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Channel 4 to air Trinny and Susannah show

Channel 4 has picked up the recent Trinny and Susannah web series and will air it as a one-off programme later in September. The series, entitled Trinny and Susanna: What They Did Next, comprised of 16 six-minute episodes in a spoof documentary format.

The Bill finished with 4.4m

Over 4.4 million viewers tuned in to watch the final ever episode of ITV1 police drama The Bill on Tuesday night. The 27-year-old drama series finale ended with a 18.8% audience share in the 9pm hour beating BBC One’s The Deep.

Morgan confirms CNN talks

Michael Cera developing comedy series 

Michael Cera is developing a new comedy series called 13th Grade which will centre on a high school graduate who is stuck in limbo between childhood and adulthood. Cera will work with Derek Waters on the show, who has previously been seen on The Middle and The Sarah Silverman Programme.

MacIntyre finishing on London Tonight

Donal MacIntyre is reportedly finishing up on London Tonight after less than six months in the role. The Guardian is reporting that MacIntyre will quit his presenting role on the ITV 1 programme with his final show on September 17.

Must Be The Music judge Dizzee Rascal has laid down what he believes is the key difference between the new show and the likes of The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent.

Dizzee claimed that the new Sky1 series offers its acts the chance to be in charge of their own future rather than have it decided for you by record labels.

The rapper labelled the likes of The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent as “just another massive marketing tool”.

"No discredit to that, but we're giving the artists room to be independent. Being an independent artist, I can appreciate that."

Faulkner, Walker through to MasterChef quarter finals

TV personalities Lisa Faulkner and Chris Walker have advanced to the quarter finals of Celebrity MasterChef after impressing the judges. John Torode and Greg Wallace selected the pair ahead of Danielle Lloyd, Mark Little and Mark Chapman.

Britain's Got Talent winner axed from record label

Former BGT winner Paul Potts has been dropped from Simon Cowell’s record label SyCo after a decline in popularity for the opera singer. Insider’s claim that after Susan Boyle came along Paul Potts dropped out of the spotlight and will struggle to recover.

JLS for one-off X Factor final show! Simon orders dance classes, and he’s getting sued!

Hit group and ex-X Factor finalists, JLS, have snagged their own one-off special show that will air right after this year’s X Factor final in December.

During the show, they’ll sing all their hit tracks.

A source told The Sun, "JLS are the only boyband anyone is interested in right now. It's a coup for ITV to sign them.

"If anyone had told the lads two years ago they would be shown on the night of the X Factor finals they would not have believed it."

In other X Factor news, it seems that as part of this year’s Boot Camp round, Simon has made all the hopefuls take part in a “dance master class” which show choreographer, Brian Friedman has headed up.

On his Twitter page, Brian wrote, "X Factor Boot Camp is almost done...

Amanda Holden – not getting any or just plain sad?

News emerged today that BGT judge Amanda Holden has said that if Simon Cowell doesn’t invite her to his stag do, she’ll make sure she’s there anyway…

How? By “jumping naked out of a giant cake.”

So sayeth the Daily Star, and given Holden’s previous drooling over Cowell, I would imagine it’s quite true.

Why she doesn’t just send him a note saying, “Please give me one” I don’t know.

Anywho, she told the paper, "I'm one of the boys when I'm with Simon and Piers [Morgan], so I should definitely be there.

"If Simon reckons I'm not allowed to go, I'll get naked and jump out of a giant cake to surprise him!"

Oh dear, how very, very sad.

In other news, Britain's Got Talent winners Spelbound are apparently earning £2,000 a minute for their performances.

Piers Morgan may quit BGT

It’s being reported today that BGT judge Piers Morgan is to quit the show in order to take the job that’s soon to be made available by Larry King on CNN.

The Daily Telegraph states that Piers, who’s been a judge on the show for four years has been offered the job fronting the network’s nightly show.

The paper quotes a source close to Piers as saying, "CNN bosses have been desperately searching for somebody to revamp the show.

“Larry's ratings are massively down year on year – and Piers is just the chap.

"Piers is utterly thrilled by the prospect of the deal and knows that taking over the Larry King show means that something will have to give.

"America's Got Talent finishes in mid-September, so it seems Larry will be moved to a weekend show then and be ousted from his nightly prime-time slot.

