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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
Good on you Jeremy Paxman – but it’s not just toughness that makes a good quiz question
Tuesday 09 July 2013
The titan of University Challenge reckons it’s time the BBC stopped treating audiences like idiots
BBC star Jeremy Paxman tells TV bosses to stop 'insulting' viewers
Tuesday 09 July 2013
Veteran broadcaster says University Challenge 'pays the audience the courtesy of assuming that we're quite clever enough to take part'
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan accused of illegally determining the sex of his unborn surrogate child
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Health officials in Mumbai are investigating reports that Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and his wife know the sex of a baby they are having through a surrogate mother.
Jo Whiley: Britain's Got Talent and The Voice make my skin crawl
Tuesday 18 June 2013
DJ Jo Whiley has criticised Britain's Got Talent and The Voice - saying that contestants do not know what they are letting themselves in for.
Britain's Got Talent final 2013: Finalist Francine Lewis hopes for double celebration
Friday 07 June 2013
Britain's Got Talent finalist Francine Lewis hopes to celebrate her son's birthday in style - by winning the hit talent show.
BBC1 to launch new Muppet Show for Saturday nights presented by a puppet modelled on Vernon Kay
Thursday 06 June 2013
That Puppet Game Show, hosted by Dougie Colon, will feature a range of new characters designed by the Jim Henson Company
Nick Grimshaw and Rizzle Kicks lined up for pair of new Channel 4 music shows
Friday 24 May 2013
DJ Nick Grimshaw and chart stars Rizzle Kicks have been lined up to host a pair of new music shows for Channel 4.
David Cameron faces latest Tory rebellion as MPs aim to force EU membership vote
Thursday 09 May 2013
David Cameron is facing a new Conservative rebellion over Europe as his MPs challenge his authority by renewing their demands for a referendum.
I'm A Celebrity... reality star Aggro Santos acquitted of rape
Friday 03 May 2013
Former I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! contestant Aggro Santos has been found not guilty of raping two girls he had taken back to his hotel rooms after performing at gigs in Chichester and Somerset.
The day I became president – but George W Bush still got his way on invading Iraq
Wednesday 01 May 2013
The new presidential Library in Dallas offers an interactive experience of life in the Oval Office. David Usborne takes the hotseat
Deal or No Deal winner Caroline Banana sentenced for fraud
Monday 29 April 2013
A mother who won £95,000 on the television show Deal or No Deal has been ordered to do 215 hours unpaid work.
Watch out, Paxman: Manchester’s quiz-show guru reveals his secrets
Friday 26 April 2013
Manchester’s recent University Challenge successes can be credited to one man
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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