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Stephanie Beacham joins Coronation Street
- Posted at 6:11pm
- 27 November 2008
- by PaulJones-RT
ITV have confirmed rumours that Stephanie Beacham is to join the cast of Coronation Street.
The 61-year-old actress is probably best known for her role as scheming vixen Sable in glamorous 1980s US soap The Colbys. She'll play eccentric theatre actress Martha, who lives on a canal boat and meets Ken Barlow while he's out walking Eccles the dog.
A shared passion for literature and the theatre brings the pair together and Ken finds Martha's boat a tranquil haven from the rigours of sharing a home with Deirdre, Blanche and Peter.
It...
Christmas TV preview
- Posted at 12:36pm
- 25 November 2008
- by PaulJones-RT
Start planning your Christmas TV viewing now, with our guide to what's on over the festive season. We'll update it as new programmes are announced or as transmission dates and times are confirmed.
DRAMA
Doctor Who (Christmas Day 6pm BBC1) Christmas special The Next Doctor features two Doctors - Davids Tennant and Morrissey - a snowy Victorian London and new monsters the Cybershades.
Lark Rise to Candleford (Sunday 21 7:45pm BBC1) A feature- length episode launches a new series of the genteel period drama. Expect Christmas card settings and...
Van Day and Mallett to enter I'm a Celebrity…
- Posted at 10:51am
- 20 November 2008
- by PaulJones-RT
Yes, two new contestants are to debut on tonight's edition of I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! Former children's TV presenter Timmy "Wacaday" Mallett and David Van Day, one half of 80s pop duo Dollar, will enter the jungle this evening.
But as the two eager celebs hurry to meet their new camp mates, there are some surprises in store. Sweet-toothed Timmy bends down to pick up a cup cake from the jungle floor and finds himself hauled up in a net suspended from a tree. And David is soon caught in the...
Doctor Who stars in new drama series
- Posted at 6:02pm
- 18 November 2008
- by PaulJones-RT
As Doctor Who fans will be aware, outgoing Doctor David Tennant has not left the Tardis behind just yet. He's set to star in five more specials, starting with this year's Christmas episode The Next Doctor. In it, Tennant comes face to face with a man also calling himself "the Doctor", played by David Morrissey…
But in the meantime, Tennant is swapping science-fiction for science fact in Einstein and Eddington. The one-off BBC1 drama charts the relationship between Albert Einstein (Andy Serkis) and British astrophysicist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (Tennant).
And...
Poll says 40% favour ban on TV swearing
- Posted at 12:37pm
- 17 November 2008
- by PaulJones-RT
Nearly 40% of viewers polled in a recent YouGov survey for The Sunday Times want to see a complete ban on swearing on TV.
And while nearly half of those who took part believe there's a place for some swearing on our screens, 30% think the F-word should be cut out completely and 55% think the C-word is utterly unacceptable. On the other hand, 40% also feel that the BBC should reflect the language we hear in our day-to-day lives.
In May this year, we conducted a survey for Radio...
When the I'm a Celebrity… camp site flooded
- Posted at 4:25pm
- 13 November 2008
- by PaulJones-RT
Leeches, snakes, rats, cockroaches, and spiders with a bite even deadlier than that of last year's runner up Janice Dickinson - they're the dangers usually associated with I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! But even deadlier can be Mother Nature herself…
The jungle of Upper Dungay in New South Wales, where the show is filmed, is "dense rainforest, set in an old volcanic crater… It's a dangerous environment," warns series editor Becca Walker. And she was proved right last January when the creek that runs through the plot burst its banks and swept away...
I'm a Celebrity… line-up revealed
- Posted at 12:01am
- 12 November 2008
- by PaulJones-RT
Reality TV addicts, the wait is over. The line-up for the new series of I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! (starts 16 November, ITV1) has been announced, and we can now unveil the contestants for this year's jungle-based antics:
Dani Behr
The TV presenter is probably best known for her work on Channel 4's 1990s post-pub bad-taste-fest The Word. She counts Myleene Klass, the mysterious "J" Brown and Duncan James among her celebrity supporters. Her big phobia is jumping out of a plane, but her special skills will include being a...
Preview of the new Star Trek movie
- Posted at 6:05pm
- 11 November 2008
- by WilliamGallagher-RT
Yes. It works, it's fantastic and it honestly does go where no Star Trek has gone before because it's exciting. Ferociously, relentlessly, successfully exciting. Radio Times has seen huge chunks of it and the trailer is about to hit UK cinemas.
