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It looks like one of The Voice UK’s new protégés is already reaching the heights last year’s winner Leanne Mitchell could only dream of.

Current contestant Leah McFall has seen her latest performance ‘I Will Survive’ rise up the official iTunes chart following Friday’s quarter final.

The track reached number three on the iTunes chart, behind Naughty Boy’s ‘La La La’ and Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’.

Poirot actor David Suchet believes the iconic moustache is a “vital” part of getting into character for the TV series.

Only four episodes remain in the series, which has been running for a quarter of a century, and Suchet says the famous thin pencil moustache is one of the defining features of stepping into the role.

“It’s absolutely vital! It’s a real catalyst to me becoming the character now,” Suchet tells Radio Times. “

“As soon as the moustache goes on, I speak as him. It changes the flexibility of my top lip and it’s like a catalyst that, immediately, gets me into the little man. And the voice is so important to the human being. I don’t know whether you know this, but there is no such thing as two people with exactly the same voice.” Continue reading »

It appears the notorious Britain’s Got Talent egg-hurler didn’t just ruin Simon Cowell’s suit jacket.

Finalists Richard and Adam believe that Natalie Holt – who interrupted their performance to hurl eggs at Cowell – ruined their chance to win.

The Welsh brothers believe their flow was ruined by the incident.

“She said she was protesting about music not being performed properly, but we were there singing our hearts out, performing live and she ruined it,” said Richard. Continue reading »

Sunday Politics host Andrew Neil labelled American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones an “idiot” on last Sunday’s episode after the latter went on a loud, aggressive rant towards the end of the show.

Neil also told Jones he was “the worst person I’ve ever interviewed”, while Jones continued to yell “No, you guys are crazy! Infowars dot com! Liberty is rising! Liberty is rising!”

BBC has given viewers their first look at the new critically-acclaimed drama Top of the Lake.

The six-part series – written by Jane Campion and Gerard Lee – was shot in New Zealand and features an international cast including Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss, Holly Hunter, Lucy Lawless and Peter Mullan.

The series has already premiered to critical acclaim in New Zealand and the USA.

It is coming soon to BBC Two.

Ray Winstone will lead the cast in Sky1’s new drama Moonfleet.

The cast of the new family drama was revealed yesterday with Winstone (The Sweeney) joining Aneurin Barnard (We’ll Take Manhattan), Ben Chaplin (Mad Dogs), Omid Djalili (Gladiator), Martin Trenaman (The Inbetweeners), Lorcan Cranitch (Silent Witness) and Anthony Ofoegbu (Spooks) in the cast.

Written by Ashley Pharoah (Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes), this two-part adaptation of the much loved John Meade Falkner novel is set in the small Dorset village of Moonfleet. In the story, young John Trenchard (Barnard) is desperate to join the local band of smugglers led by Elzevir Block (Winstone). Together they embark on an adventure full of action, friendship and humour, and hunt for a fabled lost diamond. Their journey takes them from 18th Century Dorset, to the Jewel quarter of The Hague and on to a gripping, final sea voyage. Continue reading »

One of the armorers for Game of Thrones says the weapons used on the series are not exactly your average safe rubber swords.

“Everything you see on the show is lethal,” says Fergus McNulty. “It’s not sharpened to within an inch of its life but the safety aspect is still something that has to be taken into account.

“It’s still an object that with enough force would harm somebody, so if you have 400 or 500 weapons at a time [in a scene] and there’s a massive crowd of people, you’re constantly staying focused and aware.” Continue reading »

Ten aspiring Blue Peter presenters have been selected to compete to win a role on the show.

The ten were whittled down from over 20,000 who registered their interest in joining the classic children’s TV series.

Double BAFTA-winning presenting team Dick and Dom (Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood) will bring their much-loved mix of humour and energy to the screen as they guide the 10 aspiring presenters through a series of challenge-based heats, designed to test some of the key skills a budding Blue Peter presenter will need to succeed. Continue reading »

Apparently, Game of Thrones fans have a sweaty TV writer on an exercise bike to thank for the show being greenlit in the first place.

HBO president Michael Lombardo has revealed the real reason why they decided to go ahead with commissioning Game of Thrones and it involves an impromptu meeting in a gym.

“We had this pilot script and we were budgeting it and scratching our head whether we should go ahead and greenlight this,” Lombardo recalls. “And we were trying to figure out the production challenges. We knew it had to be able to stand next to projects in this genre being done on the big screen yet with a more limited budget.”

One day, Lombardo escaped to a Santa Monica gym where he ran into TV writer Dan Weiss. Continue reading »

Plebs will return for a second season on ITV2.

Doon Mackichan confirmed that the Roman sitcom will be back in 2014 for a second run, with filming beginning in the autumn.

“We are really pleased to be going back to it – it really picked up a momentum when it aired,” she said.

Mackichan confirmed that filming would take place in a purpose-built studio near Sofia, Bulgaria.