at deals you can get on trips.

Hmmm. It doesn't feel like a show that's been crying out to be made does it?

In the show Phil and Kirstie will travel to a different destination and will organise a holiday including meals, accommodation and things to do.

One of them will receive a luxury budget but the other will be given only a small sum. At the end of each instalment, the duo will review the deals they used and decide which holiday was better.

"Phil and I are really looking forward to revealing how to have a fantastic holiday whatever your budget," Allsopp said.

The Living channel (it's on Sky) has commissioned its first ever scripted UK comedy for a programme about the comeback of fictional ex-Page Three girl Gayle Tuesday, who is of course, played by Brenda Gilhooly.

The hour-long pilot is being filmed in a documentary style and will air on Living in September.

In the show, we'll follow Gayle's progress as she attempts to revive her career in showbusiness, including botox treatment, charity work and a reality cookery show.

The script has been written by Harry Hill, who will also appear in the pilot, along with chef Heston Blumenthal and Pineapple Dance Studios star Louie Spence.

Other cameos in the programme will come from Ainsley Harriott, Toyah Willcox, Paul O'Grady and Hollyoaks actress Roxanne McKee.

Oh dear!

Big allegations being thrown around at the moment as the X Factor producers have been accused of rigging the show after they ALLEGEDLY signed a deal to guarantee one act safe passage through to the live shows.

A member of the girlband Husstle told other contestants at London's Boot Camp round that her group had already been promised a place in the studio finals, according to various reports.

A (hopefully televised) fight is supposed to have broken out after one of the group apparently claimed that her band's manager Spike Dawbarn (formerly of 911 and thereby, most likely to have a link with Cowell) got a guarantee from Simon Cowell and show producers that the group would make it past both Boot Camp and Judges' Houses.

Beleaguered ITV are looking at ways of making more money.

They weighed up having commercial breaks that lasted one hour at a time, but that wasn't feasible. So they're looking at the internet to make some cash.

The broadcaster is looking to launch an online micropayment system and has admitted that it will charge for some of the content it provides on Project Canvas.

Adam Crozier, ITV's chief executive, said today that the broadcaster was "not punching its weight online"; it was only doing as well as Channel 4 despite being a much bigger player in TV revenues.

"ITV failed to equip itself to compete... ITV.com lags behind competitors in audience, functionality and revenue terms," he said.

Lets face it - ITV is rubbish isn't it? If it wasn't for Simon Cowell, the occasional Champions League match and Corrie, no-one would watch the channel.

And so, with ITV making a move to pay-TV with three high-definition channels vanishing behind Sky's subscription wall, you have to wonder if anyone will tune in at all.

The agreement with Sky, as reported by MediaGuardian.co.uk, covers HD versions of ITV2, 3 and 4. Yes, really.

Along with an online presence, it seems that ITV are putting £75 million aside for their digital channels.

The company's chief executive, Adam Crozier, said: "For the past decade ITV has not faced up to the challenges presented by the rise of internet-based platforms, the continuing growth of pay TV and subscription services and the globalisation of content.

I can't deny being a recently converted huge fan of BBC Two's Rev.

The world weary tale of an inner city vicar with a face longer than his congregation. It's wonderful and clever and it's a must to catch up with on iPlayer while you can.

Brilliantly, one fan of the show is the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who thinks the series is "really rather good" and reveals "something about the continuing commitment of the church to run down and challenging areas.

"It also shows us someone who prays honestly," according to the Guardian.

He's not the only man of the cloth who is into the show.

Alan Titchmarsh, the man who chaired that woeful debate on video games, has hit back at critics of chatshows.

He argues that the format is not dead and is in fact, in rude health!

The ITV presenter told What's On TV that he believes his show's success is down to his love of talking to his guests.

"I like talking to folk and listening to people, I enjoy conversation," he said.

"I can't believe it when people say the chatshow is dead. The chatshow will be dead when conversation's dead and conversation will never die.

"The chatshow is dead when the host doesn't actually want to know an answer to the question he's just posed."

Titchmarsh said he is looking forward to his show's new series next month and revealed that he had so far been "lucky enough" to have most of his wishlist of guests appear on the show.

The licence fee is a prickly topic that sees people vigorously defending the BBC or attacking them for having an unfair advantage over other stations... or in some cases, people don't like the way it is spent.

Well, according to one thinktank called the Adam Smith Institute, the £3.5bn annual licence fee should be scrapped and replaced with a voluntary subscription service.

