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Payday lenders Wonga to fund Channel 5 endurance challenge show
Thursday 25 July 2013
Channel 5 has teamed up with payday lenders Wonga to make a new endurance show for the channel.
ITV gets concession on regional news with 10-year licence deal
Wednesday 24 July 2013
ITV has won an important concession from the regulator Ofcom, which has relaxed its obligation to air regional news.
Channel 5 makes TV history – by beating C4 in the ratings
Tuesday 23 July 2013
Highlights of the Ashes Tests and ‘Big Brother’ have helped the broadcaster overtake C4
Big Brother 2013: Daley Ojuederie evicted from house after 'threatening and aggressive' behaviour towards Hazel O'Sullivan
Tuesday 16 July 2013
Big Brother contestant Daley Ojuederie has been removed from the Big Brother house over aggressive behaviour towards fellow housemate Hazel O'Sullivan.
Scotland Yard warns Channel 5 about risk of having ex-Operation Yewtree detective in Big Brother house
Friday 14 June 2013
The officer quit his job investigating the Jimmy Savile scandal to take up a place in the Channel 5 reality TV show
Oscar Pistorius trial: Judge warns of trial by media after Reeva Steenkamp's parents give TV interview
Tuesday 04 June 2013
Date set for trial to begin on 17 August
Oscar Pistorius murder trial: Documentary set to undermine evidence on row on night Reeva Steenkamp was killed
Sunday 02 June 2013
Barristers will pick over the evidence against the athlete accused of murdering Reeva Steenkamp
'Thrilled' Emma Willis ousts Brian Dowling as host of Big Brother
Tuesday 02 April 2013
TV presenter Emma Willis is replacing Brian Dowling as the host of Big Brother.
I'm in! Kelly Hoppen to enter Dragon's Den
Tuesday 19 February 2013
Interior designer and businesswoman Kelly Hoppen is to join the fearsome panel on TV's Dragons' Den.
Talk show host Jeremy Kyle 'making good progress' after testicular cancer treatment
Wednesday 30 January 2013
TV host Jeremy Kyle is recovering after treatment for testicular cancer.
Frankie Dettori and Tricia Penrose evicted from Celebrity Big Brother house
Thursday 24 January 2013
Five celebrities are left to compete in Friday's finale
Rylan Clark 'sneaks out of Celebrity Big Brother' for X Factor rehearsals
Monday 21 January 2013
Celebrity Big Brother contestant Rylan Clark has been sneaking out of the house to take part in rehearsals for the upcoming X Factor tour, according to one of his fellow contestants.
Sport on TV: Thomas is still fighting fit in confession worth watching
Sunday 20 January 2013
To be brutally honest, it's been a good week for confessions. Lance Armstrong is in the unusual position of having committed crimes against a sport – and therefore his fellow cyclists and an adoring public – rather than in his private life. His motives for coming clean, so to speak, almost certainly involve money. He's feeling it in the pocket rather than the conscience. The non-pedalling world can only look on with bemused cynicism as he tries to recycle his reputation.
Grace Dent on TV: Celebrity Big Brother, Channel 5
Friday 18 January 2013
Their names are Razor, Rylan, Speidi and the Toadjerk. And they are famous. Well, y'know, sort of
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- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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