Celebrity Big Brother returns to UK screens
Thursday 18 August 2011
Weeks of speculation will come to an end tonight - and the humiliation will begin - as housemates are revealed for the return of Celebrity Big Brother.
Last Night's TV: Classroom Secrets/BBC1<br />Torchwood: Miracle Day/BBC1
Friday 15 July 2011
Class 4FF, you are LIVE on BBC1, please do not swear!" Davina McCall's foghorn may have been absent but Big Brother loomed large over Classroom Secrets. The idea was to rig up a classroom at Humberstone Junior School in Leicester with fixed cameras, film the pupils and teachers for a week and then show the footage to staff and parents in order to root out the causes of "low-level disruption" and eradicate them together. A lesson in Big Society schooling, if you like.
My Secret Life: Dr Frances Prenna Jones, celebrity facialist
Saturday 25 June 2011
My parents were... doctors, so perhaps my path was predestined, but I didn't consider a career in medicine when growing up. I was determined to go to art school.
Last Night's TV: Long Lost Family/ITV1<br />Secrets of the Arabian Nights/BBC4
Friday 22 April 2011
The biggest surprise in Long Lost Family is that it's not been made before. Ancestry, investigation, lost relatives: it is, surely, a match made in wall-to-wall heaven. After all, these are the people who brought us Who Do You Think You Are?. This was but a moodboard away.
Channel 5 close to Big Brother deal
Monday 31 January 2011
'Big Brother' is set to return to TV screens later this year.
Last Night's TV - Horizon: Science under Attack, BBC2; The Biggest Loser, ITV1; One Born Every Minute, Channel 4
Tuesday 25 January 2011
Here come the girls! How to bring up daughters
Sunday 16 January 2011
Terence Blacker: What if Bilo made a film about us?
Friday 10 December 2010
Like many successful films, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan has inspired a sequel. The more simply named My Brother Borat will shortly be released, and its director, Erkin Rakishev, is to make a promotional visit to Britain this weekend.
TV quiz got 'Doctor Who' facts wrong
Wednesday 10 November 2010
A couple who lost £325,000 on a TV quiz have been told they can return to the Channel 4 show after programme-makers admitted they made a mistake with one of the answers.
Sophie Heawood: Why it is right to tell kids that heroin's divine
Sunday 12 September 2010
Campaigners vow to stop Britain's first TV ad for abortion services
Thursday 20 May 2010
The first television advert for abortion services in the UK is to be aired on Channel 4 next week, prompting anger from anti-abortion groups. The advert asks "Are you late?" referring to a woman who has missed her period and directs women facing an unplanned pregnancy to Marie Stopes International's 24-hour helpline, which is paying for the slot.
Terence Blacker: Stand up for the right to cause offence
Friday 12 March 2010