The report, Global Player or Subsidy Junkie? Decision time for the BBC, reckons that Auntie could be offered a "transitional guarantee" of income from 2012 when viewers would first be told they didn't have to pay the licence fee.

An interim annual fee of £145 (the current cost of the licence fee) would be charged up to 2015, the report proposes, after which BBC services would become subscription-only.

The next series of The X Factor will be different from previous outings. Yep, it's all change!

Well, not quite that drastic.

One difference will be that mentors on this year's show will now pick from eight acts rather than six during the Judges' Houses phase, it has been confirmed.

Writing on her official Facebook page, Minogue commented: "Exciting change to X Factor Judges' Houses - I'll get to pick from eight acts instead of six this season!"

ITV confirmed reports that the upper age limit for the boys' and girls' categories has been increased to 28 "to strengthen the competition and talent".

A show statement read: "Here at The X Factor we're never ones to rest on our laurels. If something needs a mix up to keep the show fresh and exciting, then that's exactly what we'll do!

Sky1 has commissioned a load of comedy shows starring some big comedy names as it aims to be taken seriously in the field.

Dawn French, Victoria Wood and Stephen Fry have been announced as taking part in shows, along with Gavin and Stacey's Ruth Jones and, most importantly, some new talent.

First to tell you about is Ruth Jones' new show, Stella, which sees the funnywoman playing a fortysomething mother. It'll be set in South Wales and should air in 2012.

Former Coronation Street star Sally Lindsay, takes the lead in new show Mount Pleasant where she plays a thirtysomething Mancunian, alongside The Street's Daniel Ryan.

The big guns are out (Fry, Wood and French) to appear in Little Cracker, a season of autobiographical short films that relate real-life incidents from the protagonists' past. That sounds like it could be fun.

Dawn French has had a funny ol' career. Of course, she was one half of the hugely successful French and Saunders... but she was also a star of the bafflingly popular Vicar of Dibley and the ace (but super dark) Psychoville.

Now, she's going to star in a brand new BBC Two show called Roger and Val Have Just Got In.

She'll play food technology teacher Val in the show alongside Alfred Molina who will play her on-screen husband.

"It's so bold," French told What's On TV.

"I wanted to do another sitcom, but one quite unlike anything I'd done before. I thought it would be very interesting to do a two-hander and something set in real time.

"This seemed so different. It's challenging, but we think it works!"

So what is Dawn's character like then?

Apart from having an excitingly English name, Benedict Cumberbatch is currently a busy boy. He's the star of the new BBC series, Sherlock.

As soon as we lay eyes on him and saw the way he went about his business, it was clear who his inspiration was.

It seems that, as Sherlock, he's essentially been asked to play the role as if he was the Doctor from Doctor Who.

This, naturally, saw us thinking that perhaps, he could be a future Doctor. It makes a lot of sense.

However, he reportedly turned down the chance to play the lead role in Doctor Who according to D:S.

That's not to say he's not a fan of the show. Apparently, he will be appearing in future episodes of the long-running sci-fi thingy.

We poke a lot of fun at Bruce Forsyth on these pages, mainly because we know he can take it.

The truth of the matter is that he really is a national treasure who has worked his socks off longer than most of us have been alive.

Now, he's agreed to scale back his hosting role on Strictly Come Dancing.

According to the Daily Mail, the 82-year-old entertainer has reached a deal with the BBC to back out of the results show, which is now reportedly to air on Sundays.

"Bruce has not signed his contract yet, but it all looks very positive," a source claimed. "We are still looking at some scheduling issues that would see Bruce take a reduced role on the show. But if this happens, he will still be very much part of the series. He is integral to Strictly."

Fiona Phillips may well be a flawed person who has done things so toe-curling that club-foot admissions into hospitals went up tenfold... but really, she seems like a sweet enough human.

The kind of cheery face that television tends to like.

Well, with that, she has signed up to host a new ITV chatshow.

In the new show, Phillips will discuss three topical issues every day with panellists Gloria Hunniford, Mark Durden-Smith, Andrea McLean and Carole Smillie in a show that doesn't sound like Loose Women at all.

The live show will also feature opinions from the public and members of the audience, while celebrity guests who champion a particular cause will be invited to discuss it.

Of course, Phillips previously hosted GMTV for 12 years, so the live studio environment won't phase her at all.