Director JJ Abrams today screened four long sequences and the trailer for the British press in London. The final film won't be released until 8 May 2009 but he showed extensive excerpts that were said to be "almost complete".
The trailer - to be shown in cinemas from next week - is the least effective part....
Five Days 'tecs Bonneville and McTeer return
- Posted at 12:51pm
- 05 November 2008
- by JackSeale-RT
Did you watch missing-person thriller Five Days last February and think, "These detectives are great. They should have their own series"? Someone at BBC1 obviously did, because Hugh Bonneville (pictured) and Janet McTeer are coming back as DS Iain Barclay and DS Amy Foster.
In Hunter - a two-parter filming now - Barclay is assigned to the case of two children abducted by radical extremists. Frustrated by his team's lack of experience, he calls the cynical, boozy DS Foster out of retirement to help him. A production from the BBC's own drama department, Hunter airs...
New Wallace and Gromit for Christmas
- Posted at 2:55pm
- 04 November 2008
- by PaulJones-RT
BBC1 has a great Christmas present for Wallace and Gromit fans - the premiere of a brand new adventure for the claymation duo.
A Matter of Loaf and Death sees Oscar-winning animator Nick Park back together with Bob Baker, who co-wrote earlier W&G yarns The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave. And after the rigours of making two big-screen animated features, Park is keen on a return to the original 30-minute format:
"I love making films for the cinema," he says, " but the production of Chicken Run and Curse of the...
Ashes to Ashes meets Top Gear
- Posted at 4:41pm
- 03 November 2008
- by PaulJones-RT
The Bulldog takes on the Hamster as Ashes to Ashes' distinctly un-PC copper DCI Gene Hunt collars diminutive Top Gear star Richard Hammond for Children in Need (BBC1 Friday 14 November).
In RT's exclusive photo shoot celebrating the auspicious occasion, Hammond admitted of Hunt's pride and joy, "The Audi Quattro is a car I would have loved to have owned in the 80s, only I never had enough money." Lucky for him, then, that in the Children in Need film, Hunt is obliged to hand over the keys to Hammond.
But...
James Bond beats Harry Potter at the box office
- Posted at 1:21pm
- 03 November 2008
- by PaulJones-RT
The new 007 movie Quantum of Solace has made UK box office history, taking £4.94m, to become the biggest Friday opener of all time, and breaking the previous record of £4.025m set by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005.
Quantum of Solace also far outdid the previous Bond movie, Casino Royale, which took £2.9m on its opening day. But while Daniel Craig's first outing as Bond received almost universal acclaim from critics and the public alike, Quantum of Solace has so far met with mixed reviews.
So can Bond...
David Tennant quits Doctor Who
- Posted at 10:25am
- 30 October 2008
- by PaulJones-RT
The announcement that many Doctor Who fans had been expecting and most had been dreading has finally been made. Last night, live on The National Television Awards, David Tennant, the Tenth Doctor, accepted the award for outstanding drama performance - and then told viewers that he is quitting the show.
In an intervew with the BBC, the 37-year-old Scottish actor described his three-series stint as "the most extraordinary time, it's been bewildering, life changing, very exciting," and explained, "I don't ever want it to feel like a job, so I want to move on when it...
Daniel Craig reveals his favourite Bond movie
- Posted at 5:11pm
- 29 October 2008
- by PaulJones-RT
With the impending release of Quantum of Solace - Daniel Craig's second outing as 007 - we asked the 21st-century Bond which is his favourite entry in the series.
"Goldfinger is the most stylish film because they married everything together - the clothes, the Ken Adams sets and the story. Fantastic. But my favourite is From Russia with Love with Sean [Connery] and Robert Shaw - not a bad pairing is it? And it still stands up today. It's seriously cool."
"What defined those early movies was that they went on location...
Who is Top Gear driver The Stig?
- Posted at 4:57pm
- 29 October 2008
- by PaulJones-RT
Racing legend, robot or giant wasp? Just who is Top Gear's faceless test driver The Stig? We've gathered together expert testimony, celebrity eyewitness accounts and bookie's nous in an attempt to gain a picture of the man behind the helmet.
The evidence
Theo Paphitis: "He's definitely English, judging from the short, Anglo-Saxon words that came out of his mouth when I nearly crashed us. That was the only time he showed emotion."
Lawrence Dallaglio: "I felt like I was talking to a Power Ranger. There was one point, though, where The Stig did...
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