Big Brother

Rylan Clark has been confirmed as the new co-host of Big Brother’s Bit on the Side.

The former X Factor and Celebrity Big Brother contestant will join Emma Willis and AJ Odudu on the spin-off show.

Clark said: “I have followed the show since the very beginning. It was a dream come true to enter the Celebrity Big Brother house this year, let alone win it! Being offered the job to present Big Brother’s Bit On The Side was amazing.”

AJ Odudu said: “It’s going to be brilliant fun hooking up with Rylan and Emma for Big Brother’s Bit On The Side.”

Emma Willis has been confirmed as the new presenter of Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother.

The former Bit on the Side presenter will take control of the main show this year, replacing Brian Dowling.

“I am thrilled to have been offered this job. I’m a fan first and foremost so to be able to front the show is going to be amazing. Roll on the summer!” said Willis.

Channel 5′s director of programmes Ben Frow said: “Emma is a natural on screen, she’s made the spinoff show her own and now the time is totally right for her to step up. I know she’ll take Big Brother to the next level and I can’t wait to see her dealing with the housemates both famous and soon to be famous. Continue reading »

The first rumoured names for the new season of Big Brother have been revealed.

It is being reported that a ‘white witch’ called Phoenix, an Australian rock musician and a self-proclaimed ‘supermodel’ have all reached the final stages of interviews for the Channel 5 show.

A former Grange Hill actor is also in the running as is Annette Edwards, who claims to be the “oldest Page 3 girl”. Continue reading »

British actor David Morrissey has taken a swipe a reality TV in the UK as well as suggesting our broadcasters should do less period drama.

The Walking Dead actor described the likes of Big Brother and The X Factor as “the modern equivalent of throwing cabbages at people in the stocks”.

He went on to say that UK broadcasters should ease up on period dramas.

“I’d commission less period drama. The next ten years are going to be very challenging and that needs to be reflected on our screens. My taste is always about what’s happening to real people, right now.” Continue reading »

Dancing on Ice line-up confirmed

The line-up has been confirmed for Dancing on Ice’s new season, with the likes of Pamela Anderson, Beth Tweddle, Gareth Thomas, Lauren Goodger and Samia Ghadie taking part. See the full line-up here.

Big Brother tops complaints list

Big Brother and The X Factor were the most complained-about shows of the year according to Ofcom. Big Brother topped the list with over 2,000 viewer complaints, making up 12.5% of all complaints submitted in 2012. Continue reading »

Matt Smith staying on Doctor Who

Matt Smith has confirmed he will be staying on Doctor Who for at least another year. The actor told the Radio Times that he is not looking to leave the BBC series anytime soon. “I’m committed to it next year and will sit down with Steven Moffat and see where we go from there. I’ve no immediate plans to leave. I’m around for a whole year and that’s a long time.”

Revolution to air on Sky1

The new JJ Abrams drama series Revolution will air on Sky1 next year. The sci-fi series was successful in its first run in the US. Continue reading »

Ofcom has found that Channel 5 were in breach of two rules during the recent season of Big Brother.

The reality series received 2085 complaints over the course of its run, with the majority regarding bullying and abuse of housemates.

On June 25, 1,139 complaints were received by Ofcom regarding Conor McIntyre’s threats of sexual and physical violence towards fellow housemate Deana Uppal.

McIntyre said to Uppal after she lost a task: “It’s your epilator, stick it up your a***, we don’t give a f*** because I’m going to f****** smash your face in you little piece of s***.” Continue reading »

Channel 5 has defended the ratings performance of Big Brother over the past year.

The two non-celebrity versions of the show have both pulled an average of only 1.6m viewers.

“The reason why it was down – we had to deal with one of the biggest, nastiest summers for any channel that’s not the BBC, in terms of Wimbledon, the Euros…” said Channel 5’d director of programming Jeff Ford.

“It’s the lowest ever [figures for Big Brother] but this is Channel 5, it’s not Channel 4. If you’d stuck it on ITV, it might do 4m. Do I want more? Of course, I do.” Continue reading »

Plus, Stephen Mulhern says Britain’s Got More Talent “isn’t suitable for family audiences” & Simon Cowell will be “glued” to Celebrity Big Brother!

We’ll begin today’s reality TV news round up with the report of the sickening actions of former Big Brother housemate Kenneth Tong, who has posted a series of vile and downright evil messages on Twitter about Gary and Dawn Barlow’s stillborn daughter, Poppy.

Stating that he wrote the messages as an “experiment” in creating a global multimedia phenomena, sick Tong has expressed no regret or remorse for the messages, one of which included a picture of a child’s coffin.

Many Twitter users, including a number of celebrities, have called upon the site’s chiefs to close Tong’s account in the wake of his reprehensible actions.

Of the backlash he’s faced, troll Tong told The Sun, “It’s quite a funny situation. I just thought of something funny to say and it evolved from there.

“My tweets aren’t offensive to the point where they are illegal. I’m not worried about the police coming to my door. I have the best legal team… Continue reading »

So it’s pretty safe to say that we’ve all been caught up in the Olympic games this year; it’s in our home country, it’s been gloriously sunny, we’ve seen some great medals won and history has been made.

The Olympic games comes to a close this Sunday and begs the question, er, what exactly shall we watch now?  It seems all we’ve done for the past (nearly) two weeks is watch the BBC and their Olympics coverage, which we have to say, has been excellent.

Of course, there’s still some great Olympic action to come, Mo Farah in the 5,000-metre final on Saturday, the sailing today that was postponed from yesterday and we’re hoping Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell will be bringing home another gold medal, and of course, who could forget the closing ceremony on Sunday at 9pm but what will we watch after that? Continue reading »