Sadness as BGT darling Bethany passes away

The tragic little girl whose dying wish was to sing for Simon Cowell, five year old Bethany Fenton, has died just three days after making her wish come true.

Little Bethany, who had an incurable brain tumour, had begged her mum and dad to arrange it for her to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to Simon, and she got to do just that.

The Sun reports the prior to her emotional performance, little Bethany met Simon backstage and told him knock-knock jokes. Bethany also got to meet some of the show’s finalists including 13 year-old drummer Kieran Gaffney, who very charmingly wore Bethany’s hospital tag on his wrist “for luck”.

Sadly, Bethany lost her battle at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital after her condition suddenly deteriorated.

Saturday, 5 June 2010, 7:30PM - 10:00PM on ITV1

It's the final of Britain's Got Talent!

Ant and Dec will host the proceedings and crown the eventual winner, as decided by the public, with the winner receiving a life changing £100,000 and the chance to perform at this year’s Royal Variety Performance.

Each night throughout the week, eight acts have performed with two acts going through to the final (one on the public vote and one on the judges vote).

Now these ten acts will perform on the Britain's Got Talent Grand Final.

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Eliminated Britain’s Got Talent act Peredot have fired up over the comments they received from the judges on Wednesday night’s show.

The dance troupe has spoken out over the negative comments from Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden who voted to save singer Christopher Stone instead.

During the show, the group voiced their disappointment on their elimination: "It's very disappointing. I'm a bit upset that we were compared to [Diversity]. We are unique, we do our own style."

On Britain’s Got More Talent, the group said: "Yeah, we are [angry]. It's like there's millions of singers, and they're not compared, and it's the same with dancers. We are not followers, we are leaders.”

After their performance on the semi-final, Morgan told the troupe: "There wasn't enough genuine street dancing for me, and by comparison to Diversity who we saw yesterday, it's not in the same league."

A further two acts have made it through the Britain’s Got Talent semi-finals.

Janey Cutler and Twist & Pulse will compete in Saturday’s final of the talent show after progressing on Thursday’s show.

Singer Cutler gained the public vote while Twist & Pulse and The Fusion were left to stand before the judges.

Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden chose The Twist & Pulse team of Ashley Glazebrook and Glen Murphy despite Simon Cowell throwing his weight behind The Fusion.

Eliminated from the competition on the night were Team Shaolin, Emile Harris, Tyler Patterson, Ice and Mark James.

A further two acts have made it through to the Britain’s Got Talent Final.

Paul Burling and Christopher Stone will join the winner’s from Monday and Tuesday’s semi finals in Saturday’s finale.

Comic impressionist Burling won through with the public vote while Stone and Peridot stood before the judges. Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden voted through Stone after slamming dance troupe Peridot earlier in the show.

Stone said after his victory: "It's fantastic. That was more nervous than performing. I've got a lot more [for the final]."

Peridot will join Chloe Hickinbottom, The Arrangement, Phillip Grimmer, Starburst and Jimmy Forde in exiting the ITV1 show.

BGT News: Tobias Mead's "Twilight" act and Simon's ex is his BFF

BGT dancer Tobias Mead is apparently planning a “vampire and werewolf-themed performance” which is based on the movie ‘Twilight’.

The Sun reports that Tobias, who got through to the final on Monday night, is a big fan of the film.

He told the paper, "What I've got planned is really me for the final. I'll give you a one-word teaser: Twilight.

"Maybe you can expect vampire teeth. I like darkness.

"I've seen all the films. I'd love to be in them - that would make me the happiest person in the world.

"I'm Team Jacob but I do like Edward and Robert Pattinson, who's a great actor.

“I like the whole vampire thing. It's not about being sexy, it's about the darkness."

Last night Connected made it through to the Saturday night final of Britain's Got Talent.

Here's their semi-final performance of No Boundaries if you missed it.

Another pair of acts has been voted through to the Britain’s Got Talent final on Saturday.

Tina & Chandi and Connected will battle it out on the weekend finale show after the public and judges chose who they wanted to see more of.

Dancing dog act Tina & Chandi won over the public, receiving the vote while Connected and Neil Fullard faced the judges.

Simon, Piers and Amanda were split however, with Piers voting Connected and Amanda Fullard. It came down to Simon Cowell’s vote and after he spent an age deciding (receiving a hurry-along from Ant & Dec) he chose to save the boyband.